I was wondering if you could > help me think of some good lines...maybe one or 2 of your favorite > phrases...nothing long at all. I thought everyone has at least ONE all time > favorite :) Thank you very much!
'Climb down, climb down' he says to me >From the middle of unrest They think his light is squandered But he sees a stray in the wilderness And I see how far I've wandered Enter the multitudes In Exxon Blue and radiation rose Apathy Now you tell me Who you gonna get to do the dirty work when all the slaves are free? Truth goes up in vapors Steeples lean Winds of change patriarchs Snug in your Bible belt dreams God goes up the chimney Like childhood Santa Claus The good slaves love the good book A rebel loves a cause Once I was blessed I was awaited like the rain Like eyes for the blind Like feet for the lame Kings heard my words And they sought out my company But now the janitors of Shadowland Flick their brooms at me. ................................................................. I've lost all taste for life I'm all complaints Tell me, why do you starve the faithful? Why do you crucify the saints? And you let the wicked prosper You let their children frisk like deer And my loves are dead or dying Or they don't come near ................................................................ Already on a bed of sighs and screams And still you torture me with visions You give me terrifying dreams Better I was carried from the womb Straight to the grave I see the diggers waiting They're leaning on their spades He opens up his suitcase In the Continental Suite And people thirty stories down Look like colored currents in the street A helicopter lands on the Pan-Am roof Like a dragonfly on a tomb And business men in button-downs Press into conference rooms Give me some time I feel like I'm losing mine Out here on this horizon line With the earth spinning & the sky forever rushing No-one knows They can never get that close Guesses at most Guesses based on what each set of time & change is touching Clutching the night to you like a fig leaf You hurry to the blackness and the blankets To lay down an impression And your loneliness Now the trials are trumpet scored Oh will we pass the test? Or just as one loves more & more Will one love less and less? Oh come let's run from this ring we're in Where the Christians clap and the Germans grin Crying let them lose Cry and let them win Oh make them both confess! A woman I knew just drowned herself The well was deep and muddy She was just shaking off futility Or punishing somebody My friends were calling up all day yesterday All emotions and abstractions It seems we all live so close to that line And so far from satisfaction Concrete concentration camps Bashing in veins for peace Cold blue steel and sweet fire Fall into lady release The cars and buses bustled through the bedlam of the day I looked through window glass at streets And Nathan grumbled at the gray I saw an aging cripple selling Superman balloons The city grated through chrome plate The clock struck slowly half past noon He said 'I wish you were with me here The leaves are electric They burn on the river bank Countless heatless flames I said 'Well send me some pictures then And I'll paint pyrotechnic Explosions of your autumn Til we meet again 'I'm a burning hearth,' he said 'People see the smoke But no-one comes to warm themselves Sloughing off a coat And all my little landscapes All my yellow afternoons Stack up around this vacancy Like dirty cups and spoons No mercy sweet Jesus! No mercy from turbulent indigo!' Blue Songs are like tattoos You know I've been to sea before Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Oh hell, that's enough for now. In case you couldn't tell, I love the woman's words and could go on & on but I won't. Hope this is some help but I'm afraid most of my suggestions are too long for what you want. Mark E. in Seattle
