For a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008.
In January 2006 I stepped off a C-130 in Tal Afar, Iraq. As I began my 13-month deployment, I imagined an American public following our progress with the same concern as my family and friends. But since returning home, I have seen that America has changed the channel.
Young investment bankers spend their impressive bonuses on clubs in Manhattan and many seem uninterested in the soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a Princeton graduate and a former financial analyst, I was once a part of this world, and I like returning to it, putting the Spartan life of Tal Afar and Anbar Province behind me. But even as I enjoy time with the friends who have welcomed me home, my thoughts wander back to other friends who continue to fight as the city parties on.
Serious problems with the war in Iraq are well chronicled, but I am struck by one that does not seem to trouble the country’s leadership, even though it is profoundly corrosive to our common good: the disparity between the lives of the few who are fighting and being killed, and the many who have been asked for nothing more than to continue shopping...
Can we continue an interventionist foreign policy with a country divided in this way? The president says that America is engaged in a struggle between good and evil, but is he addressing all citizens when his policies touch so few of us? To ask this question is inevitably to raise the issue of whether we should reinstate the draft. As a recent infantry officer who has younger siblings, I recognize what a profound question this is.
A draft would have one of two consequences. The first is that it might actually relieve the strain on today’s soldiers and end the “backdoor draft” of volunteers who have already served while their civilian peers remain comfortably undisturbed. I am aware that Army leaders fear that a draft would hurt the professionalism of today’s force. However, the lowering of recruiting requirements, as well as the offering of big signing bonuses to impressionable high school students, is already diminishing standards.
The other possible consequence is that serious consideration of a draft could set off such a violent reaction from the American public that the pressure on politicians to abandon their cliché-ridden rhetoric and begin a well-considered withdrawal would be overpowering.
Either situation would accelerate movement toward a decisive point — a commitment to victory, or the realization that Americans simply do not believe the threats cited are really worthy of the sacrifices required to vanquish them. Many years and many lives later, the very least we can do for my friends fighting a world away is to try to decide.
Can't you see that I'm sick of this?2. 1990 - OK, this is different. I can't swear that these lyrics are correct because this song is in another language. Here's the whole thing...
Chances are you're oblivious
To how I feel
Sitting on your throne
And I'm sure that I'm not alone
Not alone
Not alone
I didn't think that you'd sell me out
Now I know what you're all about
You might feel in control of things
But you're not holding all the strings
All the strings
All the strings
Imtheochaidh soir is siar3. 1979 - Maybe not the first British punk band, but the definitive one. After a couple of albums, they mellowed out some. This is their first stateside pop hit. First verse and chorus...
A dtainig ariamh
An ghealach is an ghrian
Fol lol the doh fol the day
Fol the doh fol the day
Imtheochaidh an ghealach's an ghrian
An Daoine og is a chail 'na dhiadh
Fol lol the doh fol the day
Fol the doh fol the day
Fol lol the doh fol the day
Fol the doh fol the day
Imtheochaidh a dtainig ariamh
an duine og is a chail ne dhiadh
Fol lol the doh fol the day
Fol the doh fol the day
You say you stand by your man4. 1985 - Very, very obscure. This is the end of the song...
Tell me something I don't understand
You said you love me and that's a fact
Then you left me, said you felt trapped
Well some things you can explain away
But the heartache's in me till this day
You didn't you stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way
My hands are tied5. 1996 - An album track from a band with quite a few rock hits. This is one of the few sections of the lyrics that doesn't contain the title...
I'm nailed to the floor
Feel like I'm knockin' on an unknown door
A gun at my back
A blade at my throat
I keep on findin' hate mail in the pockets of my coat
Well I've been trying to grow
I been coolin' my heels
I have been workin' in a treadmill
I have been workin' in the fields
And I can't get to sleep
I can't catch my breath
I can't stop talkin'
And I look like death!
But I will put right this disgrace
I will rearrange you
You give me love6. 2006 - Real new. A debut album track. From the end of the song...
Let me walk with you,
Maybe I could say
Maybe talk with you,
Open up
And let me through
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
I have no lid upon my head, but if I did
You could look inside and see what's on my mind
You could look inside and see what's on my mind
Boom set your mouth on fire7. 1998 - Just about the only song I can even tolerate from this goober. First verse...
