Chrétien to step down

[blackice]

This one is for Bush

Party at ground zero
A "B" movie starring you
And the world will turn to flowing
Pink vapor stew

Johnny, go get your gun, for the commies are in our hemisphere today
Ivan, go fly your MIG, for the Yankee imperialists have come to play
Johnny goes to Sally's house to kiss her goodbye
But Daddy says to spend the night
They make love 'till the early morning light
For tomorrow Johnny goes to fight
Johnny, Ivan, Ian, everybody come along for our nations need new heroes
Time to sing a new war song

CHORUS

Please do not fear 'cause Fishbone is here to say (say what?)
Just have a good time the stop sign is far away
The toilet has flushed and green lights are a ghost
And drop drills will be extinct
Speedracer cloud has come
They know not what they've done
Sin has just won
The planet is a crumb

CHORUS



V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F. -

[blackice]

For all of you dorks

Holiday in Cambodia


So you been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin that you know how the ******s feel cold
And the slums got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

Your a star-belly sneech you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you biach so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer on you
Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers til you starve
Then your head skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need my son:

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot

And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul

Pol Pot

[Asher]

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple Haze all around
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me
Help me
Oh, no, no
Hammerin',
Talkin' 'bout heart 'n'...s-soul
I'm talkin' about hard stuff
If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if
So far out my mind
Somethings happening, somethings happening
Ooo, ahh
Ooo, ahh,
Ooo, ahh
Ooo, ahh, yeah!
Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh
Don't know if its day or night
You got me blowin', blowin' my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
Ooo
Help me
Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah
Oh, no, oh
Oh, help me
Purple haze, Tell me, baby, tell me
I can't go on like this
Purple haze
You're makin' me blow my mind...mama
Purple haze, no, nooo
Purple haze, no, its painful, baby

[blackice]

Join the Army


I got a story to tell, now listen up real well
Pay attention this way to what I got to say
Took it to the street, rap to the people we meet
Now were rocking out hard, to the Suicidal beat
Tried to deny our right, so we put up a fight
Just doing our thang, they tried to call it a gang
Saw the way we look, that's all that it took
That's all she wrote, they had their scapegoat

Dressed doen, homeboyz, minority - Join the Army

We're the few, we're the proud, we like to jam it loud
The music we play, won't have it any other way
We're armed to the bone with our music and our tone
Recruiting on the street, with the sound of our beat
Growing larger every day, and everytime we play
Don't need no college plan, we're just a hard-rocking band
We like our music to please, we ain't gonna appease
No pressure's to much, to make us change our touch

Hardcore, Metal, the New Wave
We're not a gang - Join the Army

Don't be no fool, don't let your prejudice rule
Don't judge by your fear, judge us by your ear
Can't believe every word, or every story that you've heard
Just play the song, I know you'll start to rock along
Well I don't care, 'bout the clothes you wear
It's the size of your heart, not the length of your hair
Don't make no difference to me, the color that you be
Black, white or brown, it's all the same to me

Well if you still don't believe, you best get up and leave
Do what you must do, but this ain't the place for you
You got no right, but if you start a fight
We'll be rockin your head, but with our fists instead
I'll fight it with the band, right down till the end
Ask anyone I've met, this ain't no idle threat
Don't flap no fit, and it won't come to this
Bust as for me, I'm down with the Army

New York, London, Venice
Why join a gang?
Join the Army

Suicidal Rock - Join the Army

[blackice]

"Scream!"

A chill runs up your spine
It crawls into your brain
The freezing touch of fear

It's driving me insane
Although you try to fight
Dragged from the silence where you hide
'til you... Scream

Scream
I can't wait to hear you...
I can't wait to hear you...
Scream

It's driving me insane
Although you try to fight
Dragged from the silence where you hide
'til you... Scream

Scream
I can't wait to hear you...
I can't wait to hear you...
Scream

[Tingkai]

Is anyone reading all of these lyrics?

I say we at least limit them to Canadian singers/bands and for Canadians (e.g. not Bush).

[Asher]

There's a lyrics thread for this you know.

[blackice]

Schism


I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering. Fundamental differing.
Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication
The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
We cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication.



I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication



The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.



There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away.
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication.



Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any
Sense of compassion
Between supposed lovers/brothers

[blackice]

So anyone have anything on topic to say?

I thinkCretien is a robot made by the liberals in the 80's you?

[blackice]

Pu****


I will choke until I swallow...
Choke this infant here before me.
What is this but my reflection?
Who am I to judge and strike you down?



But you're
Pushing and shoving me.
You still love me and you pu**** on me.



Rest your trigger on my finger,
bang my head upon the fault line.
Take care not to make me enter.
'cause if I do we both may disappear.



But you're pushing me,
Shoving me. Pu**** on me.



