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Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to take this opprtunity to focus on the new millenium-craze.

Although a lot is being said about the 2nd millennium perhaps we should pause and think about it. Doing so I must say that it has been crap from start to finish. O.K. we may have done a little better that the first millennium but hey, that's probably because we don't really know a lot about that one.

I would like to take the opportunity to 'quote' Eugene Debs Hartke, a character in Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut :

"As long as there is a lower-class I am in it,
as long as there is an upper-class I will oppose it,
As long as there is one innocent soul in jail I am not free..."

So being a writer of lyrics myself here are what I consider to be the best lyrics I have ever heard about oppression, or rather in general.

And remember : there's still lots of it about. We have a long way to go...let's do something about it...please ?

TowelMaster.


Wallflower

6x6 from wall to wall
Shutters on the windows, no light at all
Damp on the floor you got damp on the bed
They're trying to get you crazy - get you out of your head
They feed you scraps and they feed you lies
To lower your defences, no compromise
Nothing you can do, the day can be long
You mind is working overtime, you body's not too strong

Hold on, hold on
They put you in a box so you can't be heard
Let your spirit stay unbroken, may you not be deterred

Hold on, you have gambled with your own life
And you face the night alone
While the builders of the cages
Sleep with bullets, bars and stone
They do not see your road to freedom
That you build with flesh and bone

They take you out - the light burns your eyes
To the talking room - it's no surprise
Loaded questions from clean white coats
Their eyes are all as hidden as their Hippocratic Oath
They tell you how to behave, behave as their guest
You want to resist them, you do your best
They take you to your limits, they take you beyond
For all that they are doing there's no way to respond

Hold on, hold on
They put you in a box so you can't be heard
Let your spirit stay unbroken, may you not be deterred

Hold on, you have gambled with your own life
And you face the night alone
While the builders of the cages
Sleep with bullets, bars and stone
They do not see your road to freedom
That you build with flesh and bone

Though you may disappear, you're not forgotten here
And I will say to you, I will do what I can do

You may disappear, you're not forgotten here
And I will say you you, I will do what I can do
And I will do what I can do
And I will do what I can do


PG.

I am sorry. I have moved this thread to :

http://www.h2g2.com/A223840

And made it a regular Guide-entry.

TM.