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10-09-2008, 02:02 PM
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Bend me, Shape me
What kind of impression do these lyrics make on you?
"You are all the woman I need And baby you know it (Know it, know it, know it) You can make this beggar a king A clown or a poet (Poet, poet, poet) I'll give you all that I own You got me standing in line Out in the cold Pay me some mind Bend me, shape me Anyway you want me Long as you love me It's all right Bend me, shape me Anyway you want me You got the power to turn on the light Everybody tells me I'm wrong To want you so badly (Badly, badly, badly) But there's a force driving me on I follow it gladly (Gladly, gladly, gladly) So let them laugh I don't care 'Cause I got nothing to hide All that I want is you by my side Bend me, shape me Anyway you want me Long as you love me It's all right Bend me, shape me Anyway you want me You got the power To turn on the light Yeah, bend me, shape me Anyway you want me Long as you love me It's all right Bend me, shape me Anyway you want me You got the power To turn on the light" |
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10-09-2008, 03:22 PM
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Bubble gum band, but they had some decent horns. I remember what I was doing when that song came out; just starting to get into Junior High school. 1968. The year previous those guys appeared on American Bandstand with the original Pink Floyd ! In London there was the whole Carnaby street thing, and I remember the paisley design and the beginnings ( for me ) of hearing about "psychedelia" for the first time. Back then people were trying to scare us by saying that hippies would try to slip drugs in our punch at parties, and to watch out for dealers, etc. It didn't usually work like that in real life, though, is what I found as I got older. There were no dealers knocking on your door and trying to twist your arm. Au contraire.
Lots of changes happening that year in'68. Khe Sanh and the Tet offensive. The battle of Saigon. The My Lai masacre. Congress repeals the gold standard. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinated. Saddam Hussein becomes Vice chairman of the Revolutionary party. Nixon and Wallace nominated. The Chicago protest at the Democrat convention. 150 women protest the Miss America pageant in the Feminist second wave. The Zodiac killer emerges. The Beatles form Apple records and put out "the White Album". In China, Mao begins sending young people educated in urban centers to work in the fields. In Japan - a 300 million yen heist, that is still unsolved to this day, goes down. Back when a yen was still a yen, ye know ? 
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10-09-2008, 03:30 PM
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5w6 ^8
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Two thumbs down for that approach.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Henry David Thoreau Truths are a useless fiction. - Nietzsche Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. - David Hume "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." |
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10-09-2008, 03:32 PM
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Sad, sad man.
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"Come on boy, come on girl, succumb to the beat surrender" - The Jam Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. |
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10-09-2008, 04:42 PM
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He FELT the music.
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I was only 9. 
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10-09-2008, 06:33 PM
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If I heard the chorus alone I would relate it to something sexual, but the rest of the lyrics spoil it for me.
It's pretty pathetic and a reminder to me that no amount of trying to change yourself to please anyone is worth the sacrificing of pride that comes along with it.
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10-09-2008, 06:35 PM
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The Doctor is IN
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(Right before he moves onto his next victim.) |
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