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Do It Again

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(I've seen it pumped electric)
(Do it again)

Oh my God, what have I done?
All I wanted was a little fun
Got a brain like bubble gum
Blowing up my cranium

Turn of my ro-botic brain
All my thoughts are all the same (all insane)

Take my face and take my drug
Hold my bone up to the sun
Bang my drum and paint my face
Pump my cave to hyperspace

youtube > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrwzjtBHq0


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Bulls On Parade

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Come with it now!
Come with it now!

The microphone explodes, shattering the molds
Either drop hits like De-La-O or get the fuck off the commode
With the sure shot, sure to make your bodies drop
Drop and don't copy yo, don't call this a co-op
Terror rains drenchin', quenchin' the thirst of the power dons
That five sided fist-a-gon
The rotten sore on the face of mother earth gets bigger
Triggers cold empty your purse

They rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells

Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Lined up to the mind cemetery now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive an movin'
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells

Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells
Rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells

The bulls on parade

Come with it now
Come with it now
Bulls on parade

The bulls on parade
The bulls on parade
The bulls on parade
The bulls on parade

Bulls On Parade video > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-58-36lSqG4

Testify video > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSBhI_0at0


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Re: Poetry ~ Bulls On Parade

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Good song. Rage is one of my favs.
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Space Truckin'

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Well we had a lot of luck on Venus
We always had a ball on Mars
We're meeting all the groovy people
We've rocked the Milky Way so far
We danced around the Borealis
We're space truckin' round the stars

Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'

Remember when we did the moonshot
And Pony Trekker led the way
We'd move to the Canaveral moonstop
And everynaut would dance and sway
We got music in our Solar System
We're space truckin' everyday

Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'

The fireball that we rode was moving
But now we've got a new machine
'Yeah yeah yeah yeah' the freaks said
Man those cats can really swing
They got music in their Solar System
They've rocked around the Milky Way
They dance around the Borealis
They're space truckin' everyday

Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'

Yeah yeah yeah space truckin'
Yeah yeah yeah space truckin'
Yeah yeah yeah space truckin'

Yeah yeah yeah

From a concert at Hofstra University, New York in 1973.
Re-uploaded with original aspect ratio restored.
youtube > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YPijSWJmsE


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Re: Poetry ~ Space Truckin' (live)

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Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but i don't know why
'scuse me while i kiss the sky...

Purple haze all around
don't know if i'm comin' up or down
am i happy or in misery ?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me

Help me Help me
Oh nono...no

Yeah

Purple haze all in my eyes
don't know if its day or night
you've got me blowin', blowin' my mind
is it tommorrow or just the end of time ?

No, help me aw yeah !
Oh no, no, oh help me......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIvs4j4IniA


i saw him in concert circa 1969
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Re: Poetry ~ Space Truckin' (live)

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No, help me aw yeah !
Oh no, no, oh help me......
Awesome stuff. The man could write!
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Re: Poetry ~ Space Truckin' (live)

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he was a genius on guitar (imho)
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Re: Home Is Where Your Heart Is

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There was a place in my hometown where I used to wander
Above the trees I saw a big black cloud of thunder
Summer rain in my face like snowflakes falling from space
It was so beautiful, and then I passed the mountains
I went coast to coast, and from star to star
That's how you learn, just who you are

Home is where your heart is
Find where you belong, start to take control, show a little soul
Then you feel who you are

There was a time I couldn't see myself growing older
But then I went for a walk when I came back I was so much taller
Maybe try to find something that I could be part of
But I decided to leave, and then I crossed the river
I went coast to coast, and from star to star
But that's how you learn, who you really are

But I leave you with a kiss, there's so much more than this
When you know who you are

Oh, what you know, stop to think
Start to feel, and then you'll heal
You got to rise to the occasion, you got to read between the lines
Then maybe you'll find, who you are inside
When I look into your eyes, I feel what you feel
Come take my hand, let's go for a swim

