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@lil fek wrote:
This is a great tribute to Janis Joplin Caff….I remember seeing it on tv….dunno if you have seen it..Melissa Etheridge has the scrummiest voice mmmmmm
good stuff lil fek xxx ty xxx
where is it written – barbara streisand
There’s not a morning I begin without
A thousand questions running through my mind,
That I don’t try to find the reason and the logic
In the world that God designed.
The reason why
a bird was given wings,
If not to fly and praise the sky
With every song it sings.
What’s right or wrong,
Where I belong
Within the scheme of things…
And why have eyes that see
And arms that reach
Unless you’re meant to know
There’s something more?
If not to hunger for the meaning of it all,
Then tell me what a soul is for?
Why have the wings
Unless you’re meant to fly?
And tell me please, why have a mind
If not to question why?
And tell me where-
Where is it written what it is
I’m meant to be, that I can’t dare
To have the chance to pick the fruit of every tree,
Or have my share of every sweet-imagined possibility?
Just tell me where, tell me where?
If I were only meant to tend the nest,
Then why does my imagination sail
Across the mountains and the seas,
Beyond the make-believe of any fairy tale?
Why have the thirst if not to drink the wine?
And what a waste to have a taste
Of things that can’t he mine?
And tell me where, where is it written what it is
I’m meant to be, that I can’t dare-
To find the meanings in the mornings that I see,
Or have my share of every sweet-imagined possibility?
Just tell me where- where is it written?
Tell me where-
Or if it’s written anywhere?from yentl the great barbara streisand , where is it written
@stephen1 wrote:
We all have a story, and we are all pitiable. However, that doesn’t excuse self-destructive behaviour. We, the parents of these youngins’, have helped to shape the world in which they live. We did it my creating a consumerist society where, to paraphrase Cyrano de Bergerac, “We tickle the head of mammon with our left hand, while our right takes in the fee.” Yes, hypocrisy, built upon rationalization. This stops us from growing, from being real, and we become like emotional eunuchs, always searching for the next distraction. With our senses thus dulled we take up buying and spending, drinking, drugs, sex, or mutilation; anything to stave-off the monotony of our complacent, unfeeling selves. We laud our celebrities for such debauched behaviour, because we identify with the hole they are trying to fill.
I am not casting judgment, I have wasted hours, days, and years a plenty chasing fleeting distractions, and in the end, hating myself in the bargain. However, in my heart of hearts, my inner-truth, I always knew that my behaviour was bullshyt, and harmful. You see, it isn’t the drugs that are at issue, but the fact that we all have too much material stuff, and not enough of the spiritual. We lust after diversions such as movies, crap music, accessorizng our person with piercings and paint. In other words, we have supplanted the genuine article for cheap knock-offs.
If a child doesn’t get to see parents treating each other with respect, or showing affection to one another then they lack in that area. Parents all worry about their relationship with their kids, but it is the relationship between the parents that is the important one. Each party building the other one up, each one trying to meet the needs of the other, as best they are able. Instead, we have too many emasculated men, and too many bitter women.
Every society has its dysfunction, and drugs and alcohol are part of ours. Why? Because we believe in things and in the accruing of things, but we don’t believe in our spiritual selves. Yet, our spirit is ever at the ready…we only need acknowledge it.
I leave the last quote to Monsieur de Bergerac…”Never to utter a sentence that I have not first heard in my own heart. To be content with things in my own garden, aye, even if they be weeds.”
Stephen
I have to disagree to an extent Stephen, addictions or additctive personalities are not always of the persons own making, be it smoking, alcohol, comfort eating, drugs…. any number of one or all and more.
Addictions can be as a result of some trauma beyond a persons control whether it be childhood or later in adult life, something in the brain finds comfort in the addiction somewhere, somehow, i dont profess to fully understand it.
Some people do not see the dangers only the fact that whatever they are doing numbs the pain maybe? makes the hurt less? keeps away the big bad man? whatever it is , the subconcious is a strange mechanism.
All I ask is you are not so quick to condemm someone for an addiction, who said ‘never judge a man till you walked a mile in their shoes?
yes we do all have a story to tell, some people go through more than anyone should in several life times, to the depths of hell and never recover, i have met a few of these people and just keeping body and soul together to just ‘live’ day to day is a trial but they do it.xx
@pete wrote:
@cath 55 wrote:
I grew up with Janis Joplin alongside the beatles, billy J Kramer, the walker Brothers, Lulu and a whole host of revolutionary groups all vieing to break into the music industry.
that was a hell of a street you lived in cath :lol:
I know , tell me bout it , free love, free drugs and as for asbo’s if they’d been invented then that billy J wudda got one fer sure ……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xnyHG96vY8 dan hill sometimes when we touch….beautiful song.
hiding in the shadows
i know your’e there somewhere
you were in sight not so long ago
I saw you, I felt you, so i know
I know you were here , so vivid and so clear
and yet you deserted me when i needed you most.where were you when I was sick
when my hair went from black to silver
I can see you oh so clearly
with your sparkling eyes
I see you running now, your face so full of life
and yet you deserted me when i needed you most.Looking at you now , as u come out of hiding
seeing your reflection
you did desert me but
i dont how i didnt notice
you leaving and drifting
up and away to the chapters of timebut as I see your reflection
its not really so bad
of course you deserted me
but what a life i had!
and now as i move a little more slowly
and take longer to dress
the memories of you
will never desert me
and yet………@pats wrote:
george mcrae
rock your baby.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=So2cvXkbiI0&feature=relatednow this brings back memories pats x
birthday hugs sunny xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
if they could see me now shirley mclaine sweet charity
