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tex-wyo-dem

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16. Sting and The Police called it back in the '80s
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 10:11 AM
Mar 2016

Synchronicity II

Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like
cheap tarts in a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish lake

Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in the headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away, many miles away

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Rec Newkularblue Mar 2016 #1
Perhaps all these idiots miscalculated... Helen Borg Mar 2016 #2
To miscalculate implies an ability to calculate, which isn't there. nt Xipe Totec Mar 2016 #3
It is shocking to me that Bernie isn't CRUSHING Hillary with this hanging over our heads. stillwaiting Mar 2016 #4
Behold the wonders of corporate media. forest444 Mar 2016 #5
Bernie ties it all together but I believe it will take a cataclysmic event before the masses and Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #6
This was the LAST such chance and its already too late... Moostache Mar 2016 #11
^^That^^ NickB79 Mar 2016 #21
How much is it talked about on TV? In the debates? pengu Mar 2016 #7
Obama beat him to it. He is copying Obama on this so Hillary is already there. Jitter65 Mar 2016 #12
I could not agree more. chervilant Mar 2016 #17
Ever feel like a Lemming? You know, the little rat things that have been known to Dustlawyer Mar 2016 #8
Sting and The Police called it back in the '80s tex-wyo-dem Mar 2016 #16
and the world fiddles while it burns around us all. Javaman Mar 2016 #9
I'm waiting to see how the arctic sea ice extent and PIOMAS levels manifest, CRH Mar 2016 #10
Anyone remember this? "US Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 2016 " NickB79 Mar 2016 #22
This may just be proof... Helen Borg Mar 2016 #13
some humans will survive, but there will be a die off almost certainly Fast Walker 52 Mar 2016 #15
And which candidate is it again, that takes climate change as an urgent issue? Fast Walker 52 Mar 2016 #14
Yeah, gee, who would that be? tex-wyo-dem Mar 2016 #18
Some of us keep telling them RoccoR5955 Mar 2016 #19
There is a noticeable absence of nay-sayers and minimizers on this thread. GliderGuider Mar 2016 #20
I knew this was happening years ago Hydra Mar 2016 #23
Southeast Asian skies were full of smoke for months.. DemocracyDirect Mar 2016 #24
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