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They chose white lillies cuz they're such wacky kids...

December 13, 2005

It's always pretty after an apocalypse / So we strolled past the flowers / Planted by the bloods and crips / And they chose white lilies / Cause they're such wacky kids / It was a good day / Damn right, it was a good day / Almost all the hypocrites and demagogues were gone / Like the sacramental moment / In a last poets song / And bayard rustin came back / Just to bitch slap farrakhan / Burned to the ground / We knew it would burst into bloom / Healthy and good / So we struck that match / And went back to sleep / Lee atwater was on the corner / Turning tricks / Clutching the failed box set / Of his heartfelt blues licks / He said "I think I liked the ghetto better / When it was sick" / Razed to the ground / We knew it would burst into bloom / Healthy and good / Bayard Rustin smiled / And went back to sleep / Good morning, America

[lyrics by smart went crazy]

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Maybe this will help someone?

September 9, 2004

Yes I Will
(michael franti/spearhead)

I received the letter that you wrote me
On a dark, cold and cloudy day
Reminding me on the side of the road
You find the light, you'll find a friend,
You'll find a way
But today I'm feeling all broke down
I ain't got the faintest clue 'bout what to do
Can't comprehend the situation at hand
so I try my best, just to get back home to you

(Chorus)
Gonna keep on walking now
Yes I will
Gonna keep on talkin' loud
Yes I will
Gonna keep on singin' bout it
Yes I will
Gonna keep on ringing out
Yes I will

I believe that what you sing to the clouds
will rain upon you when your sun, has gone away
And I believe, that what you dream to the moon
Will manifest, before you rest, another day
So stay strong, and sleep long when you need to
let the mornin' take you right on through the day
And when you find you're at the end of the road
just lift your head up
Spread your wings and fly away

(chorus)

When you're lost and alone
That's when the rainbow comes
When you're lost and alone
that's when the rainbow comes for you

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2 Songs

January 27, 2004

Nick Cave's Boatman's Call is, in fact, the world's most perfect soundtrack to love. And lovin'.

I know I've said it before, but it bears repeating.

*swooooooooon*

Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For

I've felt you coming girl as you drew near
I knew you'd find me cause I longed you here
Are you my destiny? Is this how you'll appear?
Wrapped in a coat with tears in your eyes?
Well take that coat babe and throw it on the floor
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?
As you've been moving surely toward me
My soul has comforted and assured me
That in time my heart it will reward me
And that all will be revealed
So I've sat and I've watched an ice-age thaw
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built
Out of longing great wonders have been willed
They're only little tears, darling, let them spill
And lay your head upon my shoulder
Outside my window the world has gone to war
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?
O we will know, won't we?
The stars will explode in the sky
O but they don't, do they?
Stars have their moment and then they die
There's a man who spoke wonders though I've never met him
He said, "He who seeks finds and who knocks will be let in"
I think of you in motion and just how close you are getting
And how every little thing anticipates you
All down my veins my heart-strings call
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?

Brompton Oratory
Up those stone steps I climb
Hail this joyful day's return
Into its great shadowed vault I go
Hail the Pentecostal morn
The reading is from Luke 24
Where Christ returns to his loved ones
I look at the stone apostles
Think that it's alright for some
And I wish that I was made of stone
So that I would not have to see
A beauty impossible to define
A beauty impossible to believe
A beauty impossible to endure
The blood imparted in little sips
The smell of you still on my hands
As I bring the cup up to my lips
No God up in the sky
No devil beneath the sea
Could do the job that you did, baby
Of bringing me to my knees
Outside I sit on the stone steps
With nothing much to do
Forlorn and exhausted, baby
By the absence of you

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Hole in the Bucket

January 16, 2004

There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza dear Liza
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza a hole

Go fix it dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
Go fix it dear Henry, dear Henry, fix it.

With what shall I fix it, dear Liza dear Liza
With what shall I fix it, dear Liza with what

With a straw dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
With a straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, with a straw

But the straw is too long, dear Liza dear Liza
The straw is too long, dear Liza too long

Cut it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
Cut it, dear Henry, dear Henry, cut it

With what shall I cut it, dear Liza, dear Liza
With what shall I cut it, dear Liza with what

With an axe, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
With an axe, dear Henry, dear Henry, with an axe

The axe is too dull, dear Liza, dear Liza
The axe is too dull, dear Liza too dull

Sharpen it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
Sharpen it, dear Henry, dear Henry, hone it

On what shall I sharpen it, dear Liza dear Liza
On what shall I hone it, dear Liza on what

On a stone, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
On a stone, dear Henry, dear Henry, with a stone

But the stone is too dry, dear Liza dear Liza
The stone is too dry, dear Liza too dry

Well wet it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
Well wet it, dear Henry, dear Henry, wet it

With what shall I wet it, dear Liza, dear Liza
With what shall I wet it, dear Liza with what

Try water, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
Try water, dear Henry, dear Henry, use water

In what shall I fetch it, dear Liza, dear Liza
In what shall I fetch it, dear Liza in what

In a bucket, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
In a bucket, dear Henry, dear Henry, in a bucket

There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza a hole

(I'm probably going to be adding links to relevent news items to this a bit later...suggestions?)

