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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Steve Wyzard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2024 at 17:18
1. The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
       Petals on a wet, black bough.

       (In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound)

2. Like a drummer's brush
   The rain hushes the surface of tin porches.

      (Rain by Emanuel Di Pasquale)

3. i thank You God for most this amazing day:
    for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
   and a blue true dream of sky;
   and for everything which is natural
   which is infinite which is YES

      (ee cummings)

4. As they slept, they dreamed of the world they were now part of:
    A world...within a world
    Time...within time
    A dream...within dreams.

      (Rick Wakeman)

5. When I was small, I was in love
    In love with everything
    And now there's only you
    And now there's only you...

      (Thomas Dolby)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 17 2024 at 10:34

Frank Zappa and The Mothers have made quite a song about the brainwashing function or effect of many TV programmes:

The Mothers - "I'm the Slime"    (an excerpt)

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed and deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set
(from the album Over-nite Sensation (1973))

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 17 2024 at 13:40

Marillion wrote in 2012 maybe some of the most poignant and touching, modern socially-engaged/political lyrics, which were about what 
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict meant for the life of Palestinians living in Gaza, and were written after many conversations with ordinary 
Palestinians living in the refugee camps of Gaza and the West Bank:

Marillion - "Gaza"         (excerpt)

When I was young it all seemed like a game
Living here brought no sense of shame
But now I'm older I've come to understand
Once we had houses
Once we had land
They rained down bullets on us as our homes collapsed
We lay beneath the rubble terrified
Hoping, dare we dream?
We gave up waiting
For us, to dream is still a dream
When I woke up, the house was broken stones
We suddenly had nothing
And nothing's changed
We live, eight people, in this overcrowded heat
Factory-farmed animals living in our own sweat
Living like this is all my baby brother ever knew
The world does nothing, what can we do?
.......................
For thirteen years the roads have all been closed
We're isolated, we're denied medical supplies
Fuel and work are scarce, they build houses on our farms
The old men weep, the young men take up arms
...................
It's like a nightmare (With the love of our family)
(We can rise above everything)
Towards Bethlehem (Some day surely someone must help us)
Someday surely someone must help us

(from the album Sounds That Can't Be Made (2012))



Edited by David_D - November 17 2024 at 14:52
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