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  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    I've been totally feeling this R.E.M. song!!!!

    Welcome to the Occupation


    Hang your collar up inside
    Hang your dollar on me
    Listen to the water still
    Listen to the cause where you are
    Fed and educated,
    Primitive and wild
    Welcome to the occupation

    Here we stand and here we fight
    All your fallen heroes
    Held and dyed and skinned alive
    Listen to the Congress fire
    Offering the educated
    primitive and loyal
    Welcome to the occupation

    Hang your collar up inside
    Hang your freedom higher
    Listen to the buyer still
    Listen to the Congress
    Where we propagate confusion
    Primitive and wild
    Fire on the hemisphere below

    Sugar cane and coffee cup
    Copper, steel and cattle
    An annotated history
    The forest for the fire
    Where we open up the floodgates
    Freedom reigns supreme
    Fire on the hemisphere below
    Listen to me
    Listen to me
    Listen to me
    Listen to me
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    very powerful, very emotional if you have ever gone through something similar


    Ben Harper
    Walk Away




    Oh no
    Here comes that sun again
    That means another day
    Without you my friend

    And it hurts me
    To look into the mirror at myself
    And it hurts even more
    To have to be with somebody else
    And it's so hard to do
    And so easy to say
    But sometimes
    Sometimes you just have to walk away
    Walk away

    With so many people
    To love in my life
    Why do i worry
    About one

    But you put the happy
    In my ness
    You put the good times
    Into my fun
    And it's so hard to do
    And so easy to say
    But sometimes
    Sometimes you just have to walk away
    Walk away
    And head for the door

    We've tried the goodbye
    So many days
    We walk in the same direction
    So that we could never stray
    They say if you love somebody
    Than you have got to set them free
    But i would rather be locked to you
    Than live in this pain and misery

    They say time will
    Make all this go away
    But it's time that has taken my tomorrows
    And turned them into yesterdays
    And once again that rising sun
    Is dropping on down
    And once again you my friend
    Are nowhere to be found
    And it's so hard to do
    And so easy to say
    But sometimes
    Sometimes you just have to walk away
    Walk away
    And head for the door
    You just walk away
    Walk away
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    Ben Harper
    My Own Two Hands


    i can change the world
    with my own two hands
    make a better place
    with my own two hands
    make a kinder place
    with my own two hands
    with my own
    with my own two hands

    i can make peace on earth
    with my own two hands
    i can clean up the earth
    with my own two hands
    i can reach out to you
    with my own two hands
    with my own
    with my own two hands

    i'm gonna make it a brighter place
    i'm gonna make it a safer place
    i'm gonna help the human race
    with my own
    with my own two hands

    i can hold you
    with my own two hands
    i can comfort you
    with my own two hands
    but you got to use
    use your own two hands
    use your own
    use your own two hands

    with our own
    with our own two hands
    with my own
    with my own two hands
  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    so sgt. pepper took you by
    surprise
    you better see right through that
    mother's eyes
    those freaks was right when they
    said you was you was dead
    the one mistake you made was
    in your head
    how do you sleep?
    ah how do you sleep at night?
    you live with straights who tell
    you you was king
    jump when your mamma tell
    you anything
    the only thing you done was
    yesterday
    and since you've gone it's just
    another day
    how do you sleep?
    ah how do you sleep at night?
    a pretty face may last a year
    or two
    but pretty soon they'll see
    what you can do
    the sound you make is muzak
    to my ears
    you must have learned
    something all those years
    how do you sleep?
    ah how do you sleep at night?
    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
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Take me now baby here as I am
    Pull me close, try and understand
    Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe
    Love is a banquet on which we feed

    Come on now try and understand
    The way I feel when I'm in your hands
    Take my hand come undercover
    They can't hurt you now,
    Can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now
    Because the night belongs to lovers
    Because the night belongs to lust
    Because the night belongs to lovers
    Because the night belongs to us

    Have I doubt when I'm alone
    Love is a ring, the telephone
    Love is an angel disguised as lust
    Here in our bed until the morning comes
    Come on now try and understand
    The way I feel under your command
    Take my hand as the sun descends
    They can't touch you now,
    Can't touch you now, can't touch you now
    Because the night belongs to lovers ...

    With love we sleep
    With doubt the vicious circle
    Turn and burns
    Without you I cannot live
    Forgive, the yearning burning
    I believe its time, too real to feel
    So touch me now, touch me now, touch me now
    Because the night belongs to lovers ...

