BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Thursday, June 10, 2010

LUV THAT SONG!



"JOURNEY, too!"
Remark once made by a college dorm resident.



"No one's ASKED me to turn it down!"

We didn't even room on the same floor.

Kinda funny really.


All I said
was,
"luv this band!"

STYX.
 


As we work,
happens quite frequently someone will say,
"I like this song!"

"Really!"
  Wasn't even aware the radio was playing. 

An eye opener to many as to,
"Just how impaired is his hearing?"

*****
The flip side.

If I  can hear it, while I need to listen, then it's interference.


Irritating having to ask
repeatedly,
   when there's work to be done,
for the radio to be turned down.
Amazing the offense some take to this request.

Is it possible for someone to love a song so much as to be that

insensitive?

 

The Angry Young Man

Lyrics by: Tommy Shaw
Music by: Tommy Shaw



Greatest Hits
 (1995)

You see the world through your cynical eyes
You're a troubled young man I can tell
You've got it all in the palm of your hand
But your hand's wet with sweat and your head needs a rest

And you're fooling yourself if you don't believe it
You're kidding yourself if you don't believe it
How can you be such an angry young man
When your future looks quite bright to me
How can there be such a sinister plan
That could hide such a lamb, such a caring young man

You're fooling yourself if you don't believe it
You're kidding yourself if you don't believe it
Get up, get back on your feet
You're the one they can't beat and you know it
Come on, let's see what you've got
Just take your best shot and don't blow it

You're fooling yourself if you don't believe it
You're killing yourself if you don't believe it
Get up, get back on your feet
You're the one they can't beat and you know it
Come on, let's see what you've got
Just take your best shot and don't blow it.



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