Prompt Tables 1-9, 11-12 (10, 13-15 posted separately)
Because I deleted the snapshots_mod name, I'm going to repost the prompt tables so any comments on those posts will come to me without any trouble.
Tables 1-12 were created by the original mods.
Theme 01: Elemental
01. dark
06. tears
11. light
16. earth
21. air
26. water
02. smell
07. spirit
12. wind
17. dust
22. sweat
27. fire
03. touch
08. taste
13. dream
18. sight
23. sound
28. speak
04. listen
09. hunger
14. memory
19. blood
24. dirt
29. sun
05. moon
10. shadow
15. stars
20. thirst
25. yearn
30. breath
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Theme 02: Less Talk, More Action
01. inhale
06. slide
11. lie
16. maunder
21. vaticinate
26. truckle
02. tell
07. indurate
12. exhale
17. show
22. capitulate
27. slake
03. lurk
08. jostle
13. crave
18. seek
23. scramble
28. pass
04. scrub
09. claim
14. urge
19. bind
24. release
29. command
05. regret
10. scrawl
15. trust
20. respite
25. converge
30. linger
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Theme 03: Paranormal State
01. fear
06. haunt
11. ghost
16. cemetery
21. heaven
26. hell
02. blood
07. possession
12. bones
17. magic
22. angels
27. demons
03. ritual
08. sacrifice
13. omen
18. death
23. life
28. purgatory
04. monster
09. faith
14. power
19. energy
24. shiver
29. vision
05. prayer
10. myth
15. legend
20. sacred
25. holy
30. fire
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Theme 04: Lover's Rock
01. skin
06. feel
11. heat
16. ache
21. desire
26. surrender
02. bite
07. kiss
12. wet
17. flush
22. tangle
27. truth
03. slick
08. touch
13. secret
18. lust
23. comfort
28. lies
04. promise
09. need
14. dance
19. trust
24. covet
29. future
05. betrayal
10. past
15. laughter
20. beginning
25. heart
30. ending
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Theme 05: The Open Road
01. Olympic Rainforest
06. Big Bend
11. Mississippi Delta
16. Four Corners
21. Black Hills
26. Yosemite
02. Rockies
07. Route 66
12. Badlands
17. Great Lakes
22. The Everglades
27. Appalachia
03. Rio Grande
08. Niagara Falls
13. Yellowstone
18. Sierra Nevada
23. Graceland
28. Big Sur
04. Crater Lake
09. Disney World
14. Great Plains
19. Mojave Desert
24. Roswell
29. Wine Country
05. Rust Belt
10. Bible Belt
15. Oregon Trail
20. Pacific Coast Highway
25. Gulf Coast Highway
30. El Camino Real
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Theme 06: 365
01. dawn
06. dusk
11. autumn
16. winter
21. spring
26. summer
02. morning
07. noon
12. night
17. yesterday
22. tomorrow
27. today
03. past
08. present
13. future
18. sunrise
23. sunset
28. twilight
04. hours
09. days
14. months
19. years
24. minutes
29. weeks
05. solstice
10. full moon
15. midnight
20. equinox
25. eclipse
30. time
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Theme 07: Get Your Kink On
01. role play
06. say my name
11. heated
16. wax play
21. voyeurism
26. biting
02. blindfold
07. lubrication
12. toys
17. barebacking
22. phone sex
27. rimming
03. gags
08. mirrors
13. deep-throating
18. fingering
23. self-love
28. moaning
04. public sex
09. bathing
14. lick
19. sharing clothes
24. restraints
29. latex
05. afterglow
10. dirty talk
15. breath play
20. teasing
25. jealousy
30. begging
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Theme 08: A Case By Case Basis
01. werewolf
06. curse
11. goblin
16. demon
21. trickster
26. faery
02. troll
07. vampire
12. chupacabra
17. wendigo
22. poltergeist
27. psychic
03. reaper
08. zombie
13. selkie
18. rakshasa
23. djinn
28. shapeshifter
04. siren
09. necromancer
14. succubus
19. ghoul
24. woman in white
29. tulpa
05. demonic virus
10. shtriga
15. human
20. black dog
25. gremlin
30. kitsune
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Theme 09: Choose Your Own Adventure!
