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Once Again...

WannabePunk's picture

Listening To: Nothing currently, but I'm on a Beck and Rage Against The Machine kick right now.
I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocka!

I'm writing!
Woo-hoo!

So, second day of school today. Fuck. We hiked all day. Up a mountain. Wasn't that bad...except when I had to be near the half of my class I don't like. :D
Ah well.

I'm tired. And should be asleep. Unfortunetley (fuck. another word I can never spell), I'm programmed to go to bed at one and wake up at eleven because that's what I did all summer (wee!)

By the way, if you think you know me... put your name in a comment. I will proceed to read it, and proclaim that I have no clue who you are, until you tell me where we met and I'll go "Oh yeah. of course I know you."

Anyway, I wrote some lyrics that I need peer-reviewed (Hell yes, I AM a /musical scientist/. Beat that.)

Chorus:
Block the windows!
Keep us in!
Who knows what we might do
if you let them in?
x2

Verse 1:
L ock all the doors,
block all the windows
Don't see what the
outside shows!

don't want a revolution
don't want any innovation
Don't think about
where the outside goes!

No thoughts but ours
you're not behind bars
Just sit in your
neat little rows!

You need permission
To follow ambition
Don't wonder where
the river flows!

Verse 2:
The scene of perfection
Teaching a lesson
In mind numbing
Toleration!

Learn the facts
know the dates
Don't question our
Creation!

Four hundred kids
lined up in grids
learning to love
our nation!

We pledge allegiance
in accordance
to our star-striped
blood-red flag!

Bridge:
Let us out
Let us out
Let us out now!
Let us out
Let us out
LET US OUT NOW!

4 and a half points if you can figure out what it's about.

(By the way...I saw a comment...someone said "I love rise against". Guess what? SEEING THEM IN OCTOBER!)

secular.mosh.pit's picture

You totally know who I am.

You totally know who I am. Even the picture should give it away.

Anyway, I skimmed the lyrics, they seem awesome. I'm still waking up, and I'm kind of into Bad Religion at the moment.

RATM! Yes!

That is all.

___________
The world doesn't speak to me like my own brain.

Usagi's picture

Niiice.

Niiice. I'm glad I'm not the only one here writing songs like these.

"Learn the facts
know the dates
Don't question our
Creation!

Four hundred kids
lined up in grids
learning to love
our nation!
"

I like.

Bridget, by the way. I believe I saw you today.

WannabePunk's picture

Thanks, both of you.

Thanks, both of you.
And, yeah. YOU'RE both pretty obvious.
I saw one today...
and the other one...your the only person who would have "Mae" sharpied on to your hand...
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State of the union address
reads "War Torn Country Still a Mess"
The words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue.

secular.mosh.pit's picture

It was actually sharpied

It was actually sharpied backwards, as I took the picture with my macbook camera. That's dedication.
___________
The world doesn't speak to me like my own brain.

NonSequitur's picture

never mind

mispost

WannabePunk's picture

You realize you could have

You realize you could have just flipped the picture on your computer once you had taken it, right?
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State of the union address
reads "War Torn Country Still a Mess"
The words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue.

Usagi's picture

Maybe

Maybe he just wanted to show his dedication.

secular.mosh.pit's picture

Actually, I had never made

Actually, I had never made that connection in my head. That makes a lot more sense...

___________
The world doesn't speak to me like my own brain.

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