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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Frederick Smart who wrote (13019)7/18/2002 2:09:50 PM
From: Giordano Bruno  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
Carefull Fred She's on the same list as John Lennon.
Atheist Music Table of Contents
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Front rooms
Back rooms
Slide into tables
Crowd into bathrooms
Cheap talk
Deep talk
Talk, talk, talk around the clock
Crawl home
Lie down
Teeth chatter
Heart pounds
I don't feel so good
I don't feel so good

Push a button to escape
Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!
There's evil in this land
[evangelist]
"Rock n roll music!"
"Cast down these dope fiends
and their noisy bands!"
"Damn their souls!"

Preacher preaching love like vengeance
Preaching love like hate
Calling for large donations
Promising estates
Rolling lawns and angel bands
Behind the pearly gates
You know, he will have his in this life
But yours will have to wait

He's immaculately tax free
"Multiple hundreds of thousands of ..."
Tax free
"Hundreds of millions of dollars"
Tax free
"A hundred billion dollars!
And who is paying the price?"
Who, who
"Your children are"

Pissed off
Jacked up
Scream into the mike
Spit into the loving cup
Strut like a rooster
March like a man
God's hired hands and the devil bands
Packing the same grandstands

Different clothes
"Pot in their pockets!"
Different hair
"Sexually active!"
Raise a screaming guitar
or a bible in the air
Theatre of anguish
Theatre of glory
God's hired hands and the devil bands
Oh come let us adore - ME!

Lord, there's danger in this land
You get witch-hunts and wars
When church and state hold hands
Fuck it!
Tonight I'm going dancing
With the drags queens and the punks
Big beat deliver me
From the sanctimonious skunk
We're no flaming angels
He's not heaven sent
How can he speak for the Prince of Peace
When he's hawk-right-militant
And he's immaculately tax free

"Our nation has lost its guts!"
Save me
"Our nation has lost its strength!"
Tax free
"Our nation has whimpered and cried!"
Save me
"And petted the Castros!"
Tax free
"The Knomeinis' and the Kaddafis'"
Save me
"For so long"
Tax free
"That we don't know how to act like a man!"
Save me
"I think we should turn the United States marines
Loose on that little island south of Florida
And stop that problem!"
"I am preachin' love,
I am!"


~Joni



To: Frederick Smart who wrote (13019)7/18/2002 7:21:16 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
Saskatchewan Culture Lesson...

RAISED ON ROBBERY

He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel
He was drinking for diversion
He was thinking for himself
A little money riding on the Maple Leafs
Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves
She says...
"Let me sit down
You know, drinkin' alone's a shame
It's a shame, it's a crying shame
Look at those jokers
Glued to that damn hockey game
Hey honey-you've got lots of cash
Bring us round a bottle
And we'll have some laughs
Gin's what I'm drinking
I was raised on robbery

I'm a pretty good cook
I'm sitting on my groceries
Come up to my kitchen
I'll show you my best recipe
I try and I try but I can't save a cent
I'm up after midnight, cooking
Trying to make my rent
I'm rough but I'm pleasin'
I was raised on robbery

We had a little money once
They were pushing through a four Iane highway
Government gave us three thousand dollars
You should have seen it fly away
First he bought a '57 Biscayne
He put it in the ditch
He drunk up all the rest
That son of a bitch
His blood's bad whiskey
I was raised on robbery

You know you ain't bad looking
I like the way you hold your drinks
Come home with me honey
I ain't asking for no full length mink
Hey, where you going...
Don't go yet...
Your glass ain't empty and we just met
You're mean when your loaded-
I was raised on robbery"

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