deadhead716
03-10-2005, 06:57 AM
Here's a happy little ditty :rolleyes: I wrote a bit ago... won 1st place district level writing contest... Hope u like
If you take a look around
With none but your own eye
You will soon begin to see
What we have put aside
Many troubles lie ahead
So see if we abide
To the need for speed in saving
What we’ve left behind.
People live in famine
While cities drown in waste
And the solutions arising from this truth
Are never put in place.
So when you stand before it
And it looks you in the face
And the sun that watches over it
Sinks by nightfall in disgrace
At the spinning ball of blue and white
Poisoned by our race
You come to sense rather sharply
What really is the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
Schoolchildren bang their verbal gables
Into each other’s face
Until the teacher comes and puts
Each person in his place
Thus is lost the unfair contrast
Between who and who
The children then sing and march in place
For that’s what they’re told to do
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
The soldier stands in victory
While both parties lost the game
Many men who took a side
Died in the fight against pain
A flag waves in glory
Another in defeat
Millions salute to it
While others sob and weep
But what many too late realize
Is that this is a backwards leap
For though now the men are in ecstasy
As they drink and dance and sleep
But tomorrow they will count the lost
And in their solemn sadness keep
Day after they’ll be thrown
Into another chase
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
And the vultures dance in circles
With the rats and the snakes
Feeding on the well-to-do
Stealing what they can take
Protected by the rules they bend
So no one sees they’re fake
As they puppeteer the thoughts of all
For none but their own sakes
By flashing colors before their eyes
Inducing fear and hate
Injecting into people’s minds
Control panels of seductive lies
Keeping you from sensing what is really the case
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
So you dance off through a cloud
On a magic carpet ride
Catching butterflies on a
Giant swirling moonlit slide
But when your mind comes to order
And your eyes into focus
You’re not given time to sort things out
Before reality sweeps you away
You dash through the forest
Gunfire from behind
And in the clockwork of the life you lead
The gears start to grind
Be you the knightly fool
Who recklessly swings his sword?
Or be you the wiser man
Who
And as you hide in the bushes
Survival at your waist
You come to sense what really
Happens to be the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
The preacher stands and speaks the word
That was written long before him
But the state of all
He does not understand
So he speaks to defend
The problem at hand
Fighting for something we don’t all believe
Bringing down the solution
For what many of us need
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
So why feed people with food
That could instead go to waste?
And why let children bring peace
When we can teach them to hate?
To march into the blender with armies
While others stack up food on their plates
Or be the puppeteer of the people
Telling them all’s okay
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
Arg... I couldn't get it to single space... oh well...
If you take a look around
With none but your own eye
You will soon begin to see
What we have put aside
Many troubles lie ahead
So see if we abide
To the need for speed in saving
What we’ve left behind.
People live in famine
While cities drown in waste
And the solutions arising from this truth
Are never put in place.
So when you stand before it
And it looks you in the face
And the sun that watches over it
Sinks by nightfall in disgrace
At the spinning ball of blue and white
Poisoned by our race
You come to sense rather sharply
What really is the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
Schoolchildren bang their verbal gables
Into each other’s face
Until the teacher comes and puts
Each person in his place
Thus is lost the unfair contrast
Between who and who
The children then sing and march in place
For that’s what they’re told to do
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
The soldier stands in victory
While both parties lost the game
Many men who took a side
Died in the fight against pain
A flag waves in glory
Another in defeat
Millions salute to it
While others sob and weep
But what many too late realize
Is that this is a backwards leap
For though now the men are in ecstasy
As they drink and dance and sleep
But tomorrow they will count the lost
And in their solemn sadness keep
Day after they’ll be thrown
Into another chase
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
And the vultures dance in circles
With the rats and the snakes
Feeding on the well-to-do
Stealing what they can take
Protected by the rules they bend
So no one sees they’re fake
As they puppeteer the thoughts of all
For none but their own sakes
By flashing colors before their eyes
Inducing fear and hate
Injecting into people’s minds
Control panels of seductive lies
Keeping you from sensing what is really the case
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
So you dance off through a cloud
On a magic carpet ride
Catching butterflies on a
Giant swirling moonlit slide
But when your mind comes to order
And your eyes into focus
You’re not given time to sort things out
Before reality sweeps you away
You dash through the forest
Gunfire from behind
And in the clockwork of the life you lead
The gears start to grind
Be you the knightly fool
Who recklessly swings his sword?
Or be you the wiser man
Who
And as you hide in the bushes
Survival at your waist
You come to sense what really
Happens to be the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
The preacher stands and speaks the word
That was written long before him
But the state of all
He does not understand
So he speaks to defend
The problem at hand
Fighting for something we don’t all believe
Bringing down the solution
For what many of us need
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
So why feed people with food
That could instead go to waste?
And why let children bring peace
When we can teach them to hate?
To march into the blender with armies
While others stack up food on their plates
Or be the puppeteer of the people
Telling them all’s okay
So put your shoes on your hands
And your coat on your face
For all’s just a diversion
From what’s really the case
And the people, they take ignorance
And the whole truth is hidden
By drapes of lace.
Arg... I couldn't get it to single space... oh well...