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Music: Lyrics that relate to the buddha's message.
A sense of duty was my one intention and an ugly beauty was my own invention Pride a proud refusal and I refuse to need your approval Too many seekers Too few beacons But through the fog we'll keep on beaming
Through the crying hours of your glitter years all the living out of your tinsel tears and the midnight trains I never made 'cos I'd already played...the game
Everybody's got their own good reason why their favorite season is their favorite season Winter winners and those summers sons aren't good for everyone aren't good for everyone Spring has sprung and autumns well done so well done
And it's a better thing that we do now forgetting everything the whys and hows While you reminisce about the things you miss you won't be ready to kiss...goodbye
The earth is a world The world is a ball A ball in a game with no rules at all And just as I wonder at the beauty of it all you go and drop it and it breaks and falls
I'll never understand why you thought I would need to be reassured and be understood When I always knew that your bad's my good and I was ready ready...to be loved
Born under Mars With Jupiter rising Fallen from stars That lit my horizon
I'll never understand why you thought I would need to be reassured and be understood When I always knew that your bad's my good and I was ready ready...to be
Through the crying hours of your glitter years all the living out of your tinsel tears and the midnight trains I never made 'cos I'd already played
it's a better thing that we do now forgetting everything the whys and hows While you reminisce about the things you miss you won't be ready to kiss...goodbye
I love Echo and the Bunnymen. That song comes off this alblum:
http://www.amazon.com/Echo-Bunnymen/dp/B0000E2PY5 1. The Game 2. Over You 3. Bedbugs And Ballyhoo 4. All In Your Mind 5. Bombers Bay 6. Lips Like Sugar 7. Lost And Found 8. New Direction 9. Blue Blue Ocean 10. Satellite 11. All My Life
*reissue bonus tracks 12. Jimmy Brown (Early Version of “Dancing Horses”) 13. Hole In The Holy 14. Soul Kitchen 15. The Game (Acoustic Demo) 16. Bedbugs And Ballyhoo (Original Version) 17. Over Your Shoulder 18. Bring On The Dancing Horses (Extended Mix)
Once upon a time you dressed so fine, Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ? People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall," You thought they were all a’kiddin' you. You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out. Now you don't talk so loud, Now you don't seem so proud, About having to be scrounging your next meal.
How does it feel ? How does it feel ? To be without a home ? Like a complete unknown ? Like a rolling stone ?
Aw, you've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely, But you know you only used to get “juiced” in it. Nobody’s ever taught you how to live out on the street, And now you're gonna have to get used to it. You say you never compromise With a mystery tramp, but now you realize He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, “Do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel ? How does it feel ? To be on your own ? With no direction home ? A complete unknown ? Like a rolling stone ?
Aw, you never turned around to see the frowns On the jugglers and the clowns When they all did tricks for you. You never understood that it ain't no good, You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you. You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat. Ain't it hard when you discover that He really wasn't where it's at After he took from you everything he could steal ?
How does it feel ? How does it feel ? To have ya’ on your own ? With no direction home ? Like a complete unknown ? Like a rolling stone ?
Aw, princess on the steeple and all the pretty people They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they’ve got it made. Exchanging all precious gifts, But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe. You used to be so amused At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used. Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse. When you ain’t got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose You're invisible now, you’ve got no secrets to conceal.
How does it feel ? Aw, how does it feel ? To be on your own ? With no direction home ? Like a complete unknown ? Like a rolling stone ?
