A man can tell a thousand lies
I’ve learned my lesson well
Hope I live to tell the secret
I have learned
till then
it will burn inside of me
Madonna
Live to Tell
Here’s the deal
Open your eyes
Your life is a lie
Don’t say a word
I’ll tell you why
You’re living a lie
Your life is a lie
Tell me that you’ll open your eyes
Snow Patrol
Open Your Eyes
Mysteries not ready to reveal
The Smashing Pumpkins
Thirty-Three
Some things you have to believe.
But others are puzzles, puzzling me
Coldplay
Speed of Sound
The Distance in Your Eyes.
Oh no, I said too much
R.E.M.
Losing My Religion
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Pink Floyd
High Hopes
Will you tell me what you saw,
and I’ll tell you what you missed
When the ocean met the sky
Modest Mouse
Ocean Breathes Salty
If I could fly, then I would know,
What life looks like from
up above and down below
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Cecilia and the Satellite
It all will fall,
fall right into place
Modest Mouse
Gravity Rides Everything
Gravity release me,
and don’t ever hold me down.
Now my feet won’t touch the ground
Coldplay
Life In Technicolor ii
If you, the reader of these lines, personally use the words up and
down, you, too, are as yet imprisoned in the Dark Ages.
There are no parallels on the surface of the Earth; what may appear to be parallel radiates from the center of the Earth.
There is no up and down in Universe; in, out, and around exist. 1
Buckminster Fuller
Up and down
And in the end
It’s only round and round,
and round
Pink Floyd
Us and Them
Am I a part of the cure?
Or am I part of the disease?
Coldplay
Clocks
I’ve been looking so long
at these pictures of you
that I almost
believe that they’re real
The Cure
Pictures of You
The picture you see
is no portrait of me
It’s too real to be shown
to someone I don’t know
New Order
Round and Round
I do think it a tragedy, however, that government school children are left in the dark about the existence of influential groups with complex social agendas aimed at their lives. 3
John Taylor Gatto
The Underground History of American Education
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
Pink Floyd
Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or
more could ever do
Toto
Africa
This ground is not the rock I thought it to be
Tool
Flood
Time flies by in the yellow and green
Stick around and you’ll see what I mean…
George Ezra
Shotgun
Cause its all in my head.
I think about it over and over again
Nelly & Tim McGraw
Over and Over
Over and over and over again
Imagine Dragons
Shots
Again and again and again and again and again
Aerosmith
Living on the Edge
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
Pink Floyd
Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
Spaceboy, you’re sleepy now.
Your silhouette is so stationary
David Bowie
Hallo Spaceboy
There’s no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can’t keep my mind from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted,
just an earth-bound misfit, I
Pink Floyd
Learning to Fly
I wanna hide the truth
I wanna shelter you
But with the beast inside
There’s nowhere we can hide
Imagine Dragons
Demons
I see colour raining down
Feral feeling, swaying sound
But I don’t know what you want
Of Monsters and Men
Alligator
Notes & References
- Cosmography : A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity by Buckminster Fuller
↩︎ - Its still real to me dammit
↩︎ - The Underground History of American Education
↩︎
Songs:
Madonna – Live to Tell
Snow Patrol – Open Your Eyes
The Smashing Pumpkins – Thirty-Three
Coldplay – Speed of Sound
R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
Pink Floyd – High Hopes
Modest Mouse – Ocean Breathes Salty
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – Cecilia and the Satellite
Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything
Coldplay – Life In Technicolor ii
Pink Floyd – Us and Them
Coldplay – Clocks
The Cure – Pictures of You
New Order – Round and Round
Pink Floyd – Another Brick in The Wall (Part II)
Toto – Africa
Tool – Flood
George Ezra – Shotgun
Nelly & Tim McGraw – Over and Over
Imagine Dragons – Shots
Aerosmith – Living on the Edge
David Bowie – Hallo Spaceboy
Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly
Imagine Dragons – Demons
Of Monsters and Men – Alligator
MGMT – Your Life Is a Lie
Birds fly over the rainbow,
why then, oh why can’t I?
Judy Garland
Over the Rainbow
The Wizard of Oz