But I leave you with a kiss, there's so much more than this
When you know who you are

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Blue Indian

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Oh, Pappy left a chair like he's still sittin' there
Once I almost saw him make his move
Brave Indian who never changes his mood
In a painting on the wall right there

Oh, how long 'til the morning breaks
Oh, how long 'til the medicine takes

Oh, Sally buffalo in the apartment just below
Just a bein' without a care
Oh, children from my brood they come and bring me food
Maybe open up a window for air

Oh, just now I smell the cornbread bake
Oh, now, now, now I feel the medicine take

Just like home
Where the stray dogs go through it all
Still right here, still just here,
Brave little friend

Well, we got a party goin' on many spirits strong
Ain't preacher just a happy to meet ya
Half a bottle 'neath the bed keep our spirits fed
My hat's off to you, to you and you

And now our brave friends, too, dancing circles through the room
And a broom and a radio and a twistin out a dos-e-do
Brand new day, the whole world's goin'
Whole room's goin' so

Just now, don't hesitate (hesitate)
Oh, taste the morning break (morning break)
Sweet, sweet, young honeycomb (honeycomb)
Oh, now, now, now just like home (just like home)

Oh, just like, just like home
Where the stray cats go
Oh, oh, rest my bones
Like a fresh skipped stone to it all

Still right here, still just here
Still just here, brave, brave little friend

WNYE > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW85VntFsNU

Live in Austin > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3QFETQQ10o


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I Me Mine

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All thru' the day I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
All thru' the night, I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
Now they're frightened of leaving it
Ev'ryone's weaving it,
Coming on strong all the time,
All thru' the day I me mine.

I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine.

All I can hear I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
Even those tears, I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
No-one's frightened of playing it
Ev'ryone's saying it,
Flowing more freely than wine,
All thru' Your life, I me mine.

I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine.

All I can hear I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
Even those tears, I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
No-one's frightened of playing it
Ev'ryone's saying it,
Flowing more freely than wine,
All thru' Your life, I me mine.

The Beatles > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46vk716HMtA

let it be movie > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eD2sU8ocA8

(rare) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOBPmweUTk

(Elliott Smith version) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se4ngK0obFU

Polysics - I My Me Mine (Live Japan 2006) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Q7XFFy_j0


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Are The Good Times Really Over

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I wish a buck was still silver
It was back when the country was still strong
Back before Elvis; before the Vietnam war came along.
Before The Beatles and "Yesterday",
When a man could still work, and still would.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the Flag or the Liberty bell.
Wish a Ford and a Chevy,
Could still last ten years, like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for now?

I wish coke was still cola,
And a joint was a bad place to be.
And it was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV.
Before microwave ovens,
When a girl could still cook and still would.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the Flag or the Liberty bell?
Wish a Ford and a Chevy,
Could still last ten years, like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

Stop rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell.
Stand up for the Flag and let's all ring the Liberty bell.
Let's make a Ford and a Chevy,
Still last ten years, like they should.
The best of the free life is still yet to come,
The good times ain't over for good.

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Old World New World

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Natives wearing turquoise and silver
Dirty dogs barking in the distance
Ooh, people of a thousand tongues
I'm learning the primitive rites
I'm doing as the Romans do

Mt. Kalais to Mt. Everest
Then down to the river Ganges
Ooh, to follow your mighty past
We're learning the primitive rites
Doing as the Romans do

Old world, new world
I know nothing, but I'll keep dancing
Old world, new world
I know nothing, but I'll keep dancing

Cities crumble into the ocean
Cities getting built in the sky
Ooh, now we're talking digital
We're learning the primitive rites
Doing as the Romans do

Millions playing at monopoly
Rolling the dice of their life
Ooh, I'm dancing and shaking hands
We're learning the primitive rites
Doing as the Romans do

Old world, new world
I know nothing, but I'll keep dancing
Old world, new world
I know nothing, but I'll keep dancing
Old world, new world
Old world, new world

