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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    The Mississippi Delta was shining
    Like a National guitar,
    I am following the river
    Down the highway
    Through the cradle of the civil war,

    I'm going to Graceland
    Graceland
    In Memphis Tennessee
    I'm going to Graceland,

    Poorboys and Pilgrims with families
    And we are going to Graceland,
    My traveling companion is nine years old
    He is the child of my first marriage,
    But I've reason to believe
    We both will be received
    In Graceland,

    She comes back to tell me she's gone,
    As if I didn't know that
    As if I didn't know my own bed,
    As if I'd never noticed,
    The way she brushed her hair from forehead,
    And she said losing love
    Is like a window in your heart,
    Everybody sees you're blown apart,
    Everybody sees the wind blow,

    I'm going to Graceland,
    Memphis Tennessee
    I'm going to Graceland,
    Poorboys and Pilgrims with families
    And we are going to Graceland,

    And my traveling companions
    Are ghosts and empty sockets
    I'm looking at ghosts and empties,
    But I've reason to believe
    We all will be received
    In Graceland,

    There's a girl in New York City,
    Who calls herself the human trampoline,
    And sometimes when I'm falling flying
    Or tumbling in turmoil I say
    Woah so this is what she means,
    She means we're bouncing into Graceland,
    And I see losing love
    Is like a window in your heart,
    Everybody sees you're blown apart,
    Everybody feels the wind blow,

    In Graceland Graceland,
    I'm going to Graceland,
    For reasons I cannot explain
    There's some part of me wants to see
    Graceland,
    And I may be obliged to defend
    Every love every ending
    Or maybe there's no obligations now,
    Maybe I've a reason to believe
    We all will be received
    In Graceland

    (Pause)

    Woah in graceland graceland graceland
    i'm going to graceland
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Joseph's face was black as night
    The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
    His path was marked
    By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
    And he walked his days
    Under African skies
    This is the story of how we begin to remember
    This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
    After the dream of falling and calling your name out
    These are the roots of rhythm
    And the roots of rhythm remain

    In early memory
    Mission music
    Was ringing 'round my nursery door
    I said take this child, Lord
    From Tucson Arizona
    Give her the wings to fly through harmony
    And she won't bother you no more

    This is the story of how we begin to remember
    This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
    After the dream of falling and calling your name out
    These are the roots of rhythm
    And the roots of rhythm remain

    Joseph's face was as black as the night
    And the pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
    His path was marked
    By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere
    And he walked the length of his days
    Under African skies
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    Ben Harper
    I'll Rise


    You may write me down in history
    With your bitter twisted lies
    You may trod me down in the very dirt
    And still like the dust Ill rise
    Does my happiness upset you
    Why are you best with gloom
    Cause I laugh like Ive got an oil well
    Pumpin in my living room

    So you may shoot me with your words
    You may cut me with your eyes
    And Ill rise
    Ill rise
    Ill rise
    Out of the shacks of historys shame
    Up from a past rooted in pain
    Ill rise
    Ill rise
    Ill rise

    Now did you want to see me broken
    Bowed head and lowered eyes
    Shoulders fallen down like tear drops
    Weakened by my soulful cries

    Does my confidence upset you
    Dont you take it awful hard
    Cause I walk like Ive got a diamond mine
    Breakin up in my front yard

    So you may shoot me with your words
    You may cut me with your eyes
    And Ill rise
    Ill rise
    Ill rise
    Out of the shacks of historys shame
    Up from a past rooted in pain
    Ill rise
    Ill rise
    Ill rise

    So you may write me down in history
    With your bitter twisted lies
    You may trod me down in the very dirt
    And still like the dust Ill rise
    Does my happiness upset you
    Why are you best with gloom
    Cause I laugh like Ive got a goldmine
    Diggin up in my living room

    So you may shoot me with your words
    You may cut me with your eyes
    And Ill rise
    Ill rise
    Ill rise
    Out of the shacks of historys shame
    Up from a past rooted in pain
    Ill rise
    Ill rise
    Ill rise
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    Undone

    last stop on the westcoast line
    south of the northern border
    one small corner on my mind
    everybody, they know me there
    don't get any second glances
    chances are that they don't care
    the world has come undone
    like to change it everyday
    change don't come at once
    it's a wave building before it breaks
    can't wait for election day
    witness the occupation
    corporations rule the day
    well you know the pendulum throws
    farther out to the one side, swinging
    has to sweep back the other way
    the world has come undone
    another day and who can wait
    change don't come at once
    it's a wave building before it breaks
    all this hope and nowhere to go
    this is how i used to feel, but no more
    the world has come undone
    like a game that few can play
    change don't come from one
    it's a wave building before it breaks


    i was lucky enough to actually see this one live at the gorge on my B-day!!!