    Because tonight there are two lovers
    If we believe in the night we trust
    Because tonight there are two lovers ...
    If we believe in the night we trust


    Thanks cate for reminding me. :)
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    Thanks cate for reminding me. :)

    no problem, anytime. :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    It makes no diffrence where I turn
    I cant get over you and the flame still burns
    It makes no diffrence, night or day
    The shadow never seems to fade away


    And the sun dont shine anymore
    And the rains fall down on my door


    Now theres no love
    As true as the love
    That dies untold
    But the clouds never hung so low before

    It makes no diffrence how far I go
    Like a scar the hurt will always show
    It makes no diffrence who I meet
    Theyre just a face in the crowd
    On a dead-end street
    And the sun dont shine anymore
    And the rains fall down on my door

    These old love letters
    Well, I just cant keep
    cause like the gambler says
    Read em and weep
    And the dawn dont rescue me no more


    Without your love Im nothing at all
    Like an empty hall its a lonely fall
    Since youve gone its a losing battle
    Stampeding cattle
    They rattle the walls

    And the sun dont shine anymore
    And the rains fall down on my door

    Well, I love you so much
    Its all I can do
    Just to keep myself from telling you
    That I never felt so alone before
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Here I am, I'm right here
    O I wish you could feel me
    Standing so close
    I'm right beside you dear
    I float through this man house
    I float through the walls
    I scream and call
    While I watch you without me
    All I feel, all I am now
    Is this love I have for you
    Each night it's you
    You I lay beside
    I close my eyes, never to sleep
    I tell you all the things I should have said
    But you'll never know
    How could I act such a part
    As to love the one who breaks my heart
    I had to go ...
    So put your hands here around my waist
    Though you cannot feel my touch dear
    And dance with me as you did before
    I'm bound forever to this house
    I can never go beyond that door
    I dance alone
    So when you think of me, smile
    It's the only way that i can see
    That you still care for me
    I close my eyes, never to sleep
    I tell you all the things I should have said
    But you'll never know
    How could I act such a part
    As to love the one who breaks my heart
    I had to go ...
    Here I am, I'm right here
    How I wish you could see me dear
    O my dear ...
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,598
    oh im sorry......i thought this thread said....

    bong break......

    nevermind....................................
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    oh im sorry......i thought this thread said....

    bong break......

    nevermind....................................

    What a happy accident on your part speedy.
    I don't suppose you'd pass the pipe? I could REALLY use a bong right about now. :o
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    He had alot to say.
    He had alot of nothing to say.
    Well miss him. (2x)
    Were gonna miss him (2x)

    So long.
    We wish you well.
    You told us how you werent afraid to die.
    Well then, so long.
    Dont cry.
    Or feel too down.
    Not all martyrs see divinity.
    But at least you tried.

    Standing above the crowd,
    He had a voice that was strong and loud.
    Well miss him. (2x)
    Ranting and pointing his finger
    At everything but his heart.
    Well miss him. (2x)
    Were gonna miss him (2x)

    No way to recall
    What it was that you had said to me,
    Like I care at all.

    But it was so loud.
    You sure could yell.
    You took a stand on every little thing
    And so loud.

    Standing above the crowd,
    He had a voice so strong and loud and i
    Swallowed his facade cuz Im so
    Eager to identify with
    Someone above the ground,
    Someone who seemed to feel the same,
    Someone prepared to lead the way, with
    Someone who would die for me.

    Will you?
    Will you now?
    Would you die for me?
    Dont you fuckin lie.

    Dont you step out of line. (3x)
    Dont you fuckin lie.

    Youve claimed all this time that you would die for me.
    Why then are you so surprised when you hear your own eulogy?

    You had alot to say.
    You had alot of nothing to say.

    Come down.
    Get off your fuckin cross.
    We need the fuckin space to nail the next fool martyr.

    To ascend you must die.
    You must be crucified
    For your sins and your lies. [sic]
    Goodbye...
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    He had alot to say.
    He had alot of nothing to say.
    Well miss him. (2x)
    Were gonna miss him (2x)

    So long.
    We wish you well.
    You told us how you werent afraid to die.
    Well then, so long.
    Dont cry.
    Or feel too down.
    Not all martyrs see divinity.
    But at least you tried.

    Standing above the crowd,
    He had a voice that was strong and loud.
    Well miss him. (2x)
    Ranting and pointing his finger
    At everything but his heart.
    Well miss him. (2x)
    Were gonna miss him (2x)

    No way to recall
    What it was that you had said to me,
    Like I care at all.

