"A fire just waiting for fuel."

[Atman]

One of Ani Difranco's best, and today it seems apropos once again (I've posted this hear before).

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"Fuel"



They were digging a new foudation in Manhattan
And they discovered a slave cemetary there
May their souls rest easy
Now that lynching is frowned upon
And we've moved on to the electric chair
And I wonder who's gonna be president, tweedle dum or tweedle dummer?
And who's gonna have the big blockbuster box office this summer?
How about we put up a wall between houses and the highway
And you can go your way, and I can go my may

Except all the radios agree with all the tvs
And all the magazines agree with all the radios
And I keep hearing that same damn song everywhere I go
Maybe I should put a bucket over my head
And a marshmallow in each ear
And stumble around for
Another dumb-numb year waiting for another hit song to appear

People used to make records
As in a record of an event
The event of people playing music in a room
Now everything is cross-marketing
Its about sunglasses and shoes
Or guns and drugs
You choose
We got it rehashed
We got it half-assed
We're digging up all the graves
And we're spitting on the past
And you can choose between the colors
Of the lipstick on the whores
Cause we know the difference between
The font of 20% more
And the font of teryiaki
You tell me
How does it... make you feel?

You tell me
What's ... real?
And they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics
Even when they're as dry as my lips for years
Even when they're stranded on a small desert island
With no place within 2,000 miles to buy beer
And I wonder
Is he different?
Is he different?
Has he changed? what's he about?..
Or is he just a liar with nothing to lie about?

Am I headed for the same brick wall
Is there anything I can do about
Anything at all?
Except go back to that corner in Manhattan
And dig deeper, dig deeper this time
Down beneath the impossible pain of our history
Beneath unknown bones
Beneath the bedrock of the mystery
Beneath the sewage systems and the PATH train
Beneath the cobblestones and the water mains
Beneath the traffic of friendships and street deals
Beneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels
Beneath everything I can think of to think about
Beneath it all, beneath all get out
Beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel

There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel

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[Atman]

1. kick

Things are moving fast here today!

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[ChiciB1]

2. Oh The Pain!!! My Husband Is Out Of Town & Just Called To Say

he was coming home tomorrow and I had to vent some of my frustration! Told him that if we lose this election AGAIN that I WANT OUT!! I've said it before many times, but now I feel more determined than ever! It will take a couple of years maybe, because we have home & property to sell, plus we a are care-takers for his 94 year old mother who has severe Alzheimers. She COULD live to be 100, who knows because she takes NO medications, simply is in La La Land now, but it still healthy!

I have wondered for so long now what has happened to an America I once knew, but now am to the point that I don't much care. I've worked my butt off in so many campaigns but have lost all hope! Quite some time ago I decided "hope" is a 4-letter word.

Now I feel so much shame and desperation. It comes and goes but NEVER goes away completely. As a BOOMER what I have seen these past 6 years have made me feel alien to my own country of birth. November 7th looms large in my mind as I try to gather my thoughts of what is to come!

I fear the only thing that will keep in this country should we lose again is if I see that "We The People" will rise up against the corruption that has entrenched itself within! My husband says "where will you go?" I named a few places, would love to go to Australia but it may be too expensive, but Costa Rica seems my best bet! I feel HELPLESS anymore, but will work my butt off for this election as I have been for a long time now. Too many questions, have no answers and see a once great country falling to pieces! I just donated money to Webb in Virginia and Lamont in Ct, but heard on C-Span this AM that so many Democrats STILL want Mr. Lie and are "secretly" behind him!!! Chalk it up to just another betrayal, another punch in my gut, another blow to my psyche. C-Span has been having so many Repukes on lately and I'm hearing all these Wing-Nuts calling in again and I feel such DESPAIR!! Can't even go walk on the beach... another skanky, stinkin outbreak of Red Tide that makes you board yourself up inside because the smell is outrageous! Keith O is getting "death threats" and my voice is no louder than that of a squeaky mouse!

Sorry if I brought anyone down, just have to vent sometimes! Maybe it's living in Florida with Cruella up the road doing Jack-S--t for us, or F--k-Face Jebby screwing us so badly with several actions he's taken to make it almost impossible to afford insurance or health care, and then to see how totally out of touch those in D.C. are when it comes to those who don't have "big money!" Unions participation is down to 9% nationwide and black clouds on the horizon.

Yes, There's a FIRE just waiting for fuel, but will we FUEL THE FIRE??

FORTY days to go... do we stay or do we rise up and light the fire if they SCREW us again??? Or do we still live with APATHY and a sit by our PC's and blog-on??? I will know MY answer soon!

BTW, I just printed out Ani's best!!!

[ChiciB1]

3. Kicking This For You!!! n/t