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Wed Jun-23-04 12:14 AM
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For those who wish they were someplace else (You know where) |
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Edited on Wed Jun-23-04 12:15 AM by HEyHEY
Good tune that means alot to those who've lived it. Someone did this a bit back too.
I'm sitting in the railway station. Got a ticket to my destination. On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand. And ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band. Homeward bound, I wish I was, Homeward bound, Home where my thought's escaping, Home where my music's playing, Home where my love lies waiting Silently for me. Ev'ry day's an endless stream Of cigarettes and magazines. And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories And ev'ry stranger's face I see reminds me that I long to be, Homeward bound, I wish I was, Homeward bound, Home where my thought's escaping, Home where my music's playing, Home where my love lies waiting Silently for me.
Tonight I'll sing my songs again, I'll play the game and pretend. But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me. Homeward bound, I wish I was, Homeward bound, Home where my thought's escaping, Home where my music's playing, Home where my love lies waiting Silently for me. Silently for me.
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Wed Jun-23-04 12:15 AM
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Wed Jun-23-04 12:16 AM
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Wed Jun-23-04 12:19 AM
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3. I can't stand sentimental bullshit |
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Give me music with some AARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!! to it. It always makes me feel better, and if I am someplace I don't want to be, the more fury the better.
Simon and Garfunkle just piss me off in general. I can't stand singer songwriters, or folk singers.
My sig line should be "If I had a hammer, they'd be no more folk singers"
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Wed Jun-23-04 12:20 AM
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4. I love sentimental stuff |
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If I can relate, another is "Home for a rest"
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Wed Jun-23-04 12:24 AM
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5. I can't relate, maybe that's my problem with it |
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I guess I get overwhelmed with what's going on around me on a much greater scale and have a really hard time with inward reflection. There is some emotional music that I like, some of it even personal and sentimental, but it has a passion that Simon and Garfunkle just do not have in any way shape or form.
this is about a close as I get to sentimental music -
The Last Straw by Marillion
Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridors A typewriter cackles out a stream of memories Drying out a conscience, evicting a nightmare Opening the doors for the dreams to come home We live out lives in private shells Ignore our senses and fool ourselves To thinking that out there there's someone else cares Someone to answer all our prayers
Are we too far gone, are we so irresponsible Have we lost our balls, or do we just not care We're terminal cases that keep talking medicine Pretending the end isn't quite that near
We make futile gestures, act to the cameras With our made up faces and PR smiles And when the angel comes down, down to deliver us We'll find out that after all, we're only men of straw
But everything is still the same Passing the time passing the blame We carry on in the same old way We'll find out we left it too late one day to say what we meant to say
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water Those problems seem to arise the ones you never really thought of The feeling you get is similar to something like drowning Out of your mind, you're out of your depth, you should have taken soundings Clutching at straws, we're clutching at straws
And if you ever come across us don't give us your sympathy You can buy us a drink and just shake our hands And you'll recognise by the reflection in our eyes That deep down inside we're all one and the same
We're clutching at straws We're still drowning Clutching at straws
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Wed Jun-23-04 12:26 AM
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6. Well, have you never spent a long time away from friends and family? |
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That's where I relate to it.
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Wed Jun-23-04 12:28 AM
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7. Sure, I lived in the UK for a year and a half at college and had to |
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make new friends over there. I wanted to go home, I missed my folks and brothers and all my friends. But when I was feeling really shitty about it I listened to Dead Kenndey's or Too Much Joy.
Something like this always made me feel better -
Long Haired Guys from England by Too much Joy
all the girls in the music biz have credit cards they subscribe to ms. but they only want to fuck long haired guys from england
there's this girl at my record company i dig her but she doesn't like me i met her boyfriend the other night he had a pony tail and he didn't talk right
he was a long haired guy from england long haired guy from united kingdom
all the girls in this here bar will treat you like you're a star don't get excited it's just luck they'll ignore you if the guy from the cult shows up
'cause he's a long haired guy from england long haired guy from united kingdom
i'm getting on an aeroplan going someplace where the girls are sane i bet in london i could get a date 'cause i'm a short haired guy from the united states
i'm not a long haired guy from england long haired guy from united kingdom
that's the end of this here song it's about as short as my hair is long so i'm getting on my motorbike going someplace where the girls don't like
longhaired guys from england long haired guy from united kingdom
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Wed Jun-23-04 12:29 AM
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8. Well I like it, HeyHey! |
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I love Simon and Garfunkel! :loveya:
Thanks...even though I'm home already.
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