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:devil:a very apt quote for the ireland of today , "christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man " thomas jefferson,
By Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance I hope you never lose your sense of wonder You get your fill to eat But always keep that hunger May you never take one single breath for granted God forbid love ever leave you empty handed I hope you still feel small When you stand by the ocean Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance I hope you dance I hope you dance I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance Never settle for the path of least resistance Living might mean taking chances But they're worth taking Lovin' might be a mistake But it's worth making Don't let some hell bent heart Leave you bitter When you come close to selling out Reconsider Give the heavens above More than just a passing glance And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance I hope you dance (Time is a real and constant motion always) I hope you dance (Rolling us along) I hope you dance (Tell me who) I hope you dance (Wants to look back on their youth and wonder) (Where those years have gone) I hope you still feel small When you stand by the ocean Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance Dance I hope you dance I hope you dance (Time is a real and constant motion always) I hope you dance (Rolling us along) I hope you dance (Tell me who) (Wants to look back on their youth and wonder) I hope you dance (Where those years have gone) (Tell me who) I hope you dance (Wants to look back on their youth and wonder) (Where those years have gone)
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one of my faves.. Hejira, Joni Mitchell
I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
There's comfort in melancholy
When there's no need to explain
It's just as natural as the weather
In this moody sky today
In our possessive coupling
So much could not be expressed
So now I'm returning to myself
These things that you and I suppressed
I see something of myself in everyone
Just at this moment of the world
As snow gathers like bolts of lace
Waltzing on a ballroom girl
You know it never has been easy
Whether you do or you do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
Or stick to some straighter line
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
They're either going to thaw out or freeze
Listen...
Strains of Benny Goodman
Coming thru' the snow and the pinewood trees
I'm porous with travel fever
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
Can set up trembling in my bones
I know - no one's going to show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone
Well I looked at the granite markers
Those tribute to finality - to eternity
And then I looked at myself here
Chicken scratching for my immortality
In the church they light the candles
And the wax rolls down like tears
There's the hope and the hopelessness
I've witnessed thirty years
We're only particles of change I know, I know
Orbiting around the sun
But how can I have that point of view
When I'm always bound and tied to someone
White flags of winter chimneys
Waving truce against the moon
In the mirrors of a modern bank
>From the window of a hotel room
I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
Until love sucks me back that way

:thrilled: absolutely love joni mitchell, also both sides now, always makes me cry
obviously this is donna that cries to joni mitchell lol
so as not to confuse, I thought I had better come back with my own profile, this poem has never left my mind since i was thought it in secondary school Mid-term Break by Seamus Heaney.... I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. At ten o'clock our neighbours drove me home. In the porch I met my father crying - He had always taken funerals in his stride - And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow. The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram When I came in, and I was embarrassed By old men standing up to shake my hand And tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble' Whispers informed strangers that I was the eldest, Away at school, as my mother held my hand In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs. At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses. Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops And candles soothed the bedside I saw him For the first time in six weeks. Paler now, Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple. He lay in a four foot box, as in his cot. No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear. A four foot box, a foot for every year.
remember that one. Powerfull, and hard to take when you get to the end.
There were Roses by Cara Dillon My song for you this evening Is not to make you sad Nor for adding to the sorrows Of this troubled northern land But lately I've been thinking And it just wont leave my mind I'll tell you about two friends one time Who were both good friends of mine Isaac he was Protestant And Sean was Catholic born But it never made a difference For the friendship it was strong And sometimes in the evening When they heard the sound of drums They said they wont divide us We will always be as one There were roses, roses There were roses And the tears of a people ran together It was on a Sunday morning When the awful news came round Another killing had been done Just outside Newry Town We knew that Isaac danced up there We knew he liked the band But when we heard that he was dead We just could not understand Now fear it filled the countryside There was fear in every home When late at night a car came Prowling round the Ryan Road A Catholic would be killed tonight To even up the score Oh Christ, it's young MacDonald They have taken from the door There were roses, roses There were roses And the tears of a people ran together Isaac was my friend he cried He begged them with his tears But centuries of hatred Have ears that do not hear An eye for an eye That was all that filled their minds And another eye for another eye Till everyone was blind Now I don't know where the moral is Or where the song should end But I wonder just how many wars Are fought between good friends And those who give the orders Are not the ones to die It's Scott and young MacDonald And the likes of you and I There were roses, roses There were roses And the tears of a people ran together
whoever made us irishmen made us all mad for our wars are all merry and our songs are all sad .
