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From "Mid-Life Crustacean":

You're old
(you're old)
Groaning like a geezer
Hear yourself a-crackin' like an old has-been
Look at yourself, old man, you've got multiple chins
'Cause you're old...

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This came straight from the album pamphlet, so if it's wrong, it's MGMT's fault:

Hey I found a whistle that hangs like a charm
And when my noose is tied I could blow it
And fall down into your arms
15 centuries of dissolution and grief
To return a yellow trickster and a thief

Yeah I found a whistle that works every time
That's when the trail escapes to nowhere
And the flood erases the crime
Such conviction
To paint all the walls with the blood
Of the young and the faithful and the good

Hey I found a whistle as thin as a sheet
To split the dumbness of a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep
Tiny axes
Repeatedly raising the flag
All ignored, real emotion's such a drag

Yeah I've got a pistol that's aimed at your heart
And on dark nights when the moon is right
I could show you
The head attached with a scarf
Aerophane sorceress, at home obeying the fates
When it's gone, has it gone all the way?

I don't know quite what to make of the meaning of this song. I guess what I personally get from it, I feel that I would think of it if I found someone really special. I do have another idea in my head of when I would like to hear it, though. Nothing dirty. Quite a beautiful image actually.

And the way it is performed....that is what always gets to me. 

Of course, ever since I read other's interpretations of it on Song Meanings, now I can't get the sexual innuendo of "the head attached with a scarf" out of my head. Thanks a lot, wienie!

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Patrick Star's song from "Sing A Song Of Patrick"!

Twinkle, Twinkle, Patrick Star
I made myself a sandwich
My mommy named it Fred
It tastes like beans and bacon
And smells like it's been dead
Writing stuff is so hard
So I used a pointy pencil
Pointy, Pointy, Pointy
Pointy, Pointy, Point
P.U., what's that horrible smell?
Drum solo!
(Drum Solo)
I have a head
It ends in a point
Pointy, Pointy, Pointy
Pointy, Pointy, Point
This song is over
Except for this line
You win this round
Broccoli!

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"We Used To Wait" by Arcade Fire:

I used to write
I used to write letters
I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain
But by the time we met
The times had already changed
So I never wrote a letter
I never took my true heart
I never wrote it down
So when the lights cut out
I was left standing in the wilderness downtown

Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last

It seems strange
How we used to wait for letters to arrive
But what's stranger still
Is how something so small can keep you alive
We used to wait
We used to waste hours just walkin around
We used to wait
All those wasted lives in the wilderness downtown

Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Still moving through the pain

I'm gonna write a letter to my true love
I'm gonna sign my name
Like a patient on a table
I wanna walk again
Gonna move through the pain

Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last

Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Still moving through the pain

We used to wait for it
Now we're screaming
Sing the chorus again

I used to wait for it
Hear my voice screaming
Sing the chorus again

Wait for it

This song always makes me sad whenever I listen to it. Whenever I hear it, I just want to lie my head down and cry. And there is something about the line "like a patient on a table I wanna walk again gonna move through the pain" that inexplicably depresses me the most.

I don't know what has been going on with me lately, but I feel like I am about to lose my mind and I don't even know why. Every time I walk, my legs feel shaky and like they lose all feeling and like I am about to completely separate from my body. It's a terrible feeling. I keep getting dizzy and I quite a few times I feel like my mind has actually blacked out for a couple seconds. I have times where I feel like I can't focus my eyes and like they go blurry. And it does not seem like anything I should really be concerned about it, because honestly, it feels all mind based.

Last Friday, I was out and when I was going into a store, my foot caught on a crack and turned over a little and I had a slight pain. It didn't hurt to walk on or anything, but it made me kind of nervous and in the grand tradition of things it turned my anxiety switch up. I have been a nervous wreck all week that I am going to do something to it. It doesn't hurt to walk on or anything still, but I do get a slight pain if I step on it a certain way. The pain feels like it's all in the bottom of the joints of my toes and it feels like the pain you get when you need to pop a joint.
And my toes just feel like they need to be popped and popping them will relieve the feeling temporarily. There is no pain if I press on my foot anywhere. I don't know what it is.

