"In a government for hire" - old words express how I often feel 2day
NB: I'm not particularly depressed or anything right now, but I am exhausted, emotionally and physically, although I can at last jog half a block, and sit up in bed without having to grit my teeth. This is an oldie, but it doesn't feel any less apt than it was 20 years ago, no matter what it means (kind of like Archie & Mehitabel that way)
That's great, it starts
with an earthquake,
birds and snakes, an aeroplane,
Lenny Bruce is not afraid--
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
World serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs.
Feed it off and knock, speak, grunt, no, strength, turn,
Ladder start to clatter with fear
Fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games,
In a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and coming in a hurry
With the Furies breathing
down
your
neck.
Team by team reporters baffled,
trumped, tethered, cropped--
Look at that low plane!
Fine,
then.
Uh oh,
overflow, population,
common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs.
Listen to your heart bleed.
Dummy with the rapture and
The reverend and the Right--
right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light,
feeling
pretty
psyched--
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine--
Six o'clock, TV hour, don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in, uniforming, and book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive.
Step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh-oh, this means
No fear, cavalier, renegade steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament,
A tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions,
Offer me alternatives and
I
decline--
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
And I feel fine
I feel fine
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
and I feel fine
The other night I dreamt of knives,
continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line,
Leonard Bernstein.
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book, neck, right?
Right--
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
And I feel fine--
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
And I feel fine...
--R.E.M., 1987
Don't worry, I'm not GAFIAting/FAFIAting - just kind of spiritually beat and not up to making coherent commentary these past few days, probably not until the weekend if then.
PS: all trivia being contained on the internets, does anyone happen to know/remember which version of "Bad Moon Rising" was used as background music in an episode of Miami Vice back in the mid-80s? It wasn't a CCR performance, it had more synth iirc.
That's great, it starts
with an earthquake,
birds and snakes, an aeroplane,
Lenny Bruce is not afraid--
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
World serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs.
Feed it off and knock, speak, grunt, no, strength, turn,
Ladder start to clatter with fear
Fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games,
In a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and coming in a hurry
With the Furies breathing
down
your
neck.
Team by team reporters baffled,
trumped, tethered, cropped--
Look at that low plane!
Fine,
then.
Uh oh,
overflow, population,
common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs.
Listen to your heart bleed.
Dummy with the rapture and
The reverend and the Right--
right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light,
feeling
pretty
psyched--
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine--
Six o'clock, TV hour, don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in, uniforming, and book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive.
Step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh-oh, this means
No fear, cavalier, renegade steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament,
A tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions,
Offer me alternatives and
I
decline--
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
And I feel fine
I feel fine
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
and I feel fine
The other night I dreamt of knives,
continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line,
Leonard Bernstein.
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book, neck, right?
Right--
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
And I feel fine--
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it/it's time I had some time alone
And I feel fine...
--R.E.M., 1987
Don't worry, I'm not GAFIAting/FAFIAting - just kind of spiritually beat and not up to making coherent commentary these past few days, probably not until the weekend if then.
PS: all trivia being contained on the internets, does anyone happen to know/remember which version of "Bad Moon Rising" was used as background music in an episode of Miami Vice back in the mid-80s? It wasn't a CCR performance, it had more synth iirc.