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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'Laughed until we realized
    Our hearts were struck with fear'

    -ben harper
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'I surrender to the strawberry ice cream'

    - Counting Crows
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Cinnamon Girl
    Cinnamon Girl Posts: 1,854
    'Blinded by the light'

    -the hottest little Canadian leprachan my drunk eyes have ever seen ;)


    HAHAHA!!! :lol:
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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'Blinded by the light'

    -the hottest little Canadian leprachan my drunk eyes have ever seen ;)


    HAHAHA!!! :lol:
    Your's too eh?! ;)
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Hank Snow - Ballad Of Blaspehmous Bill:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQaupy_eUz4

    This song has a LOT going on lyrically....the first few verses have a lot of natural images & are fantastic. Good rhyming, fairly standard rhythm....but a horrible, comedy-ridden story of death nonetheless.
    I was gona take individual lines out, but its a standalone piece really i guess. enjoy.

    I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie,
    Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death he die
    Whether he die in the light o' day or under the peak-faced moon;
    In cabin or dance-hall, camp or dive, mucklucks or patent shoon;
    On velvet tundra or virgin peak, by glacier, drift or draw;
    In muskeg hollow or canyon gloom, by avalanche, fang or claw;
    By battle, murder or sudden wealth, by pestilence, hooch or lead
    I swore on the Book I would follow and look till I found my tombless dead.

    For Bill was a dainty kind of cuss, and his mind was mighty sot
    On a dinky patch with flowers and grass in a civilized bone-yard lot.
    And where he died or how he died, it didn't matter a damn
    So long as he had a grave with frills and a tombstone "epigram".
    So I promised him, and he paid the price in good cheechako coin
    (Which the same I blowed in that very night down in the Tenderloin).
    Then I painted a three-foot slab of pine: "Here lies poor Bill MacKie",
    And I hung it up on my cabin wall and I waited for Bill to die.

    Years passed away, and at last one day came a squaw with a story strange,
    Of a long-deserted line of traps 'way back of the Bighorn range;
    Of a little hut by the great divide, and a white man stiff and still,
    Lying there by his lonesome self, and I figured it must be Bill.
    So I thought of the contract I'd made with him, and I took down from the shelf
    The swell black box with the silver plate he'd picked out for hisself;
    And I packed it full of grub and "hooch", and I slung it on the sleigh;
    Then I harnessed up my team of dogs and was off at dawn of day.

    You know what it's like in the Yukon wild when it's sixty-nine below;
    When the ice-worms wriggle their purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow;
    When the pine-trees crack like little guns in the silence of the wood,
    And the icicles hang down like tusks under the parka hood;
    When the stove-pipe smoke breaks sudden off, and the sky is weirdly lit,
    And the careless feel of a bit of steel burns like a red-hot spit;
    When the mercury is a frozen ball, and the frost-fiend stalks to kill
    Well, it was just like that that day when I set out to look for Bill.

    Oh, the awful hush that seemed to crush me down on every hand,
    As I blundered blind with a trail to find through that blank and bitter land;
    Half dazed, half crazed in the winter wild, with its grim heart-breaking woes,
    And the ruthless strife for a grip on life that only the sourdough knows!
    North by the compass, North I pressed; river and peak and plain
    Passed like a dream I slept to lose and I waked to dream again.

    River and plain and mighty peak--and who could stand unawed?
    As their summits blazed, he could stand undazed at the foot of the throne of God.
    North, aye, North, through a land accurst, shunned by the scouring brutes,
    And all I heard was my own harsh word and the whine of the malamutes,
    Till at last I came to a cabin squat, built in the side of a hill,
    And I burst in the door, and there on the floor, frozen to death, lay Bill.

    Ice, white ice, like a winding-sheet, sheathing each smoke-grimed wall;
    Ice on the stove-pipe, ice on the bed, ice gleaming over all;
    Sparkling ice on the dead man's chest, glittering ice in his hair,
    Ice on his fingers, ice in his heart, ice in his glassy stare;
    Hard as a log and trussed like a frog, with his arms and legs outspread.
    I gazed at the coffin I'd brought for him, and I gazed at the gruesome dead,
    And at last I spoke: "Bill liked his joke; but still, goldarn his eyes,
    A man had ought to consider his mates in the way he goes and dies."

