Chrétien to step down - Page 16

blackice · August 30, 2002, 03:58

Now Cretien should listen to

N.W.O.

all the locals hide their tears of regret
open fire cos i love you to death
sky high, with a heartache of stone
you'll never see me cos i'm always alone

how to love without a trace of dissent
i'll buy the torture cos you pay for the rent
tied high with a broken command
you're all alone to the promised land

i'm in love with this malicious intent
you've been taken but you don't know it yet
what you will know must never live to be found
cos it's the subject of the eyes of the drowned

Tingkai · August 30, 2002, 04:05

Well, I'll add one for the Albertans, called The Idiot

I often take these nightshift walks
when the foreman's not around.
I turn my back on the coolant stacks
and make for open ground.
Far out beyond the tankfarm fence
where the gas flare makes no sound.
I forget the stink and I always think
back to that eastern town.

I remember back six years ago
this western life I chose.
When everyday the news would say
some factory's going to close.
Well I could have stayed to take the dole
but I'm not one of those.
I take nothing free and that makes me
an idiot I suppose.

So I bid farewell to the eastern town
I nevermore will see.
But work I must, so I eat this dust and breathe refinery.
Oh, I miss the green and the woods and streams
and I don't like cowboy clothes,
But I like being free and that makes me
an idiot I suppose.

So come all ye fine young fellers
who've been beaten to the ground.
This western life's no paradise
but it's better than lying down.
Oh, the streets aren't clean and there's nothing green and the hills are dirty brown;
But the government dole will rot your soul
back there in your hometown.

So bid farewell to the eastern town
you nevermore will see.
There's self-respect and a steady cheque in this refinery.
You will miss the green and the woods and streams
and the dust will fill your nose;
But you'll be free and just like me an idiot I suppose.

-- Stan Rogers

Asher · August 30, 2002, 04:07

No need to go get all jealous and elementary school on us, Tingkai.

How about "All Hell for a Basement" by Big Sugar?

Quote:

I'm a workin' man
But I ain't worked for a while
Like some old tin can
From the bottom of the pile

I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement

My words are like a rope
That's wrapped around my throat
Wash my mouth with soap
For words unfit to quote

I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement

I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement

And now I'm free to go
But time cannot remove
The only life I know
Now only time will prove
Yes only time will prove

I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement

Yeah I lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:10

You know how many jams in hell I had in a basement in Alberta

Good one

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:12

This one is for you NYE:

BLACK FRIDAY

When Black Friday comes
I'll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor
When Black Friday comes
I'll collect everything I'm owed
And before my friends find out
I'll be on the road
When Black Friday falls you know it's got to be
Don't let it fall on me
When Black Friday comes
I'll fly down to Muswellbrook
Gonna strike all the big red words
From my little black book
Gonna do just what I please
Gonna wear no socks and shoes
With nothing to do but feed
All the kangaroos
When Black Friday comes I'll be on that hill
You know I will

When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna dig myself a hole
Gonna lay down in it 'til
I satisfy my soul
Gonna let the world pass by me
The Archbishop's gonna sanctify me
And if he don't come across
I'm gonna let it roll
When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna stake my claim
I'll guess I'll change my name

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:14

This is for the young ones who have yet to form thier own thought.

The Art of Rebellion (1992)
Gota Kill Captain Stupid

Ah damn, we got a lot of stupid people
Doing a lot of stupid things
Thinking a lot of stpuid thoughts
And if you want to see one
Just look in the mirror

Gotta kill Captain Stupid, can't you see him
Today we start the new way, we're Suicidal
Gotta kill the old way, we'll make it better
Won't you join our mission, don't be stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid

Brothers killing brothers, what up with that?
Can't you see they're laughing, that ain't funny
Babies making babies, that ain't love
You just got screwed over, get some respect

CHORUS
Got to kill Captain Stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid

And I don't understand why
People be bringin' Captain Stupid in their lives
Treating him like a superhero
Glorifying him when he ain't nothing but a superpunk
And you see, you're the one who's gonna have to stop him
'Cause you7re the one that started him

Oh, what's that?
So now you say life sucks
Well, ninety-nine percent of it's
What you make of it...
So if your life sucks, you suck

What's that crap you're smoking, playing the fool
Waste your life for nothing, when you're something
What the hell you thinking, mind pollution
Got to get back control, it's your life fool

CHORUS

What's that now?
Ah, so you're scared to do something about it
Well, you better be scared not to do something about it
'Cause if you don't kill Captain Stupid
Captain Stupid gonna kill you
Got to kill Captain Stupid-fool

Asher · August 30, 2002, 04:15

I've been forming my own thought since 1983. I'm not one of the people who goes with the status quo but I'm not one of the people who go against it, I form my own opinions based on what I know.