Once..Falling Slowly. I don't know you But I want you All the more for that Words fall through me And always fool me And I can't react And games that never amount To more than they're meant Will play themselves out Take this sinking boat and point it home We've still got time Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice You'll make it now Falling slowly, eyes that know me And I can't go back Moods that take me and erase me And I'm painted black You have suffered enough And warred with yourself It's time that you won Take this sinking boat and point it home We've still got time Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice You've made it now Falling slowly sing your melody I'll sing along..
There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir. Michael Stipe
"...too much stimulation and not enough supervision." - excerpt from my own psychiatric evaluation, 1988
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
- John F. Kennedy
Dreams by Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
Just to say thanks to everyone that posts here ... i can ever remember a poem or words from a song ... i always stop by here for a read ... so inspirational & thought provoking ... thanks ... :smile2:
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(Piece featured in RTE TV Advert. re Cill Alla Youth GAA and AIB Initiative.)
Blinder Productions; directed by Richie Smyth.
Be kith, be kin, be clan.
Be Team-mates, be ship-mates.
Be in the same boat, be of the same mind, be on the same side.
Be arm in arm, be hand in hand, be shoulder to shoulder.
Be one of us, be one of them, be one in a million.
Be indivisable, be un-divided, be united.
Be city, be town, be club.
Be a part of something strong,
Belong.
Groucho Marx quotes
"Room service? Send up a larger room."
"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
"He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five."
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it."
"You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?"
"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it."
"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."
"Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?"
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know."
"There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of your fellow man."
"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
"If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you."
"I must confess, I was born at a very early age."
"Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honour; which is probably more than she ever did."
"Women should be obscene and not heard."
"As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife."
"I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along."
"Whatever it is,... I'm against it."
"A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke."
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
That doesn't seem right, oh wait, it was Karl Marx I was supposed to quote to look clever, damn.
De-liver de letter de sooner de better De later de letter de madder I getter!
Not funny or sexy, but thought I'd add this poem as its one of my favourites, Book Ends by Tony Harrison I Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you're scared of bed. We never could talk much, and now don't try. You're like book ends, the pair of you, she'd say, Hog that grate, say nothing, sit, sleep, stare… The 'scholar' me, you, worn out on poor pay, only our silence made us seem a pair. Not as good for staring in, blue gas, too regular each bud, each yellow spike. At night you need my company to pass and she not here to tell us we're alike! You're life's all shattered into smithereens. Back in our silences and sullen looks, for all the Scotch we drink, what's still between 's not the thirty or so years, but books, books, books. II The stone's too full. The wording must be terse. There's scarcely room to carve the FLORENCE on it-- Come on, it's not as if we're wanting verse. It's not as if we're wanting a whole sonnet! After tumblers of neat Johnny Walker (I think that both of us we're on our third) you said you'd always been a clumsy talker and couldn't find another, shorter word for 'beloved' or for 'wife' in the inscription, but not too clumsy that you can't still cut: You're supposed to be the bright boy at description and you can't tell them what the fuck to put! I've got to find the right words on my own. I've got the envelope that he'd been scrawling, mis-spelt, mawkish, stylistically appalling but I can't squeeze more love into their stone.
broken dreams I love you more than life itself But I’m afraid to love. My heart is like the fragile wings Of a tiny little dove. I'm scared to get too close. I feel that I can't win. You'll love me for a little while Then you'll set me free again. I've lived so long on hopes and dreams I don't know what to do. I don't think I can trust my heart, For it belongs to you. I know you'll only hurt me Yet, I still keep running back. Between the paths of our hearts There's a worn and beaten track. You've got my heart held on a string. It’s breaking right in two. Enough belongs to me -to hurt- The rest belongs to you. I know that somewhere in your heart There is a place for me. I just don't know how to find it And there's no way to make you see. I can only hope that someday You'll wake up and you'll find, That while my heart belongs to yours, Yours, too, belongs to mine.
