Ed's "Dream" from Cleveland 06
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anyone at this show or heard the boot? it came up in a debate over the efficacy of ed's political activism in the moving train and this was my closing argument that he's not always the most coherent political speaker after a few bottles of wine onstage 
does anyone know if there's a transcript of it? it's a riot... even the band was laughing their asses off and looking at each other like "what the hell is he talking about?" it's some nonsense about a dream where the moon explodes and it all represents democracy... worst political speech ever, best stoner speech ever
does anyone know if there's a transcript of it? it's a riot... even the band was laughing their asses off and looking at each other like "what the hell is he talking about?" it's some nonsense about a dream where the moon explodes and it all represents democracy... worst political speech ever, best stoner speech ever
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"After “Fuckin’ Up”, Ed tells the crowd about a dream he had where the moon exploded and “crumbled and disappeared into nothing”, creating a world of chaos with the absence of the tides”. He continues that he thinks maybe the moon in his dream could be like “democracy”, and “it looks like it’s full right now, but if we don’t start paying attention … and looking at it thinking it’s beautiful, it’s just gonna disappear like this on us if we don’t participate, and you would know better here in Ohio – the deciding vote” (the vote tally in the state of Ohio decided the winner in the 2004 Presidential election)."
Sounds like he was pretty loaded!
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I think it's pretty good either way. it's got to be tough to be at a rock concert and start expressing your political views (other than in a song).
soulsing..cool avatar. i've seen alot of different ones here, that's a scene from the maltesse falcon, one of my favorite bogart movies.
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aye, that's the one. i've heard some strained analogies in my day, but that one...
i think with a certain herbal infusion i may have been very moved by it myself
i think this video has it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX3ltivA ... L&index=22
Here's a rough transcript:
"There's a lot going on in the world and hopefully we'll all be here to make friends again and uh... Tell you what, can I tell you a quick dream I had last night? Just a quick dream. I dreamt that I was in an outdoor cafe with my family and it was a full moon, and uh... We're having a late dinner, everything was fine, there was a lot of people out on the street, and uh... All of the sudden the moon started... Sparks started shooting off the moon, and uh... And a few people caught notice and then we all looked up and these sparks shot off the moon and then they stopped. Everyone kinda looked up and right after that, the moon just disintegrated like a... It just disappeared. And it was dead silent, like no one could speak. You know, no one could speak, we couldn't believe what we just saw, that the moon just absolutely just crumbled, disappeared into nothing. And the, obviously, without the moon, the tides and the earth, that whole thing - the next thing you know there was a power... The next thing you know it was like world chaos. And I'm running with my family though the streets of some unknown city in a blackout - 'cause it all blacked out - you know... I'm just worried that this might be like, the moon maybe is democracy, and we think it's glowing, we think it's there, but it's just gonna disappear like that! It looks like it's full right now, but if we don't like start paying attention, and if we're just having dinner, looking at it, thinking it's beautiful, it's just gonna disappear like this on us, if we don't kinda participate, and you would know better, here in Ohio, the deciding vote... So we love you, we want you to love each other, and uh... Until next time!"
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good read.
i love ed's stream of consciousness speeches....
ed CAN be very eloquent, and very powerful. obviously, we KNOW he has an amazing talent with language and ideas. however, sure...sometimes...even just the uhs and the you knows....get in the way of the ideas. thus why he is such a brilliant songwriter, not always such a brilliant speaker. he's got a brilliant mind and voice tho none the less...
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
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thanks for posting.
"To question your government is not unpatriotic --
to not question your government is unpatriotic."
-- Sen. Chuck Hagel
deepness = drunkeness?
i kid, i kid!
however, it's got to be great to be a rock star...not the least of which, being able to afford to get at least at wee bit tipsy every night on tour on 1-2 or more $45+ bottles of wine!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
i think he may have made all that up.
still it's pretty deep to me.
it's actually a stellar show... they open with betterman, play a killer version of immortality, daughter with it's ok, black with we belong together... it's worth hearing. then there's ed's revelation that those smokes he has aren't always tobacco
agreed...it was an awesome show to be at : ) It was the first time I saw Daughter with It's Ok...amazzing. and Ed was definitely getting deeep that night. It made me hate Cleveland a little less, hahaha jusst joking
it's kind of a shit hole, but the band always seems to play kick ass shows here... the 03 show was a hidden gem from that tour too. possibly the best versions of present tense and alive ever.
It's a great boot. Just downloaded it a few months back and have listened to it a lot. The daughter w. the its ok tag is great. Ed's speech at the end is fucking nuts....pretty weird too when he was rambling on like that right before the last song.
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Lisbon - July 10, 2010
Berlin - June 26, 2014
Zurich - June 23, 2022
http://www.last.fm/user/Kloddz
I think this is a video of Ed's out-of-body experience. He's looking at this train-wreck from the top of the arena and thinking. "Oh God! Would you listen to yourself?! Just... stop...talking..." :oops:
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