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    Oh I looooooooooooooooove Within Temptation....they're GREAT..
    Did you hear thier song Jillian? or Memories?!
    I'm the patron saint of the denial,
    With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.

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    Arabian Knights - Siouxsie And The Banshees

    The jewel, the prize
    Looking into your eyes
    Cool pools drown your mind
    What else will you find

    I heard a rumour -- it was just a rumour
    I heard a rumour -- what have you done to her
    Myriad lights -- they said I'd be impressed
    Arabian Knights -- at your primitive best

    A tourist oasis -- reflects in seedy sunshades
    A monstrous oil tanker
    Its wound bleeding in seas

    I heard a rumour -- what have you done to her
    I heard a rumour -- what have you done to her

    Veiled behind screens
    Kept as your baby machine
    Whilst you conquer more orifices
    Of boys, goats and things
    Ripped out sheeps' eyes -- no forks or knives

    Myriad lights -- they said I'd be impressed
    Arabian Knights -- at your primitive best


    Not only is this one of my Siouxsie And The Banshees personal favourites to listen to aurally, but also with the original video clip, which is superbly done.
    My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
    -Virginia Woolf

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    Tori Amos - Putting The Damage On

    glue
    stuck to my shoes
    does anyone know why you play with an orange rind
    you say you packed my things
    and divided what was mine
    you're off to the mountain top
    i say her skinny legs could use sun
    but now i'm wishing
    for my best impression
    of my best angie dickinson
    but now i've got to worry
    cause boy you still look pretty
    when you're putting the damage on

    don't make me scratch on you door
    i never left you
    for a banjo
    i only just turned around for a poodle
    and a corvette
    and my impression
    of my best angie dickinson
    but now i've got to worry
    'cause boy you still look pretty
    when you're putting the damage on

    i'm trying not to move
    it's just your ghost
    passing through
    i said
    i'm trying not to move
    it's just your ghost passing through
    it's just your ghost
    passing through
    and now
    i'm quite sure
    there's a light in your platoon
    i never seen a light move
    like yours
    can do to me
    so now i'm wishing
    for my best impression
    of my best angie dickinson
    but now i've got to worry
    'cause boy you still look pretty
    to me
    but i've got a place to go
    i've got a ticket to your late show
    and i'm worrying cause even still
    you sure are pretty
    when you're putting the damage on
    yes
    when you're putting the damage on
    you're just so pretty
    when you're putting the damage on

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    A particularly beautiful piece of poetry from the Eels

    Souljacker can't get my soul
    Ate my carcass in the black mine-hole
    Souljacker can't get my soul
    He can shoot me up full of bullet holes
    But the Souljacker can't get my soul

    Souljacker can't get my soul
    Left my carcass with the worms and moles
    Souljacer can't get my soul
    He can hang my neck from the old flagpole
    But the Souljacker can't get my soul
    What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
    - Gertrude Stein

    A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
    - Virginia Woolf

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    Red Number Two - Seasons in the Shade


    Fear lost and times gone by, embrace the harmony, it wont last
    Try to memorize, it's all you got, the sheer power will mesmerize

    Feel the rain as it pours right in,
    The flood to fill the void, from within
    It can flush the pain and wipe our eyes
    Gain the strength to start again

    The white ash comes, the scene buried alive
    Frozen still, nothing moves
    For pain is not your enemy, confronted it fades away
    See the day it wont be the same, don't fall in despair
    See all the shades of gray, look to the light end
    - See the perfect day

    See the sun see it smile, feel the warmth and let it come
    Times goes by and the cycle is on , even seasons in the shade

    Feel the rain as it pours right in,
    If it were somebody else it might not last
    The taste of blood the scars and the cuts
    If you make it alive, strength ever more

    The reign is on, strength ever more
    The fear - laden - with sorrow, faded away,
    Seems to be wanting to say

    Storm's coming you better be prepared
    Take cover and brace yourself for the worst
    Seem to be safe from the chaos
    When standing right there, in the center of the eye
    (how could you not see that)

    For pain is not your enemy, confronted it fades away
    See the day it wont be the same, don't fall in despair
    For pain is not...


    You can download the full song from here: http://www.rednumbertwo.com/old.php
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    Your Favourite Lyrics!