I was also starting to believe that maybe That Thing had finally phased out of my life, but over the past week, I have been wanting it really bad. It's terrible to have a problem that tortures you so badly, but the idea of telling someone is even worse because the ridicule you would get is incomprehensible. Especially when you yourself cannot even explain why you have these feelings. I ask myself, why would you want something like this, but even I can't give myself an answer. And it's terribly distressing to not be able to answer it. I just want it to go away.

And you know what doesn't help? That this particular thing I kind of have a fetish for. If I find someone attractive and I add this in to the equation, it increases the person's attractiveness.

I'm not ready to go into specifics here, but here is a question hinting as to what That Thing is- how do you tell people that you wish two perfectly functioning body parts would no longer do so?
Send "We Used to Wait" Ringtone to your C

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"You Will Leave A Mark" by A Silent Film:

I am so ashamed
I am so ashamed of all the trouble I have caused
and I am so ashamed of all these unopened doors
I am so ashamed of what I have become

That oh, my heart is bursting again
Don't leave this mark
But your eyes are turning away
Ooooooohh, aaaaaaaahh

I am of the west
I am fair skinned
I deserve a bullet in my chest
If I have no religion and no reason to be scared
If I am going to hell then I just dont care

That oh, my heart is bursting again
Don't leave this mark
But your eyes are turning away
Ooooooohh, aaaaaaaahh (2x)

That oh, my heart is bursting again
Don't leave this mark
But your eyes are turning away
Ooooooohh, aaaaaaaahh (2x)

Man, they are going to be in Philly at the Piazza for a free Radio 104.5 concert on Saturday and even though I only know 2 songs by them, I WANT TO GO SO DAMN BAD! *cries*:

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The inspiration behind my blog title and my absolute favorite Deee-Lite song...."Come On In, The Dreams Are Fine":

Thank the days for our dreams
Thank the days
Thank the days for our dreams
Thank the days

There are
A thousand different ways
We must try
To hear each other say
No matter how different
It's still the same
We all feel
Love and pain

Slip off your views
Unbutton your mind
Stay awhile
1000 miles
Light a candle
To your soul
Deja vu 1000 miles old

Thank the days for our dreams
Thank the days
Thank the days for our dreams
Thank the days

Close the door
And lock the time
Jump over the wall
On the other side
Come on in, the dreams are fine
Now I know why I like this place

I pull the covers
Over my head
Black velvet darkness
Above my bed
It's beyond what I've seen or read
Now I know why I thank the days

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Another song I instantly fell in love with...."Driven By Their Beating Hearts" by A Silent Film:

As I was waking up
The moon was fading
The folks had gone to ground
The day was breaking

Words don't come easily
When most I need them
I do not have the key
I am breaking in

There's people, people going out of their minds
Right into each other's homes
But I only want to be with you, with you

There's people, people getting out of their cars
Driven by their beating hearts
But I only want to be with you, with you

I don't believe my eyes
There's so much beauty here
A song for everyone
A song for every ear

Words don't come easily
When most I need them
I do not have a key
I am breaking in

There's people, people going out of their minds
Right into each other's homes
But I only want to be with you, with you

There's people, people getting out of their cars
Driven by their beating hearts
But I only want to be with you, with you

I want you, I want you to define me, define me
I want you, I want you to define me, define me
I want you, I want you to define me, define me
I want you, I want you to define me, define me

There's people, people going out of their minds
Right into each other's homes
But I only want to be with you, with you

There's people, people getting out of their cars
Driven by their beating hearts
But I only want to be with you, with you

I want you, I want you to define me, define me
I want you, I want you to define me, define me
I want you, I want you to define me, define me
I want you, I want you to define me, define me

Driven by their beating hearts, their hearts
Driven by their beating hearts, their hearts

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"Panic Switch" by the Silversun Pickups:

Time is never worth my time
Blue shine bleeds into my eyes
I still sleep on the right side
But white noise can't leave the scene behind

Could I be anything you want me to be
If so is it meant to be seen

When you see yourself in a crowded room
Do your fingers itch are you pistol whipped
Will you step in line or release the glitch
Can you fall asleep with a panic switch

When you see yourself in a crowded room
Do your fingers itch are you pistol whipped
Will you step in line or release the glitch
Do you think she'll sleep with a panic

And I'll try to hold on tight tonight
Pink slip inviting me inside
Want to burn skin and brand what once was mine
But the red views keep ripping the divide

If I go everywhere you want me to go
How will I know you'll still follow

When you see yourself in a crowded room
Do your fingers itch are you pistol whipped
Will you step in line or release the glitch
Can you fall asleep with a panic switch

When you see yourself in a crowded room
Do your fingers itch are you pistol whipped
Will you step in line or release the glitch
Do you think she'll sleep with a panic...

I'm waiting and fading and floating away
I'm waiting and fading and floating away
I'm waiting and fading and floating away
I'm waiting and fading and floating...

I'm waiting and fading and floating away
I'm waiting and fading and floating away
I'm waiting and fading and floating away
Waiting and fading
Waiting and fading

When you see yourself in a crowded room
Do your fingers itch are you pistol whipped
Will you step in line or release the glitch
Can you fall asleep with a panic switch

When you see yourself in a crowded room
Do your fingers itch are you pistol whipped
Will you step in line or release the glitch
Do you think she'll sleep with a panic...

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Have you ever heard a song and you are so utterly blown away by the song, you just stand there and don't move? I was in Peddler's Village on Sunday and while in the Pine Wreath & Candle store, there was this song playing and I was so blown away by it, all I could think is, I have to find out who sings this song; it is absolutely incredible. I scrambled to enter some of the lyrics into my phone, but unfortunately, I am too damn slow of a texter, so finally I asked my mom for paper and a pen and scribbled down some of the lyrics to look up on Google. It took a bit of time to narrow down searches, but I finally got it- "A Song Can Change Your Life" by Mark Masri:

You tell me you feel the world we live in
Forever been a cold and lonely place
You tell me that you’ve lost your will to try
To hope that you will find a saving grace

But I know the world is of our making
That we will find the truth that we believe

(CHORUS)
And a song can change your life
A word can open doors
A melody can take us where we've never been before
And a song can change your life

You don't know what's waiting round the corner
The place that lived in shadow becomes light
A breath of time and in the merest moment
We start to see the end of endless night

And life is full of gifts there for the taking
As long as we are willing to try

And a song can change your life
And a word can open doors
A melody can take us where we've never been before
And a song can change your life

And life is full of gifts there for the taking
As long as we are willing to try

And a song can change your life
A word can open doors
A melody can take us where we've never been before
And a song can change your life

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"San Francisco...." by Scott McKenzie:

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you are going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation
Such a strange vibration
People in motion

There's a whole generation
With a new explanation
People in motion
People in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there.

I will, Scott. I will.

Do you ever listen to a song and feel like you were born in the wrong decade? I grew up listening to oldies music, so my taste in music tends to gravitate towards 50s and 60s music. I always wish I would have been a 60s child. I bet I would have been a hippie. A smelly, pot smoking hippie.

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"The One" by Elton John:

I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands

In the instant that you love someone
In the second that the hammer hits
Reality runs up your spine
And the pieces finally fit

And all I ever needed was the one
Like freedom fields where wild horses run
When stars collide like you and I
No shadows block the sun
You're all I've ever needed
Oh Baby you're the one

There are caravans we follow
Drunken nights in dark hotels
When chances breathe between the silence
Where sex and love no longer gel

For each man in his time is Cain
Until he walks along the beach
And sees his future in the water
A long lost heart within his reach

And all I ever needed was the one
Like freedom fields where wild horses run
When stars collide like you and I
No shadows block the sun
You're all I've ever needed
Oh Baby you're the one

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I listened to it for the first time the other day and instantly fell in love...."Tears Of Pearls" by Savage Garden:

And we stare each other down
Like victims in the grind
Probing all the weakness
And hurt still left behind
And we cry
The tears of pearls
We do it
Oh we do it.

