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lprent - Date published:
2:47 pm, June 17th, 2011 - 4 comments
Categories: music, youtube -
Tags: bar
One of my favorite bands and one of my favourite of their tracks. Barenaked Ladies playing “When I fall”. Great lyrics for the ongoing GFC. You have to love satirical songs….
Songwriters: PAGE, STEVEN / ROBERTSON, ED
I look straight in the window, try not to look below
[Chorus] I wish I could fly
Pretend I’m not up here, try counting sheep
But the sheep seem to shower off this office tower
Nine-point-eight straight down I can’t stop my knees
From this building
From this wall
And if I should try
Would you catch me if I fall?My hands clench the squeegee, my secular rosary
Hang on to your wallet, hang on to your rings
Can’t look below me, or something might throw me
Curse at the windstorms that October bringsI look in the boardroom; a modern pharaoh’s tomb
I’d gladly swap places, if they care to dive
They’re lined up at the window, peer down into limbo
They’re frightened of jumping, in case they surviveI wish I could step from this scaffold
Onto soft green pastures, shopping malls, or bed
With my family and my pastor and my grandfather who’s DeadLook straight in the mirror, watch it come clearer
[Chorus]
I look like a painter, behind all the grease
But paintings creating, and I’m just erasing
A crystal-clear canvas is my masterpiece
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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The Mighty Stef
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndzKAaZ3prs
*grin* thats good..
The anthem of Don Brash:
Delapsus resurgam! when I fall I shall rise!
Ah, now I have made the effort: – may be a bit long in the post title for some, but taking my lead from the Bernard Hickey school of how to do interesting blog posts but destroy them by long boring titles.