    Share them with us. My favourites are:

    Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

    Psychic spies from China
    Try to steal your mind's elation
    Little girls from Sweden
    Dream of silver screen quotations
    And if you want these kind of dreams
    It's Californication

    It's the edge of the world
    And all of western civilization
    The sun may rise in the East
    At least it settles in the final location
    It's understood that Hollywood
    sells Californication

    Pay your surgeon very well
    To break the spell of aging
    Celebrity skin is this your chin
    Or is that war your waging

    [Chorus:]
    First born unicorn
    Hard core soft porn
    Dream of Californication
    Dream of Californication

    Marry me girl be my fairy to the world
    Be my very own constellation
    A teenage bride with a baby inside
    Getting high on information
    And buy me a star on the boulevard
    It's Californication

    Space may be the final frontier
    But it's made in a Hollywood basement
    Cobain can you hear the spheres
    Singing songs off station to station
    And Alderon's not far away
    It's Californication

    Born and raised by those who praise
    Control of population everybody's been there
    and
    I don't mean on vacation

    [Chorus]

    Destruction leads to a very rough road
    But it also breeds creation
    And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
    They're just another good vibration
    And tidal waves couldn't save the world
    From Californication

    Pay your surgeon very well
    To break the spell of aging
    Sicker than the rest
    There is no test
    But this is what you're craving

    Complicated - Avril Lavigne

    Uh huh, life's like this
    Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is
    Cause life's like this
    Uh huh, uh huh that's the way it is

    Chill out whatcha yelling' for?
    Laid back it's all been done before
    And if you could only let it be
    you will see
    I like you the way you are
    When we're drivin' in your car
    and you're talking to me one on one but you've become

    Somebody else round everyone else
    You're watching your back like you can't relax
    You're tryin' to be cool you look like a fool to me
    Tell me

    Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
    I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
    Life's like this you
    And you fall and you crawl and you break
    and you take what you get and you turn it into honesty
    and promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it
    no no no

    You come over unannounced
    dressed up like you're somethin' else
    where you are ain't where it's at you see
    you're making me
    laugh out when you strike your pose
    take off all your preppy clothes
    you know you're not fooling anyone
    when you've become

    Somebody else round everyone else
    Watching your back, like you can't relax
    Trying to be cool you look like a fool to me
    Tell me

    Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
    I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
    Life's like this you
    and You fall and you crawl and you break
    and you take what you get and you turn it into
    honesty
    promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it
    no no no

    Chill out whatcha yelling for?
    Lay back, it's all been done before
    And if you could only let it be
    You will see

    Somebody else round everyone else
    You're watching your back, like you can't relax
    You're trying to be cool, you look like a fool to me
    Tell me

    Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
    I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
    Life's like this you
    and you fall and you crawl and you break
    and you take what you get and you turn it into
    honesty
    promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it
    no no no

    Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
    I see the way you're acting like your somebody else gets me frustrated
    Life's like this you
    You fall and you crawl and you break
    and you take what you get and you turn it into honesty
    promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it
    no no no

    Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd

    We don't need no education
    We dont need no thought control
    No dark sarcasm in the classroom
    Teachers leave them kids alone
    Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
    All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
    All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

    We don't need no education
    We dont need no thought control
    No dark sarcasm in the classroom
    Teachers leave them kids alone
    Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
    All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
    All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

    "Wrong, Do it again!"
    "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
    have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
    "You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"

    For No One - Beetles

    Your day breaks, your mind aches
    You find that all the words of kindness linger on
    When she no longer needs you

    She wakes up, she makes up
    She takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry
    She no longer needs you

    And in her eyes you see nothing
    No sign of love behind the tears
    Cried for no one
    A love that should have lasted years!

    You want her, you need her
    And yet you don't believe her when she said her love is dead
    You think she needs you

    And in her eyes you see nothing
    No sign of love behind the tears
    Cried for no one
    A love that should have lasted years!

