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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3625 on: August 15, 2020, 02:58:09 PM »
Butterfly, spread
Your painted wings
For an answer
From the I Ching

By the stream
Stretching in the rocks
Tiger on the mountaintop

Walking on the Chinese Wall
Watching for the coins to fall
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3626 on: August 15, 2020, 06:01:20 PM »
Along the Hwang Ho Valley where young men walk and dream,
A flower boat with singing girls came drifting down the stream.
I saw the face of only one come drifting down the stream.

You are beautiful, small and shy.
You are the girl whose eyes met mine
Just as your boat sailed by.

This I know of you, nothing more,
You are the girl whose eyes met mine
Passing the river shore.

You are the girl whose laugh I heard,
Silver and soft and bright;
Soft as the fall of lotus leaves
Brushing the air of night.

While your flower boat sailed away,
Gently your eyes looked back on mine,
Clearly you heard me say,
"You are the girl I will love some day."
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3627 on: August 15, 2020, 06:11:01 PM »
Many's the lad fought on that day
Well the claymore did wield
When the night came
Silently lain
Dead on Colloden field

Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing
Onward the sailors cry
Carry the lad that's born to be king
Over the sea to Skye

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3628 on: August 16, 2020, 10:15:22 AM »
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight from some old-fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
If I, if I have been unkind
I hope that you can just let it go by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you
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 #3629 on: August 16, 2020, 10:19:09 AM »
Oh my sweet Marie
I wait at your ease
The sands have run out
For your lady and me
Wedlock is nigh my love
Her station's right my love
Life is secure with Lady Jane

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3630 on: August 16, 2020, 02:50:34 PM »
When the day is dawnin'
On a Texas Sunday mornin'
How I long to be there
With Marie who's waitin' for me there
Ev'ry lonely city where I hang my hat
Ain't as half as pretty as where my baby's at

Is this the way to Amarillo?
Ev'ry night I've been huggin' my pillow
Dreamin' dreams of Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me

Show me the way to Amarillo
I've been weepin' like a willow
Cryin' over Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me

Sha la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la
And Marie who waits for me
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3631 on: August 16, 2020, 02:52:30 PM »
Whisper to the wind and say that love has sinned
Left my heart a-breaking, and making a moan
Murmur to the night to hide its starry light
So none will see me sighing and crying all alone

Weeping willow tree
Weep in sympathy
Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me
When the shadows fall, hear me willow and weep for me

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3632 on: August 17, 2020, 02:07:08 PM »
You promised me, green grass, not to tell what you heard.
Whispering Grass, say! you can't keep your word, keep your word.

Why do you whisper, green grass?
Why tell the trees what ain't so?
Whispering Grass, the trees don't have to know.
No, No, Why tell them all your secrets?
Who kissed there long ago?
Whispering grass, the trees don't need to know.
Don't you tell it to the breeze 'cause she will tell the birds and bees
And ev'ryone will know because you told the blabbering trees
Yes, you told them once before;
It's no secret any more.
Why tell them all the old things?
They're buried under the snow.
Whispering Grass, don't tell the trees
'Cause the trees don't need to know.
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3633 on: August 17, 2020, 02:10:21 PM »
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don't you know
Talkin' 'bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3634 on: August 17, 2020, 02:13:05 PM »
Until the day I die, until the day I die
As a union man I'm wise
To the lies of the company spies
And I don't get fooled by the factory rules
'Cause I always read between the lines
And I always get my way
If I strike for higher pay
When I show my card to the Scotland Yard
And this is what I say
Oh, oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
Until the day I die, until the day I die
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3635 on: August 17, 2020, 02:17:20 PM »

Telegram force and ready
I knew this was a big mistake
There'sa fine line drawing
My senses together
And I think it's about to break

If I listen close I can hear them singers
Voices in your body coming through on the radio
The Union of the Snake is on the climb
Moving up it's gonna race it's gonna break
Through the borderline

