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El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
edited August 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
couldn't think of a good enough title....

Pick and choose what to believe
Pick and choose what is worth following
in your book of fairy tales
Tell me again how you do it for the children
Tell me again how each life is precious
and must be saved
Just don't ask me to believe you
that it's what is right
as you turn your back on the unfortunate ones
Don't expect me to accept your pathetic rationalizations
as you help to hold them down and keep them in place
It's all so simple if you'd just open your eyes
An undereducated populace leads to an ignorant one
An ignorant populace leads to an easily distracted one
An easily distracted populace equals the perfect consumers
Oh so easy to keep in line
A culture of waste, not progress
Oh, right, to you and your hollier than thou, self-righteous attitude
record profits for corporations at the expense of everyone is progress
Money may make the world go round
But it will also lead to its destruction
Selling your soul for a plasma TV
Trading your values for a fucking SUV
And it's all for the kids you say
Fighting each other and not the problems
If all this will send me to hell
Then I can only wonder where it will send you
You've got no soul
no soul, no soul
no fucking soul at all
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
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  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    Very nice!!!! The return was worth the wait.
    You've changed your place in this world!
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Did you ever hear about the great deception
    Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run
    Have you ever been down to love city
    Where they rip you off with a smile
    And it don't take a gun

    Don't it hurt so bad in love city
    Don't it make you not want to bother at all
    And don't they look so self righteous
    When they pin you up against the wall

    Did you ever, ever see the people
    With the tear drops in their eyes
    I just can't stand it, stand it no how
    Living in this world of lies

    Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singers
    Got three or four Cadillacs
    Saying power to the people, dance to the music
    Wants you to pat him on the back

    Have you ever heard about the great Rembrandt
    Have you ever heard about how he could paint
    And he didn't have enough money for his brushes
    And they thought it was rather quaint

    But you know it's no use repeating
    And you know it's no use to think about it
    'Cause when you stop to think about it
    You don't need it

    Have you ever heard about the great Hollywood motion picture actor
    Who knew more than they did
    And the newspapers didn't cover the story
    Just decided to keep it hid.

    Somebody started saying it was an inside job
    Whatever happened to him?
    Last time they saw him down on the Bow'ry
    With his lip hanging off an old rusty bottle of gin

    Have you ever heard about the so-called hippies
    Down on the far side of the tracks
    They take the eyeballs straight out of your head
    Say son, kid, do you want your eyeballs back

    Did you ever see the people
    With the tear drops in their eyes
    Just can't stand it no how
    Living in this world of lies
  • Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Good to see you, Kabong! :)

    Thank you for sharing!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • robertthecatrobertthecat Posts: 69
    I really like this. This is TUFF!!!! Anyway, I don't know why I'm thinking this, but have you considered repeating the first two lines of the poem once or twice in the piece, or perhaps the following lines:

    " Money may make the world go round
    But it will also lead to its destruction
    Selling your soul for a plasma TV"

    Or

    " An undereducated populace leads to an ignorant one
    An ignorant populace leads to an easily distracted one"

    There are so many great lines to this piece, and for some reason it seems to me to have some rhythmn that lends itself to a chorus or two, perhaps a different set. Anyways, what wonderful work you have done!
  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    Originally posted by robertthecat
    I really like this. This is TUFF!!!! Anyway, I don't know why I'm thinking this, but have you considered repeating the first two lines of the poem once or twice in the piece, or perhaps the following lines:

    " Money may make the world go round
    But it will also lead to its destruction
    Selling your soul for a plasma TV"

    Or

    " An undereducated populace leads to an ignorant one
    An ignorant populace leads to an easily distracted one"

    There are so many great lines to this piece, and for some reason it seems to me to have some rhythmn that lends itself to a chorus or two, perhaps a different set. Anyways, what wonderful work you have done!

    thanks, I've thought about editing it but I hate going back and re-reading htings I write...these were just things I scribbled down in my notebook planning on reworking eventually then my g/f kept telling me to just post them so....I just never got around to doing anything with it
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • robertthecatrobertthecat Posts: 69
    Originally posted by GlorifiedG
    thanks, I've thought about editing it but I hate going back and re-reading htings I write...these were just things I scribbled down in my notebook planning on reworking eventually then my g/f kept telling me to just post them so....I just never got around to doing anything with it

    Least of all schedule constraints!!! I know exactly what you mean. I'm guilty of the same thing. When you're ready, the feeling will come to you to take another look. Keeping the responses as notes always helps me. But please continue posting. You've shared such great talent! Why stop?
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