    You stay home, she goes out
    She says that long ago she knew someone but now he's gone
    She doesn't need him

    Your day breaks, your mind aches
    There will be time when all the things she said will fil your head
    You won't forget her

    And in her eyes you see nothing
    No sign of love behind the tears
    Cried for no one
    A love that should have lasted years!
    I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

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    The Piano Has Been Drinking by Tom Waits

    The piano has been drinking
    my necktie is asleep
    and the combo went back to New York
    the jukebox has to take a leak
    and the carpet needs a haircut
    and the spotlight looks like a prison break
    cause the telephone's out of cigarettes
    and the balcony's on the make
    and the piano has been drinking
    the piano has been drinking...

    and the menus are all freezing
    and the lightman's blind in one eye
    and he can't see out of the other
    and the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid
    and he showed up with his mother
    and the piano has been drinking
    the piano has been drinking

    cause the bouncer is a Sumo wrestler
    cream puff casper milk toast
    and the owner is a mental midget
    with the I.Q. of a fencepost
    cause the piano has been drinking
    the piano has been drinking...

    and you can't find your waitress
    with a Geiger counter
    And she hates you and your friends
    and you just can't get served
    without her
    and the box-office is drooling
    and the bar stools are on fire
    and the newspapers were fooling
    and the ash-trays have retired
    the piano has been drinking
    the piano has been drinking
    The piano has been drinking
    not me, not me, not me, not me, not me
    "And the worms, they will climb
    The rugged ladder of your spine"

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    Some other favourites which I forgot to mention are:

    Hotel California - Eagles

    On a dark desert highway
    Cool wind in my hair
    Warm smell of colitas
    Rising up through the air
    Up ahead in the distance
    I saw a shimmering light
    My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dim
    I had to stop for the night
    There she stood in the doorway
    I heard the mission bell
    And I was thinking to myself
    This could be Heaven or this could be Hell
    Then she lit up a candle
    And she showed me the way
    There were voices down the corridor
    I thought I heard them say

    Welcome to the Hotel California
    Such a lovely place
    Such a lovely place (background)
    Such a lovely face
    Plenty of room at the Hotel California
    Any time of year
    Any time of year (background)
    You can find it here
    You can find it here

    Her mind is Tiffany twisted
    She's got the Mercedes bends
    She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
    That she calls friends
    How they dance in the courtyard
    Sweet summer sweat
    Some dance to remember
    Some dance to forget
    So I called up the Captain
    Please bring me my wine
    He said
    We haven't had that spirit here since 1969
    And still those voices are calling from far away
    Wake you up in the middle of the night
    Just to hear them say

    Welcome to the Hotel California
    Such a lovely Place
    Such a lovely Place (background)
    Such a lovely face
    They're livin' it up at the Hotel California
    What a nice surprise
    What a nice surprise (background)
    Bring your alibies

    Mirrors on the ceiling
    Pink champagne on ice
    And she said
    We are all just prisoners here
    Of our own device
    And in the master's chambers
    They gathered for the feast
    They stab it with their steely knives
    But they just can't kill the beast
    Last thing I remember
    I was running for the door
    I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
    Relax said the nightman
    We are programed to recieve
    You can check out any time you like
    But you can never leave

    Hellelujah - Shrek Soundtrack

    I've heard there was a secret chord
    That David played, and it pleased the Lord
    But you don't really care for music, do you?
    It goes like this
    The fourth, the fifth
    The minor fall, the major lift
    The baffled king composing Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    Your faith was strong but you needed proof
    You saw her bathing on the roof
    Her beauty
    in the moonlight
    overthrew you
    She tied you
    To a kitchen chair
    She broke your throne,
    she cut your hair
    And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    Maybe I've been here before
    I know this room, I've walked this floor
    I used to live alone before I knew you
    I've seen your flag on the marble arch
    love is not a victory march
    It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    There was a time you'd let me know
    What's real and going on below
    But now you never show it to me do you?
    Remember when I moved in you?
    The holy dark was moving too
    And every breath we drew was hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    Maybe there's a God above
    And all I ever learned from love
    Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
    It's not a cry you can hear at night
    It's not somebody who's seen the light
    It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    Hey Jude - The Beatles

    Hey, Jude, don't make it bad
    Take a sad song and make it better
    Remember to let her into your heart
    Then you can start to make it better

    Hey, Jude, don't be afraid
    You were made to go out and get her
    The minute you let her under your skin
    Then you begin to make it better.

    And any time you feel the pain, hey, Jude, refrain
    Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
    Well don't you know that its a fool who plays it cool
    By making his world a little colder

    Hey, Jude! Don't let her down
    You have found her, now go and get her
    Remember, to let her into your heart
    Then you can start to make it better.

    So let it out and let it in, hey, Jude, begin
    You're waiting for someone to perform with
    And don't you know that it's just you, hey, Jude,
    You'll do, the movement you need is on your shoulder

    Hey, Jude, don't make it bad
    Take a sad song and make it better
    Remember to let her into your heart
    Then you can start to make it better
    I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

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    An other Tom Waits song, I love this one, i's really a little narrative.

    Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

    hey Charley I'm pregnant
    and living on 9-th street
    right above a dirty bookstore
    off cuclid avenue
    and I stopped taking dope
    and I quit drinking whiskey
    and my old man plays the trombone
    and works out at the track.

    and he says that he loves me
    even though its not his baby
    and he says that he'll raise him up
    like he would his own son
    and he gave me a ring
    that was worn by his mother
    and he takes me out dancin
    every saturday nite.

    and hey Charley I think about you
    everytime I pass a fillin' station
    on account of all the grease
    you used to wear in your hair
    and I still have that record
    of little anthony & the imperials
    but someone stole my record player
    how do you like that?

    hey Charley I almost went crazy
    after mario got busted
    so I went back to omaha to
    live with my folks
    but everyone I used to know
    was either dead or in prison
    so I came back in minneapolis
    this time I think I'm gonna stay.

    hey Charley I think I'm happy
    for the first time since my accident
    and I wish I had all the money
    that we used to spend on dope
    I'd buy me a used car lot
    and I wouldn't sell any of em
    I'd just drive a different car
    every day dependin on how
    I feel.

    hey Charley
    for chrissakes
    do you want to know
    the truth of it?
    I don't have a husband
    he don't play the trombone
    and I need to borrow money
    to pay this lawyer
    and Charley, hey
    I'll be eligible for parole
    come valentines day.
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    A couple of Beautiful South songs:

    I've Come for my award

    This is the awards for industry and free enterprise
    So let me sit you down and tell you how I won first prize
    I took on your free enterprise and your pretty little shops
    Walked in with empty bags and walked out with the lot

    So Ive come for my award, Ive come for my award
    I thought Id come in person thats the least I can afford
    Let hands be shook
    Champagne poured
    Sentence ignored
    Yes. Ive come for my award

    This is the awards for industry and free enterprise
    Anyone want a gold watch in a ladies size?
    Theres a few more round the back
    I stole them from your shop
    Weve got no more in silver, thats all that youd got

    So Ive come for my award, Ive come for my award
    I thought Id come in person thats the least I can afford
    Let hands be shook
    Champagne poured
    Sentence ignored
    Yes. Ive come for my award

    I chatted with your guards and winked at roving eye
    A thousand hidden cameras were searching cross the sky
    But they didnt see me pinch them from underneath their eyes

    So Ive come for my award, Ive come for my award
    I thought Id come in person thats the least I can afford
    Let hands be shook
    Champagne poured
    Sentence ignored
    Yes. Ive come for my award
    Jesus was my greatest accomplice
    Jesus was my greatest accomplice
    Jesus was my greatest accomplice
    Yes, Ive come for my award

    Hairdryer, overcoat, telly, dot-to-dot
    Video, compact disc, theres nothing we forgot
    Whilst I was busy smiling my father got the lot
    Ive come for my award

    I think the answer's yes

    Im walking through these pastures
    Im picking up sweet fruit
    Im shaking hands with people
    That previously Id shoot
    But nothing will dissuade me
    Nothing will dilute
    I want to execute
    I want to execute

    And you tend to meet a lot of scum en route
    It doesnt mean youve joined the other side
    And because I still wear shorts and my smile is oh so cute
    It doesnt mean Ill run away and hide

    To a world where the leaders finally confess
    (I think the answers yes, I think the answers yes)
    To the burning of the stock exchange and bombing of the press
    (I think the answers yes, I think the answers yes)

    I think the answers yes, yes, yes, I think the answers yes

    Im walking through these corridors
    Where crime meets pantomime
    Theyre laughing and theyre drinking
    On the swill of overtime
    And no-one seems to know about
    The death-wish that theyve signed
    Ah, lifes unkind
    Ah, lifes unkind

    And they see me as a potential new recruit
    They rub their hands, slap their backs and smile
    But I still wear suspenders underneath my business suit
    So neednt worry about me for a while

    So to a world without hunger, where royalty face death
    (I think the answers yes, I think the answers yes)
    To the breaking down of barriers of north, south,
    East and west
    (I think the answers yes, I think the answers yes)

    I think the answers yes, yes, yes, I think the answers yes
    I think the answers yes, yes, yes, I think the answers yes

