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by Michael Redmond

One Real World
Language: English 
We are here together
It is now forever
One real world is 
enough for us

Turn around and look 
at everything you see
It's time to close the book
Time for discovery

Open up your eyes 
Open up your heart
They ve blinded us with lies 
with numbers on a chart.

They've turned their backs on God, 
their faces set in stone, 
Behind a hard facade
they hide what can be known.

We are here together
It is now forever
One real world is 
enough for us

Were free to break the chains 
of ignorance and doubt.
One little word contains 
what live is all about.

We've got to do the living 
before we do the learning.
No other answer's giving 
truth to meet our yearning.

We are here together
It is now forever
One real world 
is enough for us.

Text Authorship:

  • by Michael Redmond  [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Loretta Jankowski (b. 1950), "One Real World", 1998, copyright © 1998 [ voice and piano ], ACA
        Publisher: ACA [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2026-11-08
Line count: 32
Word count: 141

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