Name: Big World
Duration: P00H04M19S
Description: Before it was struck by cosmic misfortune, Shikasta (the stricken) was known as Rohanda (the beautiful, the bountiful). The Canopian agent, Johor, was sent to warn the people of the coming catastrophe, but he knew they would find it hard to understand because, like in the Garden of Eden before the snake, evil was unknown.

Big World

from SHIKASTA SUITE (2019) by Benjamin Russell

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Before it was struck by cosmic misfortune, Shikasta (the stricken) was known as Rohanda (the beautiful, the bountiful). The Canopian agent, Johor, was sent to warn the people of the coming catastrophe, but he knew they would find it hard to understand because, like in the Garden of Eden before the snake, evil was unknown.

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Big World - song by Elyce & Benjamin Russell
copyright © 2019 The Clear Blue Enterprise (socan)

It’s a big world, a big world
We just can’t imagine
All the people and places
We’ve never seen

And we live here
Our city
We shape it and it shapes us
In harmony
That we need to survive

Everything is as it should be
And we all know that
The things we do
Fit in the big plan
And we are happy
Doing our part
Tuning the flow
That joins us to you

In Rohanda, Rohanda
All the stars and planets
Are aligned and
The stones of our city sing

And we live here, Rohanda
That’s how it was always
But the future is something
That we can’t see

Blue the sky and green the plain
And buttery sunlight swims in the air
On the horizon
A figure hovers
Growing larger
Coming nearer
We welcome Johor

"Take me to the giants, they must know
There has been a disturbance in the flow
There is danger

"You don’t understand it but you must
You know that I am someone you can trust
There is danger"

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from SHIKASTA SUITE (2019), released November 24, 2019

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Benjamin Russell is a multi-genre singer-songwriter, painter, graphic artist, videographer, writer living in Montreal, Quebec.

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