Saturday, July 31, 2010
The Secret
Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Feels like Im KnockinG on Heavens Door
Mama take this badge from me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark too dark to see
Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Kn-kn-knockin' on heaven's door
Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
Mama put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
That cold black cloud is comin' down
Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Kn-kn-knockin' on heaven's door
Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
"You just better start sniffin' your own
rank subjugation jack 'cause it's just you
against your tattered libido, the bank and
the mortician, forever man and it wouldn't
be luck if you could get out of life alive"*
Kn-kn-knockin' on heaven's door
The StairwaY to Heaven
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
NothinG ElSe MAtterS
So close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters
never opened myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all these words I don't just say
and nothing else matters
trust I seek and I find in you
every day for us something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know
so close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know
never opened myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all these words I don't just say
trust I seek and I find in you
every day for us something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters
never cared for what they say
never cared for games they play
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
and I know
so close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
no nothing else matters
may be difficult to fully understand
It is unfortunate how we have all been taught that competition is a good thing, because in reality, it is what has caused us to separate from the whole, instead of contributing to the whole. I have had some personal experiences recently that have shown me just how powerful positive awareness can be. When you don't have that complete awareness, it can be difficult to fully understand how it can make significant changes in your daily lives.
Jungle Love
Jungle Love
by
The Steve Miller Band
Album: Book Of Dreams Released: 1977
US Chart: 23
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This song, like many other of Steve Miller's, contains mostly sexual innuendo as he sings about a woman who has has "Jungle Love" with. Various jungle sounds were added for effect. (thanks, Tim - New York, NY)
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The term "Jungle Love" is a term used when a white person is in love or in lust with a black person. I thought that was the meaning behind the song.
- Brad , Johnstown, OH
Despite the images conjured up by the title, this song is about more than simple sexual innuendo. The lyrics seem to be a commentary by Miller on the biological forces behind attraction and sexuality. Imagery within the song such as "you swim in my blood when it's warm" and "my cycles of circular motion" seem to reference parasite/host relationships and cellular reproduction, while "the patterns of the rain...have written my life on your skin" represent evolution and DNA. The opening two lines of the song “I met you on somebody’s island/You thought you had known me before” suggest that Miller is framing the song with the belief that we are, in large part, controlled by our natural instincts regarding sexual attraction. He addresses this further during the 5th/6th lines of the song, when he discusses memory, an acknowledgment that many people choose to ignore the role that nature plays in their sexuality, despite the fact that we have little control over our sexual impulses. Lastly, he ends the song by discussing “a world of illusion” and “a scarlet conclusion”, signifying that while Miller acknowledges romantic notions to exist, he believes biological forces that play the dominant role in human sexual behavior. The title of the song thus takes on a different meaning as the audience gleans that Miller believes the modern conception of romance and sexuality to be “jungle love” dressed up with illusions and dreams.
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I met you on somebody's island
You thought you had known me before
I brought you a crate of papaya
They waited all night by your door
You probably wouldn't remember
I probably couldn't forget
Jungle love in the surf in the pouring rain
Everything's better when wet
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
But lately you live in the jungle
I never see you alone
But we need some definite answers
So I thought I would write you a poem
The question to everyone's answer
Is usually asked from within
But the patterns of the rain
And the truth they contain
Have written my life on your skin
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
You treat me like I was your ocean
You swim in my blood when it's warm
My cycles of circular motion
Protect you and keep you from harm
You live in a world of illusion
Where everything's peaches and cream
We all face a scarlet conclusion
But we spend our time in a dream
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
by
The Steve Miller Band
Album: Book Of Dreams Released: 1977
US Chart: 23
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Songfacts: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page.
This song, like many other of Steve Miller's, contains mostly sexual innuendo as he sings about a woman who has has "Jungle Love" with. Various jungle sounds were added for effect. (thanks, Tim - New York, NY)
phone Send "Jungle Love" Ringtone to your Cell phone
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More songs by The Steve Miller Band
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Who was once married to a famous Rock drummer, and is now married to a famous Rock singer?
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Comments:
The term "Jungle Love" is a term used when a white person is in love or in lust with a black person. I thought that was the meaning behind the song.
- Brad , Johnstown, OH
Despite the images conjured up by the title, this song is about more than simple sexual innuendo. The lyrics seem to be a commentary by Miller on the biological forces behind attraction and sexuality. Imagery within the song such as "you swim in my blood when it's warm" and "my cycles of circular motion" seem to reference parasite/host relationships and cellular reproduction, while "the patterns of the rain...have written my life on your skin" represent evolution and DNA. The opening two lines of the song “I met you on somebody’s island/You thought you had known me before” suggest that Miller is framing the song with the belief that we are, in large part, controlled by our natural instincts regarding sexual attraction. He addresses this further during the 5th/6th lines of the song, when he discusses memory, an acknowledgment that many people choose to ignore the role that nature plays in their sexuality, despite the fact that we have little control over our sexual impulses. Lastly, he ends the song by discussing “a world of illusion” and “a scarlet conclusion”, signifying that while Miller acknowledges romantic notions to exist, he believes biological forces that play the dominant role in human sexual behavior. The title of the song thus takes on a different meaning as the audience gleans that Miller believes the modern conception of romance and sexuality to be “jungle love” dressed up with illusions and dreams.
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Steve Miller Jungle Love Lyrics
Send "Jungle Love" Ringtone to your Cell
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I met you on somebody's island
You thought you had known me before
I brought you a crate of papaya
They waited all night by your door
You probably wouldn't remember
I probably couldn't forget
Jungle love in the surf in the pouring rain
Everything's better when wet
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
But lately you live in the jungle
I never see you alone
But we need some definite answers
So I thought I would write you a poem
The question to everyone's answer
Is usually asked from within
But the patterns of the rain
And the truth they contain
Have written my life on your skin
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
You treat me like I was your ocean
You swim in my blood when it's warm
My cycles of circular motion
Protect you and keep you from harm
You live in a world of illusion
Where everything's peaches and cream
We all face a scarlet conclusion
But we spend our time in a dream
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Jungle love it's drivin' me mad
It's makin' me crazy
Exit the warrior
A modern day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride
Though his mind is not for rent
Don't put him down as arrogant
His reserve, a quiet defense
Riding out the day's events
The river
What you say about his company
Is what you say about society
Catch the mist, catch the myth
Catch the mystery, catch the drift
The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep
Maybe as his skies are wide
Today's Tom Sawyer
He gets high on you
And the space he invades
He gets by on you
No his mind is not for rent
To any god or government
Always hopeful, yet discontent
He knows changes aren't permanent
But change is
What you say about his company
Is what you say about society
Catch the witness, catch the wit
Catch the spirit, catch the spit
The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep
Maybe as his eyes are wide
Exit the warrior
Today's Tom Sawyer
He gets high on you
And the energy you trade
He gets right on to the friction of the day
Friday, July 30, 2010
experience
What is experience?
Experience refers to the nature of the events someone or something has undergone. Experience is what is happening to us all the time - as we long we exist.
Experience, used in the present tense, refers to the subjective nature of one's current existence. Humans have a myriad of expressions, behaviors, language, emotions, etc. that characterize and convey our moment-to-moment experiences.
Experience, used in the past tense, refers to the accumulated product (or residue) of past experiences e.g., after many hours of training and practice building furniture out of wood, we now consider him to be an experienced wood craftsman.
These two emphases of the word experience (present and past) emerge from a critical connection and philosophical issue:
To what extent do one's past experiences influence one's current and future experience?
The idea that past experiences influence future experiences was termed continuity by John Dewey. All experiences, argued Dewey, impact on one's future, for better or worse. Basically, cumulative experience either shuts one down or opens up one's access to possible future experiences.
Recommended reading:
*
Experience (Vaneecia Lark)
Quotes about experience
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley, Texts & Pretexts: Introduction
We go through life expecting to be tasted while we are being swallowed.
- Elizabeth Bebesco, Haven: 'Aphorisms'
If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
- Mao Zedong, On Practice, July, 1937
Life should serve up its experiences in a series of courses.
- William Golding, Close Quarters, 17
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart, Pt 1, Ch 1
To most men, experience is like the stern light of a ship, which illumines only the track it has passed.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, p. 434
Not all need experience, but all need the fruit of experience.
- Bishop Mandell Creighton, Life and Letters, Vol. 2
There are two things that experiences teach us: the first is that we should correct heavily; the second, that is should not be too heavily.
- Eugene Delacroix, Journal,8 March, 1860
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.
- Walter Bagehot, Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotsmen: 'Shakespeare - the Individual'
Experience only serves us to give others useless advice.
- Comtesse Diana, Maxims of Life, p. 75
Experience dulls the edge of all our dogmas.
- Gilbert Murray (attrib.)
http://wilderdom.com/experiential/ExperienceWhatIs.html
Experience refers to the nature of the events someone or something has undergone. Experience is what is happening to us all the time - as we long we exist.
Experience, used in the present tense, refers to the subjective nature of one's current existence. Humans have a myriad of expressions, behaviors, language, emotions, etc. that characterize and convey our moment-to-moment experiences.
Experience, used in the past tense, refers to the accumulated product (or residue) of past experiences e.g., after many hours of training and practice building furniture out of wood, we now consider him to be an experienced wood craftsman.
These two emphases of the word experience (present and past) emerge from a critical connection and philosophical issue:
To what extent do one's past experiences influence one's current and future experience?
The idea that past experiences influence future experiences was termed continuity by John Dewey. All experiences, argued Dewey, impact on one's future, for better or worse. Basically, cumulative experience either shuts one down or opens up one's access to possible future experiences.
Recommended reading:
*
Experience (Vaneecia Lark)
Quotes about experience
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley, Texts & Pretexts: Introduction
We go through life expecting to be tasted while we are being swallowed.
- Elizabeth Bebesco, Haven: 'Aphorisms'
If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
- Mao Zedong, On Practice, July, 1937
Life should serve up its experiences in a series of courses.
- William Golding, Close Quarters, 17
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart, Pt 1, Ch 1
To most men, experience is like the stern light of a ship, which illumines only the track it has passed.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, p. 434
Not all need experience, but all need the fruit of experience.
- Bishop Mandell Creighton, Life and Letters, Vol. 2
There are two things that experiences teach us: the first is that we should correct heavily; the second, that is should not be too heavily.
- Eugene Delacroix, Journal,8 March, 1860
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.
- Walter Bagehot, Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotsmen: 'Shakespeare - the Individual'
Experience only serves us to give others useless advice.
- Comtesse Diana, Maxims of Life, p. 75
Experience dulls the edge of all our dogmas.
- Gilbert Murray (attrib.)
http://wilderdom.com/experiential/ExperienceWhatIs.html
Thursday, July 29, 2010
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