It's for that reason that I'm a right-wing liberal of all things.

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:17

Back on topic

"Intolerance"

I don't want to be hostile.
I don't want to be dismal.
But I don't want to rot in an apathetic existance either.
See
I want to believe you,
and I want to trust
and I want to have faith to put away the dagger.

But you lie, cheat, and steal.
And yet
I tolerate you.
Veil of virtue hung to hide your method
while I smile and laugh and dance
and sing your praise and glory.
Shroud of virtue hung to mask your stigma
as I smile and laugh and dance
and sing your glory
while you
lie, cheat, and steal.
How can I tolerate you.

Our guilt,our blame ,
I've been far too sympathetic.
Our blood, our fault.
I've been far too sympathetic.

I am not innocent.
You are not innocent.
Noone is innocent.

I will no longer tolerate you
Even if I must go down beside you.
Because,
Noone is innocent.

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:19

OH!

We Can Work It Out

Try to see it my way,
Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?
While you see it your way,
Run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone.

We can work it out,
We can work it out.

Think of what you're saying.
You can get it wrong and still you think that it's alright.
Think of what I'm saying,
We can work it out and get it straight, or say good night.

We can work it out,
We can work it out.

Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime,
So I will ask you once again.

Try to see it my way,
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long.

We can work it out,
We can work it out.

Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime,
So I will ask you once again.

Try to see it my way,
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long.
We can work it out,
We can work it out.

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:22

Vulgar Display Of Power (1992)
Fvcking Hostile

Almost every day
I see the same face
On broken picture tube
It fits the attitude
If you could see yourself
You put you on a shelf
Your verbal masturbate
Promise to nauseate
Today I'll play the part of non-parent
Not make a hundred rules
For you to know about yourself
Not lie and make you believe
What's evil is making love
and making friends
and meeting God you're own way
The right way

(Chorus) To see
To bleed
Cannot be taught
In turn
You're making us
Fvcking hostile

We stand alone

The truth in right and wrong
The boundaries of the law
You seem to miss the point
Arresting for a joint?
You seem to wonder why
Hundreds of people die
You're writing tickets man
My mom got jumped -- they ran!
Now I'll play a public servant
To serve and protect
By the law and the state
I'd bust the punks
That rape steal and murder
And leave you be
If you crossed me
I'd shake your hand like a man
Not a god

(Chorus)

Come meet your maker, boy
Some things you can't enjoy
Because of heaven/hell
A fvcking wives' tale
They put it in your head
Then put you in your bed
He's watching say your prayers
Cause God is everywhere
Now I'll play a man learning priesthood
Who's about to take the ultimate test in life
I'd question things because I am human
And call NO ONE my father who's no closer that a stranger

I won't listen

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:27

Tales from the hardside
Your cards were dealt when you drove through the night
as a man in dark clothes came into your sight
The barrel tapped the glass, you reached the window lock
Get the fvck out the car and leave it in the crosswalk
He climbed into your seat and dropped a vial of crack
Pissin' down your leg, you're a victim of carjack
Feel the cold steel as I pull the hammer back
BANG! You're fvckin' dead 'cause it's like that
Society pushed him down and out
soul provider what's it all about
Religion can we do without
Social pressure we're too strung out
Another bad hand the cards have been dealt
Kid of fourteen, high aspiration held
to get ahead and run **** with his powerful will
Told by his role model you're old enough to kill
See my ride, my *****es and my loot
If ya wanna survive be prepared to shoot
Stay hard like me and you're bound to do well
A waste of precious life, twenty five with an L
I'll put this bullet in your head for the color of your skin
This is my neighbourhood who the fvck let you in
I'll stick with mine stay with your own kind
The virus of hate infects the ignorant mind

So Cretien has been quiet lately? Do you think?

notyoueither · August 30, 2002, 04:33

Ahhhhh, blackice. For me? You shouldn't have.

Here's one for you luv...

