Originally posted by: Siva
Smashing Pumpkins- 33
Originally posted by: LordMaul
Originally posted by: Siva
Smashing Pumpkins- 33
How did I guess you'd be here before I clicked the thread?
Originally posted by: Siva
Originally posted by: LordMaul
Originally posted by: Siva
Smashing Pumpkins- 33
How did I guess you'd be here before I clicked the thread?
how'd i know you'd follow me?
Manhattan Project
Imagine a time when it all began
In the dying days of a war
A weapon that would settle the score
Whoever found it first would be sure to do their worst.
They always had before...
Imagine a man where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation, always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick.
But this was something more...
The big bang took and shook the world
Shot down the rising sun
The end was begun and it hit everyone
When the chain reaction was done
The big shots tried to hold it back
Fools tried to wish it away
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say
Imagine a place where it all began
Gathered from across the land
To work in the secrecy of the desert sand
All of the brightest boys
To play with the biggest toys
More than they bargained for...
Imagine a man when it all began
The pilot of "Enola Gay"
Flying out of the shockwave on that August day
All the powers that be, and the course of history,
Would be changed forevermore...
--Neil Peart
sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space
there's an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to face
sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in
and terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins
it will begin
splintered dreams of unity (our lives are parallel)
so far from reality (our lives are parallel)
independent trajectories (our lives are parallel)
separate terms of equality (our lives are parallel)
our lives are parallel
is there no redemption? no common good?
is there nothing we can do for ourselves? or only what we should?
comes the hard admission of what we don't provide
goes the insistence on the ways and means that so divide
they so divide
side by side suffering loneliness (our lives are parallel)
phony collective progress (our lives are parallel)
accepting that it's all such a mess (our lives are parallel)
gesturing without hope of redress (our lives are parallel)
our lives are parallel
forging little plays of deception and pain
as we watch our foundation crumble away
staggering like birds against a hurricane
and trying all the while to stay out of each other's way
broken dreams of unity (our lives are parallel)
independant trajectories (our lives are parallel)
screaming out for understanding (our lives are parallel)
turning inward and suffering (our lives are parallel)
can't you feel it, can't you see it
the promise of prosperity,
it's overwhelming you and me
it afflicts us like a disease,
ubiquitous compelling too
we cling to you like crazy glue,
and inject such a potent seed
it's best for all humanity,
the spread of culture,
the sword of progress,
the vector of suffrage a warm and
septic breeze,
the pomp and elation,
the duty and vocation,
the blood of the hybrid
it's just a recipe
re-living our ancestry
the frightful lack of harmony,
our fore-fathers who led the way,
their victims are still here today,
now it's time to erase the story
of our bogus fate,
our history as it's portrayed
it's just a recipe for hate
Fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, fall back again...
Oh, life it seems a struggle between
What we see, what we do
I'm not going to change my ways
Just to please you or appease you
Well, look at this crowd, five billion proud
Willing to punch it out
Right, wrong, weak, strong
Ashes to ashes, all fall down
Oh, look around about this round about
This merry-go-round and round
If at all God's gaze upon us fall
It's with a mischievous grin, look at Him
Forget about the reasons
And the treasons we are seeking...
Forget about the notion that
Our emotions can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty
We are innocent instead...
For soon we will all find our lives swept away
Oh, look at me in my fancy car
And my bank account
Oh, how I wish I could take it all down
Down to my grave, God knows I'd save and save
Man, take a look again, take a look again
Things you have collected
Well, in the end it all piles up so tall
To one big nothing, one big nothing at all
Forget about the reasons
And the treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emotions can be swept away, kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away
You know how it is...
You seek up an emotion
And your cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion
Sometimes your well is dry
You're looking for a monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil's not going, "Ha, ha, ha, ha"
"Ha, ha, ha, ha..."
Say, oh, say...
Oh, late at night, with TV's hungry child
His belly swells...
Well, for the price of a Coke? or a smoke
I could keep alive those hungy eyes
Man, take a look again, take a look again, take a look again
Everyday things change, basically they stay the same
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emotions can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away, oh...
You seek up an emotion,
And your cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion
Sometimes your well is dry, oh
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil's not going, "Ha, ha, ha, ha."
"Ha, ha, ha, ha..."
Fall back again, fall back again
Ashes...
Fall back again, fall back again...
Originally posted by: yakko
Pop Will Eat Itself has some great lyrics.
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Originally posted by: yakko
Pop Will Eat Itself has some great lyrics.
Whatever happened to those guys, anyway? "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" was one of my favorite songs... I even saw them play live here in San Jose, many years ago (at One Step Beyond; anyone from here remember that place?)