Sing with me!

[BestIKenster]

When they turn the pages of history

When these days have passed long ago

Will they read of us with sadness

For the seeds that we let grow

We turned our gaze

From the castles in the distance

Eyes cast down

On the path of least resistance

 

Cities full of hatred

Fear and lies

Withered hearts

And cruel, tormented eyes

Scheming demons

Dressed in kingly guise

Beating down the multitude

And scoffing at the wise

 

The hypocrites are slandering

The sacred halls of Truth

Ancient nobles showering

Their bitterness on youth

Can't we find

The minds that made us strong

Can't we learn

To feel what's right and wrong

 

Cities full of hatred

Fear and lies

Withered hearts

And cruel, tormented eyes

Scheming demons

Dressed in kingly guise

Beating down the multitude

And scoffing at the wise

Can't we raise our eyes

And make a start

Can't we find the minds

To lead us closer to the Heart

 

[timintey]

Basic elemental instinct to survive

Stirs the higher passions

Thrill to be alive

Alternating currents in a tidewater surge

Rational resistance to an unwise urge

 

anything can happen

 

From the point of conception

To the moment of Truth

At the point of surrender

To the burden of proof

 

From the point of ignition

To the final drive

The point of the journey is not to arrive

 

anything can happen

 

Basic temperamental filters on our eyes

Alter our perceptions

Lenses polarize

 

Alternating currents force a show of hands

Rational responses force a change of plans

 

anything can happen

 

From a point on the compass

To magnetic north

The point of the needle moving back and forth

 

From the point of entry-

Until the candle is burned

The point of departure is not to return

 

anything can happen

 

I set the wheels in motion

turn up all the machines

activate the programs

and run behind the scene

 

I set the clouds in motion

turn up light and sound

activate the window

and watch the world go 'round-

 

anything can happen

 

[missionman]

....and then realise that you're all alone...

[dethroned emperor]

the king of the inner dominion

the circle of the lost lovers

those who start the monarchy

melodies of them who gave up the ghost

 

a new sovereign

son of the first king

after the seizure plague

dressed in serrated armour

 

sensual descendant

of carnal love

semaphore

of all unearthly souls

married

to the divine war

king of a stellar war

 

dedicated to his father's now

swear in power to low

asylum in his world

dazzle his hordes

emeron

 

[Lerxster]

When you're alone and the sun's gone down

One more time

Must you prentend that some light still shines

Sounds like double Monday

Yeah

 

Each time you think that you've just begun

It's the end

Oh, someone you love wants to just be friends

Sounds like double Monday

Yeah

 

Feels like snakes and spiders

Crawling up your body

Every someday double Monday

 

Like a fly against the wall

Just when you think you've seen it all you

You lose your special place to hide

So get ready for the ride, ride, ride

Yeah

 

Every someday double Monday

 

[joanneeeeee]

All that we can do is just survive

All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive x2

 

Ragged lines of ragged grey

Skeletons, they shuffle away

Shouting guards and smoking guns

Will cut down the unlucky ones

 

I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed

A wound that will not heal

A heart that cannot feel

Hoping that the horror will recede

Hoping that tomorrow we'll all be freed

 

Sickness to insanity

Prayer to profanity

Days and weeks and months go by

Don't feel the hunger

Too weak to cry

 

I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate

Are the liberators here?

Do I hope or do I fear?

For my father and my brother, it's too late

But I must help my mother stand up straight

 

Are we the last ones left alive?

Are we the only human beings to survive?

 

[joanneeeeee]

Just between the ice ages anyways.....

 

[joanneeeeee]

Crawling Out, Secure And Confident

Imbued With Innocence

Ready For The Whirl

Suddenly The View Was More Intense

Living In A Different Kind Of World

[BestIKenster]

 

 

 

What'll you do when you get lonely

And nobody's waiting by your side?

You've been running and hiding much too long.

You know it's just your foolish pride.

 

Layla, you've got me on my knees.

Layla, I'm begging, darling please.

Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.

 

I tried to give you consolation

When your old man had let you down.

Like a fool, I fell in love with you,

Turned my whole world upside down.

 

Chorus

 

Let's make the best of the situation

Before I finally go insane.

