Still on a Pause, but....
Well said/sung – by you, Nick, and Elvis.
"So where are the strong, and who are the trusted?" is indeed an urgent question in our troubled times.
Here is another: "How is it possible that such outright knavery draws such enthusiastic support from such a large segment of the polity?"
Wicked world, indeed...
I can survive if it's only going to be one month off :D
And like I said, I'm sure I'll chime in again once or twice if something happens to really get under my skin and I have to vent.
I love “What’s so Funny”.
Here’s a more recent favorite of mine that’s also relevant to our current political situation:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OTgCpDfQ-ms
National Ransom
Running pell-mell and harum-scarum
Running as hot as they do or dare
Stick out your tongue
And drink down all the venom
From Cut-Throat Cuthbert
And Millicent St. Cyr
From the real old Macau
To the new False Americas
In the liberated territories
Unusual suspects shake down
Shake down, shake down
Various dubious characters
Mother's in the kitchen picking bones for breakfast
Boiling them down by the bushel and the score
Pull out your thumb and count what's left of your fist
There's a wolf at the window with ravening maw
Did you find how to lie?
Did you find out just how to cheat?
The elite bleat, their obsolete
But are your prospects?
Exact, perfect object
Now, if you'd only genuflect
They're running wild
Just like some childish tantrum
Meanwhile we're working every day
Paying off the National Ransom
Woe betide all this hocus-pocus
They're running us ragged at their first attempt
Around the time the killing stopped on Wall St
You couldn't hold me, baby with anything but contempt
Letters peal slowly from our speech
The klaxon attempts to preach
Stretching for stars still out of reach
Drowning
Flailing
Outside someone's wailing
Excellent. Costello is one of the best songwriters in the business.
Well said/sung – by you, Nick, and Elvis.
"So where are the strong, and who are the trusted?" is indeed an urgent question in our troubled times.
Here is another: "How is it possible that such outright knavery draws such enthusiastic support from such a large segment of the polity?"
Wicked world, indeed...
I can survive if it's only going to be one month off :D
And like I said, I'm sure I'll chime in again once or twice if something happens to really get under my skin and I have to vent.
I love “What’s so Funny”.
Here’s a more recent favorite of mine that’s also relevant to our current political situation:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OTgCpDfQ-ms
National Ransom
Running pell-mell and harum-scarum
Running as hot as they do or dare
Stick out your tongue
And drink down all the venom
From Cut-Throat Cuthbert
And Millicent St. Cyr
From the real old Macau
To the new False Americas
In the liberated territories
Unusual suspects shake down
Shake down, shake down
Various dubious characters
Mother's in the kitchen picking bones for breakfast
Boiling them down by the bushel and the score
Pull out your thumb and count what's left of your fist
There's a wolf at the window with ravening maw
Did you find how to lie?
Did you find out just how to cheat?
The elite bleat, their obsolete
But are your prospects?
Exact, perfect object
Now, if you'd only genuflect
They're running wild
Just like some childish tantrum
Meanwhile we're working every day
Paying off the National Ransom
Woe betide all this hocus-pocus
They're running us ragged at their first attempt
Around the time the killing stopped on Wall St
You couldn't hold me, baby with anything but contempt
Letters peal slowly from our speech
The klaxon attempts to preach
Stretching for stars still out of reach
Drowning
Flailing
Outside someone's wailing
They're running wild
Just like some childish tantrum
Meanwhile we're working every day
Paying off the National Ransom
Excellent. Costello is one of the best songwriters in the business.