Though you failed at love and lost And sorrow's turned your heart to frost I will mend your heart again Remember the feeling as a child When you woke up and morning smiled Its time its time its time you felt like that again There is just no percentage in remembering the past Its time you learned to live again and love at last Come with me leave your yesterday your yesterday behind And take a giant step outside your mind You stare at me with disbelief You say for you there's no relief But girl I swear it won't do you no harm Don't sit there in your lonely room Just looking back inside that gloom Mama that's not were you belong Come with me I'll take you where the taste of life is green N' Everyday everyday hold on woman just got to be seen Come with me leave your yesterday your yesterday behind And take a giant step outside your mind Though you failed at love and lost And sorrow's turned your heart to frost I will mend your heart again Remember the feeling as a child When you woke up and morning smiled Its time its time its time you felt like that again There is just no percentage in remembering the past Its time you learned to live again and love at last Come with me leave your yesterday your yesterday behind And take a giant step outside your mind
You've got no one to defend you, you're out on your own Still fighting on the corner, you can never go home In this world of temptation, in this city of sin There's nothing that can save you, but a strength from within
[Chorus:] Because they'll do it again, they've done it before, The Devils Brigade Headed down a dead end road with the Devils Brigade You're being led astray
The crew will not rest until your life's in the piss Stop and think of you're future, the chances you'll miss Looking back on a resume of corruption and crime Cause you wasted your youth, taken down in your prime
[Chorus]
Dying to belong though it's tearing you apart A bullet to the head and a knife to the heart Are the tools of the trade in this cold life of crime A smart, decent kid who has now lost his mind
Never saw a meaningful tv advert, I don't think shopping is a metaphor for life Don't waste my time at the gym in the morning, try to keep trim by living my life
Wanna feel the wind blowing in my hair, Wanna hear the waves crashing on the beach I'm not seeking easy answers or inner peace I'm just looking for some release
I want to help to make the world better but I can't do it all on my own Try to keep the lid on my disappointment ‘cos cynicism's such a cop out I know
Watch the shadows of clouds moving on the hill Open my eyes and drink my fill On those days that I feel dejected I come up here for a bit of perspective
Gonna follow the path that climbs up through the trees Walk along the cliff top and gaze out to sea I feel free when I come up here Lyrics www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/billy_bragg/ And if it's clear some days I see the point
I have come curiously close to the end, down Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole, Defeated, I concede and Move closer I may find comfort here I may find peace within the emptiness How pitiful
It's calling me...
And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping The moon tells me a secret - my confidant As full and bright as I am This light is not my own and A million light reflections pass over me
Its source is bright and endless She resuscitates the hopeless Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting
And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt Don't wanna be down here feeding my narcissism. I must crucify the ego before it's far too late I pray the light lifts me out Before I pine away.
So crucify the ego, before it's far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable. Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason ... before we pine away.
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Echo & the Bunnymen (1987)
The Game
A sense of duty
was my one intention
and an ugly beauty
was my own invention
Pride a proud refusal
and I refuse
to need your approval
Too many seekers
Too few beacons
But through the fog
we'll keep on beaming
Through the crying hours
of your glitter years
all the living out
of your tinsel tears
and the midnight trains
I never made
'cos I'd already
played...the game
Everybody's
got their own good reason
why their favorite season
is their favorite season
Winter winners
and those summers sons
aren't good for everyone
aren't good for everyone
Spring has sprung
and autumns well done
so well done
And it's a better thing
that we do now
forgetting everything
the whys and hows
While you reminisce
about the things you miss
you won't be ready
to kiss...goodbye
The earth is a world
The world is a ball
A ball in a game
with no rules at all
And just as I wonder
at the beauty of it all
you go and drop it
and it breaks and falls
I'll never understand
why you thought I would
need to be reassured
and be understood
When I always knew
that your bad's my good
and I was ready
ready...to be loved
Born under Mars
With Jupiter rising
Fallen from stars
That lit my horizon
I'll never understand
why you thought I would
need to be reassured
and be understood
When I always knew
that your bad's my good
and I was ready
ready...to be
Through the crying hours
of your glitter years
all the living out
of your tinsel tears
and the midnight trains
I never made
'cos I'd already
played
it's a better thing
that we do now
forgetting everything
the whys and hows
While you reminisce
about the things you miss
you won't be ready
to kiss...goodbye
http://www.amazon.com/Echo-Bunnymen/dp/B0000E2PY5
1. The Game
2. Over You
3. Bedbugs And Ballyhoo
4. All In Your Mind
5. Bombers Bay
6. Lips Like Sugar
7. Lost And Found
8. New Direction
9. Blue Blue Ocean
10. Satellite
11. All My Life
*reissue bonus tracks
12. Jimmy Brown (Early Version of “Dancing Horses”)
13. Hole In The Holy
14. Soul Kitchen
15. The Game (Acoustic Demo)
16. Bedbugs And Ballyhoo (Original Version)
17. Over Your Shoulder
18. Bring On The Dancing Horses (Extended Mix)
Once upon a time you dressed so fine,
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall,"
You thought they were all a’kiddin' you.
