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Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God.
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Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.
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Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests
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...the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools...
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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Don't let me die in an automobileI wanna lie in an open fieldWant the snakes to suck my skinWant the worms to be my friendsWant the birds to eat my eyesAs here I lieThe clouds fly by
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
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Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.
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This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.
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The spectator is a dying animal.
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Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?
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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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When you're strange Faces come out of the rain When you're strange No one remembers your name When you're strange.
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Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.
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Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?
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You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run - Tried to hide - Break on through to the other side!
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At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...
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Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
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Take an Indian home to lunch.
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I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
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There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps 'Oh look at that!' Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.
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We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
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