Title: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: sound on December 08, 2009, 05:18:14 am Once upon a time you dressed so fine You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you? People'd call, say, "beware doll, you're bound to fall" You thought they were all kiddin' you You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out Now you don't talk so loud Now you don't seem so proud About having to be scrounging for your next meal. How does it feel How does it feel To be without a home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone? You've gone to the finest school all right, miss lonely But you know you only used to get juiced in it And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it You said you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realize He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And ask him do you want to make a deal? How does it feel How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone? You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns When they all come down and did tricks for you You never understood that it ain't no good You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat Who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat Ain't it hard when you discover that He really wasn't where it's at After he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone? Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe You used to be so amused At napoleon in rags and the language that he used Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal. How does it feel How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone? ~Bob Dylan~ (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/simplykate_2007/wind_of_change.jpg) Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: sound on December 08, 2009, 06:18:52 am If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.” ~Thich Nhat Hahn~ (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/simplykate_2007/gratitude6-2.jpg) Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: Eugene66 on December 08, 2009, 07:01:28 pm Oh Gosh I remember that song. :o
The upside of this story is that this woman he is singing to is now waking up to real life and it always feels good afterwards. This song to me is symbolised by a Tarot card called "The Tower" where the playing fields are leveled meaning the humble will gain and the pompous will lose and in all of this they will discover they were always ONE in the middle ground. I remember a song by Styx that also tipefies the life of the lonely. It impacts me because I once fell in love with a woman who used t be a mutli millionaire before she met me. She said all it taught her is that money is not the answer. Its definitely a help but money alone leaves you miserable with pretentious friends. Ok lets see. That song. Its called Lonely People. This song was on Styx's Album done to commemorate the closing of the Paradise Theatre so keep that in mind when reading the Lyrics. Lonely People The rain was hot, the streets were empty As downtown closed her eyes The movie house stood in silence as I said my last good-byes Her silver screen was stained with memories As Cagney shot them down And as I watched I was that hero In dreamlands lost and found Oh my God, well we both are empty Paradise and me Do you believe I'm still chasing rainbows When everywhere I see Lonely People, Lonely People Up above these ghetto streets In penthouse suites they sit and stare Lonely People, Lonely People They smile and say they're fine But behind their eyes they just don't care Lonely People They just don't care Lonely People, Lonely People Lonely People, Lonely People Beneath these neon streets in subway seats they crowd for air Lonely People, Lonely People So close and yet so far they share the secrets of despair Lonely People, Lonely People (repeat and fade) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HclA84F2gEc Can you imagine all these lonely people meeting after "the tower" falls? When they discover they can all be happy together instead of lonely in their sperate identities. Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: Eugene66 on December 08, 2009, 07:18:12 pm FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME
Freedom pulls my heart strings As I board another plane It's not leavin' I am wanting But freedom knows my name Friends turn into strangers Strangers can be cold I've been blessed with angels At least I'm not alone And they come to me in a sunrise In the words of some old song In the name of all creation In a life long out of bounds Freedom knows my name Freedom knows my name Freedom knows my name Tender roots grow deep with longing To the core of solid ground Mine go left of center and slightly of the ground Through the war torn ages Seams of freedom's fight Drawn on hidden pages Haunt our dreams at night Freedom knows my name Freedom knows my name Freedom knows my name To the child without a promise To the frightened and the tame Although it's just a whisper Freedom knows your name Melanie Safka Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: Eugene66 on December 08, 2009, 07:31:18 pm RUBY TUESDAY
She would never say where she came from Yesterday don't matter 'cause it's gone While the sun is bright or in the darkest night No one knows. She comes then she goes Oh, goodbye Ruby Tuesday Who could hang a name on you And when you change with every new day Still I'm gonna miss you Don't ask her why she leaves to be so free She's gonna tell you it's the only way to be She just can't be chained to a life Where nothing's gained And nothing's lost but such a cost Goodbye Ruby Tuesday Who's gonna hang a name on you And when you change with every new day Still I'm gonna miss you Oh there's no time to love I heard her say You gotta catch your dreams Before they slip away Dying all the time Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind Is life unkind Oh, goodbye Ruby Tuesday Who's gonna hang a name on you And when you change with every new day Still I'm gonna miss you Who's gonna hang a littlename on you And when you change with every new day Still I'm gonna miss you. Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: sound on January 25, 2010, 06:05:10 am My pockets were full now my money's gone My friends come around and now they're gone Things come and they come and then they go And where they go nobody knows It's gonna come around What goes around comes around It's gonna come around What goes around comes around My cup over runneth with fullness and grace Yet people push bullshit in my face The future can't hold what your money can't buy My brother keep striving your child relies It's gonna come around What goes around comes around It's gonna come around What goes around comes around This world keeps on spinning does the future know ? We're destined to screw ourselves one blow We've ruined what's pure down from nature below You'd better look back it'll all be gone It's gonna come around What goes around comes around It's gonna come around What goes around comes around So children please listen this world is yours This message is too deep to ignore Your forefathers said but they did not do The things that would show that they cared for you It's gonna come around What goes around comes around It's gonna come around What goes around comes around Comes around comes around comes around Comes around yeah Gonna take you higher I'm gonna take you higher Yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm gonna take you higher ~Lenny Kravitz~ (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/simplykate_2007/break_free.jpg) Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: Eugene66 on January 25, 2010, 06:11:22 am Beautiful and emotional. :)
It speaks to my heart. Like you Kate. Nice to see you. smitten Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: sound on January 25, 2010, 07:22:46 am aww (((( Eugene )))) It is nice to be here ... what you have created here has a certain sense of freedom about it ... and Lenny Kravitz is the coolest of the cool isnt he coolsmiley
Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: sound on January 25, 2010, 07:25:13 am Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ~Mark Twain~ (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/simplykate_2007/No20Surrender20-201st20Black20an-1.jpg) Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: Eugene66 on January 25, 2010, 08:37:05 am It becomes more difficult for me to show my mind in words.