I know nothing
Ooh, grow old, look wise
Never knowing till I die
But I'll keep listening
I'll keep listening

Pan, Shambala, Judaism
Hindu, Christianity
Muslim, Buddhism
Atman of Vedes, Sun Ra
Astrology, Voodoo
The Great Dream Time

youtube > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSguCxs5RdQ


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How Bizarre

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Brother Pele's in the back, sweet Zina's in the front
Cruisin' down the freeway in the hot, hot sun
Suddenly red-blue lights flash us from behind
Loud voice booming, "Please step out onto the line"
Pele preaches words of comfort, Zina just hides her eyes
Policeman taps his shades, "Is that a Chevy '69?"

How bizarre
How bizarre, how bizarre

Destination unknown, as we pull in for some gas
Freshly pasted poster reveals a smile from the past
Elephants and acrobats, lions snakes monkey
Pele speaks "righteous," Zina says "funky"
How bizarre
How bizarre, how bizarre

Ooh, baby (Ooh, baby)
It's making me crazy (It's making me crazy)
Everytime I look around
Everytime I look around (Everytime I look around)
Everytime I look around
It's in my face

Ring master steps out and says "the elephants left town"
People jump and jive, but the clowns have stuck around
TV news and camera, there's choppers in the sky
Marines, police, reporters ask where, for and why
Pele yells, "We're outta here," Zina says "Right on"
We're making moves and starting grooves before they knew we were gone
Jumped into the Chevy and headed for big lights
Wanna know the rest? Hey, buy the rights...

How bizarre
How bizarre, how bizarre

Ooh, baby (Ooh, baby)
It's making me crazy (It's making me crazy)
Everytime I look around
Everytime I look around (Everytime I look around)
Everytime I look around
It's in my face

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Maninfesto

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I am A Sheeple.
Author unknown.

Oh yes, I am a sheeple, and oh so proud to be
I am way too smart to believe in conspiracy
Three towers falling straight down - it all makes sense to me
They're all just jealous of me, because I live so free.

Terrorists in hiding everywhere I cannot see
I know they're there, because I heard it on TV
My paper is honest, it would never lie to me
Oh yes, I am a sheeple, and so proud to be.

The UN is stupid, as blind as it can be
Antiwar protesters should be hanging from a tree
They and all the traitors, ship them off to Germany
But me, I am a sheeple, and oh so proud to be.

We saved the Iraqis, the bad guys had to flee
Now those people love us... they're dancing with such glee
The whole wide world should thank me, all on bended knee
Oh yes, I am a sheeple, and oh so proud to be!
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Re: Poetry ~ How Bizarre

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Ego-Ego in my brain, why'd you go and get a name?
Shackled now to mortal chains of fear and guilt, distrust and shame!
Can't you see we're all the same? Ego-Ego in my brain.
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Machine Gun

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Jimi:
"Happy New Year first of all. I hope we'll have a million or two million
more of them. . . If we can get over this summer, he he he. Right I'd
like to dedicate this one to the draggin' scene that's goin' on all the soldiers
that are fightin' in Chicago, Milwaukee and New York. . . Oh yeas, and all
the soldiers fightin' in VietNam. Like to do a thing called 'Machine Gun'."

Machine gun
Tearing my body all apart

Machine gun
Tearing my body all apart

Evil man make me kill ya
Evil man make you kill me
Evil man make me kill you
Even though we're only families apart

I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer now. . . . .
(You know what I mean)
Hey and your bullets keep knocking me down

I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer now. . . . .
Yeah but you still blast me down to the ground

The same way you shoot me down baby
You'll be going just the same
Three times the pain
And your own self to blame
Hey machine gun


OOOOOOOOOO

I ain't afraid of your mess no more, babe
I ain't afraid no more
After awhile your cheap talk don't even cause me pain
So let your bullets fly like rain

