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Posted on 10/04/2002 2:50:58 PM PDT by TheBigB
Everywhere is
freaks and hairies
dykes and fairies
tell me, where is sanity?
Tax the rich
feed the poor
till there are no
rich no more ...
I was always amazed at that stanza of "Stairway to Heaven" that basically mentions looking to the "west" for satisfaction and/or salvation, given the circumstances of the times.
In 1971 when the song was released, the West basically meant the US and Western Europe, although by today's standards the "west" is basically the US alone.
I am talking in geo-politcal terms, not religious ones, although the lack of religion in the former USSR and "eastern" bloc countries I beleive is an important undercurrent of the song.
"Pop Singer" - John Mellencamp
Never wanted to be no pop singer,
Never wanted to write no pop songs.
Never had no weird hair to get my songs over.
Never wanted to hang out after the show.
Pop singer (writing) of pop songs.
Never wanted to have my picture taken.
Now, who would want to look into these eyes?
Just want to make it real - good, bad or indifferent.
That's the way that I live and that's the way that I'll die
POP Music is fake.
Sheesh this is becoming a review of Zep's "Album IV". It is interesting though that the "Battle of Evermore" is placed right before "Stairway to Heaven", I beleive.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I beleive that is the case, with the second side of Zep IV starting with "Misty Mountain Hop", "Four Sticks", "the Battle of Evermore", and "Stairway to Heaven" closing the second side out.
Man now I am going to have to dig up that old LP, and the worst part of this is that about 40% of the people who read this reply will be asking themselves, "What is an LP?".
You can give me an hour alone in a bank.
Pay all my tickets, wipe the slate blank.
You can buy me a car, fill up the tank.
Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.
Always brings a smile to my face. :)
Absolutely brutal lyrics, incredible vocal (but then, the guy always sang like his life depended on it.)
Tom Lehrer, "National Brotherhood Week"
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks
And the black folks hate the white folks
And to hate all but the right folks
Is an old established ruleBut during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark
Are dancing cheek to cheek
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school!Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks
And the rich folks hate the poor folks
All of my folks hate all of your folks
It's American as apple pie!But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans,
'Cause it's very chic
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand
You can tolerate him if you try!Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Moslems
And ev'rybody hates the Jews!But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-
One-Another-hood Week
So be nice to people who
Are inferior to you
It's only for a week, so have no fear...
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
AREN'T YOU HUNGRY (3:27)
from U.S.A. FOR M.O.D. (1987)
Sitting in my kitchen.
Stuffed from having ate.
What should I do now.
With what's left on my plate.
Maybe I should save it.
But naw I got the cash.
Think I'll take the easy way.
And throw it in the trash.
U.S.A. for Africa.
What a %$#& scam.
Charity begins at home.
What about our land.
America has it's own problems.
That's what should come first.
So %$#& those %$#& 's charity.
And let them die of thirst.
AREN'T YOU HUNGRY - AREN'T YOU HUNGRY.
U.S.A. for U.S.A.
That's what I'd like to see.
But sympathetic %$#& .
Send it all to their own countries.
They want the food to grow.
On what they call home land.
But don't you know.
You can't grow anything in sand.
AREN'T YOU HUNGRY - AREN'T YOU HUNGRY - AREN'T YOU HUNGRY.
I think of people starving.
But do you think I care.
Let them all die hungry.
So I can breathe their air.
Tom Lehrer, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"
Here is a song all about Springtime in general, and in particular about one of the many delightful pastimes that the coming of Spring affords us all ...
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the Spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes Spring complete for me,
And makes every Sunday a treat for me ...All ... the ... world seems in tune
On a Spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park!
Every Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cy-an-hi-ide.
The sun's shining bright,
Everything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park!We've gained notoriety,
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of ... a pigeon ...So if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park!
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment!
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strych-uh-nin'
We feed to a pigeon.
It just takes a smidgin
To poison a pigeon in the park!
I agree, along with The Beatles "Taxman".
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