h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You're doing the bidding of the money man
If it turns out right they'll call you a friend
One little favour how could you really refuse

Oh my heart is sinking
Same old useless worn out thinking
You live your life in the court of kings
Bow to the ruler and kiss the ring

But we don't even understand a thing you say
It could happen to you
It could happen to you
It could happen to you sometime
When you least expect it

You can get just so much from a good thing
You can linger too long in your dreams
Say goodbye to the "Oldies But Goodies"
Cause the good old days weren't always good
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight,
(HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!)
She'd a list to the port and and her sails in rags
And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags

God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

I gotta horse that lives in a tree watches Huckleberry Hound on his t.v....Big brother and the holding company

I have a dream

There's no-one coming with that freedom train.
There's nowhere you can go where you feel no pain.
Take the blinkers off you eye's,
The power is in your hand.
Stop waiting for your ticket to the promised land.

There ain't no heaven and there ain't no hell.
Except the one we're in, and you know too well
There's no-one waiting on,
Waiting on a higher high.
Don't let the only world you're ever gonna live in pass you by.

It was the first of may
A righteous holiday
This was when the workers play
Celebrate fertility

doll dagga buzz ziggedy zag got my grotesque burlesque drag

Look in my eyes, what will you leave behind when you're gone?
You've got what you came far now I think think it's time you move on
For these ghosts come alive just like water and wine, walk through the streets singing songs and carrying signs
To them these streets belong.

My hands are soaking in the blood of angels
On broken wings they collapsed.
Dark clouds burst open and torrents of rain fell
All these lost halos washed away

"Day after day, day after day,
we stuck nor breath nor motion
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
Water, water everywhere and
all the boards did shrink
Water, water everywhere nor any
drop to drink."

[ SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1798-1834) ]

There, calls the mariner
there comes a ship over the line
But how can she sail with no wind
in her sails and no tide.

See... onward she comes
Onwards she nears, out of the sun
See... she has no crew
She has no life, wait but there's two

Death and she Life in Death,
they throw their dice for the crew
She wins the Mariner and he belongs to her now.
Then ... crew one by one
They drop down dead, two hundred men
She... She, Life in Death.
She lets him live, her chosen one.

[ NARRATIVE ]
"One after one by the star dogged moon,
too quick for groan or sigh
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang
and cursed me with his eye
Four times fifty living men
(and I heard nor sigh nor groan),
With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
they dropped down one by one."

[ SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1798-1834) ]

Love the poem, and my brother quotes it at length when the mood strikes him but is it a song lyric?

Yes - if you read between the narritives - it's from the track of the same name by Iron Maiden c. 1984/5

Although random poetry verse might be a great idea for a new thread.

There are extracts from the poem in the song.
And aren't all lyrics poems in a way?

Yes I guess you're right - Here's one with some very famous narrative at the beginning:



"Woe to you, oh Earth and Sea,
For the Devil sends the Beast with wrath,
Because he knows the time is short....
Let him who hath understanding reckon the Number of the Beast
For it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty six"

I left alone, my mind was blank
I needed time to think, to get the memories from my mind
What did I see? Can I believe?
That what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw in my old dreams
Were they reflections of my warped mind staring back at me
'Cause in my dreams it's always there
The evil face that twists my mind and brings me to despair

Night was black, was no use holding back
'Cause I just had to see was someone watching me
In the mist dark figures move and twist
Was all this for real or just some kind of hell?

666 – the Number of the Beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released ...

Also Iron Maiden c.Even earlier

Go!

Stapled shut, inside and ouside would and I'm
Sealed in tight, but right at home Claustrophobic, closing in and I'm
Catostrophic, not again
I'm smeared across the page, and doused in gasoline
I wear you like a stain, yet I'm the one who's obscene
Catch me upon all your sordid little insurrections,
I've got no time to lose, and I'm just caught up in all the cattle

Fray the stings
Throw the sheathes
Hold your breath
And listen!

I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!

I'm ripped across the ditch, and settled in the dirt and I'm
Wiggled like a stitch, yet I'm the one who's hurt
Pay attention to your twisted little indiscrestions
I've got no right to way, I'm just caught up all the battles

Locked in flesh
Pushed in place
Hold your breath
And listen!

I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!

I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!

My end
It justifies my means
All I have to do is delay
I'm given time to evade
The end of the road is my end
It justifies my means
All I have to do is delay
I'm haven't time to evade
THE END OF THE ROAD!

I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!

I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!

I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
BEFORE I FORGET THAT!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, OH!

(I push my fingers into my)
Eyes! It's the only thing
that slowly stops the ache
but it's made of all
the things I have to take!

When there's 47 ginger headed sailors,
You can bet you're going to hear them when they hail us.

With only fear and good judgement
Holding us back
We sailed out on the Northern Sea
With a boat load of crazy people
Including the shotgun and me
Does somebody know how to drive this thing
Yelled the captain as he fell to his knees
I think I mighta had a little too much today
Take me to my cabin, please

Cruisin' on a sardine boat
Loaded with crazy people
And we shall be the Santa Maria
Looking for a brave new world

I got Athlete's foot showering at Mike's... Athlete's foot at Mi-ike's