I see on the one side..... dark imprisonment, fear, self imposed, ridicule, scared ego's, slow death, hatred, comparison. On the other side. Light, boldness, creativity, joy, love, freedom, single mindedness, expansion. elation, growth, healing, life. We walk the line between the two and every moment is a choice for the one or the other. Choose the one that ego fears and the rewards will be liberating an expansion of what we are. Liberty and love. A mystery to be appreciated. Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: sound on January 28, 2010, 05:34:32 am The most rejuvenating idea of all, and the greatest step to any true illumination, is the realization that your exterior life springs from the invisible world of your reality through your conscious thoughts and beliefs, for then you realize the power of your individuality and identity. You are immediately presented with choices. You can no longer see yourself as a victim of circumstances. Yet the conscious mind arose precisely to open up choices, to free you from a one-road experience, to let you use your creativity to form diversified, varied comprehensions. Let us make a clear distinction here: Your conscious beliefs direct the flow of unconscious processes which bring your ideas into physical reality, so while your thoughts cause your experience, you are not consciously aware of how this takes place. ~Seth-Jane Roberts~ (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/simplykate_2007/6a00d83451596669e20120a5fef665970c.jpg) Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: Eugene66 on January 28, 2010, 06:27:49 am Hmm Seth has a nice way to explain.
I wonder how much we are going to say it before it sinks in on a critical mass scale. Maharishi reckons if we have the square root of 1% of the population we will change the world forever. Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: Eugene66 on January 28, 2010, 06:41:19 am Ok but what is the square root of one?
Now I feel so stoopid. 2funny 1X1 is 1 so the answer is 1. Unless we go into fractions then it must be about .33 Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: sound on January 30, 2010, 03:46:20 am Hmm mathematical freedom ... I love the idea of maths even though I 'dont get it' ...
on another note this next song is very jaded and I think that is what I like about it ... I walk right by him and he's freezing his ass off He could be dead I'm supposed to walk away I won't remember a thing come the summertime Handful of quarters make me feel okay Ah ah who's gonna have to pay Ah ah who do I love today I love what's mine cause what's mine is all mine Gives me a reason to go get more Don't really care where I go to get it I ain't too clear about "what's yours is yours" You take it for granted I guess that's what it's for But before you demand it Take a look out your back door If you don't like a single thing that I'm saying If you're offended when I demonstrate Don't mean a damn to me and I shall continue Hope you won't mind if I control my fate Ah ah who will I have to fight Ah ah to defend my created right I'll defend what's mine cause what's mine will be all mine It's what I'd fight for it's for what I'd bleed I roll the dice on the grand experiment While I am strong I will get what I need You take it for granted I guess that's what it's for But before you demand it Take a look out your back door If you're concerned with the moral imperative If you are tripping on the right thing to do Come to my office with the exclusive screenplay I think there's money in a book about you Ah ah what have you got to lose Ah ah which are you gonna choose I choose what's mine so what's mine will be all mine Gonna make a million on the folly of men Don't even care about no consequences Turn my damnation into chapter ten You take it for granted I guess that's what it's for But before you demand it Take a look out your back door ~John Popper (Blues Traveller)~ (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/simplykate_2007/1734294-Jagged-ice-peaks-0.jpg) Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: Eugene66 on January 30, 2010, 10:47:36 pm Hmm Crystal mountain. Reminds me of Membar. The planet where Delen was born.
Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: sound on February 06, 2010, 04:17:06 pm You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~Clarence Darrow~ (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u138/simplykate_2007/et_eifman_ballet_excerpts_steamy_em.jpg) Title: Re: ~Freedom Known~ Post by: Eugene66 on February 07, 2010, 12:52:12 am I like this kind of knowing. To see another as yourself and it really is true. With compassion you can see yourself suffering in another when another suffers. By helping another you help yourself even though your intention was to just be comforting to another. This kind of Psychology is moving deeply into spiritual psychology where one has to work with many to heal the group. |