Tuesday, September 27, 2005

 

Lies - I wrote it

Lies, How can this be?
Lies, Why can’t anyone see?
How Can the turn this violence,
Turn it into so much silence?
Lies, You don’t feel bad
Lies, Making so many sad
This isn’t even or fair
Acting like they don’t even care
Lies, you turn away what’s real
Lies, Do you know what they feel?
Well, you’re choosing a side
With others’ fates to decide
Lies, Hurting ones so small
Lies, With no emotion at all
This isn’t the way it should go
And it’s moving far to slow
Lies, How can this be?
Lies, Why can’t anyone see?

Sunday, September 11, 2005

 

The Star-Spangled Banner

This is te entire Star-Spangled Banner. it has four verses, not many people know them, or even know of them.

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?


On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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