    But it was so loud.
    You sure could yell.
    You took a stand on every little thing
    And so loud.

    Standing above the crowd,
    He had a voice so strong and loud and i
    Swallowed his facade cuz Im so
    Eager to identify with
    Someone above the ground,
    Someone who seemed to feel the same,
    Someone prepared to lead the way, with
    Someone who would die for me.

    Will you?
    Will you now?
    Would you die for me?
    Dont you fuckin lie.

    Dont you step out of line. (3x)
    Dont you fuckin lie.

    Youve claimed all this time that you would die for me.
    Why then are you so surprised when you hear your own eulogy?

    You had alot to say.
    You had alot of nothing to say.

    Come down.
    Get off your fuckin cross.
    We need the fuckin space to nail the next fool martyr.

    To ascend you must die.
    You must be crucified
    For your sins and your lies. [sic]
    Goodbye...

    TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL :D:D:D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL :D:D:D

    Yes cate! TOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! And thank the universe for them!!
    Any fucking time, any fucking day, learn to swim!! :D
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • up up up ~ ani difranco


    up up up up up up
    points the spire of the steeple
    but god's work isn't done by god
    it's done by people

    up up up up up up
    points the fingers of the trees
    the lumberjacks
    with their bloody axes
    are on their knees

    and just when you think that you've got enough
    enough grows
    and everywhere that you go in life
    enough knows

    up up up up up up
    dances the steam from the sewer
    as she rounds the corner
    the brutal wind blows right through her

    up up up up up up
    raises the stakes of the game
    each day sinks its bootprint into her clay
    and she's not the same

    and just when you think that you've got enough
    enough grows
    and everywhere that you go in life
    enough knows

    and half of learning how to play
    is learning what not to play
    and she's learning the spaces she leaves
    have their own things to say
    then she's trying to sing just enough
    so that the air around her moves
    and make music like mercy
    that gives what it is
    and has nothing to prove

    she crawls out on a limb
    and begins to build her home
    it's enough just to look around
    to know she's not alone

    up up up up up up
    points the spire of the steeple
    but god's work isn't done by god
    it's done by people
    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
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    up up up ~ ani difranco


    up up up up up up
    points the spire of the steeple
    but god's work isn't done by god
    it's done by people

    up up up up up up
    points the fingers of the trees
    the lumberjacks
    with their bloody axes
    are on their knees

    and just when you think that you've got enough
    enough grows
    and everywhere that you go in life
    enough knows

    up up up up up up
    dances the steam from the sewer
    as she rounds the corner
    the brutal wind blows right through her

    up up up up up up
    raises the stakes of the game
    each day sinks its bootprint into her clay
    and she's not the same

    and just when you think that you've got enough
    enough grows
    and everywhere that you go in life
    enough knows

    and half of learning how to play
    is learning what not to play
    and she's learning the spaces she leaves
    have their own things to say
    then she's trying to sing just enough
    so that the air around her moves
    and make music like mercy
    that gives what it is
    and has nothing to prove

    she crawls out on a limb
    and begins to build her home
    it's enough just to look around
    to know she's not alone

    up up up up up up
    points the spire of the steeple
    but god's work isn't done by god
    it's done by people

    Abook girl, I do love your thread. Hope I haven't sullied it too much with negativity. These are some excellent lyrics you've posted here. I really should get me some di franco. :o
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • Jeanie wrote:
    Abook girl, I do love your thread. Hope I haven't sullied it too much with negativity. These are some excellent lyrics you've posted here. I really should get me some di franco. :o

    Oh no, girl! Keep em coming! It's sexy to listen to TOOL... :D
    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
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Oh no, girl! Keep em coming! It's sexy to listen to TOOL... :D

    funny you should mention that abook. :D;):p
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • funny you should mention that abook. :D;):p

    :D;):p
    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
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    You two!! :D

    hehe! LMAO!! Maniacally (? eek spelling thread nazi's will get me!) But TOOL is the GREATEST sex music EVER!!! :D

    And I just wish that certain folk would recognize that! :p

    BUT they're too busy sleeping!

    So I'll soldier on alone, Undertow coming up! :D
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    You two!! :D

    hehe! LMAO!! Maniacally (? eek spelling thread nazi's will get me!) But TOOL is the GREATEST sex music EVER!!! :D

    And I just wish that certain folk would recognize that! :p

    BUT they're too busy sleeping!