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02.*
07.*
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17.*
22.*
27.*
03.*
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05.Writer's Choice
10.Writer's Choice
15.Writer's Choice
20.Writer's Choice
25.Writer's Choice
30.Writer's Choice
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Prompt Table #10: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Image heavy)
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Theme 11: He Said, She Said
01. In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you,
we found ourselves
reduced to I
06. It was not meant to last forever in the real world.
But why admit that, when you can go on
doing what you always do
11. and i did unforgivable things
and you perfected a certain cruelty
and when the end came screaming at us we fed it fresh, new years
our best years,
our prime of life years
16.I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.
21. When it comes, will it come without warning
Just as I'm picking my nose?
Will it knock on my door in the morning,
Or tread in the bus on my shoes?
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.
26. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
02. There are more things in heaven
and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy
07. And along a long street's
majestic emptiness under the moon:
one hand on the angel's shoulder, one
feeling the air before him,
eyes open but fixed...
12. O' God it's wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much
17. forgive me if i laugh
you are so sure of love
you are so young
and i too old to learn of love.
22. We two form a multitude
27. What use are books to me
When in you it is possible to read
The Gospel of my life on earth
And still beyond, of things to come?
03. We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
08. The Thing Is to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
13. The stain of love
Is upon the world.
18. I chose to do something with my life
that I knew I could fail at.
I spent my whole life walking
and hid such colorful wings.
23. you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my body,to have in your fingers
(trembling ever so little)?
28. I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.
04. Yet the weeks are short
The months go racing by
And the years have wings.
09. the wave of a life darker than my
life before me sped, and I,
larger than I was, grown dark as
the shoreless depth,
arose from myself, shaking the last
light of the sun
from me.
14. I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, Eyes -
I wonder if It weighs like Mine -
Or has an Easier size.
19. Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
24. There has been a key
for every lock you’ve picked
& when you picked the locks
the keys lost all their weight.
29. Well--
all things turn bitter in the end
whether you choose the right or
the left way
and--
dreams are not a bad thing.
05. She might be an everyday sort of brave,
And possess no want or need to be saved,
Examined, and pitied by the likes of me
10. they give me pain, so I live with pain,
they give me hate, so I live with my hate,
they have changed me, and I am not the same man
15. There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,--so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!
20. After a while you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning,
And company doesn't mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts,
And presents aren't promises...
25. Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is your love,
That lists where it will.
30. Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions
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Theme 12: Songs In The Key Of Life
01. One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
06. You should have asked me for it
I would have been brave
You should have asked me for it
How could I say no?
11. I asked you if a man could be forgiven
And though I failed at love, was this a crime?
You said, Don't worry, don't worry, darling
There are many ways a man can serve his time
16. And I'm comin' home again
It's been too long a time
Gettin' back what's mine
And I can't remember why I went away
But it's lookin' now like maybe I can stay
21. Please, remember me,
My misery,
And how it lost me all I wanted.
26. Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
02. If I could do it all again
I'd make more mistakes
Not be so scared of falling,
If I could do it again,
I would climb more trees
I'd pick and I'd eat
more wild blackberries
07. I've been treated so wrong
I've been treated so long
As if I'm becoming untouchable
I'm the slow dying flower
In the frost killing hour
Sweet turning sour and untouchable
12. There's gotta be a record of you some place
You gotta be on somebody's books
...
Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete
And its your face Im looking for on every street
17. He's made of sand
Not flesh and not bone
He's as good as the seeds he's sown
But he loves you so
Like no one else you know could do
22. Turn the light out say goodnight
No thinking for a little while
Let's not try to figure out everything at once
27. And honey I was never gonna change,
And honey you are never gonna change,
But don't you love it that way?
