[vonB]

"...Are there any queers in the Theatre tonight?
Get 'em up agains the wall.
There's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me;
Get him up agains the wall.
That one looks Jewish, and that one's a Coon,
Who let all this riff-raff into the room?
There's one smokin' a Joint, and another one with spots,
If I had my way, I'd have all of them shot!..."

Resonances for anyone?

[southern_land]

this one seems to have greater resonance for me these days

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

[papa_whisky]

OK I take VonB's for external factors and SL's for internal.

I guess I am f'd

[US_Brake]

Dedicated to Keith Zabalaoui " The Maker"


Link

[kawasaky]

This song is dedicated to Roger Waters' father, Eric, who was killed along with the rest of Company C, Royal Fusiliers in the German counter-attack against the Anzio beach-head, spearheaded by some Tiger tanks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtGsvoBVw8

[pvt_Grunt]

An Effervescing Elephant
with tiny eyes and great big trunk
once whispered to the tiny ear
the ear of one inferior
that by next June he'd die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam.
The little one said: "Oh my goodness I must stay at home!
and every time I hear a growl
I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
and I'll be really safe, you know
the elephant he told me so."
Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud and chewed
his spicy hippo-plankton food
and tended to ignore the word
preferring to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
And all the jungle took fright,
and ran around for all the day and the night
but all in vain, because, you see,
the tiger came and said: "Who me?!
You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you.
I'd much prefer something to chew
and you're all too scant." oh yeah!
He ate the Elephant