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Walking down this well known street Turning around for ladies feet Like you did so many years ago Sitting in that street cafe Where you had your cup of tea Come on boy, don't get sentimental now Everything's changed but you didn't move on And the only fact is That you're fifteen years older now No use to turn out the light You feel so depressed inside When you think of your wasted years at night

I hand you my ball and chain You just hand me that same old refrain I'm walking on a wire, I'm walking on a wire And I'm falling I wish I could please you tonight But my medicine just won't come right I'm walking on a wire, I'm walking on a wire And I'm falling Too many steps to take Too many spells to break Too many nights awake And no one else This grindstone's wearing me Your claws are tearing me Don't use me endlessly It's too long, too long to myself Where's the justice and where's the sense? When all the pain is on my side of the fence I'm walking on a wire, I'm walking on a wire And I'm falling Too many steps to take Too many spells to break Too many nights awake And no one else This grindstone's wearing me Your claws are tearing me Don't use me endlessly It's too long, it's too long to myself It scares you when you don't know Whichever way the wind might blow I&

I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused. Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used. Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise.  If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?  Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending That everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend.  And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner  And everything's done under the sun,  And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer.

She said luck is all you make it You just reach out and take it Now let's dance a while She said nothing ever happens If you don't make it happen And if you can't laugh then smile

From Beard's Roman Women by Anthony Burgess: “the end of a marriage . . . was also the end of a civilization. More than twenty-six years spent in constructing a mythology, a joint memory bank, a language, a signaling system of grunt and touch—all gone, wasted.” posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:38 PM on September 16  [10 favorites +] [!]

The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove  I thought that you knew it all Well you've seen it ten times before. I thought that you had it down With both your feet on the ground. I love slow ... slow but deep. Feigned affections wash over me. Dream on my dear And renounce temporal obligations. Dream on my dear It's a sleep from which you may not awaken. You build me up then you knock me down. You play the fool while I play the clown. We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum. You raise my hopes then you raise the odds You tell me that I dream too much Now I'm serving time in disillusionment. I don't believe you anymore ... I don't believe you. I thought that I knew it all I'd seen all the signs before. I thought that you were the one In darkness my heart was won. You build me up then you knock me down. You play the fool while I play the clown. We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum. You raise my hopes then you raise the odds You tell me that I dream too much No

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I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff, Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph: Unostentatious and respectful, there He stood, and offered up the following prayer. “Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial Means; their discredited ideas revive; Breed new belief that War is purgatorial Proof of the pride and power of being alive; Men’s biologic urge to readjust The Map of Europe, Lord of Hosts, increase; Lift up their hearts in large destructive lust; And crown their heads with blind vindictive Peace.” The Prince of Darkness to the Cenotaph Bowed. As he walked away I heard him laugh.

If I ride on the rails I shall ride them alone And if I need all this pain I will find it alone If I'm wanted for leaving I will leave here alone And if I can't resist this then I am unfit to go A simple solution is all I require If fire is the passion I only aspire to be free Let me be free if the strain on your conscience gets under your skin And leads you to making a sacrifice Sacrifice me Let there be peace To the grave from the cradle we don't rock anymore Now I stand here with both feet planted firm on the floor And if you're planning a future of indefinite grace You'd better start removing the lines of deceit from your face A simple conclusion is all I require If fire is the passion I only aspire to be free Let me be free And all of the hypocrites lie through their teeth Talk about making a sacrifice Sacrifice me Let there be peace How much longer can all this go on? How many more chances can one person have? And all of the questions with no proper answers

Tell me what you're thinking baby Your heart's beating faster than mine And I know something's going on in your life In your life.. In your life You were the girl I wanted to cry with You were the girl I wanted to die with And you were the boy who turned into the man Broke my heart and let go off my hand Our bed is empty, the fire is out And all the love we've got to give has all spurted out There's no more blood and no more pain In our kingdom of rain You think you know about life You think you know about love But when you put your hands inside me It doesn't even feel like I'm being touched, and You were the boy I wanted to cry with You were the boy I wanted to die with You've moved further from my side, year by year, While still making love dutifully sincere But as silent as the car lights that move across this room As cold as our bodies silhouetted by the moon And I would lie awake and wonder Is it just me or this the way love is supposed to be? Te

Seeing a pattern yet?

"All my designs simplified And all of my plans compromised All of my dreams sacrificed"

From metafilter today: "you've spent a lot of time being an obedient little robot and doing what you've been told, by people who give no shits about how you feel. Precisely how happy has this made you?"