KANSAS - PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH WIND

PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH WIND

KANSAS

SONGWRITERS: KERRY A. LIVGREN & KERRY LIVGREN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MONOLITH

LABEL: KIRSHNER

GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK

YEAR: 1979

 

       Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on album-oriented rock charts and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". The band has produced nine gold albums, three multi-platinum albums (Leftoverture 4×, Point of Know Return 4×, and The Best of Kansas 4×), one other platinum studio album (Monolith), one platinum live double album (Two for the Show), and a million-selling single, "Dust in the Wind". Kansas appeared on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the 1970s and 1980s and played to sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe and Japan. "Carry On Wayward Son" was the second-most-played track on US classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in 1997.

           Monolith is the sixth studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). The album was remastered and reissued in 2011, as a Japanese import vinyl-replica Blu-spec CD (Epic EICP 20078) including the rarity live version of "On the Other Side" previously available only on the 1994 Legacy-issued Box Set. A domestic version of the remaster was released in standard CD format in the US as part of Legacy Recordings' Classic Album Collection series which included all of their Kirshner/CBS studio releases. A Dutch-issued "Music on CD" series released the album on CD in 2016. It was last of the albums with the original lineup to be re-released on vinyl. Three different colored vinyl versions appeared in 2018 and 2019.

There are some who can still remembre

All the things that we used to do

But the days of our youth were numbered

And the ones who survive it are few

Oh, I can still see the smiling faces

When the times were so good

All in the old familiar places

I'd go back if I could (to the)

 

People of the south wind, people of the southern wind

It's the people of the wind, I got to be there again

 

Well, it's a hard thing to face the music:

But it's something everybody has got to do

So I hope that I can always remember

All the crazy times we had to go through

Now it's a dream that is slowly fading

And I don't want it to go

All of the memories are evading

And I want you to know (it's the)

 

People of the south wind, people of the southern wind

It's the people of the wind, I got to be there again

 

Now we've traveled all across the oceans

And we've seen what there is to see

But I guess it's not the proper solution

Cause it's all about the same to me

Now I look back and it makes me wonder

Why we just couldn't see

All of the battles we fought and won there

And I wish that I could be with the

 

People of the wind

I want to see 'em again

It's where we used to be free

And that's the place for me

It's just a state of my mind

A thing that's so hard to find.