Is love really the tragedy
The way you might describe
Or would a thousand lovers
Still leave you cold inside?
Make you cry
These tears of pearls

All these mixed emotions
We keep locked away
Like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away
From all the world

Your kisses are like pearls,
So different and so rare
But anger stole the jewels away
And love has left you bare
Made you cry
These tears of pearls

Well I could be the tired joker
Pour my heart to get you in
Sacrifice my happiness
Just so I could win
Maybe cry
These tears of pearls

All these mixed emotions
We keep locked away
Like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away
From all the world

We twist and turn
Where angels burn
Like fallen soldiers
We will learn
That once forgotten,
Twice removed
Love will be the death
The death of you

All these mixed emotions
We keep locked away
Like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away
From all the world

Edit: I just searched for a video of this song on Youtube and I came across this live concert of them and I also watched an early interview with the two and....holy zombie Jesus. Talk about the elephant in the room! A big ass glittery rainbow-colored elephant! Seriously- if pictures like this weren't setting off gaydars to the point of blowing up, then....well, I don't know where I was going with that, but here is a picture that made me lol.

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"So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy:

So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear

You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that grow around you
So long so long and thanks for all the fish

The world's about to be destroyed
There's no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the planet dissolve around you

Despite those nets of tuna fleetes
We thought most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women

So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long and thanks for all the fish

If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasy fish

If we could just change one thing
We would all have learnt to sing

Come one and all
Man and mammal
Side by side
In life's great gene pool

So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long and thanks for all the fish

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"The Bad Touch" by the Bloodhound Gang:

Ha-Ha! Well now we call this the act of mating
But there are several other very important differences
Between human beings and animals that you should know about

I'd appreciate your input

Sweat baby sweat baby sex is a Texas drought
Me and you do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about
So put your hands down my pants and I'll bet you'll feel nuts
Yes I'm Siskel yes I'm Ebert and you're getting two thumbs up
You've had enough of two-hand touch you want it rough you're out of bounds
I want you smothered want you covered like my Waffle House hashbrowns
Come quicker than FedEx never reach an apex like Coca-Cola stock you are inclined
To make me rise an hour early just like Daylight Savings Time

Do it now
You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Do it again now
You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Gettin' horny now

Love the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket
Like the lost catacombs of Egypt only God knows where we stuck it
Hieroglyphics? Let me be Pacific I wanna be down in your South Seas
But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means "Small Craft Advisory"
So if I capsize on your thighs high tide B-5 you sunk my battleship
Please turn me on I'm Mister Coffee with an automatic drip
So show me yours I'll show you mine "Tool Time" you'll Lovett just like Lyle
And then we'll do it doggy style so we can both watch "X-Files"

Do it now
You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Do it again now
You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Gettin' horny now

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Do it again now
You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Do it now
You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Do it again now
You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Gettin' horny now

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I have still yet to see what is so horrible about this song, besides making absolutely no sense whatsoever, that it's one of the most hated songs on earth....I totally dig the Donna Summer version of "MacArthur Park". I love the first part when she howls "oh NOOOOOO!". Provided I am alone when listening to it, I will generally fall to my knees and scream along with her:

Spring was never waiting for us dear
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages
And were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur's park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh noooooooooooo

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds like tender babies
In your hands
And the old men playing Chinese checkers
By the trees

MacArthur's park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh noooooooooooo

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me
Looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands
And I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes
And I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers
Through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves in my life
You'll still be the one
And I'll ask myself why

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"30 Century Man":

See the dwarfs and see the giants,
Which one would you choose to be?
And if you can't get that together,
Here's the answer, here's the key

You can freeze like a 30 century man,
Like a 30 century man

I'll save my bread and take it with me,
'Til a hundred years or so
Shame you won't be there to see me
Shakin' hands with Charles de Gaulle

Play it cool and saran-wrap all you can,
Be a 30 century man
You can freeze like a 30 century man,
Like a 30 century man

The song is originally by Scott Walker, but personally I think his version blows. The Jigsaw Seen definitely did a better cover of it. Call me a sissy, but I always get emotional when it's played in Bender's Big Score, at the scene when Fry realizes he is actually Lars and then runs out of his building, shouting "Wait for me, Leela! I'll be there in a thousand years!".