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ABC's of Anarchism

April 20, 2003

The ABCs of Anarchism

Conclusion
There is a certain social process which is known and very visible but perhaps not acknowledged as much as it should be. It is that one where a new idea or an old one in new form, is accepted by a minority, while the majority is shouting treason, rubbish, kook, communist, anarchist, capitalist, or whatever is a term of abuse valued by that society--infringer--and they develop this idea, at first probably in secrecy or semi-secrecy, and then more and more visible, with more and more support until, guess what? What? This seditious and impossible wrong-headed idea, becomes what is known as... what? ...received opinion and is loved and valued... what? ...by the majority. What? What?
Conclusion
Look people, you heard it on the radio
I get...
You seen it on the TV show
Uh oh
OK, A B I O C O C C C...
OK, OK, you better listen to me good, 'cause this is the ABCs of Anarchism
A B C OK
We'll be singin' when we're singing
We'll be singin'
Where have the tele-tubbies gone?
I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me
I get knocked but I down but I get you're never gonna keep me
Get, never gonna keep me, but I get up again
I get knocked up
Piss, piss, piss, piss
I wanna be be be be be
OK OK OK
anarchy
You better listen to me good, 'cause this is the ABCs of anarchism
ABC
If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result
I want to tell you about anarchism
Conclusion
Guess what?
I want to tell you about anarchism because I think that it is well that you should know all about it
Everything I want, is true
It's your responsiblity now to see that I get what I want
Conclusion
Guess what?
I want to tell you about anarchism because everything that you have heard about it is wrong
Got it? Wrong!
Because they can come back to you and say
Who can say what it is?
I want to tell you about anarchism because I believe anarchism is the finest and neatest thing that has ever been invented
There's no right and wrong, there's only people's arbitrary desires
I want to tell you about anarchism because anarchism is the only thing that can give you liberty and well-being and bring peace and joy to the world
You just have to remember whatever people think is right, is right, even if it isn't
So tell me what you want, what you really really want
I'll tell you what I really really want
So tell me what you want, what you really really want
I want an... an... an...
I wanna tell you in such plain and simple language that there will be no misunderstanding me
Facts?
But hold on a minute, just wait wait wait wait wait
Conclusion
Before I can tell you what anarchism is
I don't remember
Whiskey drink the country bunny tele-tubbies boutique located in Laurelwood across from Oak Court mall
Vodka drink the tele-tubbies childrens boutique located in Laurelwood across from tele-tubbies mall
Lager drink certain men getting their way
Cider drink the anarchy childrens boutique located in bunny country country bunny
Big country bunny
Drink drink drink drink
We've never promoted some kind of cliched stand obviously not too... whatever
But hold on a minute, just hold on a minute, just wait, wait wait wait wait
Before I can tell you what anarchism is
Anarchism is not not not not
Conclusion
Just never ending you know it's just going to continue to continue until they win and beat us down into a pulp
I get we won't let that happen well one function here
I get knocked down well we won't let that happen
I get, I get
At its best times, this nation has always had as its true source of political energy well among those citizens among selected places who took it upon themselves to act
Conclusion
Anarchism is not robbery, murder --were they framed--
Anarchism is not a war of each against all --were they friends
I get
Anarchism is not mobs or disorders or chaos
It is not, not not not, who can say what is?
Being involved in something like this, I tell you, it can strip the hope right out of you
You stop really looking the beast in the face day after day and you see what the problems are and you do all those good things you're taught to do
You write your member of congress you you write letters to the editor you you go out and vote you it makes no difference
Anarchism actually is the opposite of all of that
Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
Pinky winky
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
Good times
All the tele-tubbies were feeling very very happy
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
Where's my head?
Let me think
No, I dont' keep it under the sink
Drip drip drip
I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America
Get rid of... and start over... either Republican or Democrat
We gotta get something to change the system somehow
I don't know how
I don't know how
I don't know how
Alright people
Alright people
You must avoid government and democracy
Would they prefer anarchy?
The founding fathers hated two things--they hated democracy and they hated monarchy--and they saw to it that we would have neither
Anarchism means that you should be free and no one should enslave you or rob you or...impose their will upon you
You just have to remember whatever people think is right, is right, even if it isn't
Then tell me what's right
What's right...
If you don't know what right is, then you don't belong in this country
That's what's destroying this country, a lot of damn flapping mouths
Anarchism means that there should be no war, no violence
This doesn't matter
No monopoly
This doesn't matter
No poverty
How can they not expect the government to regulate us?
Because we can't regulate ourselves
And no taking advantage of your fellow man
Somebody has to
The ideal were included, the ideal is a completely fragmented, atomized society, where everyone is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants
And our wants are created, it's known that they're created
Don't you know the difference between up and down?
Oh sure!
I get knocked
I don't think you do
No?
But I know something that'd help you?
Yeah?
I know a song all about up and
Down
Anarchism means living in a society where all men and all women are free
Where we all equally enjoy the benefits of an ordered and sensible life
Have you got that
Have you got that people
Conclusion
He drinks a whiskey drink
Uh oh
He drinks a vodka drink
Uh oh
He drinks a lager drink
If you succeed and achieve your goal with people, then great, the strategy worked
If not, switch your viewpoint, there are no absolutes, turn to some different people
You just have to remember whatever people think is right, is right, even if it isn't, and try again
Have you got that people?
Have you got that?
Conclusion
Have you got that?
Free, free, free
Conclusion
It is evident to all alike that a great revolution is going on among us
That there are two opinions to its nature and consequences
Conclusion
It says a great deal positively
I don't think you'll find citizens in the street who agree with the positive aspects of
Would they prefer anarchy?
Conclusion
This is your friendly stupid weatherman reminding you that when they can't have their anarchism I have to make it right for them, every time, how 'bout that?
Would they prefer anarchy?
Ha ha ha, I don't know

[lyrics by Chumbawamba, Negativland, and various samples]

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