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walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,601
edited December 2007 in The Porch
I'm having my students write today about their all-time favorite line/lyric from a song, and I'm planning to share one or two of PJ's with them. However, there are so many great ones, it's hard to choose. What should I share? Decisions, decisions...
Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
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  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    everything has changed, absolutely nothings changed
    make sure the fortune that you seek...is the fortune that you need
  • walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,601
    chopitdown wrote:
    everything has changed, absolutely nothings changed

    Hmmm...I always thought the line was: "Everything has chains, absolutely nothing's changed."
    Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ

    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
  • rssesqrssesq Posts: 3,299
    "have you seen the way that tree bends?
    Does it inspire?
    Leaning out to catch the sun's rays
    A lesson to be applied
    Are you getting something out of this
    All encompassing trip?"
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    chopitdown wrote:
    everything has changed, absolutely nothings changed
    Wrong lyrics, but either way you must have a thing for contradictions. :p
  • pjsteelerfanpjsteelerfan Posts: 9,897
    "One just escapes...one's left inside the well...
    And he who forgets...will be destined to remember..."
    ...got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul...
  • NY PJ1NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    How Loud Can Silence Get?
  • Indian SummerIndian Summer Posts: 2,296
    walkunafraid wrote:
    Hmmm...I always thought the line was: "Everything has chains, absolutely nothing's changed."

    you are correct.
    "It's all happening"
  • THE BANDTHE BAND Posts: 83
    watched from the window, with a red mosquito
  • LizardLizard Posts: 12,091
    There ARE too many!

    ---

    All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives
    Choosing the shiny ones instead
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • pj.uw.laurapj.uw.laura Posts: 553
    I turned my back, now there's no turning back


    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why, why can't it be mine?


    If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?


    I know I was born and I know that I'll die... the in between is mine.


    He who forgets will be destined to remember



    God, there's so many, I just keep thinking of more.
  • The Severed HandThe Severed Hand Posts: 214
    what grade level and class is this for?
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    "life comes from within your heart and desire"
    I love to turn you on
  • walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,601
    The Severed Hand wrote:
    what grade level and class is this for?

    English, grades 10 and 11. Selected responses will be in the school newspaper. :)
    Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ

    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
  • Indian SummerIndian Summer Posts: 2,296
    walkunafraid wrote:
    English, grades 10 and 11. Selected responses will be in the school newspaper. :)

    ahh, don't waste your time. Kids that age already know everything, and aren't gonna listen anyway.
    "It's all happening"
  • se7v7ense7v7en Posts: 329
    i thought you burned, not froze for your sins
  • zootownzootown Posts: 666
    "What are you running from, taking pills to get along, creating walls to call your own....so no one catches you drifting off and doing all the things that we all do"
    I hold the pain, release me!
  • walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,601
    Indian Summer wrote:
    ahh, don't waste your time. Kids that age already know everything, and aren't gonna listen anyway.

    If I wasn't teaching them, I'd probably think that too. But you'd be surprised how much they enjoy hearing their teacher talk about music, even if it's not the style they usually listen to.

    Right now many of them are IN LOVE with the ITW soundtrack!
    Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ

    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
  • UpSideDownUpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    zootown wrote:
    "What are you running from, taking pills to get along, creating walls to call your own....so no one catches you drifting off and doing all the things that we all do"


    its no crime to escape
  • this is not for youthis is not for you Posts: 240
    Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
    Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
    Someday yet, he'll begin his life again
    Life again, life again...
  • smile05smile05 Posts: 600
    walkunafraid wrote:
    Hmmm...I always thought the line was: "Everything has chains, absolutely nothing's changed."

    ME TOO

    I'LL LIE ALONE AND WAIT FOR THE DREAM,WHERE IM NOT UGLY AND YOUR LOOKING AT ME.
    1:Black 2:Corduroy 3:All Those Yesterdays 4:I Got ID 5:Smile

    They can buy but cant put on my clothes
    Throw down my ace in the hole~~~~~~

    Let's go for three in a row, no sorry i can't think of anything thats not funny. - Paul Merton

    London96,Manchester00,Berlin06,London07
  • guertin32guertin32 Posts: 205
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Wrong lyrics, but either way you must have a thing for contradictions. :p

    i thought it was "everythings ka-ching- absolutely nothings ching"


    kidding... or am i ?
    http://www.myspace.com/cravingstrangemusic <- my band
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    MSG - NYC - 9-11-1998 (BEST FKING SHOW!)
    Jones Beach - 8-25-2000
    Nassau Coliseum - 4-30-2003
    Irving Plaza - 5-5-06 (another great show)
    New Jersey - 6-1-06
    MSG - NYC - 6.24.08
  • hourglassnebulahourglassnebula Posts: 25
    Got a gun, fact I got two
    That's ok man, cuz I love god
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    "Hummous!"

    "Hummous!"

    "Hummous!"

    :D:D:D
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • PJLeaver44PJLeaver44 Posts: 44
    "Seek my part, devote myself...like a book amongst the many on the shelf."
    Grand Rapids 10/3/04, Kitchener 9/11/05, Grand Rapids 5/19/06, Detroit 5/22/06

    "Who set the standard, born to be rich--Paris Hilton--Such fine example, skinny little bitch" -Ed, 5/19/06

    www.myspace.com/radiomessiah
  • mak.mak. Posts: 56
    "The door swings to a passing fable...a fate we may delay"
    roll them high...
    throw them again...
  • HermanBloomHermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    Indian Summer wrote:
    ahh, don't waste your time. Kids that age already know everything, and aren't gonna listen anyway.
    I teach 8th and 9th and they think they know everything:

    How about
    Searching hope, I'm shown the way to run straight
    pursuing the greater way for all,... human light.

    How I choose to feel,... Is how I am.
    How I choose to feel,... Is how I am.

    I will not lose my faith
    It's an inside job today

    Holding on, the light of night
    On my knees to rise and fix my broken soul

    Again.
    SLC 11/2/95, Park City 6/21/98, Boise 11/3/00, Seattle 12/9/02, Vancouver 5/30/03, Gorge 9/1/05, Vancouver 9/2/05, Gorge 7/22/06, Gorge 7/23/06, Camden I 6/19/08, MSG I 6/24/08, MSG II 6/25/08, Hartford 6/27/08, Mansfield II 6/30/08; Eddie Albany 6/8/09, 6/9/09; Philly 10/30/09, 10/31/09; Boston 5/17/10
    I thought the world...Turns out the world thought me
  • DavanitaDavanita Posts: 854
    well i don't know if it's the greatest, there just are too many...
    but i was just listening to Hail Hail and i remembered how much i love this line:

    "Are you woman enough to be my man?"

    :D

    that and any line from either I Am Mine or Present Tense.
    Jon Stewart: "[about Russia's new president]...Dmitri Medevvvevv.... Dmitri Meh..... Dmitri M.! Or... as George W. Bush would probably pronounce it... Eddie Vedder."
    __________________________________
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  • boxwine_in_hellboxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    My personal favorite

    "They can buy but can't put on my clothes."
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • juannisjuannis Posts: 73
    no time to be void and save up on life. you have to spend it all. this is my fav line.
    No time to be void and save up on life, you gotta spend it all.

    10/4/96, 9/11/98, 8/25/00, 8/27/00, 8/30/00, 10/4/00, 4/29/03, 7/3/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/24/06, 5/25/06, 6/3/06, 10/22/06, 8/5/07, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 8/2/08 (EV)
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Take my hand, not my picture
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
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