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[bodie]

Life is like a dog sled team.  If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.  ~Lewis Grizzard

[bodie]

I am an Antichrist
I am an anarchist
I know what I want and
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy passerby

'Cause I wanna be anarchy
In the city

Anarchy for the UK
It's coming sometime maybe
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line
Your future dream is a shopping scheme

'Cause I wanna be anarchy
In the city, the only way to be

How many ways
To get what you want?
I use the best, I use the rest
I use the enemy, I use anarchy

'Cause I wanna be anarchy
In the city, follow me

Is this the MPLA?
Or is this the UDA?
Or is this the IRA
I thought it was the UK
Or just another country
Another council tenancy

brilliant John Lydon

[bodie]

In a station in the city a British soldier stood
Talking to the people there if the people would
Some just stared in hatred, and others turned in pain
And the lonely British soldier wished he was back home again

Come join the British Army! said the posters in his town
See the world and have your fun come serve before the Crown
The jobs were hard to come by and he could not face the dole
So he took his country's shilling and enlisted on the roll

For there was no fear of fighting, the Empire long was lost
Just ten years in the army getting paid for being bossed
Then leave a man experienced a man who's made the grade
A medal and a pension some mem'ries and a trade

Then came the call to Ireland as the call had come before
Another bloody chapter in an endless civil war
The priests they stood on both sides the priests they stood behind
Another fight in Jesus name the blind against the blind

The soldier stood between them between the whistling stones
And then the broken bottles that led to broken bones
The petrol bombs that burnt his hands the nails that pierced his skin
And wished that he had stayed at home surrounded by his kin

The station filled with people the soldier soon was bored
But better in the station than where the people warred
The room filled up with mothers with daughters and with sons
Who stared with itchy fingers at the soldier and his gun

A yell of fear a screech of brakes the shattering of glass
The window of the station broke to let the package pass
A scream came from the mothers as they ran towards the door
Dragging children crying from the bomb upon the floor
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The soldier stood and could not move his gun he could not use
He knew the bomb had seconds and not minutes on the fuse
He could not run to pick it up and throw it in the street
There were far too many people there too many running feet

Take cover! yelled the soldier, Take cover for your lives
And the Irishmen threw down their young and stood before their wives
They turned towards the soldier their eyes alive with fear
For God's sake save our children or they'll end their short lives here

The soldier moved towards the bomb his stomach like a stone
Why was this his battle God why was he alone
He lay down on the package and he murmured one farewell
To those at home in England to those he loved so well

He saw the sights of summer felt the wind upon his brow
The young girls in the city parks how precious were they now
The soaring of the swallow the beauty of the swan
The music of the turning world so soon would it be gone

A muffled soft explosion and the room began to quake
The soldier blown across the floor his blood a crimson lake
They never heard him cry or shout they never heard him moan
And they turned their children's faces from the blood and from the bones

The crowd outside soon gathered and the ambulances came
To carry off the body of a pawn lost in the game
And the crowd they clapped and cheered and they sang their rebel songs
One soldier less to interfere where he did not belong

But will the children growing up learn at their mothers' knees
The story of the soldier who bought their liberty
Who used his youthful body as a means towards an end
Who gave his life to those who called him murderer not friend

[TheoK]

My will is easy to decide,
for there is nothing to divide.
My kin don't need to fuss and moan --
"Moss does not cling to rolling stone".

My body? Ah, If I would choose,
I would to ashes it reduce,
and let the merry breezes blow
my dust to where some flowers grow.

Perhaps some fading flower then
would come to life and bloom again.
This is my last and final will.
Good luck to all of you,
                              Joe Hill

[earthboundmisfit]

If you run before the wind you’ll never take off, you’ve got to turn into it. You’ve got to face it. The very thing you push against, or the things that push against you, those challenges, are the things that will lift you up.

[earthboundmisfit]

If one does not fail at times,

then one has not challenged himself.


-Dr. Ferdinand Porsche

[TheoK]

If stupidity didn't exist, nothing intelligent would ever be said or done.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Binty]

"I'm not suicidal/ I just can't get out of bed/I drift into a deep fog"

Metric - Satellite Mind

[Binty]

Did they tell you, you should grow up
When you wanted to dream
Did they warn you, better shape up
If you want to succeed
I don't know about you, who are they talking to?
They aren't talking to me

I'm higher than high, lower than deep
I'm doing it wrong, singing along

Did I ask you for attention
When affection is what I need
Thinking sorrow is perfection
I'd wallow 'til you told me
There's no glitter in the gutter
There's no twilight galaxy

Metric - Twilight Galaxy

[eris]

They call her
Bulldozer speech demon
Without distractions of hope,
She makes the depression business
Look surprisingly novel.
And she's not just royal,
Allegedly loyal
Not unfaithful but she has no faith in me.
Inhale the damage smoothly
Paradise isn't lost,
It was hiding all along.
There's the ones that you love,
The ones that love you,
The ones that make you come.
The ones that make you come unglued.
I can't turn my back on you
When you are walking away.


