Too Much Joy - My Past Lives

[BigMcLargehuge]

For our batshit crazy friend, Tom Cruise...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3912778&mesg_id=3912778

I was Genghis Kahn I was Aristophenes
I was a guy named Urgh in 50,000 B.C.
I was Rasputin and all the chicks he had
I was Catherine the Great I was my mom and dad
I've been a butcher I've been a baker I have been a bookmaker
I have skippered Clipper ships and dug for undertakers
I've lived to be 98 and I have died when I was four
I've lived through war and peace and war and war and war and war

I could write a book about my past lives
I should write a book about my past lives
I died three times at Waterloo
This life's not the best but at least I'm not you

I was Abe Lincoln I was all the slaves he freed
This life's not the best but at least you're not me
I've been French noblemen and I've been Russian peasants
I've been somebodies, nobodies, once I was a pheasant

I was there when Ceasar bled and I followed where Moses led
I wrote the words Mohammed said, I kissed the ground where St. Paul tread
I was best man when Henry wed, I put the crown on George's head
I slept in Washington's bed, I shot John F. Kennedy dead

I watched Atlantis sink below, hung out with Bowie at the Alamo
I didn't like being Edgar Allen Poe, I was sick a lot whe I was Rimbaud
I helped the druids build Stonehenge, me and Buddha invented Zen
Once I borrowed Shakespeare's pen, Joan of Arc was my best friend

I was there when Ceasar bled and I followed where Moses led
I wrote the words Mohammed said, I kissed the ground where St. Paul tread
I was best man when Henry wed, I dropped the apple on Newton's head
I slept in Washington's bed, I shot John F. Kennedy dead
I washed his head, the blood was red,
I shot him dead, dead, dead-dead-dead

[benito]

1. that was a damn good album!

'That's a lie' was a favorite.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. Gone Fishing was my favorite followed by

My Past Lives...

Cereal Killers was a better overall album though.

[asthmaticeog]

2. Making fun of bums ---

bad-karma thing to do.

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. dad sold the house now I'm homeless too

the world looks mighty big today

[JimmyJazz]

5. Dood - since when do Jews believe in karma?

:shrug:

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna. *smacks tamborine* :evilgrin:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. I did make-up for that video!

I worked with TMJ for that one video and then became friends with the band. They are a great bunch of guys to hang with -- lots of shooting pool, excessive beer drinking, and whatnot.

Last I heard, Sandy the bassist left the band, Tim Quirk is out here over in Berkeley doing some music reviewing/writing, and I don't know if Tommy is still with the NYPD.

I alwys thought that their music was around ten years ahead if its time -- so much of the late 90s/early 2000 pop sounded just like their stuff.