    And no-one seems to know about
    The death-wish that theyve signed
    Ah, lifes unkind
    Ah, lifes unkind
    Lifes unkind, lifes unkind
    From poor old u2 to poor old simple minds
    No amnesty for murderers of poor old working class
    Rope or gas, rope or gas, rope or gas
    No amnesty for murderers of poor old working class
    Rope or gas, rope or gas
    There once was a scotsman named Drew
    Who put too much wine in his stew
    He felt a bit drunk
    And fell off his bunk
    And landed smack into his shoe
    ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King

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    The Crowd- Cat Empire

    Lord unchain my hands
    let me sing inside the crowded trams
    let me dance among the traffic jams
    we're going to sleep
    on the St Kilda sands

    Lord unbind my feet
    let me mingle with the good people
    we meet
    water rising up into the street
    unbind my feet

    ‘The apparition of these faces in
    the crowd;
    petals on a wet black bough"
    Ezra Pound found the formula
    our houses are rectangular
    but life is curved not angular
    so when things start to strangular
    remember
    rain still falls on the halls of power
    new babies being born every hour
    and the eagle keeps watch on the old clock tower
    over me...

    CHORUS

    On the train I refrain from sitting with head and shoulders bowed
    they told me time is of the essence
    no wandering allowed
    but then I saw a pretty girl
    whose features stood out in the crowd
    went ten minutes past my stop waiting for her to look around
    I'm just another clown kicking around in Melbourne town
    cooling out, relaxing watching the
    world go round
    so if you ever have the time
    and you want to go drink some wine
    I'd rather greet you with a smile
    than greet you with a frown...

    Lord unchain my hands
    let me sing inside the crowded trams
    let me dance among the traffic jams
    we're going to sleep
    on the St Kilda sands

    Lord unbind my feet
    let me mingle with the good people
    we meet
    water rising up into the street
    unbind my feet



    I love this band from New Zealand. They are kind of jazzy with nice messages.
    "Yes, Mati. That was exacshully what I was saying."

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    Down In A Hole ~ Alice in Chains

    Bury Me Softly In This Womb
    I Give This Part Of Me For You
    Sand Rains Down And Here I Sit
    Holding Rare Flowers
    In A Tomb.....In Bloom

    Down In A Hole And I Don't Know
    If I Can Be Saved
    See My Heart I Decorate It
    Like A Grave
    You Don't Understand Who They
    Thought I Was Supposed To Be
    Look At Me Now A Man
    Who Won't Let Himself Be

    Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
    Down In A Hole, Losin' Control
    I'd Like To Fly
    But My Wings Have Been So Denied

    Down In A Hole And They've Put All
    The Stones In Their Place
    I've Eaten The Sun So My Tongue
    Has Been Burned Of The Taste
    I Have Been Guilty
    Of Kicking Myself In The Teeth
    I Will Speak No More
    Of My Feelings Beneath

    Oh I Want To Be Inside Of You

    Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
    Down In A Hole, Feelin' So Small
    Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
    Down In A Hole, Out Of Control

    I'd Like To Fly
    But My Wings Have Been So Denied
    the luminous grass of the prairie hides
    feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
    porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
    but weighty and unmovable
    As black Dakota hills.
    ~ Riesa

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    I'll Fly Away

    I'll Fly Away - Alison Krauss

    Some glad morning when this life is o'er,
    I'll fly away;
    To a home on God's celestial shore,
    I'll fly away (I'll fly away).

    [Chorus]
    I'll fly away, Oh Glory
    I'll fly away; (in the morning)
    When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
    I'll fly away (I'll fly away).

    When the shadows of this life have gone,
    I'll fly away;
    Like a bird from prison bars has flown,
    I'll fly away (I'll fly away)

    [Chorus]
    I'll fly away, Oh Glory
    I'll fly away; (in the morning)
    When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
    I'll fly away (I'll fly away).

