Biography:
A sibling amongst nine brothers and sisters, Francis Magalona was the son of late Philippine movie screen legends Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran. Starting out as a breakdancer in the early 1980s, he followed in his parents footsteps and ventured out into acting, appearing in several Filipino movies; he branched out to emceeing and released the groundbreaking album Yo! in 1990 garnering the nationistic hit Mga Kababayan (My Countrymen), making Yo! the first commercially released Pinoy rap album in the Philippines.
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Kaleidoscope World
Francis Magalona
Intro: Em hold
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So many faces so many races
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Different voices different choices
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Some are mad while others laugh
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Some live alone with no better half
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Others grieve while others curse
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And others mourn behind a big black hearse
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And some are pure and some half-bred
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Some are sober and some are wasted
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Some are rich because of fate
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And some are poor with no food on their plate
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Some stand out while others blend
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And some are fat and stout and some are thin
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And some are friends and some are foes
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Some have some while some have most
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Yeah heh
Refrain
G D
Cause Every color every hue
Bm C
Is represented by me and you
G D
Take a slide in the slope
Bm C
Take a look in the kaleidoscope
G D
Spin it 'round and make a twirl
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In this kaleidoscope world yeah
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Some are great and some are few
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Others lie while some tell the truth
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And some say poems and some do sing
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And others sing through the guitar strings
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Some know it all while some act dumb
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Let the baseline strum to the bang of the drum
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Some can swim but some will sink
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And some will find their minds and think
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Others walk while others run
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You can't talk peace and have a gun
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Some are hurt and start to cry
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Don't ask me how don't ask me shy
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And some are friends and some are foes
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Some have some while some have most
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Yeah heh
(Repeat Refrain except last line)
C G--
In this kaleidoscope world
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Kaleidoscope world
C (Coda)
In this kaleidoscope world
Coda: G-Am-Bm7-Am7-D7-; (10x) G
Franco Battiato
Franco De Vita
Franco Escamilla
François (...)
Francoise Hardy