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    Urwendur Ûrîbêl Senior Member Mouzafphaerre's Avatar
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    A very, very Senior Member Adrian II's Avatar
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    A hupane! Ka upane!
    Whiti te ra!

    HI!


    (An upward step! Another!
    The sun shines!
    HI!)


    Closing chorus of
    Ka Mate (All Black Haka dance)
    by Chief Te Raupahara (1810)
    The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott

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    Punk Rock Song - Bad Religion


    have you been to the desert?
    have you walked with the dead?
    there's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread

    and the figures don't lie they speak of human disease
    but we do what we want and we think what we please

    have you lived the experience?
    have you witnessed the plague?
    people making babies sometimes just to escape
    in this land of competition the compassion is gone
    yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on
    we keep pushing on

    this is just a punk rock song
    written for the people who can see something's wrong
    like ants in a colony we do our share
    but there's so many other fuckin' insects out there
    and this is just a punk rock song
    (like workers in a company we do our share
    but there's so many other fuckin' robots out there)

    have you visited the quagmire?
    have you swam in the shit?
    the party conventions and the real politik
    the faces always different, the rhetoric the same
    but we swallow it, and we see nothing change
    nothing has changed..
    10 million dollars on a losing campaign
    20 million starving and writhing in pain
    big strong people unwilling to give
    small in vision and perspective
    one in five kids below the poverty line
    one population runnin' out of time
    "If given the choice to be the shepherd or the sheep... be the wolf"
    -Josh Homme
    "That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"
    - Calvin

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    Some bad religion songs are awesome, Kyoto now comes to mind as well.
    GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
    INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
    GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
    INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

    Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944

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    In fact -

    Kyoto now by Bad Religion

    It’s a matter of prescience -no, not the science fiction kind
    It’s all about ignorance, and greed, and miracles for the blind
    The media parading, disjointed politics
    Founded on petrochemical plunder, and we’re it’s hostages
    If you stand to reason you’re in the game
    The rules might be elusive but our pieces are the same
    And you know if one goes down we all go down as well
    The balance is precarious as anyone can tell
    This world’s going to hell
    Don’t allow this mythologic hopeful monster to exact it’s price
    Kyoto now!
    We can’t do nothing and think someone else will make it right
    You might not think it matters now but what if you are wrong
    You might not think there’s any wisdom in a fucked up punk rock song
    But the way it is cannot persist for long
    A brutal sun is rising on our sick horizon
    It’s in the way we live our lives
    Exactly like the double edge of a cold familiar knife
    And supremacy weighs heavy on the day
    It’s never really what you own but what you threw away
    And how much did you pay?
    Don’t allow this mythologic hopeful monster to exact it’s price
    Kyoto now!
    We can’t do nothing and think someone else will make it right
    In your dreams you saw a steady state a bounty for eternity
    Silent screams
    But now the wisdom that sustains us is in full retreat
    Watch out!
    Don’t allow this mythologic hopeful monster isn’t worth the risk
    Kyoto now!
    We can’t have vision for the future if it can’t be fixed
    Alien
    We need a fresh and new religion to run our lives
    Hand in hand
    The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise
    Oh, kyoto now!
    GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
    INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
    GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
    INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

    Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944

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    Um, JAG, I think we get the picture now. The thread was about favourite lines, not entire albums. Let alone juvenile strings of four letter words...
    The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott

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    The Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot celebrates the 100th anniversary of the building of the Trans-Canadian railroad:

    The song of the future has been sung.
    All the battles have been won.
    On the mountain tops we stand
    All the world at our command.
    We have opened up the soil
    With our teardrops and our toil.


    I've got to say I have never seen so much negativity expressed as in these "best lyrics". There are a lot of depressing songs in this thread. You all spend your time brooding when not here, don't you? Worry not so much, one day you'll be humming songs like The Rubber Tree Song with its plucky, determined ant! I'm just kidding in case that thought worries some of you.
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