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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    We have always been at war with Eastasia.
    I thought we were at war with Oceania!


    My 2 cents...what about Goodness Gracious by Kevin Gilbert:

    Goodness gracious, of apathy i sing
    The babyboomers had it all and wasted everything
    Now recess is almost over and they won't get off the swing

    Goodness gracious, we came in at the end
    No sex that isn't dangerous, no money left to spend
    We're the cleanup crew for parties we were too young to attend
    "So it goes."
    -Kurt Vonnegut

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zonefish View Post
    I thought we were at war with Oceania!


    My 2 cents...what about Goodness Gracious by Kevin Gilbert:

    Goodness gracious, of apathy i sing
    The babyboomers had it all and wasted everything
    Now recess is almost over and they won't get off the swing

    Goodness gracious, we came in at the end
    No sex that isn't dangerous, no money left to spend
    We're the cleanup crew for parties we were too young to attend
    Being on the tail end of the boomer generation... I clearly get this!
    Still alive and well...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick Robson View Post
    "Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry" --

    As you can see I followed your suggestions here. So, nothing more fair than throwing something BS concerned:

    "And so in the sky shines the electric eye
    Supernatural king takes earth under his wing
    Heaven's golden chorus sings, Hell's angels flap their wings
    Evil souls fall to Hell, ever trapped in burning cells!"

    Just out of curiosity, is there from BS something really conspiratory (*)? 'Cause this was the most 'close' I could find.

    * EDIT: conspiratorial (the English language traps will always catch me here and there, hahah)
    Maybe War pigs.
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    "War Pigs"

    Politicians hide themselves away
    They only started the war
    Why should they go out to fight?
    They leave that role to the poor

    Time will tell on their power minds
    Making war just for fun
    Treating people just like pawns in chess
    Wait `till their judgement day comes, yeah!
    Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

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    Watcher of the Skies - Genesis

    Watcher of the skies watcher of all
    His is a world alone no world is his own,
    He whom life can no longer surprise,
    Raising his eyes beholds a planet unknown.

    Creatures shaped this planet's soil,
    Now their reign has come to an end,
    Has life again destroyed life,
    Do they play elsewhere, do they know
    More than their childhood games?
    Maybe the lizard's she'd it's tail,
    This is the end of man's long union with Earth.
    "Normal is just the average of extremes" - Gary Lessor

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    You know, that whole song is actually a riff on two lines from Keats:

    Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
    When a new planet swims into his ken;

    -- From "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
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    "Revolution Calling" Queensryche



    this song from 1988, really rings in true today!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    You know, that whole song is actually a riff on two lines from Keats:

    Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
    When a new planet swims into his ken;

    -- From "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
    Plus some input from Arthur C Clarke's "Childhood's End".

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    Was 2112 mentioned?
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    "Low Spark" is about the music business.
    The music was hot, but my baby was not.

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    Maybe so.....here is what Wiki says:

    "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" is a song by the band Traffic from their 1971 album of the same name. The song was written by Jim Capaldi and Steve Winwood.

    The title refers to an inscription written by actor Michael J. Pollard in Jim Capaldi's book while they were both in Morocco. Capaldi and Pollard were planning to work on a movie that was never filmed. Capaldi said:

    Pollard and I would sit around writing lyrics all day, talking about Bob Dylan and the Band, thinking up ridiculous plots for the movie. Before I left Morocco, Pollard wrote in my book 'The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.' For me, it summed him up. He had this tremendous rebel attitude. He walked around in his cowboy boots, his leather jacket. At the time he was a heavy little dude. It seemed to sum up all the people of that generation who were just rebels. The 'Low Spark,' for me, was the spirit, high-spirited. You know, standing on a street corner. The low rider. The 'Low Spark' meaning that strong undercurrent at the street level.[1]
    The song begins with a gradual fade-in and ends with a slow fade-out. At about 11 minutes and 35 seconds, it is the longest song on the album. The song and the album received wide praise, both in print and on broadcasts.[2] It uses a sparse arrangement with a slow deliberate pace alternating with a double-time densely layered pop chorus. The verses are in D minor while the choruses modulate to D major with a repeated piano riff in D Minor.[original research?]. The song is noted for the extended solos played by band members in the later portions of the song. David Lubin wrote in his album review that appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine in 1972, "Each member of the group lays down a track or tracks which could in parts stand alone."[3]

    Capaldi had originally written only two verses of lyrics. He quickly wrote the third verse while Winwood was recording the song's vocal and slipped it in front of him in time for him to sing it.[4]

    A live rendition of the song is the opening track on Traffic's only concert video, which was recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California on 21 February 1972, with the lineup of Winwood, Capaldi, Wood, Rebop Kwaku Baah (percussion), David Hood (bass) and Roger Hawkins (drums). Another live recording with the same lineup plus extra keyboardist Barry Beckett appears on the album On the Road.

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    My favorite "Anti 1%" song of all time:

    Call It Democracy- Bruce Cockburn

    Padded with power here they come
    International loan sharks backed by the guns
    Of market hungry military profiteers
    Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
    With the blood of the poor

    Who rob life of its quality
    Who render rage a necessity
    By turning countries into labour camps
    Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

    Sinister cynical instrument
    Who makes the gun into a sacrament --
    The only response to the deification
    Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
    Idolatry of ideology

    North South East West
    Kill the best and buy the rest
    It's just spend a buck to make a buck
    You don't really give a flying fuck
    About the people in misery

    IMF dirty MF
    Takes away everything it can get
    Always making certain that there's one thing left
    Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

    See the paid-off local bottom feeders
    Passing themselves off as leaders
    Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
    Open for business like a cheap bordello

    And they call it democracy
    And they call it democracy
    And they call it democracy
    And they call it democracy

    See the loaded eyes of the children too
    Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
    One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
    To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
    They call the revolution

    IMF dirty MF
    Takes away everything it can get
    Always making certain that there's one thing left
    Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
    "Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."

    -Cozy 3:16-

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