    a nice little gift from the band that day :D
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Why do the babies starve
    When there's enough food to feed the world
    Why when there're so many of us
    Are there people still alone

    Why are the missiles called peace keepers
    When they're aimed to kill
    Why is a woman still not safe
    When she's in her home

    Love is hate
    War is peace
    No is yes
    And we're all free

    But somebody's gonna have to answer
    The time is coming soon
    Amidst all these questions and contradictions
    There're some who seek the truth

    But somebody's gonna have to answer
    The time is coming soon
    When the blind remove their blinders
    And the speechless speak the truth
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    A white bark eucalyptus, jade in hazy petalled bloom
    Held summer’s first assembly of songbirds, making room
    In boughs and hollows, peaks and shallows, perching to keep ear
    And learn the songbird prophet’s first predictions for the year.

    “My feathered ones!”, this wise one chirped atop the albens crest,
    “All nomad souls who seek the carve in bark, and not a nest:
    We’ll wing our caged friends our minds together as a wave,
    That they might free themselves and show each modern man a slave.”

    “We’ll learn the human tongue and tell them who’s a pretty boy,
    But soon we’ll speak the Word against their scientistic ploy.
    We’ll see the squawking of each Dawkins stops, to hear our song
    We’re taught in open flight, our maker crooning us along.”

    “Hear this! We are a friend to man and yes, we might be meek and humble,
    But when we speak the word of Soul, we make man’s boasts a mumble!
    If man cuts down the trees for greed, then how can he ascend?
    Come, teach this foolish ape the truth, and save him from his end.”

    The songbird prophet bobbed his head, and all began to sing,
    Each stretching one small leg aloft and lifting up a wing.
    They made a cloud in thousands, swirling gold in midday air,
    Making bold their prophet’s first predictions for the year.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    If you could read my mind love,
    what a tale my thoughts could tell.
    Just like an old time movie
    bout a ghost from a wishing well.
    In a castle dark or a fortress strong
    with chains upon my feet.
    You know that ghost is me
    and I will never be set free
    as long as I'm a ghost that you can’t see.

    If I could read your mind love,
    what a tale your thoughts could tell.
    Just like a paperback novel,
    the kind the drugstore sells.
    When you reach the part where the heartaches come
    the hero would be me.
    Heroes often fail.
    And you won't read that book again
    because the endings just too hard to take.

    I walk away like a movie star
    who gets burned in a three way script.
    Enter number two, a movie queen
    to play the scene of bringing all the good things out in me,
    but for now love lets be real.

    I never thought I could act this way
    and I've got to say that I just don't get it.
    I don't know where we went wrong
    but the feelings gone and I just can't get it back.

    If you could read my mind love,
    what a tale my thoughts could tell.
    Just like an old time movie bout a ghost from a wishing well.
    In a castle dark or a fortress strong
    with chains upon my feet the story always ends.
    And if you read between the lines
    you'll know that I'm just trying to understand
    the feeling that you left.

    I never thought I could feel this way
    and I got to say that I just don't get it.
    I don't know where we went wrong
    but the feeling’s gone
    and I just can't get it back.
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • "Sixteen Military Wives" - The Decemberists

    Sixteen military wives
    Thirty-two softly focused brightly colored eyes
    Staring at the natural tan
    Of thirty-two gently clenching wrinkled little hands
    Seventeen company men
    Out of which only twelve will make it back again
    Seargeant sent a letter to five
    Military wives, his tears drip down to ten little eyes

    Cheer them on to their rivals
    Cause America can, and America can't say no
    And America does, if America says it's so
    It's so

    And the anchorperson on TV goes...
    La de da de da

    Fifteen celebrity mimes
    Leaving their fifteen sorted wretched checkered lives
    Will they find the solution in time
    Using their fifteen pristine moderate liberal minds?

