April 2012
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Flicker & Fail - Laura Marling
Took a bus to meet me In a bar in the Tuscan hills A sight I’d never seen I believe in God still But he wouldn’t be able to stop me If I feel like running away Wouldn’t be able to stop me If I didn’t want to stay
And the rain fell on the houses And on the (late swing trees) It fell its fiercest on the skulls of The willing we deceive They put money in their hearts And God...
“A lot of things scare me,” she continues, her blue eyes peeking through her...”
– 17-year old Laura in an interview
I wrote my name in your book, only god knows why
And I bet you that he cracked a smile
And I’m clearing all the stuff out of my room
trying desperately to figure out
What it is that makes me blue
and I wrote in a big letter to you
And it’s 22 pages front and back
And it’s too good to be used
and I tried to be a girl who likes to be used
I’m too good for that
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But a friend of mine says it’s good to hear
That you believe in love even if set in fear
Well I’ll hold you there brother and set you straight
I wont make believe that love is frail
And willing to break
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The Centaurs
By Winsor McCay - 1921
“Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank,...”
– Countess Markievicz, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice.
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Paradise
When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach so She ran away in her sleep and dreamed of Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise Every time she closed her eyes When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach and the bullets catch in her teeth Life goes on, it gets so heavy The wheel breaks the butterfly ...
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“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens...”
– Michael Caine
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“Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the...”
– Martin Luther
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“A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the...”
– Sivanada
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