'Cause I know all the time you're wrong baby
And you'll be goin' just the same
Yeah machine gun
Tearing my family apart
Yeah yeah alright
Tearing my family apart

Don't you shoot him down
He's about to leave here
Don't you shoot him down
He's got to stay here
He ain't going nowhere
He's been shot down to the ground
Oh where he can't survive no no

Yeah that's what we don't wanna hear any more, alright
No bullets
At least here, huh huh
No guns, no bombs
Huh huh
No nothin', just let's all live and live
You know instead of killin'

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Major Tom (Coming Home)

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Standing there alone,
the ship is waiting.
All systems are go.
"Are you sure?"
Control is not convinced,
but the computer
has the evidence.
No need to abort.
The countdown starts.

Watching in a trance,
the crew is certain.
Nothing left to chance,
all is working.
Trying to relax
up in the capsule
"Send me up a drink."
jokes Major Tom.
The count goes on...

4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
calling, calling home...

Second stage is cut.
We're now in orbit.
Stabilizers up,
running perfect.
Starting to collect
requested data.
"What will it affect
when all is done?"
thinks Major Tom.

Back at ground control,
there is a problem.
"Go to rockets full."
Not responding.
"Hello Major Tom.
Are you receiving?
Turn the thrusters on.
We're standing by."
There's no reply.

4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
calling, calling home...

Across the stratosphere,
a final message:
"Give my wife my love."
Then nothing more.

Far beneath the ship,
the world is mourning.

They don't realize
he's alive.
No one understands,
but Major Tom sees.
"Now the light commands
this is my home,
I'm coming home."

Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
coming home...
Earth below us
drifting, falling.
Floating weightless
coming, coming
home...
home.....

video > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvHJ8OCfO9c


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Mr. & Mrs. Smack

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Standing by the Coke machine
Your legs too thin
That malnutrition look
It's no longer in
(Goodbye Twiggy)

Rest an arm on the corner
Hair dyed black
Got the distant eyes
Never coming back
(Hello doctor)

Hair dyed blonde
Hair dyed black
We walk like crabs
Mr & Mrs Smack

At their place
You can't eat your egg
'Cos all the spoons are black
Not much entertaining
For Mr & Mrs Smack

We walk like crabs

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Dizz Knee Land

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I just ran away from home
Now I'm going to dizz knee land
I just crashed my car again
Now I'm going to dizz knee land
I just robbed a grocery store
I'm going to dizz knee land
I just flipped off President George
I'm going to dizz knee land
I'm going to dizz knee land

I just tossed a fifth of gin
Now I'm going to dizz knee land
I just got cuffed again
I'm going to dizz knee land - yeah
Shot my gun into the night
I'm going to dizz knee land
I just saw a good man die
I'm going to dizz knee land
Come on...I'm going to dizz knee land

Hey

Kicked my ass out of school...
Rolled me out into the streets...
Hitched a ride on a monkey's back...
Headed west into the black...

I'm going to dizz knee land
I'm going to dizz knee land (yeah, yeah)
I'm going to dizz knee land (oooooOoo!)
I'm going to dizz knee land (yeah! yeah!)

"Studio version" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daa9pZDxfIY

"A P C version" (live) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmnjInUjxA

"GH2 Custom" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcPYoyST0SY

The Clique (live) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s6jhPNSvEU


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Re: Poetry ~ Dizz Knee Land

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sweet!

"Dada" is one of my favorite bands, an underrated bands from the 90's, but still retain a small cult following.

I think they're philosophers at heart, some of their lyrics reflect an existential, nihilistic or absurdist view of life, but they're also prone to the usual romantic delusions of men, can be artistic and soulful. It's a interesting blend...at least, in the musical realm.

Anyway,

I can vouche for their first 3 albums, lost track of them after that...

Puzzle
El Subliminoso
Cowboys in Outerspace

"...headed west into the black
I'm going to Dizz Knee Land..."