03. A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
08. Everybody seems to wonder
What it's like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around,
Everybody knows this is nowhere.
13. Don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You can come by any time you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars:
Each one is a setting sun
18. And I know that I'm damned if I never get out
And maybe I'm damned if I do
But with any other beat I got left in my heart
You know I'd rather be damned with you
23. And I could take another hit for you
And I could take away your trips from you
And I could take away the salt from your eyes
And take away the spitting salt in you
And I could give you my apologies
28. The Mississippi Delta was shining
Like a National guitar,
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil war
04. She's the one
She's the only one
Who makes me search myself
Until I'm done
09. And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass
It's just a moment
This time will pass
14. I better go it alone
Down on the corner
See me standin'
On a makeshift road
With the dust storm blowin'
In a long black shadow
...
Drivin' on the sidewalk
Lookin' back and the sky is burning
In my rearview mirror
I better go it alone
19. Have you run your fingers down
the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for the light?
Sometimes when you're scared
to take a look
At the corner of the room
You've sensed that something's
watching you
24. Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out
I'm floating around in ecstasy
So don't stop me now don't stop me
'Cause I'm having a good time having a good time
29. I heard the news, lady
All about your disease
Yeah you may have all you want, baby
But I got something you need
Ain't talking bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talking bout love
Just like I told you before
05. But now and then I find myself
Thinkin' of the days
That (when) we were walking in
The Alabama rain
Drive-in movies, Friday nights
Drinkin' beer and laughin'
Somehow things were always right
I just don't know what happened
10. I kinda thought that I'd be better off by myself
I've never been so wrong before
...
I don't know what I've been trying to prove
I don't know what I've been trying to prove
15. Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down,
When the man comes around.
20. This is the last time
That I will say these words
I remember the first time
The first of many lies
Sweep it into the corner
Or hide it under the bed
Say these things they go away
But they never do
25. Maybe you and I got a lot to learn
Don't waste another day
Maybe you got to lose it all
Before you find your way
30. When the kicks go that it brings you
You will hanker for an anchor just to cling to
When you've lived it up till it's got you down
Look for me, I'll be around
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Prompt Tables 13-15
Tables 1-12 were created by the original mods.
Theme 01: Elemental
01. dark
06. tears
11. light
16. earth
21. air
26. water
02. smell
07. spirit
12. wind
17. dust
22. sweat
27. fire
03. touch
08. taste
13. dream
18. sight
23. sound
28. speak
04. listen
09. hunger
14. memory
19. blood
24. dirt
29. sun
05. moon
10. shadow
15. stars
20. thirst
25. yearn
30. breath
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| 01. | dark | 06. | tears | 11. | light | 16. | earth | 21. | air | 26. | water |
| 02. | smell | 07. | spirit | 12. | wind | 17. | dust | 22. | sweat | 27. | fire |
| 03. | touch | 08. | taste | 13. | dream | 18. | sight | 23. | sound | 28. | speak |
| 04. | listen | 09. | hunger | 14. | memory | 19. | blood | 24. | dirt | 29. | sun |
| 05. | moon | 10. | shadow | 15. | stars | 20. | thirst | 25. | yearn | 30. | breath |
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Theme 02: Less Talk, More Action
01. inhale
06. slide
11. lie
16. maunder
21. vaticinate
26. truckle
02. tell
