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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:13 PM
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"Gimme some truth"
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 08:28 PM by Revolutionary_Acts04
Gimme Some Truth written by John Lennon and redid by some peoples. :)


I'm sick and tired of hearing things
from uptight-short sighted - narrow minded hypocrytics,

All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,

I've had enough of reading things
by neurotic - psychotic-pig headed politicians,

All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth,

No short haired - yellow bellied
son of tricky dicky,
Is gonna mother hubbard,
Soft soap me,
With just a pocketful of hope,
Money for dope,
Money for rope,

I'm sick to death of seeing things
from tight liped - condecending -
mommies little chauvanists,

All I want is the truth,
just gimme some truth,

I've had enough watching scenes of
schizophrenic - ego - centric - paranoic -
prima - donnas,

All I want is the truth,
Just gimme some truth.
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:14 PM
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1. No, dude(tte), that's by John Lennon
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 08:14 PM by Goldmund
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:15 PM
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3. Ooooooooooooooooh shit.
It is? Crap.... how did I not know that? I'm embarrassed now.... :o
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:17 PM
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4. Hey, a lot of people think that
"Twist and Shout" is by the Beatles, so it all balances out in the end.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:20 PM
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10. Hehe I know it's not by The Beatles
So I'm even? :silly:
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:22 PM
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12. And "Helter Sketer" isn't by U2.
:)
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ryban Donating Member (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:10 PM
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28. or Motley Crue
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:17 PM
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6. Don't be embarrassed
Any way to get the song out is just as good :)
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:20 PM
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11. Ok. hehe
:hi:
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:15 PM
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2. Great song but
By John Lennon... Still..a great tune. Thanks :)
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:18 PM
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8. HAHA Yeah... I see that now...
She did redo it...... but still oops. x(
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:19 PM
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9. It's cool
Like I said above. Any way to get the tune out is great.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:29 PM
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14. Thanks.
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 08:29 PM by Revolutionary_Acts04
I'm showing my age(or lack of) aren't I? :P
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:17 PM
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5. You want some truth?
"What women want and what they say they want are two entirely different things"

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ryban Donating Member (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:18 PM
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7. I second that: It's Lennon from Imagine
<snip>

In "Gimme Some Truth" Lennon launches into a similar tirade (again accompanied by Harrison's vicious slide guitar) -- this time against nameless hypocrites, bigots, "pig-headed politicians," and "paranoic prima-donnas" everywhere. A gripping riff and a non-stop torrent of assonance and alliteration add up to an electrifying performance; nonetheless, to Rolling Stone's Ben Gerson, "Gimme Some Truth," together with "How Do You Sleep?," raised a disturbing question: "I fear that John sees himself in the role of the truth-teller, and as such can justify any kind of self-indulgent brutality in the name of truth." Lennon's next album would prove Gerson woefully correct.

<snip>

http://www.superseventies.com/lennon2.html
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:26 PM
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13. Generation X did a nice Cover of this song,,,
RL
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:41 PM
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15. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
:P
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:42 PM
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16. LUKE I AM YOUR FATHER!
Uh wait.. what? :shrug:
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:47 PM
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17. Noooooooo !!!!!!
That's not possible

:P
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:49 PM
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19. You're right...
which is why I said "wait.. what?" :P
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:53 PM
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21. Are you watching Stargate SG-1 ?
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:54 PM
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23. No... it's on later
:P
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:56 PM
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25. forgot you're not on the same timezone as me
*slaps forehead*

I won't spoil it for you

:)
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:00 PM
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26. Yeah silly
I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over here on the west coast. :P
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:48 PM
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18. AND YOUR MOTHER!
:o
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:50 PM
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20. That's right young Cartman.. I am your mother and father...
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 08:50 PM by Revolutionary_Acts04
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:53 PM
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22. Mom, what's a hermaphalite?
:D
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 08:55 PM
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24. Well sweetie...
I'll tell you when you're older. :silly:
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 09:03 PM
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27. I'm glad you liked that Sam Phillips record
(which I am assuming was what you had up there before everyone felt the need to correct you! ;) )
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