...but WHAT A SONG!!intel wrote:I dunno... Holiday In Cambodia seems a bit dated these days.orangesuite wrote:All the Dead Kennedy's lyrics. Still relevent, some even more than before!
On my all-time top ten, that one.
old lyrics that could have been written today
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- KVRAF
- 7217 posts since 21 Aug, 2004 from Trondheim, Norway
On my all-time top ten, that one.
Rakkervoksen
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Panic on the streets of London
Panic on the streets of Birmingham
I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again
On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
I wonder to myself
Hopes may rise on the Grasmeres
But Honey Pie, you're not safe here
So you run down
To the safety of the town
But there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
I wonder to myself
Burn down the Disco
Hang the blessed D.J.
Because the music that they constantly play
IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE
Hang the blessed D.J.
Because the music they constantly play
On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
On the provincial towns that you jog 'round
Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J.
Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J.
HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J.
HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J.
Panic on the streets of Birmingham
I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again
On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
I wonder to myself
Hopes may rise on the Grasmeres
But Honey Pie, you're not safe here
So you run down
To the safety of the town
But there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
I wonder to myself
Burn down the Disco
Hang the blessed D.J.
Because the music that they constantly play
IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE
Hang the blessed D.J.
Because the music they constantly play
On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
On the provincial towns that you jog 'round
Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J.
Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J.
HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J.
HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J.
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
BTW: In my post about "The Wild Bull," I forgot to mention that Sumer, one of the earliest sophisticated states on Earth and home to the war widow who wrote that poem 3700 years ago, was part of Mesopotamia, the "land between the rivers" (Tigris and Euphrates) in the land now known as Iraq.
So much time has passed since the days of the Sumerians that the rivers' courses have changed greatly -- and perhaps a hundred-mile stretch of what used to be the Persian Gulf's northwestern end is now rich, silty (but sun-baked) land.
We've come a long way, but thirty-seven centuries later we're still losing our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers to war in Iraq.
So much time has passed since the days of the Sumerians that the rivers' courses have changed greatly -- and perhaps a hundred-mile stretch of what used to be the Persian Gulf's northwestern end is now rich, silty (but sun-baked) land.
We've come a long way, but thirty-seven centuries later we're still losing our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers to war in Iraq.