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The River Runs Red

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed May 05, 2010 9:36 am

dust in my hands


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Concert in front of Exxon building on Manhattan's 6th avenue to protest the Exxon-Valdez catastrophe. The concert was not authorized




So you cut all the tall trees down
You poisoned the sky and the sea
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You've taken what's good from the ground
But you left precious little for me

You remember the flood and the fall
We remember the light on the hill
There should be enough for us all
But the dollar is driving us still

River runs red
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Black rain falls
Dust in my hand
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River runs red
Black rain falls
On my bleeding land
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So we came and conquered and found
Riches of commons and kings
Who strangled and wrestled the ground
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But they never put back anything

Now I'm trapped like a dog in a cage
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Wherever the truth is pursued
It must be the curse of the age
What's taken is never renewed

River runs red...


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Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri May 07, 2010 11:43 pm


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red rain is coming down

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red rain
red rain is pouring down
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pouring down all over me
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I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream
it can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch
this place is so quiet, sensing that storm
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red rain is coming down
red rain
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red rain is pouring down
pouring down all over me
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well I've seen them buried in a sheltered place in this town
they tell you that this rain can sting, and look down
there is no blood around see no sign of pain
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hay ay ay no pain
seeing no red at all, see no rain
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red rain is coming down
red rain
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red rain is pouring down
pouring down all over me
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red rain-
putting the pressure on much harder now
to return again and again
just let the red rain splash you
let the rain fall on your skin
I come to you defences down
with the trust of a child

red rain is coming down
red rain
red rain is pouring down
pouring down all over me
and I can't watch any more
no more denial
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it's so hard to lay down in all of this
red rain is coming down
red rain is pouring down
red rain is coming down all over me
I see it
red rain is coming down
red rain is pouring down
red rain is coming down all over me
I'm bathing in it
red rain coming down
red rain is coming down
red rain is coming down all over me
I'm begging you
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red rain coming down
red rain coming down
red rain coming down
red rain coming down

over me in the red red sea
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over me
over me
red rain
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed May 12, 2010 11:55 am


please walk me out in the morning dew, please? sometime
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sorry can't



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i thought i heard a young man cry
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i thought i heard a young girl cry
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i thought i heard a young boy cry
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now there is no more morning dew......
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now there is no more morning dew.......hold me close

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They could still get him out of office.
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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby seemslikeadream » Mon May 17, 2010 10:30 am

find the cost of your freedom


Hear the past a' calling
From Armageddon's side
When everyone's talking and no one
Is listening
How can we decide














lipstick for your face
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And in the long run he will kill you
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I can see your body lie
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to put the shadow on our eye
Maybe we'll go
Maybe we'll disappear
It's not that we don't know
It's just that we don't want to care.


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Over the years you have been hunted
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by the men who threw harpoons
And in the long run he will kill you
just to feed the pets we raise,
put the flowers in your vase
and make the lipstick for your face.
Over the years you swam the ocean
Following feelings of your own
Now you are washed up on the shoreline
I can see your body lie
It's a shame you have to die
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to put the shadow on our eye
Maybe we'll go
Maybe we'll disappear
It's not that we don't know
It's just that we don't want to care.
Under the bridges
Over the foam
Wind on the water
Carry me home.



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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue May 18, 2010 1:03 pm

a hard day on the planet




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The dollar went down and the President said
“Who’s in charge, now?” I don’t know, take your pick.
A new disease every day and the old ones are coming back
Things are looking kind of gray, like they’re going to black
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Don’t turn on the TV, don’t show me the paper
(I) don’t want to know he got kidnapped or why they all raped her
I want to go on vacation ‘till the pressure lets up
But they keep hijacking airplanes and blowing them up
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It’s been a hard day on the planet
How much is it all worth?
It’s getting harder to understand it
Things are tough all over on earth.

It’s hot in December and cold in July
When it rains it pours out of a poisonous sky
In California the body counts keep getting higher
It’s evil out there, man that state is always on fire.
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Everyone has a system, but they can’t seem to win
Even Bob Geldorf looks alarmingly thin
I got to get on that shuttle get me out of this place
But there’s gonna be warfare up there in outer space
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I’ve got clothes on my back and shoes on my feet
A roof over my head and something to eat
My kids are all healthy and my folks are alive
You know, it’s amazing but sometimes I think I’ll survive

I’ve got all of my fingers and all of my toes
I’m pretty well off I guess, I suppose
So how come I feel bad so much of the time?
A man ain’t an island—John Dunn wasn’t lying
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It’s business as usual; some things never change
It’s unfair, it’s tough, unkind and it’s strange
We don’t seem to learn; we can’t seem to stop
Maybe some explosions would close up the shop
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You know, maybe that would be fine: we would be off the hook
We resolved all our problems, never mind what it took
And it all would be over, finito, the end
Until the survivers started up all over again