    Eighteen academy chairs
    Out of which only seven really even care
    Doling out a garment to five
    Celebrity mimes, they're humbly taken by surprise

    Cheer them on to their rivals
    Cause America can, and America can't say no
    And America does, if America says it's so
    It's so

    And the anchorperson on TV goes...
    La de da de da de-dadedade-da
    La de da de da de-dadedade-da

    Fourteen cannibal kings
    Wondering blindly what the dinner bell will bring
    Fifteen celebrity mimes
    Served on a leafy bed the sixteen military wives

    Cheer them on to their rivals
    Cause America can, and America can't say no
    And America does, if America says it's so
    It's so

    And the anchorperson on TV goes...
    La de da de da de-dadedade-da
    La de da de da de-dadedade-da

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK3Ce9md96g
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Day after day I'm more confused
    And I look for the light through the pouring rain
    You know that's a game that I hate to lose
    And I'm feelin' the strain, ain't it a shame

    Oh, give me the beat, boy, and free my soul
    I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
    Oh, give me the beat, boy, and free my soul
    I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

    Beginning to think that I'm wastin' time
    I don't understand the things I do
    The world outside looks so unkind
    And I'm countin' on you to carry me through


    Oh, give me the beat, boy, and free my soul
    I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
    Oh, give me the beat, boy, and free my soul
    I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

    And when my mind is free
    You know a melody can move me
    And when I'm feelin' blue
    The guitar's comin' through to soothe me
    Thanks for the joy that you've given me
    I want you to know I believe in your song
    Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
    You help me along makin' me strong

    Oh, give me the beat, boy, and free my soul
    I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
    Give me the beat, boy, and free my soul
    I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away (Repeat)
    Won’t you take me, take me
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    HOw you gonna getcha money ??
    Sending papers to an empty home
    HOw you gonna getcha money ??
    No-one ome to answer the phone !!
    Music is not a competetion.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    100 Years - Blues Traveler

    The sun is warm as the day is long
    Just got the feeling I can do no
    wrong

    Got a long way to walk can't afford
    my next meal,
    I tell a few lies, but my hunger is
    real
    and it...

    won't mean a thing in 100 years
    no it won't mean a thing in 100
    years

    Mademoiselle tell me do you play
    well if she shakes her head well
    then that's OK
    I watch her walk away in haste
    there's just no accounting for
    some people's taste
    and it...

    won't mean a thing in 100 years
    no it won't mean a thing in 100
    years

    Big angry man in the doorway there
    Just keep on walking like I don't
    care
    Why you giving such an evil eye
    could it be you were ignored by
    every passerby
    and it...

    won't mean a thing in 100 years
    no it won't mean a thing in 100
    years

    Play in the park for tobacco and
    food
    then I excuse myself but they think
    I'm rude
    Tourist don't want me to end his
    show
    but this colorful attraction got
    places to go
    and it...

    won't mean a thing in 100 years
    no it won't mean a thing in 100
    years

    Sit at the pier watch the sun go
    down
    Another lost little boy in a big old
    town
    I want to laugh, I want to cry
    but no matter how hard I may try

    won't mean a thing in 100 years
    no it won't mean a thing in 100
    years
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    When you’re down and troubled
    And you need a helping hand
    And nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
    Close your eyes and think of me
    And soon I will be there
    To brighten up even your darkest nights.

    You just call out my name,
    And you know where ever I am
    I’ll come running, oh yeah baby
    To see you again.
    Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
    All you have to do is call
    And I’ll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
    You’ve got a friend.

    If the sky above you
    Should turn dark and full of clouds
    And that old north wind should begin to blow
    Keep your head together and call my name out loud
    And soon I will be knocking upon your door.
    You just call out my name and you know where ever I am
    I’ll come running to see you again.
    Winter, spring, summer or fall
    All you got to do is call
    And I’ll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Hey, aint it good to know that you’ve got a friend?
    People can be so cold.
    They’ll hurt you and desert you.
    Well they’ll take your soul if you let them.
    Oh yeah, but don’t you let them.

