Song Break

g under p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm9GbGoz ... re=related

They say that Bush could be my president,
but really InI don't care.
They say Cheney makes my decisions,
but he don't, so I'm just not there.
and I'm gonna see the same lies
coming in the next 4 years,
so pardon me if I don't cry when
your election goes the way it did.

Chorus
I need some peace in a time of war,
some peace in a time of political war.

They say that we elect our leaders
to lead forward and make decision.
but i never heard their policy on war
discussed during an election.
and it seem that war is something over which
people have no prevention.
but the people want it anyway and
so they elect some destruction.

Chorus

Land of the free, and
foreign bullets never touch our pavement.
it seem to me, people know not
the extent of their involvement.
things are not as they seem,
underneath the beast is not clean.
but we support the leaders who use
media to make them seem so clean

Peace

g under p

Stray Bullets....Tony Morello

"Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
I I I sail away
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
Slide on down
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
What is lost
You gave away
Stray bullets rainin' on
Down, down, down
Stray bullets rainin' on down

Me and Danny Lord and Steve
Were fuckin' drunk on New Year's Eve
Singin,' drinkin,' playin' guitars
Layin' 'round
We pulled the shotgun out the shed and
Fired it towards the heavens
Stray bullets rainin' on down

Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
I I I sail away
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
Slide on down
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
What is lost
You gave away
Stray bullets rainin' on
Down, down, down
Stray bullets rainin' on down

Back of an Ace uncovered truck
The captain laughed and said, "Good luck"
As we rolled on through
Our first Iraqi town
From the rooftop we got blasted
Danny Lord's spine came unfastened
Stray bullets rainin' on down

Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
I I I sail away
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
Slide on down
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
What was is lost
You gave away
Stray bullets rainin' on
Down, down, down
Stray bullets rainin' on down

Fifteen months lost in Iraq
We got stop-lossed, they sent us back
Why the fuck we're even here I'll never know
Me and Steve, we went out walkin'
A few of us have started talkin'
And now we've got a mission of our own

Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
I I I sail away
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
Slide on down
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
What was is lost
You gave away
Stray bullets rainin' on
Down, down, down
Stray bullets rainin' on down

'Cuz now were comin' for the captain
To reap the seeds he's sewn
Everybody hit the deck
'Cuz his tent's about to blow
Tell the general when we find him
He'll be the next to go
We're coming for the captain
And then we're going home

Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
I I I sail away
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
Slide on down
Wooah oh oh
Ayy ee yay
What was is lost
You gave away
Stray bullets rainin' on
Down, down, down
Stray bullets rainin' on down."


Peace

hedonist

A Perfect Circle - PET

Don't fret precious, I'm here
Step away from the window
Go back to sleep...........

Lay your head down, child
I won't let the boogeyman come

Count the bodies like sheep
to the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble

Head down, go to sleep
to the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind what other voices say
They don't care about you
Lke I do

Safe from pain
and truth
and choice

and other poison devils

See, they don't give a fuck about you
like I do

Just stay with me
Safe and ignorant

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Lay your head down, child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
to the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble

Head down,
go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums

I'll be the one to protect you from
your enemies
and all your demons

I'll be the one to protect you from
a will to survive
and a voice of reason

I'll be the one to protect you from
your enemies
and your choices, son

They're one in the same
I must isolate you

Isolate and save you from yourself

Swayin to the rhythm of the new world order
and

counting bodies like sheep
to the rhythm of the war drums

The boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are coming

Stay with me.
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me

Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones...don't love you, son

Go back to sleep

hedonist

Out of my brain!

...on a train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAt0hF3hruU

g under p

"I'm Afraid of Americans" is a song and single by David Bowie from the 1997 album Earthling. The song, co-written by Bowie and Brian Eno, originally appeared as a rough mix on the soundtrack to the film Showgirls and was subsequently remade for Earthling.

A Taxi Driver-influenced music video was produced for the "I'm Afraid of Americans (V1)" remix, starring David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor. Directed by Dom and Nic, it features Bowie being stalked through New York City by Jonny, a hostile American, played by Reznor. As Bowie continues to be harassed and becomes more and more paranoid, he witnesses (or imagines he witnesses) random acts of violence perpetrated by citizens on one another — but their hands are empty, as if holding invisible guns. The video ends with Bowie ducking behind a taxi while Reznor fires an imaginary assault rifle that inflicts severe damage on a vehicle. Bowie awakens later, only to witness Reznor carrying a crucifix in a parade reminiscent of Day of the Dead celebrations or the movie Something Wicked This Way Comes. The music video premiered on MTV Live, and later received a MTV Video Music Award nomination in 1998 for Best Male Video.