Please don't say we'll never find a way

And tell me all my love's in vain.

 

[BestIKenster]

 

Remember when you were young,

You shone like the sun.

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Now there's a look in your eyes,

Like black holes in the sky.

Shine on you crazy diamond.

You were caught on the crossfire

Of childhood and stardom,

Blown on the steel breeze.

Come on you target for faraway laughter,

Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

 

You reached for the secret too soon,

You cried for the moon.

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Threatened by shadows at night,

And exposed in the light.

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Well you wore out your welcome

With random precision,

Rode on the steel breeze.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions,

Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

[BestIKenster]

 

 

 

Mama, mama, dem hold papa,

Say they charge him fe' smoke ganja.

If me never jump the fence dem hold me too,

So tell me mama, what we gonna do?

 

Oh, mama, whatcha gonna do now?

Oh, mama, whatcha gonna do?

Oh, mama, whatcha gonna do now?

Oh, mama, whatcha gonna do?

 

Next week, next week is the case.

Him have a dread judge to face.

Him ha' fe' either see in space

Or make the doctor man work on him face.

 

Chorus

 

Next door neighbor, dem hold your son,

They say they find him with one gun,

An' there's no need to mention

Him going to get an indefinite detention.

 

Chorus

 

Him know nobody

So him ha' fe' remain in custody.

Him see Babylon, him stand up an' screw,

Say, him never knew it was a curfew.

 

Chorus

[BestIKenster]

 

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,

So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

 

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV?

Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.

I wait for delivery each day until three,

So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV?

 

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town?

I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down.

Prove that you love me and buy the next round,

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town?

 

Everybody!

 

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends,

Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,

So oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

 

That's it!

[BestIKenster]

 

How many times

Do we tire of all the little battles

Threaten to call it quits

Tempted to cut and run

How many times

Do we weather out the stormy evenings

Long to slam the front door

Drive away into the setting sun

 

Keep going on till dawn

How many times must another line be drawn

We could be down and gone

But we hold on

 

How many times

Do we chafe against the repetition

Straining against a fate

Measured out in coffee breaks

How many times

Do we swallow our ambition

Long to give up the same old way

Find another road to take

 

Keep holding on so long

'Cause there's a chance that we might not be so wrong

We could be down and gone

But we hold on

 

How many times

Do we wonder if it's even worth it

Theres got to be some other way

Way to get me through the day

 

Keep going on till dawn

How many times must another line be drawn

We could be down and gone

But we hold on

[BestIKenster]

An ill wind comes arising

Across the cities of the plain

There's no swimming in the heavy water-

No singing in the acid rain

Red alert

Red alert

 

It's so hard to stay together

Passing through revolving doors

We need someone to talk to

And someone to sweep the floors-

Incomplete

Incomplete

 

The world weighs on my shoulders

But what am I to do?

You sometimes drive me crazy-

But I worry about you

 

I know it makes no difference

To what you're going through

But I see the tip of the iceberg-

And I worry about you...

 

Cruising under your radar

Watching from satellites

Take a page from the red book-

Keep them in your sights

Red alert

Red alert

 

Left and rights of passage

Black and whites of youth

Who can face the knowledge

That the truth is not the truth?

Obsolete

Absolute

 

Absalom

Absalom

[BestIKenster]

Who's come to slay the dragon-

Come to watch him fall?

Making arrows out of pointed words

Giant killers at the call

Too much fuss and bother

Too much contradiction and confusion

Peel away the mystery

Here's a clue to some real motivation

 

All there really is

The two of us

And we both know why we've come along

Nothing to explain

It's a part of us

To be found within a song

 

What happened to our innocence-

Did it go out of style?

Along with our naivete'-

No longer a child

Different eyes see different things

Different hearts beat on different strings

But there are times

For you and me

When all such things agree.

 

[BestIKenster]

 

Ten score years ago, defeat the kingly foe

A wondrous dream came into being

Tame the trackless waste, no virgin land left chaste

All shining eyes, but never seeing

 

Beneath the noble bird

Between the proudest words

Behind the beauty, cracks appear

Once, with heads held high

They sang out to the sky

Why do their shadows bow in fear?