    You just call out my name and you know wherever I am
    I’ll come running to see you again.
    Oh babe, don’t you know that,
    Winter spring summer or fall,
    Hey now, all you’ve got to do is call.
    Lord, I’ll be there, yes I will.
    You’ve got a friend.
    You’ve got a friend.
    Aint it good to know you’ve got a friend.
    Aint it good to know you’ve got a friend.
    You’ve got a friend.

    xxxx
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • Big stretch and not much sleep
    I got a couple of palm trees on each
    Side of my cheek
    And it's a bright blue Saturday
    And the rummage sells the rubbish to me

    But if I could buy the sky that's
    hangin'
    Over this bed of mine
    If I could climb these vines
    And maybe see what your seein'

    If you were standing in the corner
    staring straight
    Into the eyes of Jesus Christ

    One porch, one dog, one cockroach only
    one way to be
    I got sewage fruit and its
    growing out back from roots
    I don't know if they belong
    to me

    But if I could buy the sky that's
    hangin'
    Over this bed of mine
    If I could climb these vines
    And maybe see what your seein'

    Sittin' on the edge of this
    building
    Twenty stories below, a' twenty
    stories below
    Twenty stories below
    Twenty stories below

    I can't tell you how many ways
    that I've sat
    And viewed my life today, but I
    can tell you
    I don't think that I can find
    an easier way
    So if I see you walking hand in
    hand in hand
    With a three armed man, you know
    I'll understand

    But you should have been in my
    shoes yesterday
    oh oh ohhhhhhhh
    You should have been in my shoes
    yesterday
    "She knows there is no success like failure
    And that failure's no success at all."

    "Don't ya think its sometimes wise not to grow up."

    "Cause life ain't nothing but a good groove
    A good mixed tape to put you in the right mood."
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    U2 - Kite


    Something is about to give
    I can feel it coming
    I think I know what it is
    I'm not afraid to die
    I'm not afraid to live
    And when I'm flat on my back
    I hope to feel like I did

    ‘Cause hardness, it sets in
    You need some protection
    The thinner the skin

    I want you to know
    That you don't need me anymore
    I want you to know
    You don't need anyone, anything at all

    Who's to say where the wind will take you
    Who's to know what it is will break you
    I don't know which way the wind will blow
    Who's to know when the time has come around
    Don't wanna see you cry
    I know that this is not goodbye

    In summer I can taste the salt in the sea
    There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze
    I wonder what's gonna happen to you
    You wonder what has happened to me

    I'm a man, I'm not a child
    A man who sees
    The shadow behind your eyes

    Who's to say where the wind will take you
    Who's to know what it is will break you
    I don't know where the wind will blow
    Who's to know when the time has come around
    I don't wanna see you cry
    I know that this is not goodbye

    Did I waste it?
    Not so much I couldn't taste it
    Life should be fragrant
    Roof top to the basement
    The last of the rock stars
    When hip hop drove the big cars
    In the time when new media
    Was the big idea
    That was the big idea
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Jeff Buckely's version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah


    Now 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 and the moonlight overthrew her
    She tied you
    To a kitchen chair
    She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
    And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    You say I took the name in vain
    I don't even know the name
    But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
    There's a blaze of light
    In every word
    It doesn't matter which you heard
    The holy or the broken Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    I did my best, it wasn't much
    I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
    I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
    And even though
    It all went wrong
    I'll stand before the Lord of Song
    With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgdPcQWdjng

    America...
    America...
    America, FUCK YEAH!
    Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah,
    America, FUCK YEAH!
    Freedom is the only way yeah,
    Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
    America, FUCK YEAH!
    So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
    America, FUCK YEAH!
    What you going to do when we come for you now,
    it’s the dream that we all share; it’s the hope for tomorrow

    FUCK YEAH!

    McDonalds, FUCK YEAH!
    Wal-Mart, FUCK YEAH!
    The Gap, FUCK YEAH!
    Baseball, FUCK YEAH!
    NFL, FUCK, YEAH!
    Rock and roll, FUCK YEAH!
    The Internet, FUCK YEAH!
    Slavery, FUCK YEAH!

    FUCK YEAH!