    Have you ever stood in an Arctic hut in the shadow of the Pole,
    With a little coffin six by three and a grief you can't control?
    Have you ever sat by a frozen corpse that looks at you with a grin,
    And that seems to say: "You may try all day, but you'll never jam me in"?
    I'm not a man of the quitting kind, but I never felt so blue
    As I sat there gazing at that stiff and studying what I'd do.
    Then I rose and I kicked off the husky dogs that were nosing round about,
    And I lit a roaring fire in the stove, and I started to thaw Bill out.

    Well, I thawed and thawed for thirteen days, but it didn't seem no good;
    His arms and legs stuck out like pegs, as if they was made of wood.
    Till at last I said: "It ain't no use--he's froze too hard to thaw;
    He's obstinate, and he won't lie straight, so I guess I got to saw."
    So I sawed off poor Bill's arms and legs, and I laid him snug and straight
    In the little coffin he picked hisself, with the dinky silver plate;
    And I came nigh near to shedding a tear as I nailed him safely down;
    Then I stowed him away in my Yukon sleigh, and I started back to town.

    So I buried him as the contract was in a narrow grave and deep,
    And there he's waiting the Great Clean-up, when the Judgment sluice-heads sweep;
    And I smoke my pipe and I meditate in the light of the Midnight Sun,
    And sometimes I wonder if they was, the awful things I done.
    And as I sit and the parson talks, expounding of the Law,
    I often think of poor old Bill--and how hard he was to saw.
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'It makes no difference who I meet
    It's just a face in the crowd on a dead end street

    And the sun don't shine anymore
    And the rain falls down on my door

    These old love letters
    Well I just can't keep
    'Cause like the Gambler says
    Read'em and weep
    And the dawn don't rescue me no more'

    -The Band
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    I can be your liar
    I can be your bearer of bad news
    Sick and uninspired by the diamonds in your fire
    Burning like a flame inside of you
    Is this just desire or the truth

    So shame on me for the ruse
    Shame on me for the blues
    Another one returned that I'll never use

    I won't go getting tired of you
    I won't go getting tired of you
    I'm not getting tired
    I won't go getting tired of you
    I won't go getting tired of you
    I'm not getting tired

    Hanging on this wire
    Waiting for the day I'll have to choose
    Cursed by love so dire
    One more boy for hire
    One more boy to lend a hand to you
    Is this just desire or the truth

    So shame on me for the ruse
    Shame on me for the blues
    Another one returned that I'll never use

    I won't go getting tired of you
    I won't go getting tired of you
    I'm not getting tired
    I won't go getting tired of you
    I won't go getting tired of you
    I'm not getting tired of you

    I can be your liar
    I can be your bearer of bad news
    Sick and uninspired by the diamonds in your fire
    Burning like a flame inside of you
    Is this just desire or the truth

    So shame on me for the rues
    Shame on me for the blues
    Another one returned that I'll never use

    I won't go getting tired of you
    I won't go getting tired of you
    I'm not getting tired
    I won't go getting tired of you
    I won't go getting tired of you
    I'm not getting tired of you
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Bell X1 - White Water Song

    I'll finish this jigsaw
    I'll find the pieces behind the couch
    I dream we were slowdancing
    I dream I knew your name
    Between sleep and waking we're drinking flavoured vodka in bed
    And when I wake I'm all the King's horses and all King's men

    I make wild laughing rivers
    from streams
    Above white water noise
    no-one can hear my screams

    I threw my eyes to heaven
    and I asked for a sign
    They said I can get back my yesterday
    if I cross the date line
    But I'm sick of all this hope
    Sometimes the stars are not enough
    I'm sick of all this hope
    Sometimes the stars are too much

    I make wild laughing rivers
    from streams
    Above white water noise
    no-one can hear my screams

    Quite please
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Like a long lonely stream
    I keep runnin' towardas a dream
    Movin' on, movin' on
    Like a branch on a tree
    I keep reachin' to be free
    Movin' on, movin' on.

    'Cause there's a place in the sun
    Where there's hope for ev'ryone
    Where my poor restless heart's gotta run.
    There's a place in the sun
    And before my life is done
    Got to find me a place in the sun.

    Like an old dusty road
    I get weary from the load.
    Movin' on, movin' on
    Like this tired troubled earth
    I've been rollin' since my birth
    Movin' on, movin' on

    'Cause there's a place in the sun
    Where there's hope for ev'ryone
    Where my poor restless heart's gotta run.
    There's a place in the sun
    And before my life is done
    Got to find me a place in the sun.