So all your words come clear
If not for all your flat tires
I'm sure you'd find your way right here
Beating you off with a stick
What a kick while you eating me up with those tears
Contemplate it on the tree of regret
And forget that you could've been here
Perserverence is a wonderful thing
But be sure that your trucks are in gear
Nothing worse than just spinning your wheels
And not moving an inch in a year
And this is for the questions that don't have any answers8. 2004 - Hard rock. The title track from this band's third major-label album. First verse...
The midnight glancers and the topless dancers
The gander freaks, cars packed with speakers
The G's with the forties and the chicks with beepers
The northern lights and the Southern Comfort
And it don't even matter if your veins are punctured
All the crackheads, the critics, the cynics
And my heroes in the methadone clinic
All you bastards at the IRS
For the crooked cops and the cluttered desks
For the shots of jack and the caps of meth
Half pints of love and the fifths of stress
For the hookers all trickin out in Hollywood
And for my hoods of the world misunderstood
I said its all good and its all in fun
So get in the pit and try to love someone
Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness9. 1968 - A rock n' roll classic. There's no way to give you even a line without you getting it right away, so there's this bit...
I need to calculate
What creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishment
And you're the master,
And I am waiting for disaster
Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out10. 1992 - This guy's been around for quite a while - first as leader of a band, then solo. Second verse...
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
And Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind
So I watch you wash your hair
Underwater, unaware
And the plane flies through the air
Did you think you didn't have to choose it
That I alone could win or lose it
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?
In this house of make believe
Divided in two, like Adam and Eve
You put out and I receive
Day after day I'm more confused2. 2005 - A song from the latest album by a pretty popular rock band. From the beginning...
So I look for the light in the pouring rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
And I'm feelin' the strain
Ain't it a shame
Oh, give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Dobie Gray - "Drift Away"
I reside in 209,
You're in 208
You moved in last Friday night,
and I just couldn't wait
So I tried to call across the hall,
to ask you out someday
But a lineup formed outside your door,
And I was way too late
Well I'd rather start off slow
This whole thing's like
some sort of race
Instead of winning what I want
I'm sitting here in second place
Because somewhere the one I wanna be with's with somebody else
Oh god, I wanna be that someone that you're with
(I wanna be that someone that you're with)
Nickelback - "Someone That You're With"
As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down4. 2002 - I've had this band come up before, but not this song. This is from their self-entitled debut album. The title never comes up in the song. The song starts with the chorus, so this is the chorus, followed by the first verse...
These heavy notions creep around
It makes me think long ago
I was brought into this life a little lamb, a little lamb
Courageous, stumbling
Fearless was my middle name
But somewhere there I
Lost my way
Everyone walks the same
Expecting me to step
The narrow path they've laid
They claim to
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me high.
R.E.M. - "Walk Unafraid"
Please help me cause I'm breaking down5. 1984 - This band was fairly big on college radio stations around the mid-'80s, but fairly unknown everywhere else. From the beginning...
This picture's frozen, and I can't get out
Please help me cause I'm breaking down
This picture's frozen, and I can't get out of here
Release me, I'm just as lost as you
Believe me, I'm just as lost as you
And every time I think I've finally made it
I learn I'm farther away than I have ever been before
I see the clock and its ticking away
And the hourglass empty
What the fuck do I have to say
Trapt - "Still Frame"
Seven o'clock in the morning and I'm riding the overnight train6. 1988 - This is the first song on a fairly memorable self-entitled debut album. The woman is still recording today. This song also starts with the chorus which we have to skip to keep from giving away the answer. First verse. Only verse really...
I've got ten ton of luggage but I left it behind when I came
I look at my watch, says September seventeen
We're riding past some place where I've never been
And I'm waving through the window as we go
Somebody says "Well, hey, what are you waving at?"
Well, what do I have to lose?
Somebody might wave back.
The Waterboys - "Somebody Might Wave Back"
While they're standing in the welfare lines7. 1980 - A rock 'n roll classic. First verse...
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
They're talkin' about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Tracy Chapman - "Talkin' Bout a Revolution"
She was a fast machine8. 1987 - A very eclectic, little known band. The theme of this song is "a wise man was telling stories to me about the places he had been to and the things that he had seen." Here's a couple of those stories in the middle of the song...
She kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman that I ever seen
She had the sightless eyes
Telling me no lies
And knockin' me out with those American thighs
Taking more than her share
Had me fighting for air
She told me to come, but I was already there
'Cause the walls started shaking
The earth was quaking
My mind was achin'
And we were makin' it
And you shook me all night long
AC/DC - "You Shook Me All Night Long"
Four small boys playing ball in a parking lot9. 2002 - Another eclectic band that's not as well-known as they should be. From the beginning...
A preacher, a teacher, and the other became a cop
A car skidded into the rain
Making the last little one a saint
One more light goes out in America
A young girl tosses a coin in the wishing well
She hopes for a heaven while for her there's just this hell
She gave away her life
To become somebody's wife
Another wish unanswered in America
People having so much faith
Die too soon while all the rest come late
We write a song that no one sings
On a cold black stone
Where a lasting peace will finally bring...
A quiet voice is singing something to me
An age old song 'bout the home of the brave
In this land here of the free
One time one night in America
Los Lobos - One Time One Night
Well, I sat down next to a photograph10. 2005 - A track from the third and latest album by band with quite a few rock hits. From the beginning...
Tried my best, almost made her laugh
She was my toughest crowd
But there in the way was a mountain up in the clouds
Well, I can't sleep and I'm not in love
Well, I can't speak without messing up
Eyes tell of what's behind
And hers showed the way to a long and a lonely climb
But through failure I'll proceed
And she'll see how far I've come
And it's you and me in the sun and sea
I'll offer my arm to yours
It seems to me no mystery
It isn't
So I'll try hard to speak
Nickel Creek - "Speak"
The shades go up
Mother's staring down
She don't know where he's been
Or how long he's been out
She said "Boy, I'm tired of waiting up
While you're out with your friends"
He said "Mom, I'm trying and I'm living my life
The best way that I can"
Cause I'm trying to be somebody
I'm not trying to be somebody else
This life is mine I'm living
Don't you know me? I won't ever let you down
3 Doors Down - "Be Somebody"
You are probably not a liberal anymore if:I found that while trying to find this online: "Why Hasn't John Edwards Done Better?"
You think the elimination or reduction of social services is a reform.
Accept the idea that Social Security and Medicare must live within the limits of an arbitrary trust fund, but that the Pentagon need be under no such restrictions.
Liked the Clintons' health plan and wonder whether single player health care wouldn't be too socialistic.
Consider a 5% wage increase in an industry to be inflationary but a 5% return on your stocks in that industry to be inadequate.
Think it's all right to bomb the smithereens out of Balkan, Asian or Middle Eastern countries for humanitarian reasons.
Regard the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, PBS and NPR as liberal media.
Know what NARAL stands for but not SEIU.
Agreed with Toni Morrison that Clinton was our first black president.
Have doubts about gays in the US military but approve of having the US military in over 130 countries.
Spend more time thinking about Hillary's chances and executive glass ceilings than you do about sweatshops, the minimum wage or workplace safety.
Are afraid your children can't handle drugs and booze as well as you did when you were their age.
Believe that because you were robbed once, you can support mandatory sentencing and the drug war with a clear conscience.
Have an piercing alarm system on your Lexus but think gun owners are paranoid.
Haven't noticed that democracy and the Constitution aren't doing so well these days.
The front seat of your SUV is higher than the front seat of your plumbers' pickup truck.
When Democrats talk about things they don't like about John Edwards, they typically express skepticism about a wealthy trial lawyer advocating populist positions or his $400 haircut or the size of his 10,000 square foot home and 15,000 square foot barn. These same Democrats - and the media - never talk about Hillary Clinton's $1200 makeup job or the fact that when you add up the size of her Washington and Chappaqua homes, they surpass 10,000 square feet, not to mention her husband's 8300 square foot office with a $30,000 a month rent is picked up by taxpayers.
The difference is another example of how some politicians get away with the same things that do others in. In the end, it isn't about the haircut or house at all; it's about who is getting it or living there.
In fact, John Edwards falls into one of the smallest and most appealing classes of politicians: a reformed sinner who is better than he used to be. Hillary Clinton is not only unreformed, she has never uttered the slightest words of remorse for behavior that almost got her prosecuted, let alone for all her other offenses against integrity and decency. And Barrack Ohblahblah is still trying to convince people that he deserves the White House primarily by regurgitating endless bromides like a bulimic fortune cookie.