    Starbucks, FUCK YEAH!
    Disney world, FUCK YEAH!
    Porno, FUCK YEAH!
    Valium, FUCK YEAH!
    Reeboks, FUCK YEAH!
    Fake Tits, FUCK YEAH!
    Sushi, FUCK YEAH!
    Taco Bell, FUCK YEAH!
    Rodeos, FUCK YEAH!
    Bed bath and beyond (Fuck yeah, Fuck yeah)

    Liberty, FUCK YEAH!
    White Slips, FUCK YEAH!
    The Alamo, FUCK YEAH!
    Band-aids, FUCK YEAH!
    Las Vegas, FUCK YEAH!
    Christmas, FUCK YEAH!
    Immigrants, FUCK YEAH!
    Popeye, FUCK YEAH!
    Democrats, FUCK YEAH!
    Republicans (republicans)
    (fuck yeah, fuck yeah)
    Sportsmanship
    Books

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America,_Fuck_Yeah
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    cutback wrote:
    Jeff Buckely's version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah


    Now 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 and the moonlight overthrew her
    She tied you
    To a kitchen chair
    She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
    And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    You say I took the name in vain
    I don't even know the name
    But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
    There's a blaze of light
    In every word
    It doesn't matter which you heard
    The holy or the broken Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    I did my best, it wasn't much
    I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
    I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
    And even though
    It all went wrong
    I'll stand before the Lord of Song
    With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

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

    One of my favourite songs cutback, those are the lyrics to Leonard Cohen's version.
    Jeff's is different from the third verse and goes like this... (thanks for the link.. beautiful)

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

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

    Well baby I've been here before
    I’ve seen this room and I've walked this floor
    (You Know)I used to live alone before I knew ya
    And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
    And Love is not a victory march
    It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah

    Well there was a time when you let me know
    What's really going on below
    But now you never show that to me do you?
    But remember when I moved in you
    And the holy dove was moving too
    And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah

    Well maybe there's a God above
    But all I've ever learned from love
    Was how to shoot somebody who'd OUT DREW YA
    And it's not a cry that you 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

    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah <<(held for a long time)
    Hallelujah
  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    Maybe - Collective Soul

    The sky now divides
    To bring you back into the fold
    Welcome home
    Still my need to recognize
    Any comfort you may show
    Only grows
    Guess I'll learn to accommodate
    While my heart just sits and waits
    Maybe God you found
    Maybe is all that you can offer now

    Where am I to take refuge
    When the storms of pain release
    Shelter me
    This blessedness of life
    Sometimes brings me to my knees
    I call on thee
    I have not the words to write
    A Farewell to you tonight
    Maybe God you found
    Maybe is all that you can offer now

    I know hearts are weeping
    While your voice is now singing
    On high, angel on high
    make sure the fortune that you seek...is the fortune that you need
  • Race For The Prize (Sacrifice Of The New Scientists) - Flaming Lips
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzkRQH8z-Y

    Two scientists were racing
    For the good of all mankind
    Both of them side by side
    So Determined
    Locked in heated battle
    For the cure that is their prize
    But it's so dangerous
    But they're determined

    Theirs is to win
    If it kills them
    They're just humans
    With wives and children

    Upwards to the vanguard
    Where the pressure is too high
    Under the microscope
    Hope against hope

    Forging for the future
    But to sarcrifice their lives
    Both of them side by side
    So determined

    Theirs is to win
    If it kills them
    They're just humans
    With wives and children

    Theirs is to win
    It will kill them
    They're just humans
    With wives and children


    Waitin' For A Superman - Flaming Lips
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As2IDxv-2N4


    Asked you a question
    I didn't need you to reply
    Is it gettin' heavy?
    But they'll realize
    Is it gettin' heavy?
    Well I thought it was already as heavy
    As can be

    Is it overwhelming
    To use a crane to crush a fly?
    It's a good time for Superman
    To lift the sun into the sky

    'Cause it's gettin' heavy
    Well I thought it was already as heavy
    As can be

    Tell everybody
    Waitin' for Superman
    That they should try to hold on
    Best they can
    He hasn't dropped them
    Forgot them
    Or anything
    It's just too heavy for Superman to lift

    Is it gettin' heavy?
    Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be.

    Tell everybody
    Waitin' for Superman
    That they should try to hold on
    Best they can
    He hasn't dropped them
    Forgot them
    Or anything
    It's just too heavy for Superman to lift
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • olderman
    olderman Posts: 1,765
    Well, I went home with the waitress
    The way I always do
    How was I to know
    She was with the Russians, too

    I was gambling in Havana
    I took a little risk
    Send lawyers, guns and money
    Dad, get me out of this

    I'm the innocent bystander
    Somehow I got stuck
    Between the rock and the hard place
    And I'm down on my luck
    And I'm down on my luck
    And I'm down on my luck

    Now I'm hiding in Honduras
    I'm a desperate man
    Send lawyers, guns and money
    The shit has hit the fan
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green