Lyrics from "Freedoms Whistle" Do you find it easy lay your head on your pillow, can you sleep all night, or are you one of the souls waiting for another tomorrow where you lose it all under burning bright lights. or are ya hungry are ya dying, as your leaders are eating in great halls, will you find your sword to raise and fight them to dismantle the democracy of whores.
just had to reignite this thread The Song remembers when ...............Trisha Yearwood I was standing at the counter I was waiting for the change When I heard that old familiar music start It was like a lighted match Had been tossed into my soul It was like a dam had broken in my heart After taking every detour Getting lost and losing track So that even if I wanted I could not find my way back After driving out the memory Of the way things might have been After I'd forgotten all about us The song remembers when We were rolling through the Rockies We were up above the clouds When a station out of Jackson played that song And it seemed to fit the moment And the moment seemed to freeze When we turned the music up and sang along And there was a God in Heaven And the world made perfect sense We were young and were in love And we were easy to convince We were headed straight for Eden It was just around the bend And though I have forgotten all about it The song remembers when I guess something must have happened And we must have said goodbye And my heart must have been broken Though I can't recall just why The song remembers when Well, for all the miles between us And for all the time that's passed You would think I haven't gotten very far And I hope my hasty heart Will forgive me just this once If I stop to wonder how on Earth you are But that's just a lot of water Underneath a bridge I burned And there's no use in backtracking Around corners I have turned Still I guess some things we bury Are just bound to rise again For even if the whole world has forgotten The song remembers when Yeah, and even if the whole world has forgotten The song remembers when
Lines from Labi Siffre Something Inside So Strong.. The more you refuse to hear my voice The louder I will sing You hide behind walls of Jericho Your lies will come tumbling Deny my place in time You squander wealth that's mine My light will shine so brightly It will blind you Cos there's...... Something inside so strong I know that I can make it Tho' you're doing me wrong, so wrong You thought that my pride was gone Oh no, something inside so strong Oh oh oh oh oh something inside so strong Brothers and sisters When they insist we're just not good enough When we know better Just look 'em in the eyes and say I'm gonna do it anyway I'm gonna do it anyway
for B There is a star up in the sky which bears the name of you & I An ever shining reminder of when worlds collide two souls in love passionkiss for you--B
Sting Run my name thru your computer. Mention me in passing to your college tutor. check my figures check my facts, check if I paid my income tax. go over everything in my CV BUT YOU STILL KNOW NOTHING BOUT ME.
There is a girl from Belfast when on the phone can text fast now with Spring in the air and the big day near very soon we will be wed fast.
kiss BELLX1 The Great Defector
I am the defector
And you're the farmer's daughter
You've been teasing us farm boys
'Til we start talking about those rabbits, George
Oh won't you tell us about those rabbits, George
I am the defector
I give it what it needs
Let's make a new world order
And let's make it rhyme
You're the chocolate at the end of my Cornetto
I love the way your underwire bra
Always sets off that X-ray machine
Coming in to land and now I
Love the colour of it all
Blue lights on the runway, I
Love the colour of it all
I am the defector
Cause someone stirred my soul
With that great big stick of hers
Kind of looks like an oar
The accountants have taken the movie
Yeah, they're on set
The people from the mobile phone company
Say who gets to play and who gets to not
You're a picture of the checkout girl
Hand me a plastic bag
I got the sweats trying to open it
As it all piles up
I wish I didn't bite my nails
Coming in to land and now I
Love the colour of it all
Blue lights on the runway, I
Love the colour of it all
Mmm, getting ready to spill my guts and I
Love the colour of it all
To the waitress on rollerskates, I
Love the colour of it all
Oh, the colour of it all!
I am the great defector
So I must affect an air
Of a man who's maybe seen too much
But still just manages to care
You're the chocolate at the end of my Cornetto
I love the way your underwire bra
Always sets off that X-ray machine
Coming in to land and I
Love the colour of it all
Blue lights on the runway, I
Love the colour of it all
Getting ready to spill my guts and I
Love the colour of it all
To the, to the waitress on rollerskates, I
Love the colour of it all
Oh, the colour of it all!
Waitress on rollerskates
Waitress on rollerskates
(Love the colour of it all)
Waitress on rollerskates
Waitress on rollerskates
Waitress on rollerskates
(Love the colour of it all)
Waitress on rollerskates
Waitress on rollerskates
Woo!
So who wants to show me the hot white chocolate at the end of their cornetto's???? :lickface: I like all types, not mad about truffles though.innocent
Clara :kiss:
Angel Flying To Close To The Ground ........Willie Nelson If you had not have fallen Then I would not have found you Angel flying too close to the ground And I patched up your broken wing And hung around a while Tried to keep your spirits up And your fever down I knew someday that you would fly away For love's the greatest healer to be found So leave me if you need to I will still remember Angel flying too close to the ground Fly on, fly on past the speed of sound I'd rather see you up Than see you down Leave me if you need to I will still remember Angel flying too close to the ground one of the most beautiful songs that has ever been written in my opinion...........such comforting lyrics xxxxxxxxxxxdragonstar
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over hunter s thompson