It is true that Edwards could be lying to us, but it is curious that those most inclined to think so are the same who have yet to notice any hint of mendacity in Mrs. Clinton - and thus may not be all that equipped to judge deception. My guess is that a combination of mundane success and extraordinary tragedy left Edwards feeling an
emptiness that he has attempted to fill with a heavy dose of conscience. It would be nice to see the other candidates give it a try. And it would be nice if some of the Democrats sniping at Edwards' wealth would recall that Franklin Roosevelt and John F Kennedy weren't poor either.
While falling far short on some issues like Iraq and healthcare, what Edwards has proposed would represent the most fundamental shift in social and economic policy in several decades. He proposes returning the Democratic Party to its roots in the New Deal and Great Society; he proposes restoring some of the social democracy that Bill Clinton and George Bush so successfully dismantled; and he proposes reintroducing collective responsibility to a society that has become obsessed with individual acquisition.
It is small wonder that the establishment - including the leaders of the Democratic Party and the sycophantic media - finds Edwards so troubling. If he were to live up to his promise, a President Edwards might change this country for the better in a way not seen since LBJ's domestic programs.
This scares a generation of greed - Generation G - which has outdone the 19th century robber barons in abusing the advantages of this land by turning them solely to their own benefit.
But this same phenomenon has also misled those who have not benefited - i.e. most of the country. The destructive myths of imaginary free markets, privatization and globalization have destroyed this country in a manner no would-be foreign invader has ever achieved. The RBCB years - of Reagan, Bush, Clinton & Bush - have trashed social democracy, our constitution and sense of common purpose, leaving us run by an avaricious adhocracy and running into the ground our sense of honor and standing in the rest of the world.
So Edwards has been up against two formable forces: a bipartisan Generation G that recognizes the threat he would be to their narcissistic game and a potential constituency that should support him but has been too deeply deceived to do so.
Yet even if the tide doesn't turn, even if we end up with the rotten apple campaign of Clinton vs. Giuliani, Edwards has performed a service. He has reminded us what a decent mainstream American leader can be like. And those he has encouraged and those who have encouraged him won't disappear even if he loses. Let's hope he doesn't desert them if things don't work out, but instead uses the campaign as the first step in creating a coalition of conscience that helps America find its way back home again.
In the Democratic primary, Colbert takes 2.3 percent of the vote—good for fifth place behind Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (40 percent), Sen. Barack Obama (19 percent), former Sen. John Edwards (12 percent) and Sen. Joe Biden (2.7 percent). Colbert finished ahead of Gov. Bill Richardson (2.1 percent), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (2.1 percent) and former Sen. Mike Gravel (less than 1 percent).And, according to Rasmussen Reports, Colbert reaches double digits as a third-party candidate...
He was less lucky in the Republican field, where he took less than 1 percent of the vote behind even longshot candidates like Reps. Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani led the Republican field with 29 percent, followed by former Gov. Mitt Romney at 12 percent, former Sen. Fred Thompson (11 percent) and Sen. John McCain (10 percent).
“It’s clear that Colbert’s truthiness image and ‘I am America’ message has serious resonance among Democrats,” said Neil Newhouse, a POS partner.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that Colbert is preferred by 13% of voters as an independent candidate challenging Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani. The survey was conducted shortly after Colbert’s surprise announcement that he is lusting for the Oval Office.Joshua Green analyzes the race with Colbert in it for The Atlantic and even offers his services as campaign strategist.
The result is similar when Fred Thompson is the Republican in the three-way race. With Thompson as the GOP candidate, Colbert earns 12% of the vote...
Colbert does particularly well with the younger voters most likely to be watching his show and therefore most aware of his myriad presidential-like qualities. In the match-up with Giuliani and Clinton, Colbert draws 28% of likely voters aged 18-29. He draws 31% of that cohort when his foes are Thompson and Clinton. In both match-ups, Colbert has more support with young voters than the GOP candidate.
(emphasis theirs)
"These are my people," Colbert didn't say when he wasn't asked about the high support from young voters discovered by Rasmussen Reports. "They know who I am and what I'm about, and so forth. Is this thing working, are we on the air? Oh, it's the Internet? Well why didn't you say the Internet?"
which will serve as a backdrop for the events of season four of Battlestar Galactica, tells the story of Lee Adama's first mission as the commander of the battlestar Pegasus — and the harrowing tale of that ship's desperate fight for survival in the immediate aftermath of the Cylon's genocidal siege of the Twelve Colonies.As they've done other times in the show's run, SciFi is showing special webisodes that are prequels to the upcoming shows. These "Razor Flashbacks,"...
Lee Adama's new XO, Major Kendra Shaw, is plagued by memories of her service and sacrifices under Admiral Helena Cain, who was able to save her ship during the Cylon attack — but only by making Shaw and her fellow officers rationalize suicidal battle tactics and brutal war crimes against their own people.
In the crucible of war, Shaw must let her hesitation and doubts burn away, until all that remains of her is the honed edge of a living human weapon — what Colonial veterans call "a razor." But an edge so fine cuts in more than one direction. It can cleave an enemy to pieces … or it can carve away a person's soul.
intense, roughly two-minute segments tell the story of young William "Husker" Adama's rookie Viper mission during the first Cylon war. In addition to fighting for his very survival against relentless Cylon centurions, Adama makes a terrifying discovery that will come back 40 years later to threaten him, the crew of the Pegasus and the survival of the human race.SciFi is showing the "Razor Flashbacks" on Friday nights during episodes of Flash Gordon. They are available online immediately after broadcast. Three of the seven episodes are already online. The other four episodes will be online over the next four Friday nights.
I know it probably won't happen, but it would be nice if Jimmie and Jeff quit sharing notes, started to hate each other and wrecked each other on the racetrack. It would really help the rest of us out.The Chase for the Nextel Cup Championship is now the Jeff & Jimmie Show. Jimmie Johnson passed Jeff Gordon with 44 laps to go, then held off Gordon and Ryan Newman through numerous cautions and restarts to claim victory in the Subway 500. Johnson's victory is his third in a row at Martinsville, and snaps Gordon's two-race Nextel Cup winning streak. Johnson gained on Gordon with the win, but the other Chase drivers moved even further back in the standings. (Standings)
Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973.If Fred Thompson was alive, he'd be appalled.
Day after day I'm more confused2. 2005 - A song from the latest album by a pretty popular rock band. From the beginning...
So I look for the light in the pouring rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
And I'm feelin' the strain
Ain't it a shame
I reside in 209,3. 1998 - An album track from a band that's been around since the early '80s. From the beginning...
You're in 208
You moved in last Friday night,
and I just couldn't wait
So I tried to call across the hall,
to ask you out someday
But a lineup formed outside your door,
And I was way too late
Well I'd rather start off slow
This whole thing's like
some sort of race
Instead of winning what I want
I'm sitting here in second place
As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down4. 2002 - I've had this band come up before, but not this song. This is from their self-entitled debut album. The title never comes up in the song. The song starts with the chorus, so this is the chorus, followed by the first verse...
These heavy notions creep around
It makes me think long ago
I was brought into this life a little lamb, a little lamb
Courageous, stumbling
Fearless was my middle name
But somewhere there I
Lost my way
Everyone walks the same
Expecting me to step
The narrow path they've laid
Please help me cause I'm breaking down5. 1984 - This band was fairly big on college radio stations around the mid-'80s, but fairly unknown everywhere else. I've always like the sentiment of this song. From the beginning...
This picture's frozen, and I can't get out
Please help me cause I'm breaking down
This picture's frozen, and I can't get out of here
Release me, I'm just as lost as you
Believe me, I'm just as lost as you
And every time I think I've finally made it
I learn I'm farther away than I have ever been before
I see the clock and its ticking away
And the hourglass empty
What the fuck do I have to say
Seven o'clock in the morning and I'm riding the overnight train6. 1988 - This is the first song on a fairly memorable self-entitled debut album. The woman is still recording today. This song also starts with the chorus which we have to skip to keep from giving away the answer. First verse. Only verse really...
I've got ten tons of luggage but I left it behind when I came
I look at my watch, says September seventeen
We're riding past some place where I've never been
And I'm waving through the window as we go
Somebody says "Well, hey, what are you waving at?"
While they're standing in the welfare lines7. 1980 - A rock 'n roll classic. First verse...
