Posted By | Discussion Topic: We live in different worlds, Right along beside each other |
Maynard
| posted on 11-20-2001 @ 8:12 AM | |
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01
| Different Worlds
Dan Bern
When I go by black people's cars
I always like the music from their radios
Better than mine
But I never get their stations in
I don't think my car gets it
We live in different houses and we
Drive different cars
We live in different parts of town and
Go to different bars
We speak a different language and we
Wear different clothes
Got to different movies and we
Tie different bows
We live in different schools, and we
Get different jobs
When one of them and one of us steals
It's different things we rob
We live in different worlds
Right along beside each other
Hey, we live in different worlds
Right up next to one another
We eat different food and we
Drink different booze
Cheer for different football heroes
We hope the other ones lovs
We laugh at different jokes and we
Have different names
Watch different tv shows and
Play different games
We speak a different language and we
Sleep in different beds
We like different jewelry and
Put different things on our heads
We live in different worlds
Right along beside each other
Hey, we live in different worlds
Right up next to one another
We join different clubs and we
Read different magazines
We have different dna and
Pass along different genes
We have different hair and noses and we
We have different teeth
In fact everything is different
'cept under our feet
We live in a different universe
We live in a microwave
I think we're invisible now
I gotta go, I need a shave
you can have my isolation, you can have the hate it brings
you can have my absence of faith, you can have my everything
People suck.
This message was edited by Maynard on 11-20-01 @ 11:10 AM |
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and i am apologizing now for the spelling errors, its 34 am and im drunk, so no time for spell check!
Gotcha, SLASH
i'll mmmm momo all i want! and you cant stop me! | posted on 11-20-2001 @ 11:03 AM | |
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00
| GayNerd, you are the coolest! nice to see someone else likes Dan Bern.
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
But if she did he'd have taken her to Paris
And if she did she'd have smoked a lot of opium
And if she did she'd have dyed her hair blue
And if she did she might be alive
Oh-oh-o-oh Henry Miller
Oh-oh-o-oh Marilyn Monroe
Oh-oh-o-oh Henry Miller
Oh-oh-o-oh Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
She lived outside the Tropic of Capricorn
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
I don't even know if she knew Henry Miller
But if she did he'd a taken her to Paris
And if she did they'd have fucked every day
And if she did she'd have felt like a woman
Not like a photogragh in a magazine
Oh-oh-o-oh Henry Miller
Oh-oh-o-oh Marilyn Monroe
This is not a knock against Arthur Miller
"Death of a Salesman" is my favorite play
But Marilyn Monroe should have married Henry Miller
And if she did she might be alive
Cause if she did he'd have taken her to Paris
Tied her to the bed and eaten dinner off of her
And okay maybe she'd have died the same, anyway
But if she did she'd have had more fun
Oh-oh-o-oh Henry Miller
Oh-oh-o-oh Marilyn Monroe
Oh-oh-o-oh Henry Miller
Oh-oh-o-oh Marilyn Monroe
...what good is a poker face
when you've got an open hand
i was supposed to be cool about this
yeah
i remember
cool was the plan
tried to keep it all under wraps
but the wraps kept going slack
i keep turning round
i keep coming back...
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Maynard
| posted on 11-20-2001 @ 11:11 AM | |
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01
| Now that's funny.....I should have known you'd know who he is. Must be his Ani connection.
No Missing Link
They looked for the missing link
There's no missing link
They'll never find the missing link
There's no missing link
We're not something
You can figure out with an equation
We are the genetic mutation
Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
Darwin tried explaining it
Darwin the best he could
Evolution, pretty theory
But how could Darwin know?
That aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
How explain fax machines?
How else explain computer enhancement?
How else explain fiber optics?
How else explain Mozart?
We do not belong here
This planet was a terrarium
Intergalactic broken home
Have to go outer space
And one day find our Daddy
How else explain pay at the pump?
How else explain limited access freeways?
How else explain digital remastering?
Plastic flowers, linoleum, beefalo, Michael Jordan?
Religion?
Astronomy?
Astrology
That looks to the stars
We do not belong here
This planet was a terrarium
Seven billion bastards
Screaming for our Daddy
Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
Aliens came and fucked the monkey
They fucked the monkey
you can have my isolation, you can have the hate it brings
you can have my absence of faith, you can have my everything
People suck.
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and i am apologizing now for the spelling errors, its 34 am and im drunk, so no time for spell check!
Gotcha, SLASH
i'll mmmm momo all i want! and you cant stop me! | posted on 11-20-2001 @ 10:19 PM | |
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00
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Now that's funny.....I should have known you'd know who he is. Must be his Ani connection.
of course i know who he is, i know everything :)
but yes, the first i ever heard of him was when he opened for Ani when i saw her at central park a few years back.
oh sister
They say you taught me how to talk
I bet you wish you'd taught me how to stop
You're far away now
I wish I could take a walk with you someplace
You explained me to our parents
English wasn't their first language
They spoke German
Hated Germans
Confusing times
Oh sister
Down Midwest backseat bumpy streets
You sang my Beatles songs with me
I sang your Broadway melodies
Bad harmonies
And where would Willie Mays have been
Without Jackie Robinson?
And who can say what I'd been
Without you to lead the way
After I showed some guys I could drink
You picked me off the lawn, I think
And led me to the kitchen sink
Where I got rid of it
Some nights I laid awake in awe
As squinting through the dark I saw
You peeling off your teenage bra
The door slightly ajar
Oh sister
You lived just across the hall
For eighteen summers, eighteen falls
Until you went away to that weird college in Wisconsin
And where would Willie Mays have been
Without Jackie Robinson?
And who can say what I'd been
Without you to lead the way
Trust yourself and you can do anything
This I give to you
May your heart purr like a bumblebee
May all your backyards have a tree
May you always be HIV negative
I hope you meet a nice guy who
Treats women better than I do
I don't even care if he's a Jew or not
Oh sister
I remember in the temple hall
At our dear father's funeral
You sang like a nightingale
One of his own songs
And where would Willie Mays have been
Without Jackie Robinson?
And who can say what I'd been
Without you to lead the way
...what good is a poker face
when you've got an open hand
i was supposed to be cool about this
yeah
i remember
cool was the plan
tried to keep it all under wraps
but the wraps kept going slack
i keep turning round
i keep coming back...
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