;)
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Fire on the Mountain

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Took my fam'ly away from my Carolina home
Had dreams about the West and started to roam
Six long months on a dust covered trail
They say heaven's at the end but so far it's been hell
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there

We were diggin' and siftin' from five to five
Sellin' everything we found just to stay alive
Gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars
Sinnin' was the big thing, lord and Satan was his star
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there

Dance hall girls were the evenin' treat
Empty cartridges and blood lined the gutters of the street
Men were shot down for the sake of fun
Or just to hear the noise of their forty-four guns
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there

Now my widow she weeps by my grave
Tears flow free for her man she couldn't save
Shot down in cold blood by a gun that carried fame
All for a useless and no good worthless claim

And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
Fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
Waitin' for me there

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Tomorrow Never Knows

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Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying

Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining

That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being

That love is all
And love is everywhere
It is knowing
it is knowing

That ignorance is hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing

But listen to the
color of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living

Or play the game
existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrf_e6g2jxk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTMOSCh7aJU

The Beatles end up in a Meso-American setting, and find a way to reach out to the Natives.
Cartoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmSlwT1xzus

Promo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07N5uoWpIo

Revolver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gedtmkfTeSI

Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSr76hzzekY

The Chemical Brothers version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy9PzRa-fys


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Re: Poetry ~ Sitting

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Oh I'm on my way, I know I am, somewhere not so far
from here
All I know is all I feel right now, I feel the power growing
in my hair
Sitting on my own not by myself, everybody's here with me
I don't need to touch your face to know, and I don't need to
use my eyes to see
I keep on wondering if I sleep too long, will I always wake
up the same (or so)?
And keep on wondering if I sleep too long, will I even wake up
again or something
Oh I'm on my way I know I am, but times there were when
I thought not
Bleeding half my soul in bad company, I thank the moon I
had the strength to stop
I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, only for that light I see
'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, that's gonna
be the only thing that's left of me
And if I make it to the waterside, will I even find me a boat
(or so)?
And if I make it to the waterside, I'll be sure to write you
not or something
Oh I'm on my way, I know I am, somewhere not so far
from here
All I know is all I feel right now, I feel the power growing
in my hair
Oh life is like a maze of doors and they all open from the
side you're on
Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may
You're going to wind up where you started from


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Cahoot
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Re: Poetry ~ Let It Enfold You

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Let It Enfold You
- Charles Bukowski

either peace or happiness,
let it enfold you

when I was a young man
I felt these things were
dumb, unsophisticated.
I had bad blood, a twisted
mind, a precarious
upbringing.

I was hard as granite, I
leered at the
sun.
I trusted no man and
especially no
woman.

I was living a hell in
small rooms, I broke
things, smashed things,
walked through glass,
cursed.
I challenged everything,
was continually being
evicted, jailed, in and
out of fights, in and out
of my mind.
women were something
to screw and rail
at, I had no male
friends,

I changed jobs and
cities, I hated holidays,
babies, history,
newspapers, museums,
grandmothers,
marriage, movies,
spiders, garbagemen,
english accents, spain,
france, italy, walnuts and
the color
orange.
algebra angered me,
opera sickened me,
charlie chaplin was a
fake
and flowers were for
pansies.

peace and happiness to me
were signs of
inferiority,
tenants of the weak
an
addled
mind.

but as I went on with
my alley fights,
my suicidal years,
my passage through
any number of
women-it gradually
began to occur to
me
that I wasn't different

from the
others, I was the same,

they were all fulsome
with hatred,
glossed over with petty
grievances,
the men I fought in
alleys had hearts of stone.
everybody was nudging,
inching, cheating for
some insignificant
advantage,
the lie was the
weapon and the
plot was
empty,
darkness was the
dictator.

cautiously, I allowed
myself to feel good
at times.
I found moments of
peace in cheap
rooms
just staring at the
knobs of some
dresser
or listening to the
rain in the
dark.
the less I needed
the better I
felt.

maybe the other life had worn me
down.
I no longer found
glamour
in topping somebody
in conversation.
or in mounting the
body of some poor
drunken female
whose life had
slipped away into
sorrow.