 

Watch the cities rise

Another ship arrives

Earth's melting pot and ever growing

Fantastic dreams come true

Inventing something new

The greatest minds, and never knowing...

 

The guns replace the plow, facades are tarnished now

The principles have been betrayed

The dreams's gone stale, but still, let hope prevail

History's debt won't be repaid

[BestIKenster]

I looked under chairs

I looked under tables

I try to find the key

To fifty million fables

 

They call me the seeker

I've been searchin' low and high

I won't get to get what I'm after

Till the day I die

 

I asked Bobby Dylan

I asked the Beatles

I asked Timothy Leary

But he couldn't help me either

 

They call me the seeker

I've been searchin' low and high

I won't get to get what I'm after

Till the day I die

 

People tend to hate me

Cause I never smile

As I ransack their homes they wanna shake my hand

Focusin' on nowhere, investigatin' miles

I'm a seeker, I'm a really desperate man

 

I won't get to get what I'm after

Till the day I die

 

I learned how to raise my voice in anger

Yeah but look at my face, ain't this a smile

I'm happy when life's good, and when it's bad I cry

I got values but I don't know how or why

 

I'm lookin' for me

You're lookin' for you

We're lookin' at each other and we don't know what to do

 

They call me the seeker

I've been searchin' low and high

I won't get to get what I'm after

Till the day I die

[BestIKenster]

 

"To seek the sacred river Alph

To walk the caves of ice

To break my fast on honey dew

And drink the milk of Paradise..."

 

I had heard the whispered tales

Of immortality

The deepest mystery

From an ancient book. I took a clue

I scaled the frozen mountain tops

Of eastern lands unknown

Time and Man alone

Searching for the lost - Xanadu

 

Xanadu -

 

To stand within The Pleasure Dome

Decreed by Kubla Khan

To taste anew the fruits of life

The last immortal man

To find the sacred river Alph

To walk the caves of ice

Oh, I will dine on honey dew

And drink the milk of Paradise

 

A thousand years have come and gone

But time has passed me by

Stars stopped in the sky

Frozen in an everlasting view

Waiting for the world to end

Weary of the night

Praying for the light

Prison of the lost - Xanadu

 

Xanadu -

 

Held within The Pleasure Dome

Decreed by Kubla Khan

To taste my bitter triumph

As a mad immortal man

Nevermore shall I return

Escape these caves of ice

For I have dined on honey dew

And drunk the milk of Paradise

 

 

 

[limlight81]

Paris Hilton I could care less

[BestIKenster]

 

There is unrest in the forest

There is trouble with the trees

For the Maples want more sunlight

And the Oaks ignore their pleas

 

The trouble with the Maples

(And they're quite convinced the're right)

They say the Oaks are just too lofty

And they grab up all the light

But the Oaks can't help their feelings

If they like the way they're made

And they wonder why the Maples

Can't be happy in their shade?

 

There is trouble in the forest

And the creatures all have fled

As the Maples scream 'Oppression!'

And the Oaks, just shake their heads

 

So the Maples formed a Union

And demanded equal rights

'The Oaks are just too greedy

We will make them give us light'

Now there's no more Oak oppression

For they passed a noble law

And the trees are all kept equal

By hatchet,

Axe,

And saw...

 

[BestIKenster]

 

Begin the day

Wth a friendly voice,

A companion, unobtrusive

Plays the song that's so elusive

And the magic music makes your morning mood.

 

Off on your way

Hit the open road,

There is magic at your fingers

For the Spirit ever lingers,

Undemanding contact In your happy solitude.

 

 

Invisible airwaves

Crackle with life

Bright antennae bristle

With the energy

Emotional feedback

On a timeless wavelength

Bearing a gift beyond price-

Almost free...

 

All this machinery

Making modern music

Can still be open-hearted

Not so coldly charted

It's really just a question

Of your honesty

 

One likes to believe

In the freedom of music,

But glittering prizes

And endless compromises

Shatter the illusion

Of integrity.

 

"For the words of the profits,

Are written on the studio wall,

Concert hall -

Echoes with the sounds...

Of salesmen."

[Arleen2112]

Living on a lighted stage

Approaches the unreal

For those who think and feel

In touch with some reality

Beyond the gilded cage.

