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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3500 on: June 20, 2020, 12:36:01 PM »

All through the summers, into January
I've been visiting morgues and monasteries
Looking for the necessary body parts
Limbs and livers and brains and hearts
I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do
I wanna create my own version of you

Well, it must be the winter of my discontent
I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went
They talk all night and they talk all day
Not for a minute do I believe anything they say
I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen
You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean
...
Ah, but I was so much older then ... I'm younger than that now

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3501 on: June 20, 2020, 12:38:34 PM »
Look up here, I’m in heaven
I’ve got scars that can’t be seen
I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen
Everybody knows me now

Look up here, man, I’m in danger
I’ve got nothing left to lose
I’m so high it makes my brain whirl
Dropped my cell phone down below

Ain’t that just like me

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3502 on: June 20, 2020, 05:13:30 PM »
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
It's not warm when she's away
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she's always gone too long
Anytime she goes away

Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away

And I know, I know, I know, I know,
True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest,
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3503 on: June 21, 2020, 09:17:58 AM »
Mother Earth, she's on overload
One more war and she might explode
We got to look back and see a love from the past
We got time to change it but it's running out fast
(Out fast)

Not bothered about your color
Concerned about your creed
In the house of love, everybody's free


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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3504 on: June 23, 2020, 08:42:45 AM »
There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space
Make a better place

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make it a better place
For you and for me
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3505 on: June 23, 2020, 01:37:34 PM »
Come on, baby, dry your eyes
Wipe your tears
Never like to see you cry
Won't you please forgive me?
I wouldn't ever try to hurt you
I just needed someone to hold me
To fill the void while you were gone
To fill this space of emptiness
I'm only human of flesh and blood I'm made
Human, born to make mistakes

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3506 on: June 23, 2020, 08:34:19 PM »
In broken dreams that keep me from sleeping,
I remember all the things I said,
Well I've broken all the promises,
I said I would be keeping,
They're gone, like leaves they fell,
For it's so hard when you're far away,
All I needed was a shoulder I could cry on,
Now these broken dreams have woken me,
My love, will you carry me home.

Or will you treat me like some traveller,
On a dark and lonely road,
Who sees a light and a woman who will give him love,
Oh and just when she reaches the part,
When she's supposed to comfort his broken heart,
She turns away, and sends him travelling on, on,
Oh when I left I believed that nothing would go wrong,
I thought the whole world would be waiting for my story,
Take me back, my love, I need you now,
Come back and carry me home,
Take me back and heal theses broken wings,
Come back and carry me home.
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3507 on: June 23, 2020, 08:37:25 PM »
I've traveled the land with a guitar in my hand
And an eye ever open for some fun
I've made some mistakes had my share of the breaks
Seen the boys on the make and on the bum

Run for home run as fast as I can
Oh oh running man, running for home
Run for home run as fast as I can
Oh oh running man, running for home

I've seen all the frowns on the faces of the clowns
And the downs that they take just to be free
And I've seen all the girls in their pretty frocks and curls
But they don't mean a lot to me

Run for home run as fast as I can

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3508 on: June 23, 2020, 08:41:21 PM »
 I've been keeping all the letters
That I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
I'm fine baby, how are you?

Well I would send them but I know
That it's just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that.

Another airplane
Another sunny place
I'm lucky I know
But I wanna go home.

Mmm, I got to go home
Let me go home
I'm just too far
From where you are

I wanna come home
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3509 on: June 23, 2020, 08:45:26 PM »

I wouldn't want to be you
Mostly not even near you
When you're gone they will curse you
And raise the tide against you 

I no longer care now
For what you said was fair now
I just don't go there now
I just don't go 

Maybe there's a way not to make it hurt
To cover up the words like you covered up the dirt
Ever since you left
It just gets worse
Living out in your town 

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3510 on: June 23, 2020, 09:11:56 PM »
Came in from the city walked into the door
I turned around when I heard the sound of footsteps on the floor
Love just like addiction now I'm hooked on you
I need some time to get it right
Your love gonna see me through

Can't stop now
Don't you know I ain't never gonna let you go
Don't go

Baby make your mind up give me what you got
Fix me with your lovin' shut the door and turn the lock
Hey go get the doctor, doctor came too late
Another night I feel alright my love for you can't wait

Can't stop now
Don't you know I ain't never gonna let you go
Don't go
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3511 on: June 23, 2020, 09:13:58 PM »
Love is like oxygen
You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high

