Jefferson Airplane - When The Earth Moves Again Lyrics

America's Fairport Convention! Fabulous track.

Just discoverd this track. Blown away by it

If you're from the East coast (U.S.), doesn't this album cover remind you, of the old A&P supermarket logo?

The earth is moving again right now. America wants to colonise Mars.
If only they could fix destructive matters on earth so we could stay here. They're crapping where they eat. Dumb bastards!

Science faction? Some of us took BAE as an order for action. From the girl with the hungry eyes? We are a planet in front denial. Wheels will be gone soon
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Tripping balls Wall racetrack then Galic Park 71 powered by the Airplane. Good times.

Great band , great guitar , Jorma Kaukonnen

In golden Hannibal Carthage days marchin' onto Rome
Knockin' on the door and findin' nobody home there
Rome she cut our armies down and left them in the snow
So now I go to where I come from now I go home to the sun
When the earth moves again
When the earth moves again my friend
Let the lady ride on through
When the earth moves again
Egyptian kings they sing of Gods and pyramids of stone
And they left the deserts clean and they left the deserts golden
And shinin' as a beacon for those that need a road
Into the day and through the night we go and find our way home
When the earth moves again
My love to all the people I leave behind
Search out the new ground around you
When the earth moves again
Your head can pull your body around
Leave whenever you can find the ground
Take what you find on the land sea foam glass is sand
If you've only lived on earth you've never seen the sun
Or the promise of a thousand other suns that glow beyond here
And if you care to see the future look into the eyes
Of your young dancing children don't be afraid of our ways
When the earth moves again
When the earth moves again, my friend
Watch the lady ride and sigh
When the earth moves again
Moses, Moses the red sea closes over you when you least expect it to
When the earth moves again
When the earth moves again

Anyone know why this was removed from Spotify?

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Reminds me of Sketches of China, anyone else?

Pretty apt lyrics considering the era.

There's lots of this great harmonic singing also on the "Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun" album by Kantner/Slick/Freiberg. Basically another Airplane album, plus guests like Jerry Garcia, David Crosby etc.

especially relevant in this time of increasing earth changing events--hurricanes, wild fires, arctic ice mass melting. a prophetic theme song for Earth watching!

takesmeback to the real.....

1st time I heard PJC with the airplane.. , the earth moved. over the top.

Bark is an underrated album. And this song is so powerful and visionary. Released in 1971, it's like a lament for the idealism of an era that was coming to a close.

Martin Barry 👍

I never underrated it.

Well said. Paul Kantner was an amazing visionary.

I used to have it. The jacket was a folded up brown paper shopping bag with the 'JA' and everything printed on it. And the inside was a "newspaper" with all the liner notes and photos printed on newsprint.

Papa John Creach!

Not down and out just yet....this is a great JA album. Wonderful song..."Lawman," as well. Slick, the boys and Papa John. What a groove, what a sound. No one even tried to imitate the Airplane. (They were like Elvis...when firing on all cylinders no one could touch them. That unifying male vocal with Grace Slick was the magic. And they both recorded for RCA.)

Not like Elvis. JA wrote their own stuff, didn't just do covers

The initial stage of an LSD trip makes the ground appear to move up and down. Oh, btw - stunning track.

what cd re master was used for the download of this song. I like to buy this re master. I just purchased  bark/long john silver on bgo records . bark sounds muddy on drums and guitar. this version sounds clear and clean.

In golden Hannibal Carthage days, marching on to Rome,
Knocking on the door and finding nobody home there.
Rome she cut our armies down and left them in the snow,
So now I go to where I come from,
Now I go home to the sun.

When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again my friend,
Let the lady ride on through,
When the earth moves again.

Egyptian kings they sing of gods and pyramids of stone,
And they left the deserts clean, and they left the deserts golden,
And shinin' as a beacon for those that need a road.
(I do)
Into the day and through the night,
We go and find our way home.

When the earth moves again,
My love to all the people I leave behind.
Search out the new ground around you,
When the earth moves again.

Your head can pull your body around 'n you can
Leave whenever you can find the ground.
Take what you find on the ground,
Sea foam glass is sand.

If you've only lived on earth (If you haven't lived in heaven),
you've never seen the sun,
Or the promise of a thousand other suns that glow beyond here,
And if you care to see the future, just look into the eyes
Of your young, dancing children;
Don't be afraid of our ways.

When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again,
Watch the lady ride and sigh,
When the earth moves again.

Moses, Moses, the Red Sea closes
Over you when you least expect it to,
When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again.