    So I'll soldier on alone, Undertow coming up! :D

    undertow huh? feeling a little pull are we jeanie? :p:D:D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    undertow huh? feeling a little pull are we jeanie? :p:D:D

    Oh yes! DAMN HIM!!! :p
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    Oh yes! DAMN HIM!!! :p

    yeah!!! listening to 46 & 2. it's got a nice little build up this song has. and then....well..... :p
    excuse me while i drift off. :D:p
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Theres a shadow just behind me. shrouding every step I take.
    Making every promise empty. pointing every finger at me.
    Waiting like a stalking butler, who upon the finger rests.
    Murder now the path of must we, just because the son has come.

    Jesus, wont you fucking whistle. something but the past and done.

    Why cant we not be sober? I just want to start this over.
    Why cant we drink forever? I just want to start this over.

    I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile.
    I will only complicate you. trust in me and fall as well.
    I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave.
    I will work to elevate you, just enough to bring you down.

    Mother mary, wont you whisper. something but the past is done.

    Why cant we not be sober? I just want to start this over.
    Why cant we sleep forever? I just want to start this over.

    I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile.
    I will only complicate you. trust in me and fall as well.
    I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave.
    Trust me. trust me. trust me. trust me. trust me.

    Why cant we not be sober. I just want to start things over.
    Why cant we sleep forever. I just want to start this over.

    I want what I want...
    I want what I want...
    I want what I want...
    I want what I want...
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    yeah!!! listening to 46 & 2. it's got a nice little build up this song has. and then....well..... :p
    excuse me while i drift off. :D:p

    Damn cate!!! I forgot!!! Alcohol makes me horny!! And here I was thinking it would numb me!! Bloody hell best I be getting this TOOL off!! Before I spontaneously human combust!!! :D
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • You guys talked me into some Tool, too. :p

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4


    Tool - Lateralus

    Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
    red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
    lets me see.
    As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
    drawn beyond the lines of reason.
    Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

    Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
    Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
    Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.

    Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
    red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
    lets me see there is so much more
    and beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities.
    As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
    drawn outside the lines of reason.
    Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

    Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
    Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind.

    Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
    Reaching out to embrace the random.
    Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.

    I embrace my desire to
    feel the rhythm, to feel connected
    enough to step aside and weep like a widow
    to feel inspired, to fathom the power,
    to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
    to swing on the spiral
    of our divinity and still be a human.

    With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
    between the sounds and open wide to suck it in,
    I feel it move across my skin.
    I'm reaching up and reaching out,
    I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
    And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
    We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.

    Spiral out. Keep going, going...
    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
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    You guys talked me into some Tool, too. :p

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4

    oh no. come on girl, you know we don't need to be talking you into spinning a litte TOOL. :D:D:D
    then again we have no free will according to some, do we? :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • oh no. come on girl, you know we don't need to be talking you into spinning a litte TOOL. :D:D:D
    then again we have no free will according to some, do we? :D


    Muuusssst liiisssteennnnnn!! Caaannnn'''tttt fffiiiggghhhhtttt iiittttt!

    :D

    There's nothing I can do about it!

    ;)
    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
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    Damn cate!!! I forgot!!! Alcohol makes me horny!! And here I was thinking it would numb me!! Bloody hell best I be getting this TOOL off!! Before I spontaneously human combust!!! :D

    uh oh. you's in trouble now girlie. :D:D:p

    did you just say you'll be getting off on TOOL??????? :D:p
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Sorry to crash the Tool party going on here, but this just came up on my iPod and I was reminded what a tremendous song it is.

    Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
    And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
    The echo of a distant tide
    Comes willowing across the sand
    And everything is green and submarine
    And no one showed us to the land
    And no one knows the wheres or whys
    But something stares and
    Something tries
    And starts to climb towards the light

    Strangers passing in the street
    By chance two separate glances meet
    And I am you and what I see is me
    And do I take you by the hand
    And lead you through the land
    And help me understand the best I can
    And no one calls us to the land
    And no one crosses there alive
    And no one speaks
    And no one tries
    And no one flies around the sun

    And now this is the day you fall
    Upon my waking eyes
    Inviting and inciting me to rise
    And through the window in the wall
    Comes streamin in on sunlight wings
    A million bright ambassadors of morning
    And no one sings me lullabies
    And no one makes me close my eyes
    So I throw the windows wide
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    uh oh. you's in trouble now girlie. :D:D:p

    did you just say you'll be getting off on TOOL??????? :D:p

    What's new? :o

    Didn't I read somewhere on a thread that TOOL is musical masturbation? :D
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
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