Subject: Rock music lyrics: Seymour
From: Michael Snyder (mkesnyder@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 13:50:59 GMT
While we're on the subject of rock and Salinger, I wanted to
share some lyrics from the band Acrobat Down, who could be
loosely described as punk or hard-edged indie-rock. I thought
some might be interested. The band's CD is titled
"Re:Dereliction" (on Atact Musicalities, p.o. box 104, Denver,
CO 80201-0104/A4HB@aol.com) 1999.
"X-Wise Children" lyrics by Aaron Hobbs*
I was Billy Black for six years as a child. Nearly seven, and
while I might pick out your coat with one look at your face,
I once threw a stone at The One Most Beautiful. I now serenely
sit on the fence, and offer bouqueted parentheses. Don't cry
for Billy Black as Muriel's jarred awake. Don't curse him out
either, because each x-wise child's afraid of his shadow just
the same. I miss Charlotte like sheer hell. Sure as hell.
Sure as my throwing aim on that sunny day her lip's paralyzed,
forever paralyzed. I never got down from that
trick-bike's handlebars. I offer that same old vaudeville
eureka look. Don't cry for Billy Black as Muriel's jarred
awake. And don't curse Ebbet's Field for the day that she was
razed. The strong sould never die, they just change colors.
*There is an old man on a mountain, New Hampshire somewhere,
with tire-tracks through his rose beds from temerity less than
this.
--- Cecilia Baader <cbaader@cubsmvp.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, dear. Between the younger Doctors Bowman and Mike's fine
> punk rock history, you'd think that my Scottish friend would
> be willing to admit that old Sid Vicious (*not* an original
> member of the band, by the way) is a follower. Don't tell me
> you were a closet Sex Pistols fan, Scottie B. It's going to
> blow my image of you straight to hell. We can all feel safe
> in crediting Joey Ramone:
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010415/en/obit_ramone_4.html
>
> ... While British bands such as the Sex Pistols and Clash
>
> received the media attention once punk rock exploded,
> both were schooled by the Ramones' tour of England that
> began on the U.S. Bicentennial - July 4, 1976 ...
>
> ``They're the daddy punk group of all time,'' said
> Joe Strummer, lead singer of the Clash, in a recent Spin
> magazine interview.
>
> Now, Sid Vicious isn't around anymore to voice his opinion,
> but I think we can take Strummer's word for it. Granted, old
> Sid was perhaps the most interesting character in the Punk
> Rock movement, but nope. Can't give it to you. It all began
> with old Joey.
>
> ... Do you REALLY think humanity changes from generation
> to generation?
>
> Well, no. Not really. I think it's all just counterbalancing
> swings of a pendulum. My feeling, however, is that this
> pendulum has experienced a much longer swing toward the right
> than the left. And this article seems to indicate that it's
> only going to continue.
>
> I suppose that I have to concede your point that nonconformity
> is in itself a sort of conformity. Jake's backlash against
> punk rock illustrates your point, that everything in some
> manner is mainstream. I've heard the complaint from more than
> one former punk rocker, that they left because the group
> accused them of not being "punk enough".
>
> People are sheep.
>
> I guess that's what annoyed me most about the article. It
> seemed to indicate that another generation of wooly bleaters
> is going to fail to notice when it's shearing time. And when
> they find themselves naked, they're not going to learn
> anything from it. They're going to just stand around until
> they grow some more wool. And then the shears will come out
> again.
>
>
> Cripes. And with that mixed bag of metaphors, I'll need to
> sign off.
>
> Regards,
> Cecilia.
>
>
>
> Common Sense. http://www.geocities.com/c_baader
>
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