07. indurate
12. exhale
17. show
22. capitulate
27. slake
03. lurk
08. jostle
13. crave
18. seek
23. scramble
28. pass
04. scrub
09. claim
14. urge
19. bind
24. release
29. command
05. regret
10. scrawl
15. trust
20. respite
25. converge
30. linger
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| 01. | inhale | 06. | slide | 11. | lie | 16. | maunder | 21. | vaticinate | 26. | truckle |
| 02. | tell | 07. | indurate | 12. | exhale | 17. | show | 22. | capitulate | 27. | slake |
| 03. | lurk | 08. | jostle | 13. | crave | 18. | seek | 23. | scramble | 28. | pass |
| 04. | scrub | 09. | claim | 14. | urge | 19. | bind | 24. | release | 29. | command |
| 05. | regret | 10. | scrawl | 15. | trust | 20. | respite | 25. | converge | 30. | linger |
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Theme 03: Paranormal State
01. fear
06. haunt
11. ghost
16. cemetery
21. heaven
26. hell
02. blood
07. possession
12. bones
17. magic
22. angels
27. demons
03. ritual
08. sacrifice
13. omen
18. death
23. life
28. purgatory
04. monster
09. faith
14. power
19. energy
24. shiver
29. vision
05. prayer
10. myth
15. legend
20. sacred
25. holy
30. fire
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| 01. | fear | 06. | haunt | 11. | ghost | 16. | cemetery | 21. | heaven | 26. | hell |
| 02. | blood | 07. | possession | 12. | bones | 17. | magic | 22. | angels | 27. | demons |
| 03. | ritual | 08. | sacrifice | 13. | omen | 18. | death | 23. | life | 28. | purgatory |
| 04. | monster | 09. | faith | 14. | power | 19. | energy | 24. | shiver | 29. | vision |
| 05. | prayer | 10. | myth | 15. | legend | 20. | sacred | 25. | holy | 30. | fire |
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Theme 04: Lover's Rock
01. skin
06. feel
11. heat
16. ache
21. desire
26. surrender
02. bite
07. kiss
12. wet
17. flush
22. tangle
27. truth
03. slick
08. touch
13. secret
18. lust
23. comfort
28. lies
04. promise
09. need
14. dance
19. trust
24. covet
29. future
05. betrayal
10. past
15. laughter
20. beginning
25. heart
30. ending
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| 01. | skin | 06. | feel | 11. | heat | 16. | ache | 21. | desire | 26. | surrender |
| 02. | bite | 07. | kiss | 12. | wet | 17. | flush | 22. | tangle | 27. | truth |
| 03. | slick | 08. | touch | 13. | secret | 18. | lust | 23. | comfort | 28. | lies |
| 04. | promise | 09. | need | 14. | dance | 19. | trust | 24. | covet | 29. | future |
| 05. | betrayal | 10. | past | 15. | laughter | 20. | beginning | 25. | heart | 30. | ending |
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Theme 05: The Open Road
01. Olympic Rainforest
06. Big Bend
11. Mississippi Delta
16. Four Corners
21. Black Hills
26. Yosemite
02. Rockies
07. Route 66
12. Badlands
17. Great Lakes
22. The Everglades
27. Appalachia
03. Rio Grande
08. Niagara Falls
13. Yellowstone
18. Sierra Nevada
23. Graceland
28. Big Sur
04. Crater Lake
09. Disney World
14. Great Plains
19. Mojave Desert
24. Roswell
29. Wine Country
05. Rust Belt
10. Bible Belt
15. Oregon Trail
20. Pacific Coast Highway
25. Gulf Coast Highway
30. El Camino Real
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| 01. | Olympic Rainforest | 06. | Big Bend | 11. | Mississippi Delta | 16. | Four Corners | 21. | Black Hills | 26. | Yosemite |
| 02. | Rockies | 07. | Route 66 | 12. | Badlands | 17. | Great Lakes | 22. | The Everglades | 27. | Appalachia |
| 03. | Rio Grande | 08. | Niagara Falls | 13. | Yellowstone | 18. | Sierra Nevada | 23. | Graceland | 28. | Big Sur |
| 04. | Crater Lake | 09. | Disney World | 14. | Great Plains | 19. | Mojave Desert | 24. | Roswell | 29. | Wine Country |
| 05. | Rust Belt | 10. | Bible Belt | 15. | Oregon Trail | 20. | Pacific Coast Highway | 25. | Gulf Coast Highway | 30. | El Camino Real |
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Theme 06: 365
01. dawn
06. dusk
11. autumn
16. winter
21. spring
26. summer
02. morning
07. noon
12. night