The Fool On The Hill
(John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
Lead Vocal: Paul McCartney

Day after day, alone on the hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
As he never gives an answer
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning around

Well on the way, head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices talking percetly loud
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning around

And nobody seems to like him
They can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning around

He never listen to them
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him
The fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning around

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:34

Self Destruction (Final)

i am the voice inide your head and i control you
i am the lover in your bed and i control you
i am the sex that you provide and i control you
i am the hate you try to hide and i control you
i take you where you want to go
i give you all you need to know
i drag you down i use you up
mr self destruct
i speak religion's message clear and i control you
i am denial guilt and fear and i control you
i am the prayers of the naive and i control you
i am the lie that you believe and i control you
i take you where you want to go
i give you all you need to know
i drag you down i use you up
mr self destruct
i am the needle in your vein and i control you
i am the high you can't sustain and i control you
i am the pusher i'm a whore and i control you
i am the need you have for more and i control you
i am the bullet in the gun and i control you
i am the truth from which you run and i control you
i am the silencing machine and i control you
i am the end of all your dreams and i control you
i take you where you want to go
i give you all you need to know
i drag you down i use you up
mr self destruct

Cretien "I own You"

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:37

And this for you

Fvcking Up

All right this is Neil Young's song. Let's hear it for Neil.

Lonely drifter on the hill. Why do I?
One must have a heart of steel. Why do I?
It's not how you look but how you feel. Why do I?
You must have a heart of steel. Why do I?
Why do I keep fvcking up?

I can see you on the hill. Why do I?
All comatose but walking still. Why do I?
Flowing curves beneath your flowing gown. Why do I?
Oh, only I can bring myself down. Why do I?
Why do I keep fvcking up?

Bowman's pick and dogs that bite. Why do I?
Oh, dogs that howl through the night. Why do I?
Oh, broken leashes all over the floor. Why do I?
Keys left hanging in a swinging door. Why do I?
Why do I keep fvcking up?

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:41

For Asher

(Modern Industry) - (D. Kahne, K. Jones)
Turn it on, man...

WBRU, KABE, WFLY, Cool 92
KAX, KOKE, KRO
WAMX, yes, wow !

KJZ ! The... KUSF, check 94, KFRC
A-A-A-A...

And we have some more here...

These are the voices of modern industry
They speak the words that bring you together
These are the sounds gears grinding
These are the round levers
These are the sounds behind the machines
These are the voices of modern industry
These are the voices
These are the voices

K-ROCK, K-VETTE, K-VOL, K-ZAP, K-SOUL, K-SHAFF
Disappear !
WIMI

394... JACE
397... WEWE
KCOC, Star 96
The Cube...

These are the voices of modern industry
They spell the power that fuels the factory
These are milk and oats of the mix
And screwed... of the airtime
This is the sound behind the machine
These are the voices
These are the voices
These are the voices

This is an emergency broadcast
This is only a test...
This is only a test...
This is only a test...

These are the voices of modern industry
This is the music that brings us together
These are the... that start the emotion
Continue the motion, the motion, the motion...
This is the music behind the machine
These are the voices of modern industry
These are the voices
These are the voices...

WBAS, WOWW, hah, WAX, WDUD
KSIN, we refuged you...
KUSA, hallelujah
KILD, that means "kill"
Hey man, we have faith in you...
Hey, can you believe it
Do we have listeners out there
105... 195

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:44

This one is for Bush

Party at ground zero
A "B" movie starring you
And the world will turn to flowing
Pink vapor stew

Johnny, go get your gun, for the commies are in our hemisphere today
Ivan, go fly your MIG, for the Yankee imperialists have come to play
Johnny goes to Sally's house to kiss her goodbye
But Daddy says to spend the night
They make love 'till the early morning light
For tomorrow Johnny goes to fight
Johnny, Ivan, Ian, everybody come along for our nations need new heroes
Time to sing a new war song

CHORUS

Please do not fear 'cause Fishbone is here to say (say what?)
Just have a good time the stop sign is far away
The toilet has flushed and green lights are a ghost
And drop drills will be extinct
Speedracer cloud has come
They know not what they've done
Sin has just won
The planet is a crumb

CHORUS

V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F. -

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:47

For all of you dorks

Holiday in Cambodia

So you been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin that you know how the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

Your a star-belly sneech you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you biach so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer on you
Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers til you starve
Then your head skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need my son:

