What are you listening to?

[JK/SEA]

 

[Origanalist]

 

[JK/SEA]

I hide myself inside the shadows of shame
The silent symphonies were playing their game
My body echoed to the dreams of my soul
It started something that I could not control
Where can I run to now? The joke is on me
No sympathizing 'cos it's insanity, yeah

Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't you just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?

Obsessed with fantasy obsessed with my schemes
I meet reality with pseudo mock dreams
The ghost of violence was something I'd seen
I sold my soul to be the human obscene
How could this poison be the dream of my soul?
How did my fantasies take complete control, yeah?

Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't you just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?

Well I feel something's taken me I don't know where
It's like a trip inside a separate mind
The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream
Is telling me to leave it all behind
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Got to get to happiness
From the depths of sorrow
How I lied, went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Am I right if I fight?
That I might just get away from you now
Sting me!

Well I feel something's giving me the chance to return
It's giving me the chance of saving my soul
Beating the demigod, I'm fading away
I'm going backwards but I'm in control
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Getting back to sanity, providence of sorrow
Was it wise to disguise
How I tried to get away from you now
Is there a way that I can pay
Or is it true I have to stay with you now?

How I lied, went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Am I right if I fight?
That I might just get away from you now
Suck me!

I'm really digging schizophrenia the best of the earth
I chased my soul in the fires of hell
Peace of mind eluded me, but now it's all mine
I set the trap, but it was me who fell
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Now I've found my happiness, from the depths of sorrow
No more lies, I got wise
I despise the way I worshipped you, yeah
Now I'm free, can't you see
And now instead I won't be led by you now
Free!

 

[JK/SEA]

 

[Natural Citizen]

Whoa...random feature scares me sometimes. I'm like "How did that get on there?"

 

[Natural Citizen]

No Winger jokes.

This stuff rocks. I don't care what anyone says.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

With the right zoom, you could see me not too far out in that crowd...

 

[green73]

I'm in love all over again.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Thomas Massie karaoke thread reminded me of this tune. It's pretty good.

 

[juleswin]

This has to be one of the best cover for the Little drummer boy. Think traditional Christmas song meets beat box, R&B type singing. Actually, just listen to it, I don't really know how to describe it, but it is really good.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Pretty good, juleswin. That was always my favorite Christmas song too.

 

[FindLiberty]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNPoeU-RuU << I'm listening to "The Lamia"

(Hmmm, I can't insert YouTube's and 30% of these keystrokes are completely missed/ignored on TWO of my Win7pro64 PCs...)

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNPoeU-RuU << I'm listening to "The Lamia"

(Hmmm, I can't insert YouTube's and 30% of these keystrokes are completely missed/ignored on TWO of my Win7pro64 PCs...)

+rep for classic Steve Hackett/Genesis goodness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNPoeU-RuU



The original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYRo_y8Dpw

 

[Natural Citizen]

It seems like we hear so many songs written to make us feel a certain way about the events that took place on 9/11. Songs that patriotize giving up individual liberties in the name of fear or because we should "always remember". Songs that are meant to solicit support for setting the world on fire or putting a boot in some brown person's ass because it's "The American Way".

This single was released this past November as a Christmas Single but was written right after 9/11 and just kept tucked away. It's written and performed by Mike Tramp who released it while on tour for his new album Cobblestone Street (excellent album, btw) but it's from a much different perspective than the songs that we typically hear regarding the subject.

Do take the time to read the articles I'm sharing about the Single....

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mike-tramps-new-christmas-single-was-written-shortly-after-911/
http://www.hotmetalonline.com/2012/11/22/mike-tramp-planes-did-not-bring-down-twin-towers/

"The Way It Was Before"...



I think I've posted this other song before as well but it should also be heard in the company of "The Way It Was Before". It's called "Revolution" and it's on the The Cobblestone Street album which is a much different style than Mike's days in White Lion. He just drives around with his guitar now going from club to club in various countries but still maintains a huge fan base.

This "Revolution" song, I think, is spot on in a lot of ways. The process of revolution itself is a renaissance of sorts. It's a way of thinking. I think revolution has been lost for the current generation of youth and in an era when we have political corporations, PACS, and other similar phenomenon telling them what to think or assuming their identity and speaking for them just to get elected contradicts what was started just a few decades ago as a social movement or awakening within the generation that was well on it's way to changing the course of history. It's a shame, really.


In case the new generation doesn't remember the 80's, here is his old band, White Lion.

 

[fr33]

 

[fr33]

 

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[fr33]

 

[Neil Desmond]

Mark Levin used to use this for bumper music on his radio show:

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Disclaimer: I don't "listen" to him, I'm monitoring enemy transmissions.

 

[Natural Citizen]