- MM

[TheoK]

Joan was quizzical; Studied pataphysical
Science in the home.
Late nights all alone with a test tube.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine,
Calls her on the phone.
"Can I take you out to the pictures,
Joa, oa, oa, oan?"

But as she's getting ready to go,
A knock comes on the door.

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head.
Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead.

Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again.
Teacher gets annoyed.
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant
Sce, e, e, ene,

She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away,
So he waits behind
Writing fifty times "I must not be
So, o, o, o.."

But when she turns her back on the boy,
He creeps up from behind.

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head.
Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that She was dead.

P. C. Thirty-one said, "We've caught a dirty one."
Maxwell stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free
(Maxwell must go free)
The judge does not agree and he tells them
So, o, o, o.

But as the words are leaving his lips,
A noise comes from behind.

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon his head.
Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that he was dead.

Silver Hammer Ma, a, an.


The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

 

[bodie]

Life is like a dog sled team race

-  unless you are at the front the scenery never changes

[eris]

here, this is much less emo and much much more about "who I am"
;;;




I wanna fuck you like a foreign film
and there's no subtitles to get you through this
and I'm a country you don't ever ever ever ever ever
want to visit again

Line up,
Roll camera,
you pretend
I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut
cut, cut, cut
Line up,
Roll camera,
you pretend
I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut

I want to kill you like they do in the movies
but don't worry there's another one just like you in line

I want to kill you like they do in the movies
but don't worry there's another one just like you in line

Line up,
Roll camera,
you pretend
I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut
Line up,
Roll camera,
you pretend
I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut, cut

I'm a strip, strip, strip, and
I flicker, flick, flick, flick
a flicker of celluloid
and there's holes, holes, holes
in my everything
I'm a strip, strip, strip, and
I flicker, flick, flick, flick
a flicker of celluloid
and there's holes, holes, holes
in my everything

You're just what I projected
just what I projected
It's just what I projected
just want to project it

Come in, come in, come in,
Come in, come in, come in, come inside

There's so much, much, much more skin to break
I haven't even taken off my gloves,
There's so much, much, much more skin to break
I haven't even taken off my gloves

I feel a little sorry baby,
I feel a little sorry baby,
I hear the afterlife is poorly scored
I feel a little sorry baby,
I feel a little sorry baby,
I hear the afterlife is poorly scored

You're lucky you don't have to wake up
sick, sick, sick, sick
I'm sick of immortality,
I'm sick of immortality
I'm sick of immortality

I was only acting, baby
only acting, baby
You were only acting, baby
overacting, baby

Don't confuse it with love
Don't confuse it with love
Don't confuse it with love
Don't confuse it with love

Everytime I kill you I'm really just killing myself
Everytime I kill you I'm really just killing myself
Everytime I kill you I'm really just killing myself

Don't flatter yourself, don't flatter yourself

This is business not pleasure, baby
this is business not pleasure, baby
this business of pleasure, baby
business not pleasure, baby
this is business
this is business

I want to kill you like they do in the movies
but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line
I want to kill you like they do in the movies
but don't worry there's another one just like you, standing in line

Line up,
Roll camera,
you pretend
I'll pretend
And cut, cut, cut


-mm

[Celticgoddess]

Fuckin' Perfect ~ P!nk
Made a wrong turn, once or twice
Dug my way out, blood and fire
Bad decisions, that's alright
Welcome to my silly life
Mistreated, misplaced, missunderstood
Miss "no way it's all good", it didn't slow me down
Mistaken, always second guessing
Underestimated, look, I'm still around...

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like your less than, fuckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like your nothing, you're fuckin' perfect to me

You're so mean, when you talk
About yourself, you are wrong
Change the voices, in your head
Make them like you instead
So complicated, look happy, you will make it
Filled with so much hatred, such a tired game
It's enough, I've done all I can think of
Chased down all my demons, I've seen you do the same

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like your less than, fuckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like your nothing, you're fuckin' perfect to me

The worlds scared so I swallow the fear
The only thing I should be drinking is an ice cold beer
So cool in line and we try, try, try,
But we try too hard, it's a waste of my time
Done looking for the critics, cuz they're everywhere
They don't like my jeans, they don't get my hair
Exchange ourselves and we do it all the time
Why do we do that?
Why do I do that?
Why do I do that?

Ooh, pretty pretty pretty,
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel
Like you're less then, fuckin' perfect
Pretty pretty please if you ever ever feel
Like you're nothing you're fuckin' perfect, to me
You're perfect
You're perfect
Pretty, pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less then, fucking perfect
Pretty, pretty please if you ever ever feel like you're nothing you're fucking perfect to me

[midlifeaspie]

(Uh oh.  Found another one  )

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.