17. yesterday
22. tomorrow
27. today
03. past
08. present
13. future
18. sunrise
23. sunset
28. twilight
04. hours
09. days
14. months
19. years
24. minutes
29. weeks
05. solstice
10. full moon
15. midnight
20. equinox
25. eclipse
30. time
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| 01. | dawn | 06. | dusk | 11. | autumn | 16. | winter | 21. | spring | 26. | summer |
| 02. | morning | 07. | noon | 12. | night | 17. | yesterday | 22. | tomorrow | 27. | today |
| 03. | past | 08. | present | 13. | future | 18. | sunrise | 23. | sunset | 28. | twilight |
| 04. | hours | 09. | days | 14. | months | 19. | years | 24. | minutes | 29. | weeks |
| 05. | solstice | 10. | full moon | 15. | midnight | 20. | equinox | 25. | eclipse | 30. | time |
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Theme 07: Get Your Kink On
01. role play
06. say my name
11. heated
16. wax play
21. voyeurism
26. biting
02. blindfold
07. lubrication
12. toys
17. barebacking
22. phone sex
27. rimming
03. gags
08. mirrors
13. deep-throating
18. fingering
23. self-love
28. moaning
04. public sex
09. bathing
14. lick
19. sharing clothes
24. restraints
29. latex
05. afterglow
10. dirty talk
15. breath play
20. teasing
25. jealousy
30. begging
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| 01. | role play | 06. | say my name | 11. | heated | 16. | wax play | 21. | voyeurism | 26. | biting |
| 02. | blindfold | 07. | lubrication | 12. | toys | 17. | barebacking | 22. | phone sex | 27. | rimming |
| 03. | gags | 08. | mirrors | 13. | deep-throating | 18. | fingering | 23. | self-love | 28. | moaning |
| 04. | public sex | 09. | bathing | 14. | lick | 19. | sharing clothes | 24. | restraints | 29. | latex |
| 05. | afterglow | 10. | dirty talk | 15. | breath play | 20. | teasing | 25. | jealousy | 30. | begging |
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Theme 08: A Case By Case Basis
01. werewolf
06. curse
11. goblin
16. demon
21. trickster
26. faery
02. troll
07. vampire
12. chupacabra
17. wendigo
22. poltergeist
27. psychic
03. reaper
08. zombie
13. selkie
18. rakshasa
23. djinn
28. shapeshifter
04. siren
09. necromancer
14. succubus
19. ghoul
24. woman in white
29. tulpa
05. demonic virus
10. shtriga
15. human
20. black dog
25. gremlin
30. kitsune
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| 01. | werewolf | 06. | curse | 11. | goblin | 16. | demon | 21. | trickster | 26. | faery |
| 02. | troll | 07. | vampire | 12. | chupacabra | 17. | wendigo | 22. | poltergeist | 27. | psychic |
| 03. | reaper | 08. | zombie | 13. | selkie | 18. | rakshasa | 23. | djinn | 28. | shapeshifter |
| 04. | siren | 09. | necromancer | 14. | succubus | 19. | ghoul | 24. | woman in white | 29. | tulpa |
| 05. | demonic virus | 10. | shtriga | 15. | human | 20. | black dog | 25. | gremlin | 30. | kitsune |
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Theme 09: Choose Your Own Adventure!
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05.Writer's Choice
10.Writer's Choice
15.Writer's Choice
20.Writer's Choice
25.Writer's Choice
30.Writer's Choice
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| 05. | Writer's Choice | 10. | Writer's Choice | 15. | Writer's Choice | 20. | Writer's Choice | 25. | Writer's Choice | 30. | Writer's Choice |
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Prompt Table #10: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Image heavy)
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Theme 11: He Said, She Said
01. In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you,
we found ourselves
reduced to I
06. It was not meant to last forever in the real world.
But why admit that, when you can go on
doing what you always do
11. and i did unforgivable things
and you perfected a certain cruelty
and when the end came screaming at us we fed it fresh, new years
our best years,
our prime of life years
16.I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.
