Lyrics & Music: Paul Kantner



You have left your body  be aware if you care

Your mind has left your body  and for this one moment you are



Under the polar ice cap  in a place we call home 

How is it there  white bear  like that where you grow...



Now all of you come back to here and now  elsewhen to there

Move on out the other way  where...

Do you find yourself  floating  growing  there



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Riders of the rainbow

Let it grow  let it grow



You can exercise your mind on where you want to go

And y'can see the city lights flashin'  two thousand miles below you



You can feel the sands of Zanzibar  or pierce the nearest sun

Find out what and who you are and if you need to run





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Riders of the rainbow

Let it grow  let it grow



There is one moment in your life and it can come at any time

And you remember all of what went on from the instant  you were born

Thru your early years



And if you can fasten on that moment  and expand thru the afterglow

You can reverse your mind in time  and travel back to when



The earth was formed

The sky was born

And the universe began



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Riders of the rainbow

Let it grow  let it grow





You have left your body

Return when you may



Save it for another day... beyond you