Living With The Big Lie (warning: graphic intensive)

[Chichiri]

It all began with the bright light, the bright light and the noise



The chaos of the senses, and the scream of desire



Touching and being touched, a million loose ends to tie up



The ticking of the clock, and the cradle rock





The colors stand still, then they move around



Coming in and out of focus, and upside down



Empty winter trees, how space feels



Love of the soft . . . the flowers and the sky






One fine day, the chaos subsides
Bleeds into awareness, and a lifetime of surprise



The beauty of your mother's eyes, the pain when you fall



You drink it in and marvel at it all, but you never really figure it out



You get used to it.






The babble of the family, and the dumb TV



The roar of traffic and the thunder of jets



The chemicals in the water, the drugs in the food



The heat of the kitchen and the beat of the system



The attitude of authority, and the laws and the rules
Hit me square in the face, first morning at school




The heroes and the zeroes, the first love of my life



When to kiss and to kick and to keep your head down when they're choosing the sides



I was never any good at it
I was terrified most of the time



I never got over it, I got used to it.





Alone in the city at seventeen



With the hollow and the lonely, the drowning and the drowned



I was made to feel worthless, the wretched and the mean



Beat me up like a weapon I can't run away from or find a way round



Holding on . . . Holding on . . .





The greed and the missiles exploding somewhere every day



Hideous dark secrets under the sea and in holes in the ground



The Cold War is gone, but those bastards'll find us another one



They're here to protect you, don't you know?



So get used to it, get used to it!





The clash of religions, and the loaded prayers



Information, the face of starvation and the state of the nation



The sense that it's useless, and the fear to try



Not believing the leaders, the media that feeds us



Living with the big lie











You'll get used to it



Get used to it!



From the album "Brave" by Marillion, lyrics by Steve Hogarth

[BeTheChange]

1. You rock..

Very very nice visuals for those words.

[liberaltrucker]

2. Damn powerful visuals

Bless you.States the situation perfectly in our Nation today. Nominated.

[kittykitty]

3. Very nicely done!

[ClayZ]

15. Thanks for the GOOD work!

Very Touching!

[Wizard777]

4. Whoa, That was awesome.

:headbang: :yourock: :headbang:

[Tigress DEM]

5. Nice. Thanks.

[lostnfound]

6. So beautiful.

and moms, so joyful to see their children growing, so yearning to protect them from the sadness and the 'hideous dark fears'.

[me b zola]

7. From a dial-up user, thank you.

Very moving graphics & narrative. nominated.








When will Skinner give us a peace smiley?

[liberaltrucker]

9. Good question

Uh..Skinner, where art thou?

[ClayZ]

14. Smiley

[dxstone]

8. Lovely images, very poetic arrangement!

Would make a great flash piece as well!
Thanks for sharing!
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[undergroundpanther]

10. A Marillion song for DU

(music: marillion lyrics: steve hogarth & john helmer)

Everybody knows that we live in a world where they give bad names to beautiful things
Everybody knows that we live in a world where we don’t give beautiful things a second glance
Heaven only knows that we live in a world where what we call beautiful is just something on sale

And the leaves turn from red to brown
To be trodden down
To be trodden down
And the leaves turn from red to brown
Fall to the ground
Fall to the ground

We don’t have to live in a world where we give bad names to beautiful things
We should live in a beautiful world
We should give beautiful a second glance

And the leaves fall from red to brown
To be trodden down
Trodden down
And the leaves turn green to red to brown
Fall to the ground
And get kicked around

You strong enough to be..
Have you the courage to be..
Have you the faith to be..
Honest enough to say..
Don’t have to be the same..
Don’t have to be this way
C’mon and sign your name
You wild enough to remain beautiful?
Beautiful

All the leaves turn from red to brown
To be trodden down
Trodden down
And we fall green to red to brown
Fall to the ground
To be kicked around

You strong enough to be..
Why don’t you stand up and say
Give yourself a break
They laugh at you anyway
So why don’t you stand up and be
Beautiful.

[liberaltrucker]

12. Being an old guy

I'm not familiar with the music, but the lyrics harken back to the 60's. Somehow, I feel like a kid again:)

[Chichiri]

19. Isn't that a wonderful song too?

:)

[vickitulsa]

11. This is too good for me to pass through without adding my praise.

Thanks for doing it! I scrolled through slowly and thoughtfully, way late in the night as it is here, and appreciated every moment as it unfolded.

I don't know how so many talented and sensitive folk congregated here at DU, but I'm sure glad I found MY way here!

Carry on troops ... your efforts will not be in vain. For those on the home front who care enough to want the service of those in the military to be "worth it" matter more than most people realize. There's a REASON there is such a term as "home front."

The way I see it, this is historical. The way civilians are relating to, caring about, fighting for and communicating with our troops fighting a live-fire war -- I'm pretty sure there's never been anything like it before. One reason is technology, of course. But there are other reasons too ... larger, more important ones. We learned from the grievous mistakes made when troops returned to what they called "the World" from Vietnam. We were rightfully ashamed, and we tried to make it up to them a bit after Desert Storm, also known as the Gulf War. We threw a BIG parade and the Gulf War vets pulled Vietnam vets from the sidelines into the parade! It was amazing to see....

But now we on the home front have evolved. We realize we can no longer simply send prayers for troops in a generic way upward while at the same time we neglect to participate in the political process that determines when our military will be sent into harm's way and how long they will remain there.

We can email individual soldiers just as quickly and easily as we can talk to each other here at DU. We can read daily blogs of troopers who are in Afghanistan or Iraq (or elsewhere in the world for that matter) and learn for ourselves just what's happening to them and how they're handling it.

We can even find Websites that will show us the daily cost of this war -- in dollars, in lives sacrificed and damaged, in the esteem of people in other nations ... it's all out there if we but look for it. And that means we are so much more INVOLVED in this war than we've ever been before, we civilians.

I believe we're going to change the course of the war, contributing in a very real way to the decision-making process and compelling those who ultimately issue the orders to heed the righteous and reasonable demands of the citizenry.

To truly SUPPORT our troops, we must in effect BECOME troops ourselves. Join hands with them, feel their pain, hold them close and fight for them.

So as I said, Carry on.

:patriot: :thumbsup: :applause:

[liberaltrucker]

13. Well said

I'm emailing your post to my brother(2 tours in Nam) Bless you:patriot: Welcome to DU:hi:

[Political_Junkie]

16. Beautifully done.

Very moving.

[Imagevision]

17. Thanx and if I may; while they say; we don't care - we don't care!

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. *snapping fingers* Heavy!