21. When it comes, will it come without warning
Just as I'm picking my nose?
Will it knock on my door in the morning,
Or tread in the bus on my shoes?
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.
26. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
02. There are more things in heaven
and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy
07. And along a long street's
majestic emptiness under the moon:
one hand on the angel's shoulder, one
feeling the air before him,
eyes open but fixed...
12. O' God it's wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much
17. forgive me if i laugh
you are so sure of love
you are so young
and i too old to learn of love.
22. We two form a multitude
27. What use are books to me
When in you it is possible to read
The Gospel of my life on earth
And still beyond, of things to come?
03. We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
08. The Thing Is to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
13. The stain of love
Is upon the world.
18. I chose to do something with my life
that I knew I could fail at.
I spent my whole life walking
and hid such colorful wings.
23. you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my body,to have in your fingers
(trembling ever so little)?
28. I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.
04. Yet the weeks are short
The months go racing by
And the years have wings.
09. the wave of a life darker than my
life before me sped, and I,
larger than I was, grown dark as
the shoreless depth,
arose from myself, shaking the last
light of the sun
from me.
14. I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, Eyes -
I wonder if It weighs like Mine -
Or has an Easier size.
19. Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
24. There has been a key
for every lock you’ve picked
& when you picked the locks
the keys lost all their weight.
29. Well--
all things turn bitter in the end
whether you choose the right or
the left way
and--
dreams are not a bad thing.
05. She might be an everyday sort of brave,
And possess no want or need to be saved,
Examined, and pitied by the likes of me
10. they give me pain, so I live with pain,
they give me hate, so I live with my hate,
they have changed me, and I am not the same man
15. There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,--so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!
20. After a while you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning,
And company doesn't mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts,
And presents aren't promises...
25. Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is your love,
That lists where it will.
30. Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions
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| 01. | In those years, people will say, we lost track of the meaning of we, of you, we found ourselves reduced to I | 06. | It was not meant to last forever in the real world. But why admit that, when you can go on doing what you always do | 11. | and i did unforgivable things and you perfected a certain cruelty and when the end came screaming at us we fed it fresh, new years our best years, our prime of life years | 16. | I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. | 21. | When it comes, will it come without warning Just as I'm picking my nose? Will it knock on my door in the morning, Or tread in the bus on my shoes? Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love. | 26. | It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. |
| 02. | There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy | 07. | And along a long street's majestic emptiness under the moon: one hand on the angel's shoulder, one feeling the air before him, eyes open but fixed... | 12. | O' God it's wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much | 17. | forgive me if i laugh you are so sure of love you are so young and i too old to learn of love. | 22. | We two form a multitude | 27. | What use are books to me When in you it is possible to read The Gospel of my life on earth And still beyond, of things to come? |
| 03. | We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. | 08. | The Thing Is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. | 13. | The stain of love Is upon the world. | 18. | I chose to do something with my life that I knew I could fail at. I spent my whole life walking and hid such colorful wings. | 23. | you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? | 28. | I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph. |
| 04. | Yet the weeks are short The months go racing by And the years have wings. | 09. | the wave of a life darker than my life before me sped, and I, larger than I was, grown dark as the shoreless depth, arose from myself, shaking the last light of the sun from me. | 14. | I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes - I wonder if It weighs like Mine - Or has an Easier size. | 19. | Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? | 24. | There has been a key for every lock you’ve picked & when you picked the locks the keys lost all their weight. | 29. | Well-- all things turn bitter in the end whether you choose the right or the left way and-- dreams are not a bad thing. |
| 05. | She might be an everyday sort of brave, And possess no want or need to be saved, Examined, and pitied by the likes of me | 10. | they give me pain, so I live with pain, they give me hate, so I live with my hate, they have changed me, and I am not the same man | 15. | There are a hundred places where I fear To go,--so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, "There is no memory of him here!" And so stand stricken, so remembering him! | 20. | After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning, And company doesn't mean security, And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts, And presents aren't promises... | 25. | Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will. | 30. | Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions |
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Theme 12: Songs In The Key Of Life
01. One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
06. You should have asked me for it
I would have been brave
You should have asked me for it
How could I say no?