+ChevKen Thank you so much for the lyrics! I was pretty sure on about 50% of them...

what you can do with the bag ,  great . R I P , another great

I always liked Kantner's anthemic science fiction/fantasy songs - he was nominated for the Hugo Award (the big science fiction award) for "Blows Against the Empire". I lost track of his work through the decades...

But as this song says "So now I go to where I come from,  now I go home to the sun." I can't say it better.

RIP Kantner.

Paul Kantner R.I.P

i didn't know paul had passed. i share one of the health horros he suffered from for years. ditto. he will be missed by musicians as a master of many music modes. RIP paul.

Think of the time this song and album was released: Assassinations, Kent State, Vietnam. Constant threat of mutual destruction. This music was like a balm.

+Robert Hendry It all seems more relevant now than ever!

A buried treasure.  Sounds like Jefferson Airplane, sounding a bit like Fairport Convention, who were trying to sound like Jefferson Airplane.

Do not Forget  Papa John Creach..

+MCTeck Absolutely - best rock violin ever - makes the hair stand up on the back of your head!

+walneto Check out "Silver Spoon", from "Sunfighter"..

hell no! none of the albums in this era woould've sounded as good without him.

watching him play, was a trip

so very absolutely beautiful

truly magnificent...

Give me that "true religion"! 

A story of the Apocalypse? I like the line "Let the Lady Ride on Through" -- I like to think of the "Lady" as the Virgin Mary, but I'm sure Paul did NOT intend that at all! Great song -- thanks for the upload!

Moses, Moses, the Red Sea closes
Over you when you least expect it to,
When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again.

DEACADED TO ISRAEL AND PALESTINE......
SING IT LOUD......

"When The Earth Moves Again"

In golden Hannibal Carthage days, marching on to Rome,
Knocking on the door and finding nobody home there.
Rome she cut our armies down and left them in the snow,
So now I go to where I come from,
Now I go home to the sun.

When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again my friend,
Let the lady ride on through, 
When the earth moves again.

Egyptian kings they sing of gods and pyramids of stone,
And they left the deserts clean, and they left the deserts golden,
And shinin' as a beacon for those that need a road.
(I do)
Into the day and through the night, 
We go and find our way home.

When the earth moves again,
My love to all the people I leave behind.
Search out the new ground around you,
When the earth moves again.

Your head can pull your body around 'n you can
Leave whenever you can find the ground.
Take what you find on the ground,
Sea foam glass is sand.

If you've only lived on earth (If you haven't lived in heaven),
you've never seen the sun,
Or the promise of a thousand other suns that glow beyond here,
And if you care to see the future, just look into the eyes
Of your young, dancing children;
Don't be afraid of our ways.

When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again,
Watch the lady ride and sigh,
When the earth moves again.

Moses, Moses, the Red Sea closes
Over you when you least expect it to,
When the earth moves again,
When the earth moves again.

star dark Thank you I never could make out those lyrics. 🙀🎲🕉☯️

special tunes. Great!

Hannibal wasn't defeated in North Africa? Then where was Zama located? You then state that Rome's victory didn't happen in the snow. Maybe I'm not understanding the lyrics correctly.

No, he wasn't. Hannibal was indeed from north Africa, but remember that he led his elephants across the Alps and wreaked havoc in northern Italy. The Carthaginian vanguard famously reported to the advancing armies that there were "clouds on the ground" up ahead. This was because none of the army had ever seen snow before; that was the best they could do to explain it!

Hannibal's armies did cross snow, but Rome's victory over them didn't actually happen in the snow. But... close enough, maybe?

Yes, way back when the poles shifted. The north and south poles were not always where they are now. I'm no scientist but you can look up "magnetic pole shift" on google and find out more than you want to know about it.

My favorite era of JA was when Papa John was in the group. His solo on "String Jet Rock" off of his solo album sends shivers up my spine. He now plays for the Angels..

good luck trying to find BARK on a CD. the closest i came was a japanese import at $35.00. so sad...

Love this song, but when did Rome cut down Hannibal in the snow? Hannibal was defeated in North Africa.

Rome she cut our armies down. The Empire still tries to cut our armies down, they'll never succeed!

When Grace Slick sang like this together with Paul Kanter it created a "voice" that was so incredible and unique in rock and roll music. This was the Jefferson Airplane peaking. Songs were remarkable and the added touch of Papa John Creach really made them sound far apart from the pack.

@bluefromanairplane Rave???? nothing at all like those days...nothing at all

Love it, but love the live version from Thirty Seconds Over Winterland better. Why? Cause there's no Joey Covington stumbling around on drums, and David Freiberg is there to fill in for the 3rd harmony. Johnny Barbata was a waaay better drummer.