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

Done here live on his 50th birthday in NYC MSG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piu7OKkqjMA

Songwriters..David Bowie, Brian Eno

Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah
Jonny's in America
no tax at the wheel
Ah-ah-ah-ah ah-ah ah-ah-ah
Nobody needs anyone
They don't even just pretend
Ah-ah-ah-ah ah-ah ah-ah-ah
Jonny's in America

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't
I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't
I'm afraid of Americans

Jonny's in America
Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah
Jonny wants a brain
Jonny wants to suck on a Coke
Jonny wants a woman
Jonny wants to think of a joke
Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah
Jonny's in America
Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't
I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't
I'm afraid of Americans

Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah

Jonny's in America
Jonny looks up at the stars
Jonny combs his hair
And Jonny wants pussy and cars

Johnny's in America, Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah
Jonny's in America, Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't
I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't
I'm afraid of Americans

God is an American
God is an American

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't
I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't

Yeah, I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the words
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't
I'm afraid of Americans

God is an American
God is an American

God is an American, Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah
God is an American, Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah
God is an American, Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah
God is an American, Nah-nah-nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah

Peace

hedonist

g under p, I do love that song - those men too, individually and together.

This one (46 & 2 by my beloved TOOL) is brought to mind by this afternoon.

We've had this badass chandelier in our dining room for a couple years now - wrought-iron, low-slung, muted "candles" part of it. But since we got rid of the dining table below it (too big for our little space), we kept bumping our head into it and resorted to some odd version of the Grouch Marx walk when in its vicinity.

So today, we switched it out with one now flush with the ceiling, higher-up.

What happens?

I keep ducking under what I THINK is still there and that I'll smack my forehead again.

Listen to my muscle memory!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vDOc_ce ... re=related

Idris

(Anyone a fan of Cat Stevens? Well, 'The apple doesn't fall far from the tree')

Yoriyos - The Pied Piper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKuaEMmGfR8

Yoriyos - Endoscopises

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lKYehUNhhs&feature=related

Yoriyos - Wounded Knee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXO7JTREFvQ&feature=related

-Wisdom doesn’t come with age, it comes with an open mind

:ugeek:

hedonist

I will check out the links...meantime, big "yes" to those first and last parts.

CH156378

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwiqbCrkak0

hedonist

Nice one, CHI.

This one not so much Memorial Day-ish, but fits in my own way.

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

hedonist

YES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Ckfr9_ ... re=related

hedonist

Mozart Piano Sonata in A Major with the neighborhood birds doing their operatic-ness in the background.

Beauty for the soul!

(cats are going fuckin nuts)

g under p

This video has scenes and images of Micheal Franti's visit to Iraq and Israel in 2005......

Colours In The Box

What I've Seen

Pecex

Idris

Sam Roberts (Band)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71EnaOs-Xdk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Brother Down

g under p

Limelight

"Limelight"


Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage

Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact

[Chorus:]
Living in the limelight
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation
The underlying theme

Living in a fish eye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can't pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage


Peace

hedonist

And some dare to say Peart is a shitty lyricist? Bah!

Plus he's one badass pounder of the skins.

Thanks - this has added sweetness to an already-sweet Saturday.

gimmesometruth27

ok, so it is "couples' skate" time now kids....guys grab a gal and gals grab a guy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... Px78hH3Y2g

CH156378

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtUH2YSFlVU

gimmesometruth27

this is even more poignant knowing that the singer and bassist died in Sept '95 in a tour bus accident a few short months after their debut record was released...

the mighty k.c.
for squirrels


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBbl3RpgNN4

She lies in a bedpan
With her name scrawled on her back
It sure sounds funny
When you say his name like that

He lies in an empty room
With his hair burnt to the back
It sure sounds funny
When you say his name like that

Ship me off to the morgue
I'm ready to be buried
Alone way down in my bed, bed
And I'm alone without the sun

Ship me off to the morgue
I'm ready to be buried
Alone way down in my bed, bed
And I'm alone without the sun
Please just take one

And by the grace of God go I
Into the great unknown
Things are gonna change in our favor

And if we gather, if we fall
Over the great unknown
Things are gonna change in our favor

100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600

Oh they're found dead, dead
And I am numb from watching TV

100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600

Oh they're just there, there
And I am numb from watching TV

Please don't break me

And by the grace of God go I
Into the great unknown
Things are gonna change in our favor

And if we gather, if we fall
Over the great unknown
Things are gonna change in our favor

Please just take one

And by the grace of God go I
Into the great unknown
Things are gonna change in our favor

And if we gather, if we fall
Over the great unknown
Things are gonna change in our favor

hedonist

Sweet, sweet Sunday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNxKnLmOH4