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Fri May-11-07 12:33 PM
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Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjqYPH7rAoDarkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn Suicide remarks are torn From the fool's gold mouthpiece The hollow horn plays wasted words Proves to warn That he not busy being born Is busy dying.
Temptation's page flies out the door You follow, find yourself at war Watch waterfalls of pity roar You feel to moan but unlike before You discover That you'd just be One more person crying.
So don't fear if you hear A foreign sound to your ear It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
As some warn victory, some downfall Private reasons great or small Can be seen in the eyes of those that call To make all that should be killed to crawl While others say don't hate nothing at all Except hatred.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Made everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much Is really sacred.
While preachers preach of evil fates Teachers teach that knowledge waits Can lead to hundred-dollar plates Goodness hides behind its gates But even the president of the United States Sometimes must have To stand naked.
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged It's only people's games that you got to dodge And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.
Advertising signs that con you Into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on All around you.
You lose yourself, you reappear You suddenly find you got nothing to fear Alone you stand with nobody near When a trembling distant voice, unclear Startles your sleeping ears to hear That somebody thinks They really found you.
A question in your nerves is lit Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy Insure you not to quit To keep it in your mind and not fergit That it is not he or she or them or it That you belong to.
Although the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
For them that must obey authority That they do not respect in any degree Who despise their jobs, their destinies Speak jealously of them that are free Cultivate their flowers to be Nothing more than something They invest in.
While some on principles baptized To strict party platform ties Social clubs in drag disguise Outsiders they can freely criticize Tell nothing except who to idolize And then say God bless him.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he's in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault On anyone that lives in a vault But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
Old lady judges watch people in pairs Limited in sex, they dare To push fake morals, insult and stare While money doesn't talk, it swears Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony.
While them that defend what they cannot see With a killer's pride, security It blows the minds most bitterly For them that think death's honesty Won't fall upon them naturally Life sometimes Must get lonely.
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards False gods, I scuff At pettiness which plays so rough Walk upside-down inside handcuffs Kick my legs to crash it off Say okay, I have had enough What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen They'd probably put my head in a guillotine But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
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Fri May-11-07 12:43 PM
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1. yep. I'm just one more peson crying. Thanks, k n r. |
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Sat May-12-07 10:18 AM
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Fri May-11-07 12:52 PM
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2. I Always Love Your Stuff |
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If this really is the end the nets will go down
but it's been really special knowing you
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Sat May-12-07 11:00 AM
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13. if you walk without rhythm (uh), you never learn, yeah |
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:hi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alEGSgSpKVg Don't be shocked by tone of my voice Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice Don't be shocked by tone of my voice Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice, yeah
Listen to the sound of my voice (aah...) You can check it on out, it's the weapon of choice, yeah
Don't be shocked by the tone of my voice (aah...) It's the new weapon, the weapon of choice
You can blow with this Or you can blow with that You can blow with this Or you can blow with that Or you can blow with this Or you can blow with that Or you can blow with us
You can blow with this Or you can blow with that You can blow with this Or you can blow with that You can blow with...
Walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm if you walk without rhythm (uh), you never learn, yeah
Don't be shocked by the tone of my voice Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice
Don't be shocked by the tone of my voice Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice
You can go with this You can go with that You can go with this Or you can go with that Or you can go with this Or you can go with that Or you can go with us
You can go with this You can go with that You can go with this Or you can go with that Or you can go with...
Organically grown Through the hemisphere I roam To make love to the angels of light, yeah and my girl I guess you just don't understand It's gone beyond bein' a man As I drift off into the night I'm in flight She's a Boy Scout no doubt But I'm gonna hold my cool Cause the music rules, yeah so groove on baby Check it out
Halfway between the gutter and the stars, yeah Halfway between the gutter and the stars, yeah
You can go with this Or you can go with that You can go with this Or you can go with that Or you can go with this Or you can go with that Or you can go with us
You can go with this You can go with that You can go with this Or you can go with that Or you can go with...Government involvement with media - used as a weapon - scaring, manipulating, brainwashing... one of the best weapons ever invented.
The Weapon of Choice - make our decisions for good or evil
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Fri May-11-07 01:04 PM
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I had to go back to the start..the pictures and the words seemed to in sync to be from two sources. And, I've never heard that Bob Dylan piece...where was I?
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Fri May-11-07 01:21 PM
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4. Probably my favorite Dylan song |
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From the 2004 interview with Ed Bradley:
Over more than four decades, Dylan has produced 500 songs and more than 40 albums. Does he ever look back at the music he's written with surprise?
"I used to. I don't do that anymore. I don't know how I got to write those songs. Those early songs were almost magically written," says Dylan, who quotes from his 1964 classic, "It's Alright, Ma."
Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying.
"Try to sit down and write something like that. There's a magic to that, and it's not Siegfried and Roy kind of magic, you know? It's a different kind of a penetrating magic. And, you know, I did it. I did it at one time."
Does he think he can do it again today? No, says Dylan. "You can't do something forever," he says. "I did it once, and I can do other things now. But, I can't do that."
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Fri May-11-07 03:30 PM
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6. And he only needed 3 chords to say all that... |
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Fri May-11-07 03:51 PM
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8. Gonzo was patting himself on the back yesterday in that hearing |
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Edited on Fri May-11-07 03:56 PM by Hubert Flottz
and bragging about his fight against Obscenity. I don't think I've seen anything on the internet, or on TV, worse than the pictures that came out of Abu Ghraib. And what was done at Abu Ghraib had Gonzo's legal blessing.
Edit...How do we explain those pictures of Abu Ghraib to our children and grandchildren? Those horrid images were on every front page and every news show in this country and around the world for days.
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Sat May-12-07 07:20 PM
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15. But look the sun is setting in Iraq |
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Sat May-12-07 08:27 PM
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16. Yes, let us focus on the very few good things left in Iraq... |
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and try and ignore the sad truth, as best we can.
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Fri May-11-07 03:50 PM
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7. Special request! See what you can do with "Desolation Row" |
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k&r to The Greatest page
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Sat May-12-07 04:04 PM
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14. That will take some time |
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:hi:
I'll work on it, thanks bobthedrummer
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Fri May-11-07 07:47 PM
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10. ..truer words were never spoken. |
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