11. I asked you if a man could be forgiven
And though I failed at love, was this a crime?
You said, Don't worry, don't worry, darling
There are many ways a man can serve his time
16. And I'm comin' home again
It's been too long a time
Gettin' back what's mine
And I can't remember why I went away
But it's lookin' now like maybe I can stay
21. Please, remember me,
My misery,
And how it lost me all I wanted.
26. Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
02. If I could do it all again
I'd make more mistakes
Not be so scared of falling,
If I could do it again,
I would climb more trees
I'd pick and I'd eat
more wild blackberries
07. I've been treated so wrong
I've been treated so long
As if I'm becoming untouchable
I'm the slow dying flower
In the frost killing hour
Sweet turning sour and untouchable
12. There's gotta be a record of you some place
You gotta be on somebody's books
...
Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete
And its your face Im looking for on every street
17. He's made of sand
Not flesh and not bone
He's as good as the seeds he's sown
But he loves you so
Like no one else you know could do
22. Turn the light out say goodnight
No thinking for a little while
Let's not try to figure out everything at once
27. And honey I was never gonna change,
And honey you are never gonna change,
But don't you love it that way?
03. A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
08. Everybody seems to wonder
What it's like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around,
Everybody knows this is nowhere.
13. Don't cry
You can rely on me honey
You can come by any time you want
I'll be around
You were right about the stars:
Each one is a setting sun
18. And I know that I'm damned if I never get out
And maybe I'm damned if I do
But with any other beat I got left in my heart
You know I'd rather be damned with you
23. And I could take another hit for you
And I could take away your trips from you
And I could take away the salt from your eyes
And take away the spitting salt in you
And I could give you my apologies
28. The Mississippi Delta was shining
Like a National guitar,
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil war
04. She's the one
She's the only one
Who makes me search myself
Until I'm done
09. And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass
It's just a moment
This time will pass
14. I better go it alone
Down on the corner
See me standin'
On a makeshift road
With the dust storm blowin'
In a long black shadow
...
Drivin' on the sidewalk
Lookin' back and the sky is burning
In my rearview mirror
I better go it alone
19. Have you run your fingers down
the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for the light?
Sometimes when you're scared
to take a look
At the corner of the room
You've sensed that something's
watching you
24. Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out
I'm floating around in ecstasy
So don't stop me now don't stop me
'Cause I'm having a good time having a good time
29. I heard the news, lady
All about your disease
Yeah you may have all you want, baby
But I got something you need
Ain't talking bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talking bout love
Just like I told you before
05. But now and then I find myself
Thinkin' of the days
That (when) we were walking in
The Alabama rain
Drive-in movies, Friday nights
Drinkin' beer and laughin'
Somehow things were always right
I just don't know what happened
10. I kinda thought that I'd be better off by myself
I've never been so wrong before
...
I don't know what I've been trying to prove
I don't know what I've been trying to prove
15. Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down,
When the man comes around.