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out.
Now you don't talk so loud,
Now you don't seem so proud,
About having to be scrounging your next meal.
How does it feel ?
How does it feel ?
To be without a home ?
Like a complete unknown ?
Like a rolling stone ?
Aw, you've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely,
But you know you only used to get “juiced” in it.
Nobody’s ever taught you how to live out on the street,
And now you're gonna have to get used to it.
You say you never compromise
With a mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say, “Do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel ?
How does it feel ?
To be on your own ?
With no direction home ?
A complete unknown ?
Like a rolling stone ?
Aw, you never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns
When they all did tricks for you.
You never understood that it ain't no good,
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.
You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal ?
How does it feel ?
How does it feel ?
To have ya’ on your own ?
With no direction home ?
Like a complete unknown ?
Like a rolling stone ?
Aw, princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they’ve got it made.
Exchanging all precious gifts,
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe.
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used.
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse.
When you ain’t got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you’ve got no secrets to conceal.
How does it feel ?
Aw, how does it feel ?
To be on your own ?
With no direction home ?
Like a complete unknown ?
Like a rolling stone ?
Taj Mahal
Take A Giant Step
Though you failed at love and lost
And sorrow's turned your heart to frost
I will mend your heart again
Remember the feeling as a child
When you woke up and morning smiled
Its time its time its time you felt like that again
There is just no percentage in remembering the past
Its time you learned to live again and love at last
Come with me leave your yesterday your yesterday behind
And take a giant step outside your mind
You stare at me with disbelief
You say for you there's no relief
But girl I swear it won't do you no harm
Don't sit there in your lonely room
Just looking back inside that gloom
Mama that's not were you belong
Come with me I'll take you where the taste of life is green
N' Everyday everyday hold on woman just got to be seen
Come with me leave your yesterday your yesterday behind
And take a giant step outside your mind
Though you failed at love and lost
And sorrow's turned your heart to frost
I will mend your heart again
Remember the feeling as a child
When you woke up and morning smiled
Its time its time its time you felt like that again
There is just no percentage in remembering the past
Its time you learned to live again and love at last
Come with me leave your yesterday your yesterday behind
And take a giant step outside your mind
5 precepts?
Devil's Brigade by the Dropkick Murphys
You've got no one to defend you, you're out on your own
Still fighting on the corner, you can never go home
In this world of temptation, in this city of sin
There's nothing that can save you, but a strength from within
[Chorus:] Because they'll do it again, they've done it before,
The Devils Brigade
Headed down a dead end road with the Devils Brigade
You're being led astray
The crew will not rest until your life's in the piss
Stop and think of you're future, the chances you'll miss
Looking back on a resume of corruption and crime
Cause you wasted your youth, taken down in your prime
[Chorus]
Dying to belong though it's tearing you apart
A bullet to the head and a knife to the heart
Are the tools of the trade in this cold life of crime
A smart, decent kid who has now lost his mind
Never saw a meaningful tv advert, I don't think shopping is a metaphor for life
Don't waste my time at the gym in the morning, try to keep trim by living my life
Wanna feel the wind blowing in my hair,
Wanna hear the waves crashing on the beach
I'm not seeking easy answers or inner peace
I'm just looking for some release
I want to help to make the world better but I can't do it all on my own
Try to keep the lid on my disappointment ‘cos cynicism's such a cop out I know
Watch the shadows of clouds moving on the hill
Open my eyes and drink my fill
On those days that I feel dejected
I come up here for a bit of perspective
Gonna follow the path that climbs up through the trees
Walk along the cliff top and gaze out to sea
I feel free when I come up here
Lyrics www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/billy_bragg/
And if it's clear some days I see the point
I have come curiously close to the end, down
Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole,
Defeated, I concede and
Move closer
I may find comfort here
I may find peace within the emptiness
How pitiful
It's calling me...
And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping
The moon tells me a secret - my confidant
As full and bright as I am
This light is not my own and
A million light reflections pass over me
Its source is bright and endless
She resuscitates the hopeless
Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting
And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt
Don't wanna be down here feeding my narcissism.
I must crucify the ego before it's far too late
I pray the light lifts me out
Before I pine away.
So crucify the ego, before it's far too late
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical,
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason ...
before we pine away.