 

Cast in this unlikely role

Ill-equipped to act

With insufficient tact

One must put up barriers

To keep oneself intact.

 

Living in the limelight

The universal dream

For those who wish to seem.

Those who wish to be

Must put aside the alienation,

Get on with the fascination,

The real relation,

The underlying theme.

 

Living in a fisheye lens,

Caught in the camera eye.

I have no heart to lie

I can't pretend a stranger

Is a long-awaited friend.

 

All the world's indeed a stage

And we are merely players:

Performers and portrayers,

Each another's audience

Outside the gilded cage.

 

[Lerxster]

A modern-day warrior

Mean mean stride,

Today's Tom Sawyer

Mean mean pride.

 

Though his mind is not for rent,

Don't put him down as arrogant.

His reserve, a quiet defense,

Riding out the day's events.

The river

 

What you say about his company

Is what you say about society.

-Catch the mist -Catch the myth

-Catch the mystery -Catch the drift.

 

The world is, the world is,

Love and life are deep,

Maybe as his skies are wide.

 

Today's Tom Sawyer,

He gets high on you,

And the space he invades

He gets by on you.

No, his mind is not for rent

To any god or government.

Always hopeful, yet discontent,

He knows changes aren't permanent,

But change is.

 

What you say about his company

Is what you say about society.

-Catch the witness -Catch the wit,

-Catch the spirit -Catch the spit.

 

The world is, the world is,

Love and life are deep,

Maybe as his eyes are wide.

 

Exit the warrior,

Today's Tom Sawyer,

He gets high on you,

And the energy you trade,

He gets right on to the friction of the day.

 

 

[Arleen2112]

The heart is a bloom

Shoots up through the stony ground

There's no room

No space to rent in this town

 

You're out of luck

And the reason that you had to care

The traffic is stuck

And you're not moving anywhere

 

You thought you'd found a friend

To take you out of this place

Someone you could lend a hand

In return for grace

 

It's a beautiful day

Sky falls, you feel like

It's a beautiful day

Don't let it get away

 

You're on the road

But you've got no destination

You're in the mud

In the maze of her imagination

 

You love this town

Even if that doesn't ring true

You've been all over

And it's been all over you

 

It's a beautiful day

Don't let it get away

It's a beautiful day

 

 

Touch me

Take me to that other place

Teach me

I know I'm not a hopeless case

 

See the world in green and blue

See China right in front of you

See the canyons broken by cloud

See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out

See the Bedouin fires at night

See the oil fields at first light

And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth

After the flood all the colors came out

 

It was a beautiful day

Don't let it get away

Beautiful day

 

Touch me

Take me to that other place

Reach me

I know I'm not a hopeless case

 

What you don't have you don't need it now

What you don't know you can feel it somehow

What you don't have you don't need it now

Don't need it now

Was a beautiful day

 

[Arleen2112]

Ah

We move like cagey tigers

We couldn't get closer than this

The way we walk

The way we talk

The way we stalk

The way we kiss

We slip through the streets

While everyone sleeps

Getting bigger and sleeker

And wider and brighter

We bite and scratch and scream all night

Let's go and throw

All the songs we know...

 

Into the sea

You and me

All these years and no one heard

I'll show you in spring

It's a treacherous thing

We missed you hissed the lovecats

 

We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully

Wonderfully pretty!

Oh you know that I'd do anything for you...

We should have each other to tea huh?

We should have each other with cream

Then curl up by the fire

And sleep for awhile

It's the grooviest thing

It's the perfect dream

 

Into the sea

You and me

All these years and no one heard

I'll show you in spring

It's a treacherous thing

We missed you hissed the lovecats

 

We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully

Wonderfully pretty!

Oh you know that I'd do anything for you...

We should have each other to dinner huh?

We should have each other with cream

Then curl up in the fire

Get up for awhile

It's the grooviest thing

It's the perfect dream

 

Hand in hand

Is the only way to land

And always the right way round

Not broken in pieces

Like hated little meeces...

How could we miss

Someone as dumb as this?

 

I love you... let's go...

Oh... solid gone...

How could we miss

Someone as dumb as this?