    -Stevie Wonder
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    waiting for midnight
    to take me to the next day
    waiting for your midnight
    to rush you away
    and time well spent is wasted
    on the shadows of the day
    waiting for midnight again

    sleep, it don't come easy
    to those that have restless minds
    sleep don't come easy
    to those kinds
    midnight feels like dinnertime
    when sleep is hard to find
    waiting for midnight this time

    and god only knows where i'd be
    if i could just get some sleep
    who knows what i'd become
    in the dawn
    but midnight won't come

    god knows where i'd be
    god knows what i'd become
    if i wasn't chasing midnight
    for the dawn


    -Midnight by me. these lyrics have been on my mind a lot lately for some reason.
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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'Full of broken thoughts
    I cannot repair'
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'So many wasted days,
    The past is so hard
    To get from under'

    -B.H.
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'I smile but who am I kidding'
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde
    Turner 1775 to 1851
    Toulouse-Lautrec 1864 to 1901
    Andy Warhol 1928 to 1987 RIP
    Ernest Hemingway 1899 to 1961
    George Orwell, Jimi Hendrix, William Butler Yeats, Jack B. Yeats
    Richard Redgrave 1804 to 1888
    Henry Moore 1896 to 1986
    Henry Miller, Sid Vicious only 21
    Brian Jones
    Otis Redding 1941 to 1967 RIP

    All dead, yet still alive
    In endless time, endless art

    Masters of their arts
    Claude Monet 1840 to 1926
    Beethoven, Bach, Brahms
    Elvis Presley 1935 to '77
    Man Ray, Johnnie Ray
    John Donne 1573 to 1631
    Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 to '92
    Degeneration art, Joan Miro, RIP
    Jackson Pollock 1912 to 1956
    John Lennon '40 to '80
    Henry Lamb, Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, William Shakespeare
    Brendan Behan 1923 to 1964
    Tennessee Williams 1912 to 1983
    Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 to 1889
    Pissaro, Picasso, Degas RIP

    All dead, yet still alive
    In endless time, endless art

    Joseph Conrad 1857 to 1924
    Jack Kerouac 1922 to 1969
    Keith Moon 1946 to 1978
    D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Mozart
    Van Gogh 1853 to 1890
    Ian Curtis, Salvador Dali, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse RIP

    All dead, yet still alive
    In endless time, endless art

    A-House - Endless Art
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    MARC......

    'This is NOT for YOU, never was for you.... FUCK YOU!'

    -pj
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    Your sorry eyes cut through the bone
    They make it hard to leave you alone
    Leave you here wearing your wounds
    Waving your guns at somebody new

    Baby you're lost
    Baby you're lost
    Baby you're a lost cause

    There's too many people you used to know
    They see you coming they see you go
    They know your secrets and you know theirs
    This town is crazy; nobody cares

    Baby you're lost
    Baby you're lost
    Baby you're a lost cause

    I'm tired of fighting
    I'm tired of fighting
    Fighting for a lost cause

    There's a place where you are going
    You ain't never been before
    No one left to watch your back now
    No one standing at your door
    That's what you thought love was for

    Baby you're lost
    Baby you're lost
    Baby you're a lost cause

    I'm tired of fighting
    I'm tired of fighting
    Fighting for a lost cause
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    Who's gonna tell you when
    It's too late
    Who's gonna tell you things
    Aren't so great
    You can't go on
    Thinking nothing's wrong
    Who's gonna drive you home tonight

    Who's gonna pick you up
    When you fall
    Who's gonna hang it up
    When you call
    Who's gonna pay attention
    To your dreams
    Who's gonna plug their ears
    When you scream

    You can't go on
    Thinking nothing's wrong
    Who's gonna drive you home tonight

    Who's gonna hold you down
    When you shake
    Who's gonna come around
    When you break

    You can't go on
    Thinking nothing's wrong
    Who's gonna drive you home tonight
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    Down in a hole and I dont know if I can be saved


    My pain is self-chosen
    At least I believe it to be
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    'Open up your heart and let the lovin' start, open up and let the light back in'
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    "I'm a dreamin' man, yes that's my problem. I can't tell when I'm not being real"
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"