[Bill,
February 14, 2008]
They got me so conditioned
Won't you come to Florida for a vacation?
The tan developer beckons from the television
They know they got me because I'm an insomniac
Records, detergents, here's the latest Pontiac
The got me so conditioned now that
When they talk I just react
Why they throwing it all at me? (1)
OK, nasty bout of insomnia last night combined with severe deadline pressure but issue's done and I'm waiting on the proofs but I'm so punchy that I can't remember who am I.
I might be movin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of Dental Floss Raisin' it up
Waxen it down
In a little white box
I can sell uptown
By myself I wouldn't
Have no boss,
But I'd be raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Well I just might grow me some bees
But I'd leave the sweet stuff
For somebody else...(2)
So speaking of Vedanta, I'm riding this elevator coming up from having a smoke and it was cold inside but you know that's how it is in winter here. But I was having a smoke and occurs to me, you know, when you hurt someone, you screw up their future, you hurt them and it keeps hurting and it changes them and you can't really unchange it ... which is why the whole sin against God is a sin against an infinite being, that is, you've actually impacted His reality and there are consequences to that, His Being almight and all.
Tall building shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around (3)
Then I thought about someone who hurt me a long long time ago in this galaxy actually and it had nothing to do with taxes more like a really bad way of finding out something but I don't want to get that into it. And I thought how long I held onto the anger, you know, just held onto how what she did screwed up my future (now my past) and that really the forgiveness thing became really clear to me. Just really really clear, that is, the need to forgive. Just the whole cliched thing, but with clarity.
I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead;
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said. (4)
And then it occurs to me, you know, if I weren't so damned tired I wouldn't have had that moment of clarity, and I remembered the Hindu teaching that when you're tired, not only are you weaker, but so are the evil spirits, too. If that makes any sense. That they weaken as you fatigue. Anyway, that's what them Vedanta wisdom-speakers say. And I think they're on to something because when I'm this tired I'm just not that into having a resentment. It's like, forgive everyone and why can't we all just get along and have some fun.
As the riders loped on by him he heard one call his name
If you want to save your soul from Hell a-riding on our range
Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride
Trying to catch the Devil's herd, across these endless skies (5)
Why all the stress you know? Why stress about it? Why can't we all just be cool, even us uncool? Wouldn't we all be happier if we could just take a nap?
Oh, it’s time for a nap now
Time for resting my head
Yes, it’s time for a nap now
Nice and comfy in bed
Feel my eyes getting drowsy
Time for counting some sheep
It’s such a perfect time to get some sleep. (6)
Footnotes
1. I'm So Anxious, Southside Johnny
2. Montana, Frank Zappa
3. Jesus, Etc., Wilco
4. The Weight, The Band
5. Ghostriders in the Sky, Johnny Cash
6. Naptime, Bert & Ernie from Sesame Street
The tan developer beckons from the television
They know they got me because I'm an insomniac
Records, detergents, here's the latest Pontiac
The got me so conditioned now that
When they talk I just react
Why they throwing it all at me? (1)
OK, nasty bout of insomnia last night combined with severe deadline pressure but issue's done and I'm waiting on the proofs but I'm so punchy that I can't remember who am I.
I might be movin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of Dental Floss Raisin' it up
Waxen it down
In a little white box
I can sell uptown
By myself I wouldn't
Have no boss,
But I'd be raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Well I just might grow me some bees
But I'd leave the sweet stuff
For somebody else...(2)
So speaking of Vedanta, I'm riding this elevator coming up from having a smoke and it was cold inside but you know that's how it is in winter here. But I was having a smoke and occurs to me, you know, when you hurt someone, you screw up their future, you hurt them and it keeps hurting and it changes them and you can't really unchange it ... which is why the whole sin against God is a sin against an infinite being, that is, you've actually impacted His reality and there are consequences to that, His Being almight and all.
Tall building shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around (3)
Then I thought about someone who hurt me a long long time ago in this galaxy actually and it had nothing to do with taxes more like a really bad way of finding out something but I don't want to get that into it. And I thought how long I held onto the anger, you know, just held onto how what she did screwed up my future (now my past) and that really the forgiveness thing became really clear to me. Just really really clear, that is, the need to forgive. Just the whole cliched thing, but with clarity.
I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead;
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said. (4)
And then it occurs to me, you know, if I weren't so damned tired I wouldn't have had that moment of clarity, and I remembered the Hindu teaching that when you're tired, not only are you weaker, but so are the evil spirits, too. If that makes any sense. That they weaken as you fatigue. Anyway, that's what them Vedanta wisdom-speakers say. And I think they're on to something because when I'm this tired I'm just not that into having a resentment. It's like, forgive everyone and why can't we all just get along and have some fun.
As the riders loped on by him he heard one call his name
If you want to save your soul from Hell a-riding on our range
Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride
Trying to catch the Devil's herd, across these endless skies (5)
Why all the stress you know? Why stress about it? Why can't we all just be cool, even us uncool? Wouldn't we all be happier if we could just take a nap?
Oh, it’s time for a nap now
Time for resting my head
Yes, it’s time for a nap now
Nice and comfy in bed
Feel my eyes getting drowsy
Time for counting some sheep
It’s such a perfect time to get some sleep. (6)
Footnotes
1. I'm So Anxious, Southside Johnny
2. Montana, Frank Zappa
3. Jesus, Etc., Wilco
4. The Weight, The Band
5. Ghostriders in the Sky, Johnny Cash
6. Naptime, Bert & Ernie from Sesame Street