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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

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Paranoia
© JD Dinsdale 2010

Paranoia all around me
Disarray in front and back
Cadillacs and Chevy Blazers
Mounting their attack

Jagged glass and dirty pin
Protruding from the ground
Taking steps so lightly
That they barely touch the ground

Hurried siren from afar
A child screams in pain
Insanity surrounds us all
Some things you can't explain

Broken, as a wafer is
Then served up to the masses
Hold your breath and hold your thoughts
Until the feeling passes

Quite impressive, and I have some ideas but could also like to hear some comments from the author. Tongue
Stuff like this usually begins when I'm driving and a thought string enters my head. I usually scribble it on a note pad but have on occasion used my phone's audio recorder. Things develop in bits and pieces and I put it together and expand on it later.


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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

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Aqua Terra Electrique
© JD Dinsdale 2010

In churning wakes as light recedes
Guiding lights of emerald green
And red that seems to bleed

Pulled away in strange effect
By force of nature, disconnect
No warning left to heed

Slipped so quickly from my gaze
Engulfed and swallowed by the haze
Our life became unfurled

Across the flats with careful haste
We broke to land and then we faced
Electric water world

Beautiful vocabulary, what is it about?
Surviving a storm at sea and the vision of a port's lights in the distance.
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

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Paranoia
© JD Dinsdale 2010

Paranoia all around me
Disarray in front and back
Cadillacs and Chevy Blazers
Mounting their attack

Jagged glass and dirty pin
Protruding from the ground
Taking steps so lightly
That they barely touch the ground

Hurried siren from afar
A child screams in pain
Insanity surrounds us all
Some things you can't explain

Broken, as a wafer is
Then served up to the masses
Hold your breath and hold your thoughts
Until the feeling passes

Quite impressive, and I have some ideas but could also like to hear some comments from the author. Tongue


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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

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Aqua Terra Electrique
© JD Dinsdale 2010

In churning wakes as light recedes
Guiding lights of emerald green
And red that seems to bleed

Pulled away in strange effect
By force of nature, disconnect
No warning left to heed

Slipped so quickly from my gaze
Engulfed and swallowed by the haze
Our life became unfurled

Across the flats with careful haste
We broke to land and then we faced
Electric water world

Beautiful vocabulary, what is it about?


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Originally posted by Frets N Worries Frets N Worries wrote:

I've got 6 albums written, and some songs are better than others, I'll share my favorite bits

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I've got 6 albums written, and some songs are better than others, I'll share my favorite bits
The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
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Great, friends, and I may have some comments or questions after having a closer look at all these writings of yours. Smile
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Come young children play with fire

Your fathers won’t come home

So we light a torch and burn the pyre 

Now he lives where the angels roam


‘Ere Yesterday I saw a white dove across the empty sky

And I knew blood had been spilled

The Requiem for the unknown soldier

Rings out through his mother’s cries


Now your fathers funeral pyre is burning ever brighter

We hum along and play a marching tune

Now watch the Minstrel play his flute and kettledrum

And as he tunes his harp tune ever higher


He plays a requiem for the fallen rovers

Thousands of men across the song

The Friar reads from the book of John

As the Minstrel strums his cittern


"Northern Fire" By Atmos (Me)
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Because David asked so nicely!

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Poem
Beneath The Surface
© JD Dinsdale 2010

Passages and corridors leading from an ancient city

Long, cold, damp passages

That show no pity

Caverns and crags

Near to the earthly remains of the past

And a stench so foul

There’s a chill that runs all through my bones

Not a chill of cold

But of being alone

The passages become time and the corridors are thought

A burning desire to continue

Yet fear dictates I cannot

Having seen what once was done

My eyes are tearful at the sight of the sun

I alone am one
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I think, one of the very strongest ideological, musical statements ever is this song, based on a speech by H.I.M. Haile Selassie I, 
made in California 28th February 1968:

                                                    Bob Marley & The Wailers - "War"     (excerpt)

Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Everywhere is war
Me say war

That until there are no longer
First-class and second-class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war

That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all
Without regard to race
Dis a war

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued
But never attained
Now everywhere is war
War

And until that day
The African continent
Will not know peace
We Africans will fight, we find it necessary
And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory
Of good over evil

(From the album Rastaman Vibration (1976))


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Poem
Paranoia
© JD Dinsdale 2010

Paranoia all around me
Disarray in front and back
Cadillacs and Chevy Blazers
Mounting their attack

Jagged glass and dirty pin
Protruding from the ground
Taking steps so lightly
That they barely touch the ground

Hurried siren from afar
A child screams in pain
Insanity surrounds us all
Some things you can't explain

Broken, as a wafer is
Then served up to the masses
Hold your breath and hold your thoughts
Until the feeling passes
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Because David asked so nicely!

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Aqua Terra Electrique
© JD Dinsdale 2010

In churning wakes as light recedes
Guiding lights of emerald green
And red that seems to bleed

Pulled away in strange effect
By force of nature, disconnect
No warning left to heed

Slipped so quickly from my gaze
Engulfed and swallowed by the haze
Our life became unfurled

Across the flats with careful haste
We broke to land and then we faced
Electric water world
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I based a song I wrote around some Salvador Dali paintings, except for the last bit:

And although I’m brighter than many

You’re a rhinestone my friend, not a diamond

And maybe I’m not your knight in shining armor, 

I’m just some loser in a tin-foil cap
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Even being prose, I find this piece of text quite poetic:

"Amon Düül II were dedicated, 
from inception, 
to reflecting the changing times. 

By the mid-1970s, 
expecting to find them playing 
Yeti-style psychedelic freakouts 
was like expecting David Bowie 
to still be a long-haired hippy 
performing "The Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud"". LOL

(Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy. Black Dog Publishing 2009, p. 44)
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Once upon a time 
I dreamt about
becoming a new 
Karl Marx
But the health of mine
wasn't that co-operative
and I guess, the times
weren't that either
anyway  Big smile Cry



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Some great lyrics by Supertramp, which certainly has not lost their relevance:

Supertramp - "Crime of the Century"

Now they're planning the crime of the century
Well, what will it be?
Read all about their schemes and adventuring
Yes, it's well worth a fee
So roll up and see
How they rape the universe
How they've gone from bad to worse
Who are these men of lust, greed and glory?
Rip off the masks and let's see
But that's not right, oh, no, what's the story?
But there's you and there's me
That can't be

From the album Crime of the Century (1974)



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W dalekie ziemie
za gory i lasy
gdzie to nas ponioslo
w te owe czasy

Coz 
taki byl los
i kto wie
czy zly czy dobry
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Some more of ELP's early, philosophical lyrics, and this time very clearly speaking:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "The Only Way (Hymn)"    (excerpt)

People has stirred moved by the word.
Kneel at the shrine, deceived by the wine.
How was the earth conceived? Infinite space.
Is there such a place? You must believe in the human race.
Can you believe, God makes you breathe.
Why did he lose six million Jews.
Touched by the wings, fears angel brings
Sad winter storm, grey autumn dawn
Who looks on life itself, who lights your way?
Only you can say. How can you just obey?
...........
Don't be afraid: man is man made.

From the album Tarkus (1971)
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