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Earth for all creatures
A thought for all (wo)men Right for the speechless Wrong until then? Eyes for the laughter Thirst for the tongue Hands for together Ears for the song The song of love We sing in silence Every moment long Once Here to be done as we do With only one chance Here for the wonder of under the stars For the one and only Once Joy for the children Hope for the chance Men for the women Now for the dance The dance of love We dance just once In unique circumstance Once Here to be done as we do With only one chance Here for the wonder of under the stars For the one and only once |
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I'm a rabbit on fire
On fire with mascared eyes I'm a white rat acquired By the lab I'm due to be shot Shot with experiment Waiting in line For the next stab I've got nowhere to run to I've got nowhere to go And no way of telling you That none of you know I burn in hellfire Kept alive in my deathbed I'm a monkey with wire In my head I can't touch my face Rub my eyes or hear anything Suspended twixt Living and dead They say I don't know But I live under pressure Showing great symptons Of breakdown and fracture I've got nowhere to run to I've got nowhere to go And no way of telling you That none of you know If I (RH) had my way I'd be in there today Turn the voltage on you Burn you down With the whole of your school With your lessons on how To dismiss others' feelings While feeling that you're Always ever so kind Never cruel But that's you Only you Of all us creatures on earth That could only be you If only you cared Not to kill not to torture Not to need to cause pain Fear and suffering To be cool You'd have all the friends And the ends and the means To live with the give And the fox in the glove (the atmosphere) On this jewel (the planet) But that's you Only you Of all us creatures on earth That could only be you You're the mournful red eye Of the dog in the cage The howl of despair From the pound Forsaken forgotten The live definition The sad lonely meaning Of hound And you've got nowhere to run to Nowhere to go And no way of telling me That this isn't so For some of us know, And will always care to do so |
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I'm sick to the teeth of the news on the screen
Of hisbullah scum and jihad the obscene Whose men plant the bombs and then leave feeling free To watch women and children be killed on T.V. Which satan delivers a child a death curse In the name of a worn out collection of verse I've not read the book so I cannot recite But I'd bet Salman Rushdie is just about right Underneath the black cloud of islam What kind of publicity needs so much blood That's not for some sad diablical god Selling himself as a two-bit Macbeth As the experts in sentencing cousins to death And what kind of god can this be anyway That you have to prostrate to him five times a day With hate in your heart and a gun in your hand Is force the only thing to understand Underneath the black cloud of islam? And the butchers who've got all this blood on their hands Are the ones who need god to be stood where he stands Blessing this kidnapping, murder and war With books written hundreds of ages before And women in veils walking paces behind Doesn't sit easy in my mind It speaks of oppression and no other choice That rigid compliance with the loudest voice Underneath the black cloud of islam You can put a lead bullet clean through this guitar 'cos I'm not overjoyed with the story so far Sharing a world with the nutters of god Is as good as being six feet under the sod Words that are written are all here to stay And these are the latest there are anyway And I am the prophet so don't believe me I'm the same as the old ones expect that I'm free To give you a piece of my mind which is this You're the worst of jehovas blind witlessnesses With your feet in the door of the deepest abyss Which is underneath Which is underneath Which is underneath the black cloud of islam |
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If it was right to be believing,
And write his name in blood And then I met him when I died, Well I'd have it out with god But if it means Degrading scenes And sanctioning crusade I'd know we couldn't stand man to man Without feeling afraid If it was wrong for not believing, In fairytale facade And then I met him when I died, Well I'd apologise to dog But if it meant I went down on my knees Well where's the spirit gone Where's the love you're all talking of When you can't stand man to man? Man to man When you can't stand man to man. I find it hard to believe, In these 'gospels' that I've heard The forked tongue of the bible belt, The ayatollah's word I don't believe most anything Spoken by anyone As hell's fanatic paranoids Fire heaven's loaded gun If it was right to be believing, Then it must be in this That difference is beautiful, And living it is bliss, There are no teams There is no side That life on earth is done By living the love you're only talking of By standing man to man Man to man |
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Dung Xiaoping
What's in your head Tearing your people's ideas Into a shread Helmut What's in your head Cracks in the pavement Watch where you tread (Margaret What's in your head Trying to shaft us with poll tax We shaft you instead) Mikhail When we are old We'll remember the time You came in from the cold Human What'll it be A flash in the pan Or eternity In the winds of change |
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(after Laurence Binyon)
They shall not grow old, as we are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun, and in the morning We will remember them They built a wall boys, it stayed up for thirty years We've torn it down now, clattering round their ears You know how it is, with spirit(s), They just couldn't hold us Brothers and sisters The world you died for, was all but a pack of lies It had to fall down, and keep on falling You gave us the world they promised you, And in the morning We are the flowering We are the flowering youth Berliners |
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Through the window
Just a wall Shapes are forming Blackbirds call Early morning spirits Moving hands Tick-tocking ages In the half-light of the still Before the lark Where I can feel my shadow Touch your silence In the dark Sleeping at the wheel Reaching for oceans before us For us to feel Together, tonight Playing eagle Firing eyes Ever willing Sweet surprise Welling in the belly Of their chase Tracing out the angel In the half-light on your face Before the lark Where I can feel my shadow Touch your silence, In the dark Sleeping at the wheel Reaching for oceans before us For us to feel Together, tonight Then suddenly I hear you say "Time to get up It's gone midday, Cup of tea love" And I realise I must have dropped off Drifted into dream before the lark Yielded to the ether of our secret world In the dark |
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I walk in your footsteps love
When you're not even there You fly me in my fleeting steps Towards the dreams we share I'll be with you till the time itself Is overstretched and breaks For I will be in love with you For longer than it takes I love myself as I love you As time will surely tell I love you better for the way You love yourself as well I'll be with you till time itself Is overstretched and breaks For I will be in love with you For longer than it takes You don't know the times I've cried The purest simple joy I met a girl who took me in I could never destroy She feels my pleasures and my pains She gives more than she's got I'll never be worthy of that No matter what Through all my barbed wire Through my fury's blackest hour She bursts the bubbling rages That built the ivory tower Through all my barriers My anger and despair I've got a friend to turn to and She's always there |
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Plastic money flexidream
And comfort for the preacher Keep the debtor out of prison Borrowing the future How much future can he borrow How much past can he forget When now's become part of tomorrow Just a flashy fast advertisement That talks about beginning At the end. You imagine You can change the world And you're right It's happening right here and now Tonight tonight. Relief for hungry children Is nothing but a symptom Of accelerated ignorance Unaware of how a world Forcloses on invading circumstance And brings a new beginning All at once You imagine You can change the world And you're right It's happening right here and now Tonight tonight. Where ice and desert travels And the scale of justice levels And the house that silly jack built While forgetting ages cycling Is crushed inside a moment he forgot There'll be a new beginning Thanks a lot You imagine You can change the world And you're right It's happening right here and now Tonight tonight. |
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