20. This is the last time
That I will say these words
I remember the first time
The first of many lies
Sweep it into the corner
Or hide it under the bed
Say these things they go away
But they never do
25. Maybe you and I got a lot to learn
Don't waste another day
Maybe you got to lose it all
Before you find your way
30. When the kicks go that it brings you
You will hanker for an anchor just to cling to
When you've lived it up till it's got you down
Look for me, I'll be around
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| 01. | One minute I held the key Next the walls were closed on me And I discovered that my castles stand Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand | 06. | You should have asked me for it I would have been brave You should have asked me for it How could I say no? | 11. | I asked you if a man could be forgiven And though I failed at love, was this a crime? You said, Don't worry, don't worry, darling There are many ways a man can serve his time | 16. | And I'm comin' home again It's been too long a time Gettin' back what's mine And I can't remember why I went away But it's lookin' now like maybe I can stay | 21. | Please, remember me, My misery, And how it lost me all I wanted. | 26. | Lean on me, when you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on For it won't be long 'Til I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on |
| 02. | If I could do it all again I'd make more mistakes Not be so scared of falling, If I could do it again, I would climb more trees I'd pick and I'd eat more wild blackberries | 07. | I've been treated so wrong I've been treated so long As if I'm becoming untouchable I'm the slow dying flower In the frost killing hour Sweet turning sour and untouchable | 12. | There's gotta be a record of you some place You gotta be on somebody's books ... Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete And its your face Im looking for on every street | 17. | He's made of sand Not flesh and not bone He's as good as the seeds he's sown But he loves you so Like no one else you know could do | 22. | Turn the light out say goodnight No thinking for a little while Let's not try to figure out everything at once | 27. | And honey I was never gonna change, And honey you are never gonna change, But don't you love it that way? |
| 03. | A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife | 08. | Everybody seems to wonder What it's like down here I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around, Everybody knows this is nowhere. | 13. | Don't cry You can rely on me honey You can come by any time you want I'll be around You were right about the stars: Each one is a setting sun | 18. | And I know that I'm damned if I never get out And maybe I'm damned if I do But with any other beat I got left in my heart You know I'd rather be damned with you | 23. | And I could take another hit for you And I could take away your trips from you And I could take away the salt from your eyes And take away the spitting salt in you And I could give you my apologies | 28. | The Mississippi Delta was shining Like a National guitar, I am following the river Down the highway Through the cradle of the civil war |
| 04. | She's the one She's the only one Who makes me search myself Until I'm done | 09. | And if the night runs over And if the day won't last And if your way should falter Along this stony pass It's just a moment This time will pass | 14. | I better go it alone Down on the corner See me standin' On a makeshift road With the dust storm blowin' In a long black shadow ... Drivin' on the sidewalk Lookin' back and the sky is burning In my rearview mirror I better go it alone | 19. | Have you run your fingers down the wall And have you felt your neck skin crawl When you're searching for the light? Sometimes when you're scared to take a look At the corner of the room You've sensed that something's watching you | 24. | Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out I'm floating around in ecstasy So don't stop me now don't stop me 'Cause I'm having a good time having a good time | 29. | I heard the news, lady All about your disease Yeah you may have all you want, baby But I got something you need Ain't talking bout love My love is rotten to the core Ain't talking bout love Just like I told you before |
| 05. | But now and then I find myself Thinkin' of the days That (when) we were walking in The Alabama rain Drive-in movies, Friday nights Drinkin' beer and laughin' Somehow things were always right I just don't know what happened | 10. | I kinda thought that I'd be better off by myself I've never been so wrong before ... I don't know what I've been trying to prove I don't know what I've been trying to prove | 15. | Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still. Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still. Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still. Listen to the words long written down, When the man comes around. | 20. | This is the last time That I will say these words I remember the first time The first of many lies Sweep it into the corner Or hide it under the bed Say these things they go away But they never do | 25. | Maybe you and I got a lot to learn Don't waist another day Maybe you got to lose it all Before you find your way | 30. | When the kicks go that it brings you You will hanker for an anchor just to cling to When you've lived it up till it's got you down Look for me, I'll be around |
* works cited here and downloads of the music here.
(Somebody let me know if this link for the songs ever goes down. The old mods are hosting it and I don't know if they're going to keep it up forever. *grin*)
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