The Future

Hopefully it wont offend, but apologies in advance if some are ........ offended ... One of my musical heroes, listeniing to this while chopping wood .....

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul

When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

Modern day poet ........

Leonard Cohen

chicken 'n chips Wrote:

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> Leonard Cohen..a genuis


Yup sorry , it was not meant to be a tease, I forgot to put Leonard Cohen. I just so admire this man and I really wish he comes to SA before he croaks !

Indulge me one more... try and 'see' what he is writing {friendly wave to Mavourneen...I am sure she is with me on this one}

I Came So Far For Beauty
I came so far for beauty
I left so much behind
My patience and my family
My masterpiece unsigned
I thought I'd be rewarded
For such a lonely choice
And surely she would answer
To such a very hopeless voice
I practiced all my sainthood
I gave to one and all
But the rumours of my virtue
They moved her not at all
I changed my style to silver
I changed my clothes to black
And where I would surrender
Now I would attack
I stormed the old casino
For the money and the flesh
And I myself decided
What was rotten and what was fresh
And men to do my bidding
And broken bones to teach
The value of my pardon
The shadow of my reach
But no, I could not touch her
With such a heavy hand
Her star beyond my order
Her nakedness unmanned
I came so far for beauty
I left so much behind
My patience and my family
My masterpiece unsigned

Her name is "Wisdom". The subject of this song bemoans the sacrifices he has made in the quest for understanding and laments the fact that his "sainthood" self-righteousness and false humility -amounts to diddly squat in Her most perfect eyes. He soon discovers that she, the Virgin of virgins, will never yield to his false chastity.
He throws a temper tantrum and eats the "Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil". He becomes his own personal little god and is rewarded in vanity.

He chose his will over Hers and missed out on the best Wife a man could ever have.

C&c ... is that your own comment? If so, it's very fine and I take my floppy sunhat off to you.

Mad Ji, I don't really know Leonard Cohen, so thanks for the introduction.

Immortal longings ... if the desire survives into old age then it is one of these. Love, beauty, purity of heart, wisdom ... none are available to the faux pretenders and none of them can be bought by anything we mortals can give. But we go on longing for them all our lives ...

Have always found Leonard a bit depressing but a very good artist.

I have a cd somewhere I am sure it's called "songs to commit suicide to" or a similar title?

He could be on it? In fact it's a good album, On the Eve of Destruction by Barry Mcquire? Also rings a bell?

Is on it

Happy New Year !

Let me add.......

I'm going fishing
I got me a line
Nothin' I do's gonna' make the difference
So I'm taking the time

And you ain't never gonna' be happy
Anyhow, anyway
So I'm going fishing
And I'm going today

I'm going fishing
Sounds crasy I know
I know nothing about fishing
But just watch me go

And when my time has come
I will look back and see
Peace on the shoreline
That could have been me

You can waste whole lifetime
Trying to be
What you think is expected of you
But you'll never be free

May as well go fishing

Must I love the tune more than the lyric's, but it does make you think

Guess who Chicken.....

Enjoy!

scotia Wrote:

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> Enjoy!
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Thanks Scotia. Beautiful