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The
Intellectual Babbler Marco
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There’s talk in newspapers.
Think about the galaxy.
Think about the galaxy.
I’ll wonder what went wrong until I die.
Pitter patter--rain to mettle.
Blurred red sign shakes--reflects your brights.
There’s a diamond above you,
A silent diamond above you.
I’ll wonder what went wrong until I die.
I’ll wonder what went wrong until I die.
Bound toward the base they’re boiling in.
Thumb says they’re in Hanger Eighteen.
Thumb says they’re in Hanger Eighteen.
I’ll wonder what went wrong until I die.
I’ll wonder what went wrong until I die.
Think up songs that you might like.
I try to write some great insight to get my story told
So all can see my mind unfold.
I go away at night--
All my membranes taking flight.
Of life I take a great big bite and ponder views of the world.
Nothing good rhymes with world
But one thing that you should know:
Allow your mind to grow.
Never close your sensories to creative abstractities.
Life's a constant harvest of everything around us.
To learn things we must process and never be afraid to dream.
Some people what they do at night, they watch TV 'till broad daylight.
And even then they fail to see the light as it hits them in the eyes.
But I guess it's their own lives.
So late at night when you're in bed
And can't rid this song from inside of your head,
Think of the artists who once said...
My relative, my relative time.
The bath is clogged.
The faucet is stuck on.
Six Billion can't pull the plug.
Our world in human scale is left behind
For a frustrated big being to find:
Pick up a car and throw it to our Mars. Ask,
"Where are all the people who fit in these tiny cars?"
"I think you sat on the worship place of this little town."
"I wonder if that steeple was originally brown."
"Here, take this guitar. It works well to clean your ears."
"But I can't pluck this string, or that! Oh, where are these tiny
craftsman?"
"Read up information, laugh I, I need Magna-glasses!"
"People living here must have had eyes sharp as molasses."
My relative, my relative time.
My relative, my relative time.
The bath is clogged.
The faucet is stuck on.
Six Billion can't pull the plug.
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Loosen
the mind. Listen the song like a balloon untied
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Less
heavy; Less weighted.
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Like
in the Stream of Unconsciousness record by Ryan Smith:
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"Judas
Kiss"; "Skid Viscous".
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Now
turn your thoughts to war
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And
those shot and killed in Kosovo.
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Beaten,
Robbed, House burned. Forced run or die or die from run
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Refugee,
glad you fleed.
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"My
brother's throat was cut for accent while answering the door."
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Stories
told thousand fold.
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My
thoughts are stuck on war
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And
those shot and killed in Kosovo.
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A grand
slam by the bat of genocide.
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Frustrate/Too
late NATO?
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All
Yugoslavians now worse off than before NATO
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Tried
saving by killing.
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Milosevic
has gained support; Clinton won't dare abort
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Look
stronger. Bomb harder.
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My
thoughts are stuck on war.
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Is
the aim of the strike peace or control?!?
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Catastrophic
consequences abound
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From
bombing civil infrastructure down.
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Nuclear
Arms rumored re-aimed
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At
pro-NATO cities throughout the world.
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Russia
has warned to keep the peace.
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Ground
troops may onset WWIII
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Loosen
the mind. Listen the song like a balloon untied.
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Less
heavy; Less weighted.
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Body sleeps, the mind's awake.
Real-life pets adorn the stage.
All the music is under your bed.
Everything's under your bed.
White kitten, purple paws, green toes,
Lies with lime-green calico.
Joyful wet face licked by sand.
Alone with kittens in each hand.
All the music is under your bed.
Everything's under your bed.
Black line painted on the floor
Keeps them from the furniture.
Rooms have moved, the line has stayed.
The cats now kept from the boy who played...
My Mother wrote this to comfort me--
Sang to me beautifully.
Feelings in dreams real as time.
I woke up singing the next line.
I went kayaking down the Peshtigo
today. Thought it strange one could own such land where I’d play.
I’d love to shoot McClintock Rapids again, But I can’t ‘cause someone
owns the land where I’d stand.
Yah, and Pete’s our guide. He kept us all dry. Pierced in his brow, he knows what he knows well, But he doesn’t know it all.
I found a dead northern in five feet of water. Despite the current I used my paddle to get the body. Her body’s slimy, his belly’s white and floaty. The river’s ripples made her look like she was swimming.
Oh, I put her on the shore, for animals eat them… An im a mals eat fish. Those turtles snapping get to be two by a foot and a half.
It's rarely rained here, the water
level shows it. Dad lifts over rocks to get his boat back rolling (
I don't know why I sang "Jane". Think "Dad"). Today's
the last day of the tours down the river.
In early Spring it's Pete, the ice, and his sledgehammer.
Oh, I look upon the shore - All red green and yellow...De de di da death of leaves. When Nick and I were younger, we filled in our forts with these same smelling leaves.
Thanks for Greg Stern for pushing for a 3rd verse.
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Forty years
pre-today
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To celebrate
the onslaught of summer
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Mothers sewed
at home for weeks and a day 'cause my Mother was
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Queen of
the May.
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But I'll
be there some day.
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Yah, I'll
be there some day.
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I'll be there
some day.
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My Mother
is Queen of the May.
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The Queen
and her court preside
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While the
elephants open their eyes.
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Uncle John
takes tickets for the marry-go-round
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As my mother's
crowned Queen of the May
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Oh, look...
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The entertainment's
begun!
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See the flowers
and costumes and ribbons?
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Begin dances
'round May poles and kids start your games
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'cause my
mother's crowned Queen of the May.
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Take that time and recall some memories
'Cause they're all you take with to the grave.
Well you're living like an American;
You're shooting here and there.
Are you shooting in the direction that your maker sent you to
Sail on Future
I think I'll just wait right here.
After all I've lost sense of direction.
I'm sure I was aimed, but I'm lost in this world that was made.
Take some time to peel the burdens (from your skin)
That fell from the sky.
And take those peelings 'tween palm and palm, And throw 'em to whom you sing
Sail on Future.
I think I'll just stay right here.
After all I've lost sense of direction.
See I'm sure I was aimed but I'm lost in this world that was made.
I'm lost in the shadows of past generations
Who built up our world too high. Sailing.
I'm sailing on a frictionless future That's sucking my life from my eyes.