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god damn the pusher man

god damn god damn



The dealer for a nickel
Goin to sell you lots of sweet dreams.
Ah...but the pusher will ruin your body;
Lord he'll leave your mind to scream.
God Damn! The pusher.
God Damn! God damn the pusher.
I said God Damn! God damn the pusher man.
Well now if I were the president of this land
You know I'd declare total war on the pusher man.
I'd cut him if he stands, and I'd shoot him if he run,
And I'd kill him with my bible, and my razor and my gun....
GOD DAMN! The pusher
God damn the pusher.
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They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby chump » Tue May 18, 2010 2:20 pm

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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby seemslikeadream » Thu May 20, 2010 12:15 am

Too much at stake
Ground beneath me shake
monkey
And the news is breaking





SHOCK! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
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Cover me when I run
Cover me through the fire
Something knocked me out' the trees
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Now I'm on my knees
Cover me, darling please
Hey hey hey,
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know when you're going to shock the monkey hey hey
Fox the fox
Rat on the rat
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You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can't take any more
Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey
hey hey hey,
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Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey
hey hey
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shock the monkey
hey hey
Wheels keep turning
Something's burning
Don't like it but I guess I'm learning
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Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Cover me, when I sleep
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Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
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Make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please
hey hey hey
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey
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hey hey hey
shock the monkey
hey hey hey
monkey
Too much at stake
Ground beneath me shake
monkey
And the news is breaking
Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock the monkey
hey hey Shock the monkeY
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Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life
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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat May 22, 2010 1:29 am



You're tellin' lies, so don't you criticize
Yeah I got used, all messed up and abused
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You let me down, with all your runnin' round
Still you pretend and try to call me friend
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don't say a word, I know just what I heard
Yeah you've been loose, you just go no excuse
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Just feel my rage, why can't you come of age?

I felt it all, just like a cannonball
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Then you got mad, you said that I'm all bad
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So what's the use, you lied and that's the truth
You took the key and drove right out on me
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I never knew, put all my trust in you
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OK that's it, I'm leaving now, I quit
I was unwise, so don't apologize
I paid the price, for taking your advice
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I felt it all, just like a cannonball
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You can say what you want all day
But I've never been so outraged
I'm washing my hands of you
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How could you be so untrue
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You know I can't stand no more
You know I can't stand no more


Now they're planning the crime of the century
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Well what will it be?
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Read all about their schemes and adventuring
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It's well worth a fee

So roll up and see
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And they rape the universe
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How they've gone from bad to worse
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Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory?
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Rip off the masks and let's see.
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But that's no right - oh no, what's the story?
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There's you and there's me
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That can't be right

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But instead, they want mass death.
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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby Col. Quisp » Sat May 22, 2010 9:52 pm

BP=Big Pig
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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby 2012 Countdown » Sat May 22, 2010 10:19 pm

Good photo essay.
George Carlin ~ "Its called 'The American Dream', because you have to be asleep to believe it."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby Jeff » Sun May 23, 2010 6:13 pm

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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby AhabsOtherLeg » Sun May 23, 2010 8:37 pm

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The Cuyahoga River must've been mentioned. It's been catching fire since 1868. That's a river we're talking about. A river regularly catching fire.

Another R.E.M. song, from when they were really good:



A section from a docu:



The largest river fire in 1952 caused over $1 million in damage to boats and a riverfront office building.[13] Fires erupted on the river several more times before June 22, 1969, when a river fire captured the attention of Time magazine, which described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather than flows" and in which a person "does not drown but decays."[14]

The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire helped spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA). As a result, large point sources of pollution on the Cuyahoga have received significant attention from the OEPA in recent decades.

These events are referred to in Randy Newman's 1972 song "Burn On", R.E.M.'s 1986 song "Cuyahoga", and Adam Again's 1992 song "River on Fire". Great Lakes Brewing Company of Cleveland, Ohio name their Burning River Pale Ale after the event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_R ... l_concerns


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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon May 24, 2010 4:49 am

Col. Quisp wrote:BP=Big Pig






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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue May 25, 2010 1:09 am

Where were you



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Re: The River Runs Red

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed May 26, 2010 11:02 am




A warning sign,
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I missed the good part then I realized,
I started looking and the bubble burst.
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I started looking for excuses.

Come on in,
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I've gotta tell you what a state I'm in,
I've gotta tell you in my loudest tones,
That I started looking for a warning sign.

When the truth is,
I miss you.
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Yeah the truth is,
That I miss you so.
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A warning sign,
You came back to haunt me and I realized
you were an island and I passed you by,
You were an island to discover.
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Come on in,
I've gotta tell you what state I'm in,
I've gotta tell you in my loudest tones,
That I started looking for a warning sign.

When the truth is,
I miss you.
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Yeah the truth is,
That I miss you so.
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And I'm tired,
I should not have let you go.

So I crawl back into your open arms.
Yes, I crawl back into your open arms.
And I crawl back into your open arms.
Yes, I crawl back into your open arms...

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But instead, they want mass death.
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