Many, many years ago, Ras Shorty I sang a gem called Om Shanti Om. The lyrics he wrote then are as applicable today....
Life today
Unlike yesterday
Friendship gone
Leaving hate and scorn,
Neighbour living like stranger with neighbour
No love, sir, no love, sir, for one another
To unite people as one, Ah create a song
Ah hope it live on, from generation to generation
Singing Om Shanti Om, Shanti, Shanti Om . . .
The song you hear is an Indian prayer
From ancient times
Created to soothe your mind
In danger, in anger, remember
Sing this mantra, this golden mantra
From the master
This song is doing a good, people,
To struggle against the devil. . .
Singing: Om Shanti Om, Shanti, Shanti O
Sing the song as you go along
Throughout your days
And it will guard your ways
Listen, please listen to your voice, singing
There is a lesson, oh a lesson, that it is ringing
Any election taking materialism
as religion is destruction. . .
Life today
Unlike yesterday
Friendship gone
Leaving hate and scorn,
Neighbour living like stranger with neighbour
No love, sir, no love, sir, for one another
To unite people as one, Ah create a song
Ah hope it live on, from generation to generation
Singing Om Shanti Om, Shanti, Shanti Om . . .
The song you hear is an Indian prayer
From ancient times
Created to soothe your mind
In danger, in anger, remember
Sing this mantra, this golden mantra
From the master
This song is doing a good, people,
To struggle against the devil. . .
Singing: Om Shanti Om, Shanti, Shanti O
Sing the song as you go along
Throughout your days
And it will guard your ways
Listen, please listen to your voice, singing
There is a lesson, oh a lesson, that it is ringing
Any election taking materialism
as religion is destruction. . .