@island5o i hate you i would cut my left tit to see them even now when they are all old and shit...now the closest thing i have to that experience are rave which arnt bad edc was the time of my life but i wuld give anything to live in the 60's

@bluefromanairplane we saw grace sing that song topless at a concert in ny one time and a groupie named sunshine was also topless on stage and when they sand the line young dancing children grace pointed to sunshine. It was raining at the concert and paul kantner told everyone that all the women would show their tits to the sky it would stop raining and it did.WE were on pink acid and grace had pink nipples. lol

island5o Thank you for sharing lol 😂💊🍄☯️🕉

we saw grace slick sing that song topless at an outdoor concert in ny.

island5o I was there Galic park 72. They played the next at central park. Jerk off from Jersey

@irishace11 yeah I know, sounds dopey but you gotcher tenor, controlto and yer baritone in there. ok. Crown of Creation in ain't.

@jackhillty Oh fucking please!!!

I saw Lady Antebellum on SNL this weekend and heard the Airplane influence

the vocals together like this remind me of yes vocals oldschool yes like ,"we have heaven", "and you and i". Looks like yes borrowed from this band maybe? possibly an influence that you could speculate

"if you care to see the future look into the eyes
of your young dancing children don't be afraid of our ways!!!"

@yieldyieldyield Right..... about my dog dying.... they wrote some serious tunes....about rome, carthage and the like

@ambianimaton this song is not about piece and love

paul song....science fiction science truth...'cuz the earth will soon move again

@yieldyieldyield definitly some of the deepest music thats out there for sure, but in reality everything sucks and is not all about peace and love some people need to wake up to reality, id stop having kids, not in this world

@threefive00 unless we were to get rid of the word america, it means nothing, its the police state that is wrong and bush implemented this with satellites. that a republican could get elected and republican influence in governing bodies, making nothing able to get done by a ghost puppett party of the republicans, the democrats, that the current political system shouldbe abolished totally, it makes everything useless and evil

Yeah. This song is a paean to the transfer of power from one empire to another. Thus the reference to Carthage and the Roman Empire. Currently, it's most certainly relevant to the American 'Empire'. Where will the power go next, when America disintegrates like every other similar empire before it?

30 seconds over winterland has the best version of this!

@californiaportugee lol. people who can't get metaphors will never get Jefferson Airplane. "If you've only lived on EARTH, you've never seen the SUN, or the promise of a thousand other SUNS that glow beyond here"

@jamesactor
absolutely

when i ears this song in my house in Viña del Mar, Chile, I feel the earth move again, cause a réplica of the big earthquake of 26/02/10. It's like a soundtrack

has anyone ever heard the activia yogurt commercial they used part of this song ja better sue
JoeyMo

This album was blasted by one and all when it was released. I guess the Airplane without Marty just wasn't the Airplane to them. Some of it is pretty weak, but at least half of it, this song included, is pretty damn good.

And, yes, "chaotic sloppy beauty" is a PERFECT description of Jefferson Airplane.

Great song! It came in the grocery bag and the cardboard cover had a picture of a fish next to the word 'bark".....nothing else. Plus, I think this was the first album where the Airplane featured Papa John Creach on the fiddle. After the Airplane days, it wasn't the same..........good stuff!!!!

I loved it -the hippie days were numbered but the spirit of beyond was in music -the spirit of overcoming-raise your beer mugs to Anacreon in Heaven. Salud !!!

I just wanted to compliment your poetic command of language; "chaotic sloppy beauty" is not only a lovely turn-of-phrase but describes JA perfectly! Your comment is working to heal the great pain inflicted by the vast majority on Youtube.

i think kantner's Bark songs were his best composed pieces - the Baxter's songs were brilliant pieces for jack/jorma to play thru - but the Bark songs are elegant - an odd word but true

oh god I hate squares

animalgarbageheads-
you are not christian and that is exactly what the bible says

I should clarify that the pope is avoiding a bust

dude anyone could see all the stars in the sky in ancient times
1,000 living planets around a single sun is right but in those times their ways were to posit such haha how clever they've seen it...any dmt head will tell you that and it is real we live behind a light filter

Garbage heads marching on to rome knocking on the door and finding nobody home...perfect!!!
the pope can't admit to being on lsd or its analogs even though it is the christian sacrament and explicitly written in the bible.
I saw starship perform this with Grace Slick's daughter and the Quicksilver Messenger service singer at the 40th anniversary summer of love reunion
it was great even though I didn't have any of the sacrament of all religion

Prescient in the positing of a "1000 other suns that glow beyond here" long before the Hubble & spitzer telescopes.

A song which anticipates the fall of the American Empire, which we are now witnessing. Kantner is a prophet.

and if you care to see the future look into the eyes
of your young dancing children don't be afraid of our ways-ahhh what a beautiul song