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Beldurin 
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Posted on: Apr. 28 2002,08:50 |
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Was listening to some Henry Rollins Spoken Word while driving back from Chicago late one night and came across this particular track. It really struck a chord with me from some experiences in my past. For those of you who haven't heard it, I'd recommend it. And pardon my presumptuousness, but I think a few other detnetters can probably relate as well.
Henry Rollins - I know you
I know you
You were too short
You had bad skin
You couldn't talk to them very well
Words didn't seem to work
They lied when they came out of your mouth
You tried so hard to understand them
You wanted to be part of what was happening
You saw them having fun
And it seemed like such a mystery
Almost magic
Made you think that there was something wrong with you
You'd look in the mirror and try to find it
You thought that you were ugly
And that everyone was looking at you
So you learned to be invisible
To look down
To avoid conversation
The hours, days, weekends
Ah, the weekend nights alone
Where were you?
In the basement?
In the attic?
In your room?
Working some job - just to have something to do.
Just to have a place to put yourself
Just to have a way to get away from them
A chance to get away from the ones that made you feel
so strange and ill at ease inside yourself
Did you ever get invited to one of their parties?
You sat and wondered if you would go or not
For hours you imagined the scenarios that might transpire
They would laugh at you
If you would know what to do
If you'd have the right things on
If they would notice that you came from a different planet
Did you get all brave in your thoughts?
Like you going to be able to go in there and deal with it
and have a great time.
Did you think that you might be the life of the party?
That all these people were gonna talk to you and you
would find out that you were wrong?
That you had a lot of friends and you weren't so
strange after all?
Did you end up going?
Did they mess with you?
Did they single you out?
Did you find out that you were invited because they
thought you were so weird?
Yeah, I think I know you
You spent a lot of time full of hate
A hate that was pure sunshine
A hate that saw for miles
A hate that kept you up at night
A hate that filled your every waking moment
A hate that carried you for a long time
Yes, I think I know you
You couldn't figure out what they saw in the way they lived
Home was not home
Your room was home
A corner was home
The place they weren't, that was home
I know you
You're sensitive and you hide it because you fear
getting stepped on one more time
It seems that when you show a part of yourself that is
the least bit vulnerable someone takes advantage of you
One of them steps on you
They mistake kindliness for weakness
But you know the difference
You've been the brunt of their weakness for years
And strength is something you know a bit about because
you had to be strong to keep yourself alive
You know yourself very well now
And you don't trust people
You know them too well
You try to find that special person
Someone you can be with
Someone you can touch
Someone you can talk to
Someone you don't feel so strange around
And you find that they don't really exist
You feel closer to people on movie screens
Yeah, I think I know you
You spend a lot of time daydreaming
And people have made comment to that effect
Telling you that you're self involved, and self centred
But they don't know, do they?
About the long night shifts alone
About the years of keeping yourself company
All the nights you wrapped your arms around yourself
so you could imagine someone holding you
The hours of indecision, self doubt
The intense depression
The blinding hate
The rage that made you stagger
The devastation of rejection
Well, maybe they do know
But if they do, they sure do a good job of hiding it
It astounds you how they can be so smooth
How they seem to pass through life as if life itself
was some divine gift
And it infuriates you to watch yourself with your
apparent skill at finding every way possible to screw it up
For you life is a long trip
Terrifying and wonderful
Birds sing to you at night
The rain and the sun the changing seasons are true friends
Solitude is a hard won ally, faithful and patient
Yeah, I think I know you
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If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name.
You haven't solved anything.
-- zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
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BlackFlag
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Posted on: Apr. 28 2002,12:02 |
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i can definately relate to that. scary really.
I highly recomend the book "The Portable Henry Rollins."
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ic0n0
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Posted on: Apr. 28 2002,14:36 |
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I can relate to that also, some parts are to close to my personal experience for comfort.
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smartsnake
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Posted on: Apr. 28 2002,15:17 |
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Yea that sounds pretty close to life as I know it.
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1LT
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Posted on: Apr. 28 2002,16:21 |
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For those who may want to hear it, It's either at the end of "The Boxed Life" or "Live at McCabe's". Good stuff.
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Beldurin
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Posted on: Apr. 28 2002,17:13 |
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| Quote (1LT @ 28 April 2002,10:21) | | For those who may want to hear it, It's either at the end of "The Boxed Life" or "Live at McCabe's". Good stuff. |
It's on Boxed Life
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If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name.
You haven't solved anything.
-- zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Apr. 28 2002,21:43 |
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meh that nonsense is just like fortune telling and zodiac crap. it's extremely general and can relate to freakin anyone.
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Beldurin
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Posted on: Apr. 28 2002,22:02 |
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| Quote (CatKnight @ 28 April 2002,15:43) | | meh that nonsense is just like fortune telling and zodiac crap. it's extremely general and can relate to freakin anyone. |
The purpose of art is to evoke an emotional reaction in the audience, to find some sort of commonality between the artist and the viewer. That's why this is effective, because people can relate. If you can't, that's fine, but for some people, this is how things are or were.
Stop being a jackass for just a little while, ok? Look at the previous posts. Some people thought it was valid and identify with it. If you don't identify or agree, then don't post.
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If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name.
You haven't solved anything.
-- zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
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Posted on: Apr. 28 2002,23:19 |
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Most of astrology seems to be BS, however the descriptions of the 12 personality traits are most interesting.
I can sometimes peg someone's sign by what they say or how they look!
As far as fortune telling, I charge 50$ for Tarot readings, and I get it.
I spent a long time considering why people either think all that is BS and why some are positive it works; seems to me that it works if you think it does.
It doesn't work if you're skeptical.
BTW, the Miss Cleo we see on American TV is a scam, but not the one you're thinking of. She is a real psychic, and she doesn't need cards at all. She uses them to put people at ease, since just telling them stuff out of thin air is too startling.
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Nikita
Princess of Darkness Spy. Assassin. Seductress.
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Posted on: Apr. 29 2002,00:56 |
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hey you know how to read those cards too? What deck do you use? 
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