Life is so strange when you don’t knowHow can you tell where you’re going toYou can’t be sure of any situationSomething could change and then you won’t knowYou ask yourselfWhere do we go from hereIt seems so all too nearJust as far beyond as I can seeI still don’t know what this all means toContinue reading “Destination Unknown: Missing Persons”
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Driving School: Pylon
The Driving School — a parking placeSeatbelt windshield dashboard floormatSpare tire lug wrench AM FMTime again — faulting wiringAnother example of defensive drivingRadiator — fold the map upCaution red lights bus stop turn rightReverse forward neutral low gear
Danger>Feast On My Heart (sound check): Pylon
Feast on my heartDrill a hole in itI want you to drown me in itPick up the scalpel and do itI want you to do itFeast on my heartI missed the turnoffThis map has too many symbolsPunch a hole in itI want you to do itDrown me through my heartPull down your eyebrowsUncross your armsIContinue reading “Danger>Feast On My Heart (sound check): Pylon”
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Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles
Turn off your mind, relax and float down streamIt is not dying, it is not dyingLay down all thoughts, surrender to the voidIt is shining, it is shiningYet you may see the meaning of withinIt is being, it is beingLove is all and love is everyoneIt is knowing, it is knowingThat ignorance and hates mayContinue reading “Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles”
Poor Skeleton Steps Out: XTC
Poor skeleton steps out, dressed up in bad blood, bad brains, bad thoughts, and others deeds. Poor skeleton no doubt, one of these days, you can cast aside your human, be free.When the cities run with blood, and you drink our health in mud, “All flesh be gone.”Save your dry and joyous shout, for theContinue reading “Poor Skeleton Steps Out: XTC”
Cemetery Gates: The Smiths
A dreaded sunny daySo I meet you at the cemetry gatesKeats and Yeats are on your sideA dreaded sunny daySo I meet you at the cemetry gatesKeats and Yeats are on your sideWhile Wilde is on mineSo we go inside and we gravely read the stonesAll those people, all those lives where are they now?WithContinue reading “Cemetery Gates: The Smiths”
Midnight Rambler: The Rolling Stones
I’m a-talkin’ ’bout the midnight ramblerEverybody got to goWell I’m a-talkin’ ’bout the midnight gamblerThe one you never seen beforeI’m sighin’ down the wind so sadlyA-listen and you’ll hear me moanWell I’m a talkin’ ’bout the midnight gamblerAnd everybody got to goTalkin’ ’bout the midnight gamblerThe one you never seen beforeI’m talkin’ ’bout the midnightContinue reading “Midnight Rambler: The Rolling Stones”
Across This Antheap: XTC
Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers, nurses, queens and drones.Wish they’d leave my head tonight, let me rest my bones.(Ziggedy zig zag just look at ’em.)A billion feet sound just like a billion drums. A bed is creaking as the new messiah comes.The cars are crashing and the bacon is hacked. The coffin’s lowered and theContinue reading “Across This Antheap: XTC”
Never Stop: Echo & the Bunnymen
Good God, you said Is that the only thing you care aboutSplitting up the money and share it outThe cake’s being eaten straight through the mouth poisonPoised to come back in seasonFor all the ones who lack reasonMeasure by measure, drop by dropAnd pound for pound, we’re taking stockOf all the treasure still unlockedThe loveContinue reading “Never Stop: Echo & the Bunnymen”