All that we can do is just survive
All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive...
Ragged lines of ragged grey
Skeletons, they shuffle away
Shouting guards and smoking guns
Will cut down the unlucky ones
I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed
A wound that will not heal -- a heart that cannot feel --
Hoping that the horror will recede
Hoping that tomorrow, we'll all be freed
Sickness to insanity
Prayer to profanity
Days and weeks and months go by
Don't feel the hunger -- too weak to cry
I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate
Are the liberators here -- do I hope or do I fear?
For my father and my brother, it's too late
But I must help my mother stand up straight...
Are we the last ones left alive?
Are we the only human beings to survive?...
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I don't know if you've read much of my journal or if you're aware at all of what I do, but I'm on a sort of hiatus from live performances, except an upcoming benefit I'm doing with a dual purpose - one is that any money that comes my way at the show (like the contents of my tip jar) will go to buying useful stuff for the troops in Afghanistan & Iraq & such and the other is that it's a grand opening of friends' new business and they're taking a loss on the benefit as well, so if me and anyone else I get to perform increases awareness of they're new place, then it can increase their business later and so their good deeds get rewarded so EVERYBODY benefits.
Oh, my original point was that I, whether with a band or not, do a lot of segueing from one song into the next and some of these musical juxtapositions become a regular part of my repertoire while others are more spontaneous and such.
Also, I love to acousticize great electric jams, and simplify complex pieces (such as RUSH stuff), so you may have just inspired me to rearrange more RUSH songs, perhaps even working out a whole short set of it. I've done that with the Dead Kennedys, The Ramones, The Clash, Yes, and some others, so . . .
. . . Thanks!
Just a thought. You seem to have a passion for music and a knack for more than just listening to it. In lieu of singing or playing an instrument you really should try your hand in it somehow.Not only might you satisfy something within you, but you might contribute to others' enjoyment of music as well.