Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24

Subject: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: Mbo
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 08:26 AM

Well, I'm back by popular demand again, I guess. And "nah" tae ye, _garg. Today, the double whammy.

Condemnation
Tried
Here on the stand
With the book in my hand
And truth on my side

Accusations
Lies
Hand me my sentence
I'll show no repentance
I'll suffer with pride

If for honesty
You want apologies
I don't sympathize
If for kindness
You substitute blindness
Please open your eyes

Condemnation
Why
Because my duty
Was always to beauty
And that was my crime

Feel elation
High
To know I can trust this
Fix of injustice
Time after time

If you see purity
As immaturity
Well it's no surprise
If for kindness
You substitute blindness
Please open your eyes

I will have faith in man
That is hard to understand
Show some humility
You have the ability
Get right with me

Friends, if you've lost your way
You will find it again some day
Come down from your pedestals
And open your mouths that's all
Get right with me
Life is such a short thing
That I cannot comprehend
But if this life were a bought thing
There are ways I know we'd mend

People, take my advice
Already told you once, once or twice
Don't waste your energy
Making apologies
Get right with me


From yer good buddies Dépéche Mode. How 'bout it? First techno lyrics posted on Mudcat!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: MMario
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 08:46 AM

Mbo - they may be techno, but with the right tune behind it, I can easily see those lyrics fitting into a "folk" venue....

"If for kindness You substitute blindness Please open your eyes " says a great deal to me today.

Thanx!

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: Troll
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 08:47 AM

Way to go Meebo! Glad you didn't sucumb to gloom and dispair. An insincere apology is such a drag but so often it is what we are offered when we are wronged. It's like "OK. I did you dirty. I'm sorry. Now lets forget all about it and not deal with the why. That way I don't really have to change. I mean, I apologized. What more do you want?"

Me, I want to see change.

troll

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: Troll
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 08:58 AM

p.s. Don't be too hard on the Garg. We all have to live inside our own head and he strikes me as someone with a lot of devils to contend with. 'Course, I haven't been around very long so I'm sure I have not seen him at his worst like the old-timers have. Still, I like to think well of everyone until they prove differently.

troll

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 09:43 AM

Well I feel much better Troll since I didn't offer an apology, insincere or otherwise.

Say, isn't that real similar to a lyric by the Sex Pistols...or maybe an ELO tune? Those guys are so similar, I have a hard time keeping them apart.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 10:18 AM

Actually, the melodies to these 2 songs are heavily modeled on gospel music--with a kinda slow, foot stomping techno beat, and not really that mind-numbingly mile-a-minute techno gack you usually hear.

--Mbo (if anyone's doing the Hearme thing on Sunday, I'd be glad to sing 'em--they're really short.)

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 12:03 PM

Ahahh, Mbo, you're back....and as prolific as ever. See, we told ya it wouldn't last!

Rick

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 12:09 PM

Gave him some cheese in Chat last night Rick........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 03:26 PM

I think what keeps me from posting to these, Mbo, is that I'm much more intersted in YOU than in the lyrics you like, even though you use them to express and reflect you. They make a barrier, at least for me. But your song last night in the UNI-VERSE thread really had me. It made me write.

Your lyric postings don't make me want to comment on them or throw in a lyric of my own. It's too much like when I went with this one guy and we never really connected, but instead spoke in terms of the books we both liked. It was a shorthand of communication that substituted for real communication, not one that arose out of a deep connection that had developed a need for fewer words. We'd just verbally throw books at each other. It was very unsatisfying, and frustrating.

I'd like to suggest that since there are a couple of recent new members that say they are part of the "younger set," perhaps a thread that might capture more interest would be [What Were They Thinking] of the day where all ye fine young turks could tell us what ye're thinkin' about in the world around ye, and we of the fogies persuasion might drop in from time to time to glory in your young and energetic perspectives.

I just know I'm saying this all wrong, I'm NOT saying go start a kiddie thread and stay there. I want you to be HEARD, not just seen... I just wonder what would happen if y'all glommed up, what kinda new voice would that be? Would you have e-peers here you don't get so much of in the 3-D world? Would the fogues tend to be a shade less,,,,,, (pausing to choose a word carefully and then saying what the hell, they know I mean well)-- patronizing of the younger folks? (Ducking now--- ooch! flames!)

See, I think that people may want to engage you on a deeper level. But it looks to me like what actually happoens is we try to express that we luvya by trying instead to make you feel better sometimes. When I bet what we're really trying to do is to romp around witcha. I don't mean to try to speak for anyone but me, but I guess it came out that way. Ah fockit. I'll leave it as it is and see what y'all think.

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 04:05 PM

So, the evil one said throwing fuel on the fire, what you're saying is, "Go play with someone your own age."

Sorry...Had to say that.

But Praise does indeed have a point that's worth considering and would be interesting to boot.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 04:17 PM

But yer bootless! Boot me again, willya, yer bare foot be damned!

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: MMario
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 04:19 PM

y'know, that's interesting, because I have found the more compatible (I percieve )I am with people the more I tend to think and react to them as if they were *my* age; regardless of whether I know their true age or not, or how variant that is from the truth.

But then again I am frequently told I don't act my age in the first place. Of course, I find that a compliment.

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: Mbo
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 04:25 PM

It's an interesting idea, Praise. We had a thread a while bach, called "What songs are banned in your folk club," with all the older folkies complaining about the folks songs they've heard a million times and never want to hear again. I had to do something, and speak up for the younger generation--the link to my post is here, --Mbo

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 10:39 PM

I don't know about these others, but I really like DePeche Mode--Thanks for thinking of me!!

Subject: RE: Lyric Quote of the Day--Feb 24
From: Mbo
Date: 24 Feb 00 - 10:43 PM

You're welcome, Mted!

--Mbo