I could never accept
life as it was,
i could never gobble
down all its
poisons
but there were parts,
tenuous magic parts
open for the
asking.

I re-formulated
I don't know when,
date, time, all
that
but the change
occurred.
something in me
relaxed, smoothed
out.
i no longer had to
prove that I was a
man,

I didn't have to prove
anything.

I began to see things:
coffee cups lined up
behind a counter in a
cafe.
or a dog walking along
a sidewalk.
or the way the mouse
on my dresser top
stopped there
with its body,
its ears,
its nose,
it was fixed,
a bit of life
caught within itself
and its eyes looked
at me
and they were
beautiful.
then - it was
gone.

I began to feel good,
I began to feel good
in the worst situations
and there were plenty
of those.
like say, the boss
behind his desk,
he is going to have
to fire me.

I've missed too many
days.
he is dressed in a
suit, necktie, glasses,
he says, "I am going
to have to let you go"

"it's all right" I tell
him.

He must do what he
must do, he has a
wife, a house, children.
expenses, most probably
a girlfriend.

I am sorry for him
he is caught.

I walk onto the blazing
sunshine.
the whole day is
mine
temporarily,
anyhow.

(the whole world is at the
throat of the world,
everybody feels angry,
short-changed, cheated,
everybody is despondent,
disillusioned)

I welcomed shots of
peace, tattered shards of
happiness.

I embraced that stuff
like the hottest number,
like high heels, breasts,
singing,the
works.

(don't get me wrong,
there is such a thing as cockeyed optimism
that overlooks all
basic problems just for
the sake of
itself-
this is a shield and a
sickness.)

The knife got near my
throat again,
I almost turned on the
gas
again
but when the good
moments arrived
again
I didn't fight them off
like an alley
adversary.
I let them take me,
i luxuriated in them,
I bade them welcome
home.
I even looked into
the mirror
once having thought
myself to be
ugly,
I now liked what
I saw,almost
handsome, yes,
a bit ripped and
ragged,
scars, lumps,
odd turns,
but all in all,
not too bad,
almost handsome,
better at least than
some of those movie
star faces
like the cheeks of
a baby's
butt.

and finally I discovered
real feelings of
others,
unheralded,
like lately,
like this morning,
as I was leaving,
for the track,
i saw my wife in bed,
just the
shape of
her head there
(not forgetting
centuries of the living
and the dead and
the dying,
the pyramids,
Mozart dead
but his music still
there in the
room, weeds growing,
the earth turning,
the toteboard waiting for
me)
I saw the shape of my
wife's head,
she so still,
I ached for her life,
just being there
under the
covers.

I kissed her in the,
forehead,
got down the stairway,
got outside,
got into my marvelous
car,
fixed the seatbelt,
backed out the
drive.
feeling warm to
the fingertips,
down to my
foot on the gas
pedal,
I entered the world
once
more,
drove down the
hill
past the houses
full and empty
of
people,
I saw the mailman,
honked,
he waved
back
at me.
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Tomas
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Green Eyed Lady

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Green eyed lady lovely lady
Strolling slowly towards the sun

Green eyed lady ocean lady
Soothing every wave that comes

Green eyed lady passion's lady
dressed in love she lives for life to be

Green eyed lady feels like I never see
Setting suns and lovers free

[Instrumental break featuring organ and guitars.]

Green eyed lady windswept lady
moves the night the waves the sand

Green eyed lady ocean lady
child of nature, friend of man

Green eyed lady passion's lady
dressed in love she lives for life to be

Green eyed lady feels like I never see
Setting suns and lonely lovers free


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYix2LttoB0 - Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1PHk9FhIk - Photo montage


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