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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 01:01 AM
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some masks...
aren't for breathing... freedom comes from losing the mask

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Y26KpgZknY
It's a fire... Portishead

Portishead - Its A Fire Lyrics

Its a fire
These dreams they pass me by
This salvation I desire
Keeps getting me down

Cos we need to
Recognise mistakes
For time and again

So let it be known for what we believe in
I can see no reason for it to fail.... ...

Cos this life is a farce
I can't breathe through this mask
Like a fool
So breathe on, sister breathe on



From this oneself
Testify or tell
Its fooling us now

So let it be known for what we believe in
I can see no reason for it to fail...

Cos this life is a farce
I can't breathe through this mask
Like a fool
So breathe on, little sister, breathe on
Ohh so breathe on, little sister, like a fool
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 01:18 AM
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1. "We wear the mask"
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

-- Paul Laurence Dunbar
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S n o w b a l l Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 01:39 AM
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2. So beautiful....
:hug:
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