The games people play

Oh the games people play now

Every night and every day now

Never meaning what they say now

Never saying what they mean

And they wile away the hours

In their ivory towers

Till they're covered up with flowers

In the back of a black limousine

From “The Games People Play

by Joe South

few words of defense

Hitler, Stalinmen who need no introduction

King Leopold of Belgium, that’s right

Everyone thinks he’s so great

Well he owned The Congo

He tore it up too

He took the diamonds, he took the gold

He took the silver

Know what he left them with?Malaria

A President once said“

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

Now it seems like we’re supposed to be afraid

It’s patriotic in fact and color coded

And what are we supposed to be afraid of?

Why, of being afraid

That’s what terror means, doesn’t it?

That’s what it used to mean

From “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country”

Written by Randy Newman

people are strange

People are strange

when you’re a stranger

Faces look ugly

when you’re alone

Women seem wicked

when you’re unwanted

Streets are uneven when you’re down

When you’re strange

Faces come out of the rain

When you’re strange

No one remembers your name

from "People Are Strange"

written by John Densmore, Robert Krieger, Raymond Manzarek, Jim Morrison

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Together

We used to laugh together
and we'd dance
to any old song
Well ya know
she still laughs with me
But she waits
just a second too long

from "Far From Me"
written by John Prine

Time

They all pretend they’re orphans

and their memory’s like a train
You can see it getting smaller
as it pulls away
The things you can’t remember
tell the things you can’t forget
That history puts a saint in every dream

from "Time"

written by Tom Waits

Speak out

And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land

And America turns the attack on its

Twin Towers Into the beginning of the Third World War

The war with the Third World

And the terrorists in Washington

Are drafting all the young men

And no one speaks

And they are rousting out

All the ones with turbans

And they are flushing out

All the strange immigrants

And they are shipping all the young men

To the killing fields again

And no one speaks

And when they come to round up

All the great writers and poets and painters

The National Endowment of the Arts of Complacency

Will not speak

While all the young men

Will be killing all the young men

In the killing fields again

So now is the time for you to speak

All you lovers of liberty

All you lovers of the pursuit of happiness

All you lovers and sleepers

Deep in your private dreams

Now is the time for you to speak

O silent majority

Before they come for you

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

redemption

A man can be a diamond
A man can be a steal
A man can be a poet
and not have the words to feel
Mercy is a preacher
held captive under fire
Redemption smells like gasoline and burns like desire

from "Redemption"

written by Jason Eady

when i...

When I found you
I found the closest thing to reason

when i let you in
I saw a great love starting to begin.

when I first saw you,

it changed everything.
In my heart,

When i hold my feel !
It's your time that i need the most

when i search my whole life through

And never find another 'you'.

I just had to let you know

When i feel so true
Just remember one thing
I wish that your love

will last forever

écrit par jmpelet