    Just a few more weary days and then,
    I'll fly away;
    To a land where joy shall never end,
    I'll fly away (I'll fly away)

    [Chorus]
    I'll fly away, Oh Glory
    I'll fly away; (in the morning)
    When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
    I'll fly away (I'll fly away).
    "...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kilted exile
    Fifty Years From Now - Dick Gaughan

    It's hard times in the cities,
    And its hard times on the land,
    But the stockbrokers and bankers,
    Say that things are looking grand,
    The economy's on the upturn,
    And they've made a solemn vow,
    That we'll feel the benefits,
    In, maybe fifty years from now

    Fifty years from now,
    Maybe fifty years from now,
    We'll be ankle deep in gold dust,
    Fifty years from now,
    Stop this selfish whining,
    Look for the silver lining,
    Prosperity's around the corner,
    fifty years from now

    The government has done its best,
    to bring prosperity,
    But all its work is threatened,
    by the likes of you and me,
    If we're to be competitive,
    It just cant be ignored,
    That eating is a luxury,
    We simply cant afford

    Fifty years from now,
    Maybe fifty years from now,
    It'll all be milk and honey,
    Fifty years from now,
    In the meantime keep your trap shut,
    And bear it with a grin,
    And do your starving gracefully,
    Or else they'll run you in

    The butters piled in mountains,
    We're producing far too much,
    But we cant afford to buy a bit,
    To spread upon our crusts,
    The seas are full of fish,
    That the fishing fleets could catch,
    But if they did the EEC,
    Would make them throw them back

    Fifty years from now,
    Maybe fifty years from now,
    Tell the gas board that you'll pay the bill,
    Fifty years from now,
    If you're old or on the dole,
    Then I know you'll be consoled,
    By the thought that it'll be much better,
    Fifty years from now

    We cant go building hospitals,
    We need the cash for guns,
    Our generals and admirals,
    Must have their bit of fun,
    And schools dont bring the profits back,
    Like nuclear guns and tanks,
    That's why the country's overrun,
    By missile toting yanks

    Fifty years from now,
    Maybe fifty years from now,
    We'll be blackened heaps of cinders,
    Fifty years from now,
    If we let them have their way,
    Without fighting back today,
    There'll be nothing left worth fighting for,
    In fifty years from now
    So true...

    Quote Originally Posted by NNoah3 View Post
    "High Hopes" - Pink Floyd

    Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
    In a world of magnets and miracles
    Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
    The ringing of the division bell had begun

    Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
    Do they still meet there by the Cut

    There was a ragged band that followed our footsteps
    Running before time took our dreams away
    Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
    To a life consumed by slow decay

    The grass was greener
    The light was brighter
    With friends surrounded
    The nights of wonder

    Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
    To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
    Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
    Dragged by force of some inner tide

    At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
    We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

    Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
    There's a hunger still unsatisfied
    Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
    Though down this road we've been so many times

    The grass was greener
    The light was brighter
    The taste was sweeter
    The nights of wonder
    With friends surrounded
    The dawn mist growing
    The water flowing
    The endless river

    Forever and ever
    Oh, this is another of my favourites. I love Pink Floyd's lyrics and songs as well.
    I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

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    Johnny's in the basement
    Mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement
    Thinking 'bout the government
    Man in a trenchcoat
    Badge out laid off
    Lays he's got a bad cough
    Wants to get it paid off

    Look out kid
    It's something you did
    God knows when
    But you're doing it again
    You better duck down the alleyway
    Looking for a new friend
    Man in the coonskin cap
    In the big pen
    Wants eleven dollar bills
    But you only got ten

    Maggie comes fleet foot
    Face full of black soot
    Talking that the heat put
    The plants in the bed but
    The phone's tapped anyway
    Maggie says that many say
    They must bust in early May
    Orders from the DA

    Look out kid
    Don't matter what you did
    Step on tip toes
    Don't try no-doze
    Better stay away from those
    That carry round a firehouse
    Keep a clean nose
    Watch the plain clothes
    You don't need a weatherman
    To know which way the wind blows

    Get sick, get well
    Hang around a ink well
    Ring bell, hard to tell
    If anything is gonna sell
    Try hard, get barred
    Get back, right brail
    Get jailed, jump bail
    Join the army if you fail

    Look out kid
    You're gonna get hit
    By users cheaters
    Six time losers
    That hang around the theatres
    Girl by the whirlpool
    Looking for a new fool
    Don't follow leaders
    Watch the parking meters

    Get born, keep warm
    Short pants, romance
    Learn to dance, please her
    Please him, buy gifts
    Don't steal don't lift
    Twenty years of schooling
    And they put you on the day shift

    Look out kid
    They keep it all hid
    Don't wear sandals
    Try'n avoid the scandals
    You don't wanna be a bum
    You'd better chew gum
    The pump don't work
    'Cuz the vandals took the handles
    What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
    - Gertrude Stein

    A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
    - Virginia Woolf

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