Slipping back into the gap again.
I'm alive when you're touching me,
Alive when you're shoving me down.



But I'd trade it all
For just a little bit of
Piece of mind.

Put me somewhere I don't wanna be.
Seeing someplace I don't wanna see.
Never wanna see that place again.



Saw that gap again today
As you were begging me to stay.
Managed to push myself away,
And you, as well.



If, when I say I may fade like a sigh if I stay,
You minimize my movement anyway,
I must persuade you another way.



There's no love in fear.



Staring down the hole again.
Hands upon my back again.
Survival is my only friend.
Terrified of what may come.



Just remember I will always love you,
Even as I tear your fvcking throat away.
But it will end no other way.

You have to like CANADA

[blackice]

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

And with that Good night, peace to all

We hit 500 yet?

[Tingkai]

Okay, here's a question.

My theory is that Canadians elected, and re-elected Chretien because they wanted a non-active government after all of the turmoil of the 80s. By that I mean, a government that made no major changes, compared to the NEP, GST, Meech Lake, NAFTA, etc.

Chretien was an ideal leader for this type of government because he cares more about staying in power than achieving any policy goals.

The question then is whether there are any signs that Canadians want major changes. Any indication at the provincial level that people are voting for change?

[notyoueither]

I thank God he did so little. It was funny, on local usenet groups people were screaming about the Lieberals being in power. I observed he didn't seem to want to do much and asked if they preferred someone who did more to cack things up?

Kyoto? It's dead. As dead as his leadership.

but in the spirit of the new thread...

Gordon Lightfoot.

Oh the prairie lights are burning bright
The Chinook wind is a-moving in
Tomorrow night I'll be Alberta bound
Though I've done the best I could
My old luck ain't been so good and
Tomorrow night I'll be Alberta bound
No one I've met could ever forget
The Rocky Mountain sunset
It's a pleasure just to be Alberta bound
I long to see my next of kin
To know what kind of shape they're in
And tomorrow night I'll be Alberta bound

Chorus:
Alberta bound Alberta bound
It's good to be Alberta bound
Alberta bound Alberta bound
It's good to be Alberta bound

Oh the skyline of Toronto
Is something you'll get onto
But they say you've got to live there for a while
And if you got the money
You can get yourself a honey
With a written guarantee to make you smile

But it's snowing in the city
And the streets and brown and gritty
And I know there's pretty girls all over town
But they never seem to find me
And the one I left behind me
Is the reason that I'll be Alberta bound

[blackice]

I agree Taki I think the cut backs have hit a medium so to follow our thought no.

I think the next generation will bring change this generation has been groomed.

But... It is on it's way

We Didn't Start the Fire
1949 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray,
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe Dimaggio,
1950 Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television,
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe,
1951 Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom,
Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye
1952 Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new Queen,
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana good-bye .
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
1953 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist bloc,
1954 Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Tosconini, Dacron,
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock,
1955 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team,
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland,
1956 Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev,
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez.
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
1957 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac,
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai,
1958 Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball,
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide,
1959 Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia,
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go,
1960 U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola, and Kennedy,
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo.
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
1961 Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion,
1962 Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania,
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson,
1963 Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex,
JFK blown away, What else do I have to say?
CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
Well we didn't light it,
But we tried to fight it.
1964
to
1989 Birth control, Ho Chi-Minh, Richard Nixon back again,
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate,Punk Rock,
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airlines
Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan,
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy metal, Suicide,
Foreign debts, Homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz,
Hypodermics on the shore, China's Under Martial Law,
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it any more!
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on and on and on and on.....
CHORUS

[Tingkai]

Hold Your Ground
-James Keelaghan

Somewhere inside my soul there is an echo of my youth,
Some pithy little saying that contains a grain of truth,
If patience is a virtue, persistence is its mark.
It's better light a candle than stand and curse the dark,
But if we stand together we might turn this world around –
Hold your ground.

In the corridors of power where our voice is seldom heard
The "status quo" is what they want, they get it with a word;
For us it takes a thousand voices, a million angry shouts
To notify the ship of state to bring its course about.
But if we pull together we might turn this ship around –
Hold your ground.

Oh, this world is changing,
Spinning out through space and time.
Oh, it's rearranging
All the things we thought were yours and mine.
You've got to hold your ground,
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground.

Sometimes it seems the motion is strictly retrograde,
There are so many reverses to advances that you've made.
The things you thought were changing have shuddered to a halt;
The only way is forward when your back's against the wall.
But if we stand together we might turn this world around –
Hold your ground.

It isn't for the faint of heart to bet when odds are long,
And neither is it easy to be right in face of wrong;
You must proceed from strength to strength although the road is rough,
And sometimes human courage just isn't quite enough.
But if we we stand together we might turn this world around –
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground,
Hold your ground.
Oh, this world is changing!