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Learn To Forget
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Learn To Forget |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 Learn To Forget By: Noah Eaton 4/21/04 Turn your head, from the martyrs and patriots, dear child, patriotism is a scoundrel's game, I fight for no one, we're citizens of the world, and we're born to be wild. Cover your ears, from all these trivial reasons being sung of, the willingness to kill and be killed, from a fabricated real estate love... I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then, fill your heart with the smell of nurseries, and rest your light head, children have no past, children have no future, all that matters is the present, my friend, break from this heart of clay, and learn to forget...  Won't it a beautiful day, when our government needs a yard sale, to buy a war plane, and we're all reluctant, to seal up our childhood dreams, like stacked Brillo boxes? BREATHE A SKY, free of surveillance and Thaliomide, where children are born without limbs, without hands that can reach for the sky... I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then, fill your heart with the smell of nurseries, and rest your light head, children have no past, children have no future, all that matters is the present, my friend, break from this heart of clay, and learn to forget...  . . . . . . . . Come one, come all, now we've gone too far, only love is the way, children, build your filiarchy to the stars, come one, come all, don't let their words discourage you, look above and beyond the flag pole, the world is your playground, return to your roots... I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then, fill your heart with the smell of nurseries, and rest your light head, children have no past, children have no future, all that matters is the present, my friend, break from this heart of clay, and learn to forget... The world will never be quiet, till the patriot sings his last song, so learn to forget... The world will never be quiet, till the patriot sings his last song, so learn to forget...   "You'll find something that's enough to keep you But if the bright lights don't receive you You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20 |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
you shoulda put a hankie alert on this one...this is sad...sad |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Hugs to you and to the children of the world! Love, Peace & Harmony, Linda |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
This is powerful and compelling. you have written soem strong words and implied some even stronger themes. Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown |
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