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the wisdom of musicians

"Sooner or later
you'll have to be the one you are
Or you just might find that you're out of time
And it's just too late"

I'll take my hat off to jimmy cliff for this. If we all did that there'd be nicer juster world out there without all this murderous carnage that is the mark thus far of this new century...
 
The greatest love of all.....
Is happening to me...
I found the greatest....
Love of all....
Inside of me....

'Greatest Love of All'
The world and his wife have done a version.
 
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star, Tony always tended bar
Across a crowded floor, they worked from 8 till 4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?

At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa....they fell in love

(Copa Copacabana)

His name was Rico, he wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancin' there
And when she finished, he called her over
But Rico went a bit too far, Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gun shot
But just who shot who?
:cool:
 
Bernie Gunther said:
"Yeah, Yeah, Industrial Estate
Yeah, Yeah, Industrial Estate
Yeah, Yeah, Industrial Estate"

The Fall, from 'Live at the Witch Trials'

And if you get a bit of depression
Yeah, Yeah Industrial Estate
You can ask the doctor for some valium
Yeah, Yeah Industrial Estate.

:cool:
 
Since I quote it on the front page of my own site, it would be churlish not to post this :)

Life's like a jigsaw, you get the straight bits
But there's something missing in the middle

XTC - All of a Sudden (it's too late)
 
I'm not a N American but here's a whole song to piss Fela off, because it's all worth quoting (and because people would pull me up on Himmler and Crowley if I missed that bit out)

Bowie said:
I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery
I'm living in a silent film
Portraying Himmler's sacred realm
Of dream reality
I'm frightened by the total goal
Drawing to the ragged hole
And I ain't got the power anymore
No I ain't got the power anymore

I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
Living proof of Churchill's lies
I'm destiny
I'm torn between the light and dark
Where others see their targets
Divine symmetry
Should I kiss the viper's fang?
Or herald loud the death of Man?
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

[CHORUS]
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release

I'm not a prophet
or a stone age man
Just a mortal
with the potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic
of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes
from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it
In the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand
of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

Should be the theme song for anyone doing a philosophy degree.

If you want three lines it's the chorus.
 
And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next - Manics


you son of man i am here as a witness
you son of man, can't you see what burns inside us?
this fire will consume as the flames purify
with a peace that surpasses understanding
this is my outcry
from dust to dust we will return
the flesh is temporary
the soul is eternal
son of man can't you see
son of man can't you save yourself

Killswitch Engage - To the sons of man.

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I’ve come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left it’s seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
’neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out it’s warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, the words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisper’d in the sounds of silence.

Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence

:)
 
one of many Cohen songs [3 verses instead of 3 lines - Sorry!!]

Democracy

It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
 
we were brought up on the space race, now they expect us to clean toilets
when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make do with this?

glory days - pulp
 
There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world (x3)

Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
They subjugate the meek
But it’s the rhetoric of failure
We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world (x3)

Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it’s something we can’t buy
There must be another way

Spirits in the Material World by Police, though scarcely the wisdom of musicians, being a repackaging of Arthur Koestler.
 
Stevil said:
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine,
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?
I learned our government must be strong,
It's always right and never wrong.
Our leaders are the finest men,
And so we elect them again and again.
And that's what I learned in school today, that's what I learned in school.

Pete Seeger - it was on the telly last night.

:cool:
 
Graham Nash - Teach your children

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a goodbye

Teach your children well
Their father's hell did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you
 
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