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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@...> wrote: > > Another one of my favorite artists David Bowie and his song about > transcending, Changes: > > Oh, yeah > Mmm > > Still don't know what I was waitin' for > And my time was runnin' wild > A million dead end streets and > Every time I thought I'd got it made > It seemed the taste was not so sweet > So I turned myself to face me > But I've never caught a glimpse of > How the others must see the faker > I'm much too fast to take that test > > Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes > Turn and face the strange > Ch-ch-changes > Don't want to be a richer man > Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes > Turn and face the strange > Ch-ch-changes > Just gonna have to be a different man > Time may change me > But I can't trace time > Mmm, yeah > > I watch the ripples change their size > But never leave the stream > Of warm impermanence > So the days float through my eyes > But still the days seem the same > And these children that you spit on > As they try to change their worlds > Are immune to your consultations > They're quite aware of what they're goin' through > > Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes > Turn and face the strange > Ch-ch-changes > Don't tell them to grow up and out of it > Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes > Turn and face the strange > Ch-ch-changes > Where's your shame? > You've left us up to our necks in it > Time may change me > But you can't trace time > > Strange fascination, fascinatin' > Ah, changes are takin' > The pace I'm goin' through > > Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes > Turn and face the strange > Ch-ch-changes > Oh, look out you rock 'n' rollers > Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes > Turn and face the strange > Ch-ch-changes > Pretty soon now you're gonna get older > Time may change me > But I can't trace time > I said that time may change me > But I can't trace time > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Ahem. The BBC's contention just might have something to > > > do with the fact that the words to this song were lifted > > > verbatim from "The Psychedelic Experience," by Leary, > > > Metzger, and Alpert. :-) > > > > Well, the first line is, more or less. The original reads: > > > > "Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream." > > > > The rest of the words are Lennon's. > > > > http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/psychedelic_experience/psychedelic_experience.shtml > > > > http://tinyurl.com/2fapf > > > > > > > > > That book was a loose reworking of the Tibetan Book of > > > the Dead, and was pretty much the User's Manual for LSD. > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Beautiful! This is also one of my favorate songs. I think it > > > < was even forbidden at a time and not played by the BBC out > > > > of the accusation that it was glorifying LSD > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5d4wWGK4Ig > > > > which is of course rubbish, as the Beatles explained. John > > > > lennon wanted his voice obviously to sound like the Dalai > > > > Lama from a hilltop. > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > or put another way ;-) : > > > > > > > > > > > > Turn off your mind, relax > > > > > > and float down stream > > > > > > It is not dying > > > > > > It is not dying > > > > > > > > > > > > Lay down all thought > > > > > > Surrender to the void > > > > > > It is shining > > > > > > It is shining > > > > > > > > > > > > That you may see > > > > > > The meaning of within > > > > > > It is being > > > > > > It is being > > > > > > > > > > > > That love is all > > > > > > And love is everyone > > > > > > It is knowing > > > > > > It is knowing > > > > > > > > > > > > That ignorance and hate > > > > > > May mourn the dead > > > > > > It is believing > > > > > > It is believing > > > > > > > > > > > > But listen to the > > > > > > color of your dreams > > > > > > It is not living > > > > > > It is not living > > > > > > > > > > > > Or play the game of > > > > > > existence to the end > > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > >
