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One Prereader's Songs In Honor of the End - Valles - 03-12-2004 The sun struggles up - another beautiful day And I felt glad in my own suspicious way Despite the contradiction and confusion Felt tragic without reason There's malice and there's magic in every season From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf The other side of Summer To the burning forests and the hills of Astroturf The other side of Summer The automatic gates close up between the shanties and the palace The blowtorch amusements, the voodoo chalice The pale pathetic promises that everybody swallows A teenage girl is crying 'cause she don't look like a million dollars So help her if you can 'Cause she don't seem to have the attention span From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf The other side of Summer To the burning forests and the hills of Astroturf The other side of Summer Was it a millionaire who said "Imagine no possessions?" A poor little schoolboy who said "We don't need no lessons?" The rabid rebel dogs ransack the shampoo shop The pop princess is downtown shooting up And if that goddess if fit for burning The sun will struggle up the world will still keep turning Madman standing by the side of the road saying "Look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes" Now you can't afford to fake all the drugs your parents used to take Because of their mistakes you'd better be wide awake From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf The other side of Summer To the burning forests and the hills of Astroturf The other side of Summer The mightiest rose The absence of perfume The casual killers The military curfew The cardboard city And the unwanted birthday The other side of summer The dancing was desperate, the music was worse They bury your dreams and dig up the worthless Goodnight God bless And kiss "goodbye" to the earth The other side of summer Elvis Costello - The Other Side of Summer =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." One Prereader's Songs In Honor of the End, Part II - Valles - 03-12-2004 Told my little Pollyanna There's a place for you and me We'll go down to Transverse City Life is cheap and Death is free Past the condensation silos Past the all-night trauma stand We'll be there before tomorrow Pollyanna take my hand Show us endless neon vistas Castles made of laser lights Take us to the shopping sector In the vortex of the night Past the shining mylar towers Past the ravaged tenements To a place we can't remember For a time we won't forget Here's the hum of desperation Heres the test tube mating call Here's the latest carbon cycle Here's the clergy of the mall Here's the song of shear and torsion Here's the bloodbath magazine Here's the harvest of contusions Here's the narcoleptic dream Told my little Pollyanna Here's a place where we can stay We have come to see tomorrow We have given up today Down among the dancing quanta Everything exists at once Up above in Transverse City Every weekend lasts for months Here's the hum of desperation Heres the test tube mating call Here's the latest carbon cycle Here's the clergy of the mall Here's the witness and the victim Here's the relatives' remains Here's the well-known double helix Here's the poisoned waves of grain Here's the song of shear and torsion Here's the bloodbath magazine Here's the harvest of contusions Here's the narcoleptic dream Here's the hum of desperation Warren Zevon - Transverse City =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." One Prereader's Songs In Honor of the End, Part III - Valles - 03-12-2004 (4-Aminobiphenyl, hexachlorobenzene Dimethyl sulfate, chloromethyl methylether 2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzo- para-dioxin, carbon disulfide) (Dibromochloropane, chlorinated benzenes, 2-Nitropropane, pentachlorophenol, Benzotrichloride, strontium chromate 1, 2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane) I went walking in the wasted city Started thinking about entropy Smelled the wind from the ruined river Went home to watch TV And it's worse when I try to remember When I think about then and now I'd rather see it on the news at eleven Sit back, and watch it run straight down Run straight down Run straight down I can see it with my eyes closed Run straight down We've been living in the shadows all our lives Where it's stand in line and don't look back and don't look left and don't look right So we hide our eyes and wonder who'll survive Waiting for the night... Fluorocarbons in the ozone layer First the water and the wildlife go Pretty soon there's not a creature stirring 'Cept the robots at the dynamo And it's worse when I try to remember When I think about then and now I'd rather see it on the news at eleven Sit back, and watch it run straight down Run straight down Run straight down I can see it with my eyes closed Run straight down Warren Zevon - Run Straight Down =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." One Prereader's Songs In Honor of the End, Part IV - Valles - 03-12-2004 They say the devil's in the details Well, I know what they mean And I'm walking in the wasteland With the Ghost in the Machine There's a simulated sunset Starlight in my eyes The skies are filled with miracles And half of them are lies Are you real or not? It's a fine line Are you ready or not For the light of day Are you real or not? These are strange times And I don't want to live this way When you wake up from a nightmare And it's worse when you're awake And there's no one you can turn to And there's nothing you can take Are you real or not? It's a fine line Are you ready or not For the light of day ? Are you real or not? These are strange times And I don't want to live this way Warren Zevon - Real or Not Blessed be. -n (Zevon much? Actually, these four are the songs that I've always associated most closely with cyberpunk in general and BGC in particular, so I thought it was fitting.) =========== =============================================== "V, did you do something foolish?" "Yes, and it was glorious." Re: One Prereader's Songs In Honor of the End, Part IV - Bob Schroeck - 03-12-2004 Very cool. I don't know nearly as much Zevon as I should, but this has certainly helped. -- Bob --------- There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus. |