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3636 on: August 31, 2020, 11:57:33 PM »
Telegram Sam Telegram Sam
You're my main man

Golden Nose Slim Golden Nose Slim
I know's where you've been
Purple Pie Pete Purple Pie Pete
Your lips are like lightning
Girls melt in the heat

Telegram Sam
You're my main man
Telegram Sam
You're my main man
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3637 on: September 01, 2020, 08:50:42 AM »
Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had the one long horn, one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said "ooh-eee"
It looks like a purple eater to me

It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
(One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (one eye?)
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 #3638 on: September 01, 2020, 09:09:45 AM »
There's a message floatin' in the air
Come from crazy horses riding everywhere
It's a warning it's in every tongue
Got to stop them crazy horses on the run
What a show there they go smokin' up the sky yeah
Crazy horses all got riders and they're you and I
Crazy Horses
Crazy Horses

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3639 on: September 03, 2020, 04:59:29 AM »
 find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3640 on: September 03, 2020, 09:17:54 AM »
Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever spinning reel

Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on it's face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space

Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3641 on: September 04, 2020, 09:01:09 PM »
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
We could float among the stars together, you and I
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3642 on: September 04, 2020, 10:38:34 PM »

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars

In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss me

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing forevermore
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore

In other words, please, be true
In other words, I love you

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3643 on: September 04, 2020, 11:09:19 PM »
Sitting in the stand of the sports arena
Waiting for the show to begin
Red lights, green lights, strawberry wine
A good friend of mine, follow the stars
Venus and Mars
Are alright tonight
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3644 on: September 06, 2020, 08:10:07 AM »

I left her arms to find my way
To find a place for me in the world outside
I wasn't alive, I could not survive
The frantic pace
The constant chase
To win the race
Turned my heart cold inside
I gotta find what I left behind

Red light, green light
Speedin' through the dark night
Drivin' through the poundin' rain
I gotta see Jane
Freeway, byway
Tearin' up the highway
Runnin' up a world insane
Just gotta see Jane

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3645 on: September 09, 2020, 04:38:24 PM »
Maybe I'm still hurting
I can't turn the other cheek
But you know that I still love you
It's just that I can't speak
I looked for you in everyone
And they called me on that too
I lived alone but I was only
Coming back to you

Ah they're shutting down the factory now
Just when all the bills are due
And the fields they're under lock and key
Tho' the rain and the sun come through
And springtime starts but then it stops
In the name of something new
And all the senses rise against this
Coming back to you
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3646 on: September 09, 2020, 06:38:56 PM »
In my little town
I grew up believing
God keeps his eye on us all
And he used to lean upon me
As I pledged allegiance to the wall
Lord, I recall my little town
Coming home after school
Flying my bike past the gates of the factories
My mom doing the laundry
Hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze
And after it rains there's a rainbow
And all of the colors are black
It's not that the colors aren't there
It's just imagination they lack
Everything's the same back in my little town
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 #3647 on: September 10, 2020, 01:52:25 PM »
Rows and rows of disused milk floats
Stand dying in the dairy yard
And a hundred lonely housewives
Clutch empty milk bottles to their hearts
Hanging out their old love letters on the line to dry
It's enough to make you stop believing
When tears come fast and furious
In a town called Malice

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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3648 on: September 11, 2020, 10:17:07 PM »
They call it a scene I call it disaster
Down here the kids grow up faster
Scared they're scared to the bone
Like a pack of wolves they don't run alone
One on one they won't look you in the eye
But when the pack's together there's a battle cry
I saw it fifteen on one
When the crowd dispersed the kid was done

No (no more)
No (bad town)
No more bad town
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Re: How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough
« Reply #3649 on: September 14, 2020, 08:33:48 AM »
When we were wolves, when we were wolves, when we were wolves, when we were wolves

And we run, and we hide, and we hid, and we ran
And we hide in lightless rooms
And we banged on our pianos,