This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
I came from the left
Kickin' harder than your breath
Force of the wind
Led from within
The sin subtracts from what I've been through
Balances out, talent no doubt
Catch it in the current
No deterrent to what I've sent you
Sent you
Hey it's all monkey see monkey do
What's really inside of you
What's the motives to the things you do
Things you thought you knew
Nobody knows if nobody grows
Reach to increase intermediate
To the top inner seeds in a medium
Untapped like a natural element
Expelled in the breeze
Seize the moment
These opponents
They really don't want it
I mean why put it out if your ass don't own it
And then they write it down and journalize
Speculate and generalize
Mask your lives in all these lies
They need to realize
Look between ya eyes this life ain't free man
Ya got to pay for what you need.
Cross the deadly sea
To live eternally
Tidal waving saving both coasts like we need
A coastguard, striking hard
Lightening force we the force...
Powerful potions spread across
Globes on a map through
The windy moss
The oceans holding the answers lost
Deal with the cost
Find what's lost
Who wants to be found?
So many want to be fly but stand on shaky ground
Earth quaking braking down the walls of society
Lie to me; tell me that it's all right all night
All tight like a twister
Mister I'm your master
Faster than a flash flood
Taking blood in disasters
And after they donate
The dead hands will pronate
And FEMA might come through
But they always show late
These fates will force ya
Have ya racin' like a Porsche
High powered outa control
Of the talents that you hold
Marsupial thoughts
Ideas tucked down underneath the skull cap
Clung to the main frame
With a sharp aim
My life force is a push
And a push is like a shove
At times it's disastrous
But it's all done for the love
[Chorus x3:]
It's the forces of nature
They be pushin' through the winds
Pushin' through these lives that were in
This touch of life as it begins
When we be kickin' it with folks and our friends
It's in our nature, it's in our nature
Since, I feel we really been blessed by the goddess
Man we best to stay modest
Humble like the tumbleweeds that travel cross the brain
Roaming on the plains of your thoughts
Feel the wind gust feel us when we gots..
A gift of speech
Kids could reach in, pull up their chins
Challenge gravity
Opposite of a cavity, build
Ain't no time to yield, feel the thrill
When you're out of forces you're at a standstill
Yes the fans will follow
If your soul's not hollow
Shallow like a wade pool
Got ya feelin' like a fake fool
Decisions that'll brake you
Make you realize the stakes fool
This is what the force will do!!!
Make you see what's real, and wipe off the residue
I vow to flow fresh and forever stay true
Doing what I got to do, doing what I want to do
The opposite of a faker, it's the forces of nature
Tapping me with taxes isn't natural
My axis is an actual attraction
To the earth that I've been trapped in
In dilapidated fractions of the masses
We're attractin'
Quite magnetic we pull
If ya stuck in the rut
We make happen, forces tapping
On your soul, life windows
That's fogged up and clogged up blah blah blah
[Chorus x3]
Kickin' harder than your breath
Force of the wind
Led from within
The sin subtracts from what I've been through
Balances out, talent no doubt
Catch it in the current
No deterrent to what I've sent you
Sent you
Hey it's all monkey see monkey do
What's really inside of you
What's the motives to the things you do
Things you thought you knew
Nobody knows if nobody grows
Reach to increase intermediate
To the top inner seeds in a medium
Untapped like a natural element
Expelled in the breeze
Seize the moment
These opponents
They really don't want it
I mean why put it out if your ass don't own it
And then they write it down and journalize
Speculate and generalize
Mask your lives in all these lies
They need to realize
Look between ya eyes this life ain't free man
Ya got to pay for what you need.
Cross the deadly sea
To live eternally
Tidal waving saving both coasts like we need
A coastguard, striking hard
Lightening force we the force...
Powerful potions spread across
Globes on a map through
The windy moss
The oceans holding the answers lost
Deal with the cost
Find what's lost
Who wants to be found?
So many want to be fly but stand on shaky ground
Earth quaking braking down the walls of society
Lie to me; tell me that it's all right all night
All tight like a twister
Mister I'm your master
Faster than a flash flood
Taking blood in disasters
And after they donate
The dead hands will pronate
And FEMA might come through
But they always show late
These fates will force ya
Have ya racin' like a Porsche
High powered outa control
Of the talents that you hold
Marsupial thoughts
Ideas tucked down underneath the skull cap
Clung to the main frame
With a sharp aim
My life force is a push
And a push is like a shove
At times it's disastrous
But it's all done for the love
[Chorus x3:]
It's the forces of nature
They be pushin' through the winds
Pushin' through these lives that were in
This touch of life as it begins
When we be kickin' it with folks and our friends
It's in our nature, it's in our nature
Since, I feel we really been blessed by the goddess
Man we best to stay modest
Humble like the tumbleweeds that travel cross the brain
Roaming on the plains of your thoughts
Feel the wind gust feel us when we gots..
A gift of speech
Kids could reach in, pull up their chins
Challenge gravity
Opposite of a cavity, build
Ain't no time to yield, feel the thrill
When you're out of forces you're at a standstill
Yes the fans will follow
If your soul's not hollow
Shallow like a wade pool
Got ya feelin' like a fake fool
Decisions that'll brake you
Make you realize the stakes fool
This is what the force will do!!!
Make you see what's real, and wipe off the residue
I vow to flow fresh and forever stay true
Doing what I got to do, doing what I want to do
The opposite of a faker, it's the forces of nature
Tapping me with taxes isn't natural
My axis is an actual attraction
To the earth that I've been trapped in
In dilapidated fractions of the masses
We're attractin'
Quite magnetic we pull
If ya stuck in the rut
We make happen, forces tapping
On your soul, life windows
That's fogged up and clogged up blah blah blah
[Chorus x3]
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Forces of Nature Lyrics as written by Jeffrey H Lorber Jeffrey Lorber
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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