Remember when you were young,

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

[unkachuck]

1. kick....

....because I like it!

[depakid]

2. I kind of like the Baz Luhrmann arrangement of Mary Schmich's "sunscreen speech"

Lyrics are:

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/sunscreen.html

[hobbit709]

3. And from the same album

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

[blogslut]

4. ...

When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
Its a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasnt hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

- Kodachrome/Paul Simon/1973

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome_%28song%29

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Did you get permission to post that whole song?

We have rules at DU, you know.

Four paragraphs. No exceptions.

Kodachrome® is also a registered trademark of the Eastman Kodak company, yet you neglected to mark it appropriately.

--p!
If you're gonna be an Internet Lawyer, do it right.

[blogslut]

8. look again

4 paragraphs, baby.

[Dogmudgeon]

10. Four stanzas -- and a *complete* copy.

No publisher information either.

--p!

[blogslut]

12. I fixed the post

Unlike your Peggy Noonan-ripping little buddy.

Kodachrome by Paul Simon - Copyright Columbia records 1973

link: http://www.columbia.co.uk/

Kodachrome - Product Name Copyright Eastman Kodak

link: http://www.kodak.com/

Purchase the album "There Goes Rhymin' Simon @ http://www.amazon.com/There-Goes-Rhymin-Simon-Paul/dp/B000002LBW

Now, will your little friend meet the challenge?

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

9. Welcome to the machine.

[reflection]

5. kick

For my favorite album ever

[Double T]

6. I can't remember.

:evilgrin:

[littlebit]

11. So, so you think you can tell

Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

[Seabiscuit]

13. Kick!

I' a huge Pink Floyd fan and another favorite

Time:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun,
but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

... more

[Bongo Prophet]

14. Hey, if quoting Pink Floyd lyrics can bring us together, I. am. in!

I will certainly steer clear of "One of these days(I'm going to cut you into tiny pieces) -- as appropriate as it is for GDP -- and go for a more positive selection. This one is for our eventual nominee.


"Fearless"

You say the hill's too steep to climb,
Chiding!
You say you'd like to see me try,
Climbing!
You pick the place and I'll choose the time
And I'll climb
The hill in my own way
just wait a while, for the right day
And as I rise above the treeline and the clouds
I look down hear the sound of the things you said today
Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling
Merciless, the magistrate turns 'round, frowning
and who's the fool who wears the crown
Go down in your own way
And everyday is the right day
And as you rise above the fear lines in his frown
You look down
Hear the sound of the faces in the crowd

[JoFerret]

15. Ah! Syd Barrett - wish you were here.

Shine on you wonderful democrats.
This divisiveness will also pass. (When we let it).