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5525. Ulgine Barrows - 11/7/2005 9:27:26 AM


Every morning I pull on them pants
Mmm but I don't get out so much since I acquired St. Vitus dance
I turn the news on a while
I practice my scene
You think things are straight but they're not what they seem
Til you know the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
In his coat and his boots and his blackheart machine
No, no one knows the two sides of Monsieur Valentine

~Spoon

5526. Ulgine Barrows - 11/7/2005 9:29:17 AM

Every morning I've got a new chance
I want to land the part of Eddie in The Stranger Dance
He makes love to the duke
He swordfights the queen
He steals the whole show in his last dying scene
No one sees the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
No, no one sees the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
No one sees the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
Mmm hmmm mmm hmm hmm hmm

5527. Ulgine Barrows - 11/18/2005 7:17:09 AM

The clouds started forming
It sucked him out the window

All she can remember, is it sounded like a train

And I hear that missing trucker ended up in Kansas
Or maybe it was Oz

5528. Ulgine Barrows - 11/18/2005 7:18:21 AM

~Drive By Truckers

5529. Ulgine Barrows - 11/18/2005 8:07:27 AM

Every morning I've got a new chance

5530. Ulgine Barrows - 11/18/2005 8:23:05 AM

Sad, I am.
You are all untouchable for life.

Snicker. I gotcha on camera.

5531. Ulgine Barrows - 11/18/2005 9:01:31 AM

I foresee terrible trouble~

5532. alistairconnor - 11/18/2005 10:33:34 AM

but I stay here just the same

I'm a fool

5533. Ulgine Barrows - 11/23/2005 5:21:01 AM

Reminds me of the time
I looked at my husband
And said
What's wrong with you
That you love me

And we laughed,
broken laughs,
the both of us

5534. Ulgine Barrows - 11/23/2005 8:24:55 AM


Every morning I've got a new chance

5535. Ulgine Barrows - 11/23/2005 9:10:33 AM

But you wouldn't give that
new chance to ~alistairconnor~
Try it
Fling it

Every morning I've got a new chance
Untouchable for life

Every morning I've got a new chance

5536. Ulgine Barrows - 11/23/2005 9:35:19 AM

Unsatiable

go know

Every morning I've got a new chance

5537. alistairconnor - 11/23/2005 10:49:44 AM

this is not my beautiful house
this is not my beautiful wife

5538. Macnas - 11/23/2005 10:53:07 AM

Art imitates life.

5539. Ulgine Barrows - 11/26/2005 10:02:33 AM

And it's your face I'm looking for on every street
~Dire Straits

5540. Macnas - 11/28/2005 11:11:31 AM

This is by a fellow called Brendan Kennelly, one of our best living poets:

Begin again to the summoning birds
to the sight of light at the window,
begin to the roar of morning traffic
all along Pembroke Road.

Every beginning is a promise
born in light and dying in dark
determination and exaltation of springtime
flowering the way to work.
Begin to the pageant of queuing girls
the arrogant loneliness of swans in the canal
bridges linking the past and future
old friends passing though with us still.

Begin to the loneliness that cannot end
since it perhaps is what makes us begin,
begin to wonder at unknown faces
at crying birds in the sudden rain
at branches stark in the willing sunlight
at seagulls foraging for bread
at couples sharing a sunny secret
alone together while making good.

Though we live in a world that dreams of ending
that always seems about to give in
something that will not acknowledge conclusion
insists that we forever begin.

5541. wonkers2 - 12/1/2005 5:33:28 AM

Poems of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

5542. Ulgine Barrows - 12/1/2005 10:03:48 AM

There are angels in your angles
There's a low moon caught in your tangles
There's a ticking at the sill
There's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day

As on we go drowning
Down we go away
And darling, we go a-drowning
Down we go away
Away

There's a tough word on your crossword
There's a bed bug nipping a finger
There's a swallow, there's a calm
Here's a hand to lay on your open palm today

As on we go drowning
Down we go away
And darling, we go a-drowning
Down we go away
Away

There are angels in your angles
There's a low moon caught in your tangles


~The Decemberists
"Of Angels And Angles"

5543. Ulgine Barrows - 12/3/2005 11:03:13 AM

Houdini's Box


The box sits on the bridge
The crowd is waiting
The chains are locked across my chest
There's no heart breaking

I've done this show a thousand times
This trick's so easy
As they lower me into your waters
There's no escaping

There's a secret passage out of here
But I don't want to reappear
I just want to stay with you in here

In Houdini's box
Close the lid
And tie the knot
Houdini's box

The clock ticks by the bed
I hear you breathing
I should be out the door
But I'm not leaving

I've still the scars from my last escape
I nearly drowned beneath the lake
Stayed down too long dreaming about you

In Houdini's box
Close the lid
And tie the knot
Houdini's box
In Houdini's box
Houdini's box

I'd take such good care of you
I'd brush your hair, untie your shoes
There's nothing in the world I wouldn't do

In Houdini's box
In Houdini's box
Seal the lid
And tie the knot
In Houdini's box
Houdini's box
Houdini's box
Houdini's box
Houdini's box

The box sites on the bridge
The crowd's still waiting

~ Jill Sobule

5544. Ulgine Barrows - 12/3/2005 11:28:35 AM

Houdini Blues: Kristin Hersh


Oh no, don’t you put me in that box
You know what you can do with those locks
Bet your life I’ll come crawling out again
You’ll have to deal with me then
You’ll hear me on the wind

I’ve been on the other side of the blue ridge
Seen the shenandoah rolling there
I stepped off the mountains edge
Just to climb the golden stair
I seen the streets up there

I been on the mount transfiguration
Been there with my ma and my pa
On the mountain of commandment
I been handed down the law
You should have seen what I saw

I fell to the bottom of thales’ well
Caught like a theif with a lamb
You know these stars they can cast a spell
I’ve been caught with red hands
I’ve been caught with red hands

I scaled the mountains, skiied the valleys
I’ve done the highs and the lows
I don’t feel like work today
Hell I won’t go
Bess I won’t go

Just let me at their locks
We should all be free
Oh bess, I swear I’ll call
When I’m free from me
We should all be free

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