The big wheel keeps on turning   On a simple line day by day   The earth spins on its axis   One man struggles while another relaxes      There's a hole in my soul like a cavity   Seems the world is out to gather just by gravity   The wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging   Look my son the weather is changing      I'd like to feel that you could be free   Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree   Sometime again you'll turn green and the sea turns red   My son I said the power of reflection's over my head      The big wheel keeps on turning   On a simple line day by day   The earth spins on its axis   One man struggles while another relaxes      We sang about the sun and danced among the trees   And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze   Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone   Down within the shadows where the factories drone?      On the surface of the wheel they build another town   And so the green come tumbling down   Yes close your eyes and hold me tight   And I'll show you sunset sometime again      The big wheel keeps on turning   On a simple line day by day   The earth spins on its axis   One man struggles while another relaxes      As a child solemn pray my hope hides in disguise   While satellites and cameras watch from the skies   An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea   It washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me      And all the king's men   Cannot put it back again   But the ghetto sun will nurture life   And mend my soul sometime again      For the big wheel keeps on turning   On a simple line day by day   The earth spins on its axis   One man struggles while another relaxes      For the big wheel keeps on turning   On a simple line day by day   The earth spins on its axis   One man struggles while another relaxes      For the big wheel keeps on turning   On a simple line day by day   The earth spins on its axis   One man struggles while another relaxes