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
She was a fast machine8. 1987 - A very eclectic, little known band. The theme of this song is "a wise man was telling stories to me about the places he had been to and the things that he had seen." Here's a couple of those stories in the middle of the song...
She kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman that I ever seen
She had the sightless eyes
Telling me no lies
And knockin' me out with those American thighs
Taking more than her share
Had me fighting for air
She told me to come, but I was already there
'Cause the walls started shaking
The earth was quaking
My mind was achin'
And we were makin' it
Four small boys playing ball in a parking lot9. 2002 - Another eclectic band that's not as well-known as they should be. From the beginning...
A preacher, a teacher, and the other became a cop
A car skidded into the rain
Making the last little one a saint
One more light goes out in America
A young girl tosses a coin in the wishing well
She hopes for a heaven while for her there's just this hell
She gave away her life
To become somebody's wife
Another wish unanswered in America
People having so much faith
Die too soon while all the rest come late
We write a song that no one sings
On a cold black stone
Where a lasting peace will finally bring
Well, I sat down next to a photograph10. 2005 - A track from the third and latest album by band with quite a few rock hits. From the beginning...
Tried my best, almost made her laugh
She was my toughest crowd
But there in the way was a mountain up in the clouds
Well, I can't sleep and I'm not in love
Well, I can't speak without messing up
Eyes tell of what's behind
And hers showed the way to a long and a lonely climb
But through failure I'll proceed
And she'll see how far I've come
And it's you and me in the sun and sea
I'll offer my arm to yours
It seems to me no mystery
It isn't
The shades go upIf you know these (everyone should know at least one or two), leave answers in comments.
Mother's staring down
She don't know where he's been
Or how long he's been out
She said "Boy, I'm tired of waiting up
While you're out with your friends"
He said "Mom, I'm tired and I'm living my life
The best way that I can"
Beginning today, eight years of episodes of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” are fully accessible on the show’s Web site.
Videos of every skit, every joke and every guest are available for free, fully searchable on TheDailyShow.com. According to Comedy Central, 13,000 videos will be stored in the database...
Now the content can live forever online. While Web sites increasingly offer streaming versions of television shows, “The Daily Show” is unique because the videos have been made fully searchable through a system of tags. Thanks to those tags, the site serves as a handy archive of correspondent reports: 301 videos are tagged with Steve Carell’s name; 187 are tagged Mo Rocca. It also records years of jokes about newsmakers: a search for George W. Bush finds 844 videos; a search for Al Gore returns 159. Mr. Flannigan said the show’s writers and producers are thrilled to use it as a resource.
The video archive is part of a larger MTV strategy to create branded Web sites for popular shows...
Videos from the Craig Kilborn era of “The Daily Show” will be added to the site early next year. A similar site for “The Colbert Report” is also in development.
The books listed below are the top 105 books most often tagged as being unread by LibraryThing users (as of October 3rd).
I am changing the instructions so that you copy the list without any bolds or strike throughs.
I will annotate, in italics, as follows: read, read a lot, TBR (to be read), gave up (for those I started & didn't finish), never (for those I don't want to read) and ??? (for those books I don't know at all).
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Winter, spring -- it's what love can truly bring2. 1998 - Ooh, a drastic change from the previous song. This is the only song I like by this particular artist. A rock radio hit. This is the first and third verses, minus the chorus.
Ice turns to water; water flows to everything
You can lose your mind
Maybe then your heart, you’ll find
I hope you won’t give up what’s movin' you inside -- no
So if you’re waitin' for love
Well, it’s a promise I'll keep
If you don’t mind believing that it changes everything
Time will never matter
(Time will never matter)
(x2)
If the car won’t start when you turn the key
When the music comes on, all your cold, cold heart can do is skip a beat
It’s a promise I'll keep when you’re waitin' for love
If you don’t mind believing that it changes everything
Time will never matter
(Time will never matter)
Jars of Clay - "Sunny Days"
Dead I am the one, exterminating son3. 1986 - Very, very obscure. There was another song on this album, the only one recorded by this duo, that got a lot of airplay back in the day. This is the song from the beginning to the section that mentions the title.
