oxygen - Willy Mason
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I wanna be better than oxygen
So you can breathe when you're drowning and weak in the knees
I wanna speak louder than Ritalin
For all the children who think that they've got a disease
I wanna be cooler than t.v.
For all the kids that are wondering what they are going to be
We can be stronger than bombs
If you're singing along and you know that you really believe
We can be richer than industry
As long as we know that there's things that we don't really need
We can speak louder than ignorance
Cause we speak in silence every time our eyes meet.
** On and on, and on it goes
The world it just keeps spinning
Until i'm dizzy, time to breathe
So close my eyes and start again anew.
I wanna see through all the lies of society
To the reality, happiness is at stake
I wanna hold up my head with dignity
Proud of a life where to give means more than to take
I wan't to live beyond the modern mentality
Where paper is all that you're really taught to create
Do you remember the forgotten America?
Justice, equality, freedom to every race?
Just need to get past all the lies and hypocrisy
Make up and hair to the truth behind every face
That look around to all the people you see,
How many of them are happy and free?
I know it sounds like a dream
But it's the only thing that can get me to sleep at night
I know it's hard to believe
But it's easy to see that something here isn't right
I know the future looks dark
But it's there that the kids of today must carry the light
If i'm afraid to catch a dream
I weave your baskets and i'll float them down the river stream
Each one i weave with words i speak to carry love to your relief. |
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth....
... vengeance is mine sayeth Harold Bishop.
For those of you uninformed of such matters, Harold Bishop has, in the last week, tried to strangle Paul Robinson, the man thought to be responsible for the plane crash which killed Harolds family.
It led me to think (a little bit). If someone murdered my family. would I do a harold? or would I be able to be grace-ful and forgive?
and also, is it always appropriate to be non-violent? Are there times when violence is necessary?
see - neighbours is intellectually stimulating.
Parteee time!!!!
I've been invited to a fancy dress party!!
Its a work do, so I cant go as anything too ridiculous or obscure, but I have no ideas whatsoever. Except to go as Rainbow Brite. but I think I might be the only one who will know who she is. So ideas please. it needs to be:
a) instantly recognizable
b) not too dumb
c) attractive in a didnt-try-too-hard way.
I will await your suggestions (sensible only please) with baited breath.
Celebrate fairtrade fortnight with a yummy treat!
Here is a recipie for yummy praline:
a packet of digestive biscuits (about 400g) mashed up.
200g butter (melted)
3 tbsp syrup
3tbsp fair trade sugar
3 tbsp fair trade cocoa powder
Mix all of this together and press it into a tin. put in the fridge to set.
once its set, chop up 3 fairtrade bananas and lay them over the base, then melt a bar of fairtrade chocolate and drizzle it all over. put it back in the fridge until set then invite friends over and eat (or eat by yourself!)
I have PMT
Shut Up! Go AWAY! Why are you going away? come here. I love you. I Hate you! aaaaaggggghhhh!!!! I'm too hot, turn the fire on. NO not like that. You cant do anything!!!BRING ME CHOCOLATE!! I'm so fat. poor me. sniff, sniff. Stop making that breathing sound.Why arent you hugging me? Stop squashing me! BRING ME CHOCOLATE!!!
(does anyone want to live with me now?)
