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Unpopular Anthems for the Middle Classes
Contributed by
redlantern2051
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Saturday, 10th January 2004 @ 05:12:05 AM in AEST
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Unpopular Anthems for the Middle Classes
Traveling home on the bus,
Never sitting with the cool kids
Singing Smashing Pumpkins songs
On the headphones
All by myself
It’s amazing what you find
When you look around the edges
We crawl through this life like beautiful snails
And we leave a trail behind
For others to follow
I used to watch the gorgeous girls as they walked thru school
I used to feel so small and sometimes it didn’t even feel like I had a face
I remember
Miriam,
With her windy face of shadows
She used to live near me
And she had a brother who was annoying but funny
He used to spy on me when I stole Punisher from the comic store
He never sold me down the river
I wonder where she is now
I wonder what happened to him too
Something good I hope
Because they both deserved it
I remember
Reading magazines and believing them
I remember
What it was like to not be cool
I remember
Donna,
Blonde, so beautiful
She was like an adult and I was like years behind her
And she was the first,
To know this heart
And guess the secret it held
Yeah, she knew it all somehow
She called me on it in Economics Class
She said I should say it, if that was what I wanted to do
But I kept so silent
And I pretended to be just a teenager without a clue
Because my heart was still frozen
Because I still wanted to be invisible
Because I changed suburbs like a nomad
I changed suburbs like a nomad
Singing Smashing Pumpkins songs
On the headphones
All by myself
Trying to find out where I belonged
And if you had a spare ten years
We could cycle thru the golf clubs and the tennis courts
We could go to clubs and act like vampires
Because I changed suburbs like a nomad
I changed suburbs like a nomad
But you wouldn’t find a real me and maybe not even you
But everywhere I ever found was a like an oasis in a desert of cool
And friends dried up like water
Nothing lasts forever
That’s what I found
That’s the flipside of this instant life
But then when I get negative
Something draws me back to Buddha and the Wheel
And I feel like a Technicolor Sun,
And I can call my real friends still
But it’s funny how when you get old, you call only those who make you feel safe
When once your heart courted the danger
Friend, this heart is used and long past jaded now almost into freedom
I have so many questions
I have so many hit songs
I have so much heart-ache
I have so much left to prove
But come the witching hour
I went down by the Sea
I went to watch the fireworks by myself
And somewhere down along these years
I have forgotten which tears are for me and which are for those I’ve left
But this I know
Sometimes the beauty and the sadness are as one
Singing Smashing Pumpkins songs
On the headphones
All by myself
It’s amazing what you find
When you look around the edges
And if anybody ever follows this trail seeking answers to questions they themselves bring
Beware of possessions
For they make us slaves
Beware of not believing in Love
For it will one day come
And turn up that little world you know
And only some are strong enough
To strip away the chains of ice and of shallow friendship
And wake up inside the dream
In the freedom that feeling brings
Where we are reborn and reborn
Ever-changing and mostly endless, until some moment of release
Opaque, as clones in the rain,
Quoting Leonard Cohen songs
Where one day we will all belong
But if you ever held me in your strong arms,
If you ever were the heart I clutched on
Inside the dying wind
Inside some kind of Love
Then you have helped still this storm,
And for that I thank you, now.
(David Finn, 2004)
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Re: Unpopular Anthems for the Middle Classes
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by Necromant on
Saturday, 10th January 2004 @ 05:16:36 AM AEST
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What an original style! Some of the words you said I felt them close and are very true. I liked this one!!
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