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Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,
To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
Finally got off my ass and bought the new Eagles 2 disc album Long Road Out of Eden...I really like it so far, nice and mellow. Maybe it just fits my mood these days.
Still just on the 1st disc so far. The title song which is supposed to be the best, is on disc 2.
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"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men." ~ Plato
"so please show no pity as we come up from the ground, and please remember as you kill us and cut us down that time will not wash clean the bloody face of history, and someone will breathe here again and they will hate you for what you leave." m.g.
Freeways flickering, cell phones chiming a tune We're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soon Captains of the old order clinging to the reins Assuring us these aches inside are only growing pains But it's a long road out of Eden
Back home, I was so certain; the path was very clear But now I have to wonder - what are we doing here?
I'm not counting on tomorrow and I can't tell wrong from right
But I'd give anything to be there in your arms tonight
Weaving down the American highway Through the litter and the wreckage, and the cultural junk Bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda Now we're driving dazed and drunk
Went down the road to Damascus, the road to Mandalay
Met the ghost of Caesar on the Appian Way He said, "It's hard to stop this binging once you get a taste But the road to empire is a bloody, stupid waste"
Behold the bitten apple - the power of the tools But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools
And it's a long road out of Eden
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damn straight! the Eagles album was worth it just for these two songs
Business as Usual
Quote:
Look at the weather, look at the news Look at all the people in denial
We're burning time, bleeding grace Still we worship at the marketplace While common sense is goin' out of style I thought that I would be above it all by now
In some country garden in the shade
But it's business as usual
Day after day
Business as usual
Just grinding away
You try to be righteous
You try to do good But business as usual Turns your heart into wood
Monuments to arrogance reach for the sky Our better nature's buried in the rubble We got the prettiest White House that money can buy
Sitting up there in that beltway bubble When "el jefe" talks about our freedom This is what he really means...
Business as usual
How dirty we play
Business as usual Don't you get in the way Yeah, make you feel helpless Make you feel like a clown
Business as usual
Is breakin' me down
Boy, you can't go surfing in Century City
Yeah, them sharks out there are lurking beneath the curb
Yeah, they rob you blind, chew you up, and it ain't pretty
And it's a soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin' Soul suckin', soul suckin' world
Business as usual
Day after day Business as usual Feel like walking away
A barrel of monkeys
Or band of renown Business as usual Is breakin' me down Breakin' me down
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
Yeah, its good, isn't it. Funnily enough, I put it on again in the car yesterday and enjoyed it all the way back from Bangers. Even the wife is liking it. There's a song about a girl who is "so busy being fabulous" which she reckons should be the theme song for someone we know.
Actually, I think its a pity they didn't cut it down to a single CD, drop a couple of the weaker songs and then it would have had even more impact.
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That is hands down the gayest thing I've ever seen. Forget TC in his heels, pottering about the garden listening to Whitney on his Walkman.
No, that clip is gayer.
the Eagles album was worth it just for these two songs 