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot

And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul

Pol Pot

Asher · August 30, 2002, 04:50

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple Haze all around
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me
Help me
Oh, no, no
Hammerin',
Talkin' 'bout heart 'n'...s-soul
I'm talkin' about hard stuff
If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if
So far out my mind
Somethings happening, somethings happening
Ooo, ahh
Ooo, ahh,
Ooo, ahh
Ooo, ahh, yeah!
Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh
Don't know if its day or night
You got me blowin', blowin' my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
Ooo
Help me
Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah
Oh, no, oh
Oh, help me
Purple haze, Tell me, baby, tell me
I can't go on like this
Purple haze
You're makin' me blow my mind...mama
Purple haze, no, nooo
Purple haze, no, its painful, baby

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:57

Join the Army

I got a story to tell, now listen up real well
Pay attention this way to what I got to say
Took it to the street, rap to the people we meet
Now were rocking out hard, to the Suicidal beat
Tried to deny our right, so we put up a fight
Just doing our thang, they tried to call it a gang
Saw the way we look, that's all that it took
That's all she wrote, they had their scapegoat

Dressed doen, homeboyz, minority - Join the Army

We're the few, we're the proud, we like to jam it loud
The music we play, won't have it any other way
We're armed to the bone with our music and our tone
Recruiting on the street, with the sound of our beat
Growing larger every day, and everytime we play
Don't need no college plan, we're just a hard-rocking band
We like our music to please, we ain't gonna appease
No pressure's to much, to make us change our touch

Hardcore, Metal, the New Wave
We're not a gang - Join the Army

Don't be no fool, don't let your prejudice rule
Don't judge by your fear, judge us by your ear
Can't believe every word, or every story that you've heard
Just play the song, I know you'll start to rock along
Well I don't care, 'bout the clothes you wear
It's the size of your heart, not the length of your hair
Don't make no difference to me, the color that you be
Black, white or brown, it's all the same to me

Well if you still don't believe, you best get up and leave
Do what you must do, but this ain't the place for you
You got no right, but if you start a fight
We'll be rockin your head, but with our fists instead
I'll fight it with the band, right down till the end
Ask anyone I've met, this ain't no idle threat
Don't flap no fit, and it won't come to this
Bust as for me, I'm down with the Army

New York, London, Venice
Why join a gang?
Join the Army

Suicidal Rock - Join the Army

blackice · August 30, 2002, 04:59

"Scream!"

A chill runs up your spine
It crawls into your brain
The freezing touch of fear

It's driving me insane
Although you try to fight
Dragged from the silence where you hide
'til you... Scream

Scream
I can't wait to hear you...
I can't wait to hear you...
Scream

It's driving me insane
Although you try to fight
Dragged from the silence where you hide
'til you... Scream

Scream
I can't wait to hear you...
I can't wait to hear you...
Scream

Asher · August 30, 2002, 05:00

There's a lyrics thread for this you know.

Tingkai · August 30, 2002, 05:00

Is anyone reading all of these lyrics?

I say we at least limit them to Canadian singers/bands and for Canadians (e.g. not Bush).

blackice · August 30, 2002, 05:02

Schism

I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering. Fundamental differing.
Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication
The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
We cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication.

I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication

The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.

There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away.
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any
Sense of compassion
Between supposed lovers/brothers

blackice · August 30, 2002, 05:04

So anyone have anything on topic to say?

I thinkCretien is a robot made by the liberals in the 80's you?

blackice · August 30, 2002, 05:08

Pushit

I will choke until I swallow...
Choke this infant here before me.
What is this but my reflection?
Who am I to judge and strike you down?

But you're
Pushing and shoving me.
You still love me and you pushit on me.

Rest your trigger on my finger,
bang my head upon the fault line.
Take care not to make me enter.
'cause if I do we both may disappear.

But you're pushing me,
Shoving me. Pushit on me.

Slipping back into the gap again.
I'm alive when you're touching me,
Alive when you're shoving me down.

But I'd trade it all
For just a little bit of
Piece of mind.

Put me somewhere I don't wanna be.
Seeing someplace I don't wanna see.
Never wanna see that place again.

Saw that gap again today
As you were begging me to stay.
Managed to push myself away,
And you, as well.

If, when I say I may fade like a sigh if I stay,
You minimize my movement anyway,
I must persuade you another way.

There's no love in fear.

Staring down the hole again.
Hands upon my back again.
Survival is my only friend.
Terrified of what may come.