Time on my side
I got it all
I've heard that pride
Always comes before a fall

There's a rumor goin' around the town
That you don't want me around
I can't shake off my city blues
Everywhere I turn, I lose


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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3512 on: June 24, 2020, 04:43:09 PM »
I'm a loser
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be

Of all the love I have won, and have lost
There is one love I should never have crossed
She was a girl in a million my friend
I should have known she would win in the end

I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be

(I googled 'I'm a loser' cuz remembered hearing it & never knew til then it was Beatles! This board is an educaation)
« Last Edit: June 24, 2020, 04:51:12 PM by Robbie »
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3513 on: June 24, 2020, 04:46:52 PM »


I couldn't figure why
You couldn't give me what everybody needs
I shouldn't let you kick me when I'm down
My baby

I find out everybody knows that
You've been using me
I'm surprised you
Let me stay around you

One day I'm gonna lift the cover
And look inside your heart
We gotta level before we go
And tear this love apart

There's no fight you can't fight this battle of love with me
You win again, so little time, we do nothing but compete
There's no life on earth, no other could see me through
You win again, some never try but if anybody can, we can
And I'll be, I'll be following you
Following you, oh girl

« Last Edit: June 24, 2020, 04:49:33 PM by Nearly Sane »

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3514 on: June 24, 2020, 04:53:48 PM »
I've played all my cards
And that's what you've done too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play

The winner takes it all
The loser's standing small
Beside the victory
That's her destiny
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3515 on: June 24, 2020, 05:05:06 PM »
So I handed him my bottle
And he drank down my last swallow
Then he bummed a cigarette
And asked me for a light
And the night got deathly quiet
And his face lost all expression
Said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy,
You gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold 'em,
Know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away,
And know when to run.
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealing's done.

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3516 on: June 24, 2020, 09:45:16 PM »
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's all drunk

Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3517 on: June 24, 2020, 09:57:21 PM »
You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money
It's a bitch girl but it's gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
Say money but it won't get you too far
Get you too far

Don't you know, don't you know
That it's wrong to take what is given you
So far gone, on your own
You can get along if you try to be strong
But you'll never be strong 'cause


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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3518 on: June 27, 2020, 09:53:15 PM »
Enjoy your privileged life
'Cause I'm not gonna hold you through the night
We said our last goodbyes
So let's just try to end it with a smile
And I don't wanna hear that you are suffering
You are suffering, no more
'Cause I held you down when you were suffering
You were suffering

Blues away, way, way
I got two red pills to take the blues away
Blues away, way, way
I got two red pills to take the blues away
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3519 on: June 27, 2020, 09:57:33 PM »
Drivin' in my car
Headed for the local bar
Pickin' up my girl tonight
Everything is gonna be alright
Shootin' pool with my friends
Smokin' cigarettes
Tellin' jokes out loud
We're laughing way too proud

And we rock it
And we roll it
And we're laughing
And we're joking
And we roll it
Baby we roll it, roll it,
We won't get the blues because we

Rock the blues away
Up all night and day
Drink the night away
Until the light of day

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3520 on: June 28, 2020, 09:31:34 PM »
He's right and I'm wrong
This love is good as gone
He's pushing, I'm pulling
Who did I think I was fooling?
He's rockin', I'm rollin'

He's beautiful and I'm broken
I should've known better
Thinking this could last forever
Giving up, giving in, let's
Call it out for what it is
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3521 on: June 28, 2020, 09:45:30 PM »

I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph, I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3522 on: June 29, 2020, 04:16:06 PM »
Are you lonesome tonight?
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray
To a bright sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?


Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3523 on: June 29, 2020, 04:30:53 PM »
On Mother Kelly's doorstep
down paradise row
I'd sit along O' Nelly
she'd sit along O' Joe
She'd got a little
hole in her frock
hole in her shoe
hole in her sock
where her toe
peeped through
But Nelly
was the smartest
down our alley
On Mother Kelly's doorstep

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3524 on: June 29, 2020, 05:33:24 PM »
And the pharaoh raised his hand
Said dig a hole in the promised land
The pointing men are marching in a line
They're shooting poison arrows in the sky

These are the last days of paradise row

There's a man knocking on my door
He's playing games with word of the law
A hammer in his hand to break your soul
But the spirit is a house that will not fall

These are the last days of paradise row
Tell me Moses where will your children go
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.