Slipping through the trees, strangling the breeze
Dead I am the sky, watching angels cry
While they slowly turn, conquering the worm
Dead I am the light, digging through the skin
Knuckle cracked the boat, twenty-one to win
Dead I am the dog, hound of hell you cry
Devil on your back, I can never die
Dig through the ditches,
And burn through the witches
I slam in the back of my
Dragula
Rob Zombie - "Dragula"
Fifteen long years on a losing streak4. 2007 - This Canadian band has been around a while, but they're pretty new to me. I'm still trying to decide how much I like them. I don't listen to the radio much these days, but I think this has gotten some airplay. First verse...
And a lot of bodies unburied
There comes a time you cannot turn the other cheek
You have got to ride the ferry
Past the battered old bodies of dead, dead dreamers
Past the tethered and fettered and desk-bound schemers
The punks and the drunks and the bad guitar players
And the dewy-eyed, teenage dragon slayers
You come to this place where you can say I
I just want to work with you
As we do the things that we know we have to do
Ever hopeful and ever blue
We do the things that we know we have to do
And though we all know deep down in our hearts
That someday this will all fall apart
For right now, let's just be heroes
David and David - "Heroes"
I hold on so nervously5. 1997 - Another drastic musical change of pace. An album track by a Canadian artist (another one) who has had a few hits. First verse...
To me and my drink
I wish it was cooling me
But so far has not been good
It’s been shitty
And I feel awkward as I should
This club has got to be
The most pretentious thing
Since I thought you and me
Well I am imagining
A dark lit place
For your place or my place
Well I’m not paralyzed
But I seem to be struck by you...
Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
The winter here's cold and bitter6. 1970 - A rock n' roll classic. No way you're not getting this one. This is all you need to figure it out...
It's chilled us to the bone
We haven't seen the sun for weeks
Too long, too far from home
I feel just like I'm sinking
And I claw for solid ground
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
Oh darkness, I feel like letting go
If all of the strength and all of the courage
Come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than this
Full of grace
Full of grace
My love
Sarah McLachlan - "Full of Grace"
Well, I've got to run to keep from hidin',7. 1995 - An album track from the first solo album from a fairly famous band's frontwoman. This is the end of the song...
And I'm bound to keep on ridin'.
And I've got one more silver dollar,
But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no,
Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider
The Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider
My love is gone8. 1990 - A worldwide hit from a New Wave band that hung around for years and years. The first and second verses minus the chorus and another bit thrown in for good measure...
She suffered long in hours of pain
My love is gone
Now my suffering begins
My love is gone
Would it be wrong if I should
Surrender all the joy in my life,
Go with her tonight?
My love is gone
She suffered long in hours of pain
My love is gone
Would it be wrong if I should
Just turn my face away from the light,
Go with her tonight?
Natalie Merchant - "Beloved Wife"
You had something to hide9. 1977 - This artist has been around for a few decades and has recorded many hits. This is an album track from his first solo record. Second verse...
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you?
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through
Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilised
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Depeche Mode - "Policy of Truth"
We've tried a handful of bills and a handful of pills10. 2003 - One of my favorite newer bands. The title doesn't actually show up in the song, so here's a big chunk. These lyrics might not be exact. It's hard to say...
We've tried making movies from a volume of stills
The words fell like hailstones,
bouncing at our feet,
Covering our feelings with a frozen sheet.
A chance to move, I take a shot
I get cold - you get hot
We look outside, lyin' awake
See birds breaking surface on a silent lake.
But don't get me wrong, I'll be strong
When I'm back on the Isle of Avalon
Don't get me wrong, I'll be strong When the slow burn sunset come along
Peter Gabriel - "Slowburn"
Without habitation,
You'll never find a soul inside
No life, but nothing's died
No lights, but quite the show
Just as long as no one ever knows
All motion is pantomime
As waves of plastic fame go out of fashion
You're going out, going out forever unknown
These waves of plastic fame go out of fashion
(These waves of plastic fame are drying up and I smile)
You're going out, going out
(Because you're dying to become forever unknown, unknown)
From above, a rain of ashes (descends anathema)
I will remain, forever will remain
From below, in my seclusion
Look up to the sky to see - see wings and watch them burn
Dancing in the rain of descending ash
Dancing on your grave, I'll see you all falling
Dancing in the rain of descending ash
Dancing in your dust, I'll see you all falling
I'd stop it, had you a heart
I'd stop it, had you a heart
AFI - "Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings)"