Just remember I will always love you,
Even as I tear your fvcking throat away.
But it will end no other way.

You have to like CANADA

blackice · August 30, 2002, 05:09

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

And with that Good night, peace to all

We hit 500 yet?

Tingkai · August 30, 2002, 05:10

Okay, here's a question.

My theory is that Canadians elected, and re-elected Chretien because they wanted a non-active government after all of the turmoil of the 80s. By that I mean, a government that made no major changes, compared to the NEP, GST, Meech Lake, NAFTA, etc.

Chretien was an ideal leader for this type of government because he cares more about staying in power than achieving any policy goals.

The question then is whether there are any signs that Canadians want major changes. Any indication at the provincial level that people are voting for change?

notyoueither · August 30, 2002, 05:14

I thank God he did so little. It was funny, on local usenet groups people were screaming about the Lieberals being in power. I observed he didn't seem to want to do much and asked if they preferred someone who did more to cack things up?

Kyoto? It's dead. As dead as his leadership.

but in the spirit of the new thread...

Gordon Lightfoot.

Oh the prairie lights are burning bright
The Chinook wind is a-moving in
Tomorrow night I'll be Alberta bound
Though I've done the best I could
My old luck ain't been so good and
Tomorrow night I'll be Alberta bound
No one I've met could ever forget
The Rocky Mountain sunset
It's a pleasure just to be Alberta bound
I long to see my next of kin
To know what kind of shape they're in
And tomorrow night I'll be Alberta bound

Chorus:
Alberta bound Alberta bound
It's good to be Alberta bound
Alberta bound Alberta bound
It's good to be Alberta bound

Oh the skyline of Toronto
Is something you'll get onto
But they say you've got to live there for a while
And if you got the money
You can get yourself a honey
With a written guarantee to make you smile

But it's snowing in the city
And the streets and brown and gritty
And I know there's pretty girls all over town
But they never seem to find me
And the one I left behind me
Is the reason that I'll be Alberta bound

blackice · August 30, 2002, 05:17

I agree Taki I think the cut backs have hit a medium so to follow our thought no.

I think the next generation will bring change this generation has been groomed.

But... It is on it's way

We Didn't Start the Fire
1949 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray,
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe Dimaggio,
1950 Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television,
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe,
1951 Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom,
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye
1952 Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new Queen,
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana good-bye .
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
1953 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist bloc,
1954 Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Tosconini, Dacron,
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock,
1955 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team,
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland,
1956 Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev,
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez.
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
1957 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac,
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai,
1958 Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball,
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide,
1959 Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia,
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go,
1960 U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola, and Kennedy,
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo.
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
1961 Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion,
1962 Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania,
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson,
1963 Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex,
JFK blown away, What else do I have to say?
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
1964
to
1989 Birth control, Ho Chi-Minh, Richard Nixon back again,
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate,Punk Rock,
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airlines
Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan,
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy metal, Suicide,
Foreign debts, Homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz,
Hypodermics on the shore, China's Under Martial Law,
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it any more!
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on and on and on and on.....
CHORUS

Tingkai · August 30, 2002, 05:22

Hold Your Ground
-James Keelaghan

Somewhere inside my soul there is an echo of my youth,
Some pithy little saying that contains a grain of truth,
If patience is a virtue, persistence is its mark.
It's better light a candle than stand and curse the dark,
But if we stand together we might turn this world around –
Hold your ground.

In the corridors of power where our voice is seldom heard
The "status quo" is what they want, they get it with a word;
For us it takes a thousand voices, a million angry shouts
To notify the ship of state to bring its course about.
But if we pull together we might turn this ship around –
Hold your ground.

Oh, this world is changing,
Spinning out through space and time.
Oh, it's rearranging
All the things we thought were yours and mine.
You've got to hold your ground,
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground.

Sometimes it seems the motion is strictly retrograde,
There are so many reverses to advances that you've made.
The things you thought were changing have shuddered to a halt;
The only way is forward when your back's against the wall.
But if we stand together we might turn this world around –
Hold your ground.

It isn't for the faint of heart to bet when odds are long,
And neither is it easy to be right in face of wrong;
You must proceed from strength to strength although the road is rough,
And sometimes human courage just isn't quite enough.
But if we we stand together we might turn this world around –
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground.
Oh, this world is changing!