Off-topic- why is it that I want to do something nice for the environment and I have to be penalized for it? I want to be nice and recycle my old monitor that is so big it should be paying taxes, but I have to pay $10 for it? And then be given a $10 gift card to Worst Buy? I don't buy at Worst Buy anymore! And unfortunately I don't know anyone else that does either to even sell them my gift card! ARGH! Why not just give me a Visa gift card?

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Because every now and then, some artist today will put something out that I actually like...."Fireflies" by Owl City:

You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
'Cause they'd fill the open air
And leave teardrops everywhere
You'd think me rude
But I'd just stand and stare

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
Its hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems

'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance
A foxtrot above my head
A sockhop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
Its hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems

When I fall asleep
Leave my door open just a crack
(please take me away from here)
'Cause I feel like such an insomniac
(please take me away from here)
Why do I tire of counting sheep
(please take me away from here)
When I'm far too tired to fall asleep

To ten million fireflies
I'm weird 'cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes as they said farewell
But I'll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
'Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
Its hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
Its hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause my dreams are bursting at the seams

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"Don't Hang Up" by the Orlons:

Don't hang up (no, no)
Oh, don't you do it now
Don't hang up (no, no)

Don't hang up like you always do
I know you think our love is true
I'll explain the facts to you, don't hang up
Give me a chance or our romance is through

Don't hang up (no, no)
Oh, don't you do it no)
Don't hang up (no, no)

I took a walk with Mary Lou
I ran around to visit Sue
She had some boys I never knew
Don't hang up
They took a ride, so, baby, I went too

Stopped at the record hop
I had to be a sport
We stomped and we did The Slop
Then you walked in and I was caught

Don't hang up (no, no)
Oh, don't you do it now
Don't hang up (no, no).

'Cause you got some explainin' too
a-Like that chick I saw with you
So talk fast like you always do
Don't hang up
You've got one chance or our romance is through

[Instrumental break.]

Then you walked in and you were caught
Don't hang up (no, no)
Oh, don't you do it now
Don't hang up (no, no)

I didn't say our love was through
But if we made a fool for two
'Cause making up is fun to do
Don't hang up
'Cause no one else will ever do but you

Don't hang up (no, no)
Oh, don't you do it now
Don't hang up (no, no)
Or you'll be sorry, baby
Don't hang up (no, no)
You know I love you, baby
Don't hang up...

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Once upon a time, long before Disney was raped by Michael Eisner, they actually made good movies. With that said...."Pink Elephants on Parade" from Dumbo:

Look out! Look out!
Pink elephants on parade
Here they come!
Hippety hoppety
They're here and there
Pink elephants ev'rywhere

Look out! Look out!
They're walking around the bed
On their head
Clippety cloppety
Arrayed in braid
Pink elephants on parade

What'll I do? What'll I do?
What an unusual view!

I could stand the sight of worms
And look at microscopic germs
But technicolor pachyderms
Is really much for me

I am not the type to faint
When things are odd
Or things are quaint
But seeing things you know that ain't
Can certainly give you an awful fright!
What a sight!

Chase 'em away!
Chase 'em away!
I'm afraid need your aid
Pink elephants on parade!
Pink elephants!
Pink elephants!

Which reminds me. I was going through some old archives and I came across the January 30th, 2009 posting and in it I stated that if the Deee-Lite video disappears, I will scream. Since said video was yanked by WMG....*screams* (think Fry finding out who is grandfather is)

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"The Sound Of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel:

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Beneath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the signs said the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence