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R.E.M.
Stand
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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
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I’m the same as I was when I was 6 years old
And oh my God I feel so damn old
Modest Mouse
Never Ending Math Equation
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Well I’m just a boy with a broken toy
Sheppard
Geronimo
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On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
And oh my God, they look so alone
Modest Mouse
Never Ending Math Equation
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Come crashing in,
Into my little world
Depeche Mode
Enjoy the Silence
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Painful to me.
Pierce right through me.
Can’t you understand?
Depeche Mode
Enjoy the Silence
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Stand in the place where you live
Now face North
Think about direction,
wonder why you haven’t before…
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Now stand in the place where you work
Now face West,
think about the place where you live
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Wonder why you haven’t before…
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The old blueprint
no longer manifests itself
as the correct way to exist
wipe the grime off the view hole
No Doubt
World Go ‘Round
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We accept the reality of the world
with which we’re presented.
It’s as simple as that.
The Truman Show
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Things aren’t always just what they seem
Jack Johnson
Upside Down
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If you are confused check with the sun
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One more sun comes sliding down the sky
One more shadow leans against the wall
Counting Crows
Einstein on the Beach
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Carry a compass to help you along
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The Square is a right angle, formed by two right lines. It is adapted only to a plane surface, and belongs only to geometry, earth-measurement, that trigonometry which deals only with planes, and with the earth, which the ancients supposed to be a plane. The Compass describes circles, and deals with spherical trigonometry, the science of the spheres and heavens. 1
Albert Pike
Morals and Dogma
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Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, or simply Morals and Dogma, is a book of esoteric philosophy published by the Supreme Council, Thirty Third Degree, of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. It was compiled by Albert Pike, was first published in 1871 and was regularly reprinted thereafter until 1969. 2
Wikipedia contributors. “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.”
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It gets old when you talk to the sun
In a tongue understood by no one
Young The Giant
Something to Believe In
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Watching some good friends screaming let me out
Queen & David Bowie
Under Pressure
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Let me out!
The Smashing Pumpkins
Cherub Rock
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Steeple guide me to my
heart and home
The Smashing Pumpkins
Thirty-Three
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The truth’s gonna come around –
The sky is the limit now
Fleetwood Mac
Skies the Limit
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Bored of these limits,
let me get, let me get it like – wow!
Beck
Wow
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The universe works on a math equation
that never even ever really ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation
Modest Mouse
Never Ending Math Equation
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Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around.
Look at my Pinwheel and
see what I’ve found.
Pinwheel
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Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
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Well, we ain’t sure where you stand
You ain’t machines, and you ain’t land
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And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other
Modest Mouse
Never Ending Math Equation
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So it’s here I stand as a broken man
but I found my friend
Sheppard
Geronimo
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We just want to dance here,
someone stole the stage
Starship
We Built This City
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It’s lost and can’t be found
(Falling away from me)
It’s spinning round and round
(Falling away from me)
Slow it down
Korn
Falling Away From Me
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Now take it in but don’t look down
Imagine Dragons
On top of the world
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Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
Grateful Dead
Ripple
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If wishes were trees the trees would be falling
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Listen to reason
Season is calling
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Listen to reason
Reason is calling
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The paper holds their folded faces to the floor and every day the paper boy brings more
Pink Floyd
Brain Damage
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People asking questions
Lost in confusion
John Lennon
Watching the Wheels
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What good is livin’
the life you’ve been given
If all you do is stand in place?
Lord Huron
Ends of the Earth
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I have done a good thing
I’ve got you moving,
everybody’s dancing
Men Without Hats
The Message
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Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
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Gravity release me,
and don’t ever hold me down.
Now my feet won’t touch the ground
Coldplay
Life In Technicolor ii
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Stand in the place where you are (now face North)
Stand in the place where you are (now face West)
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No longer riding on the
merry-go-round.
I just had to let it go
John Lennon
Watching the Wheels
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Why Don’t You Make Like A Tree
And Get Outta Here?
Biff Tannen
Back to the Future II
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‘Round here,
we always stand up straight
Counting Crows
Round Here
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Feeling kinda tilted
and I’m pouring out the truth,
just fading out these talkers
‘cause now all I want is you.
Foster the People
Sit Next To Me
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Stand in the place where you are
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Why are things so heavy
in the future?
Is there a problem with the
Earth’s gravitational pull?
Dr. Emmett Brown
Back to the Future
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Am I Right Side Up or Upside Down?
Dave Matthews Band
Crush
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How long am I gonna stand
With my head stuck under the sand?
I’ll start before I can stop
Or before I see things
the right way up
Coldplay
Speed of Sound
References:
- Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
↩︎ - Wikipedia contributors. “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.”
↩︎ - R.E.M. 1989/10/17 – The Arsenio Hall Show, Hollywood, CA, USA [Stand / Interview / Get Up]
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R.E.M. – Stand (Video)
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If you should stand,
then who’s to guide you
If I knew the way
I would take you home
Grateful Dead
Ripple