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from the musical -Camelot

GUENEVERE
What do the simple folk do
To help them escape when they're blue?
The shepard who is ailing, the milkmaid who is glum
The cobbler who is wailing from nailing his thumb
When they're beset and besieged
The folk not noblessly obliged
However do they manage to shed their weary lot?
Oh, what do simple folk do...we do not?
ARTHUR
I have been informed by those who know them well
They find relief in quite a clever way
When they're sorely pressed, they whistle for a spell
And whistling seems to brighten up their day
And that's what simple folk do
So they say
GUENEVERE
They whistle?
ARTHUR
So they say
(they whistle for a while)
GUENEVERE
What else do the simple folk do
To pluck up the heart and get through?
The wee folk and the grown folk
Who wander to and fro
Have ways known to their own folk
We throne folk don't know
When all the doldrums begin
What keeps each of them in his skin?
What ancient native custom provides the needed glow?
Oh, what do simple folk do?
Do you know?
ARTHUR
Once, upon the road, I came upon a lad
Singing in a voice three times his size
When I asked him why, he told me he was sad
And singing always made his spirits rise
And that's what simple folk do
I surmise
GUENEVERE
They sing?
ARTHUR
I surmise
BOTH
Arise, my love, arise, my love
Apollo's lighting the skies, my love
The meadows shine with columbine
And daffodils blossom away
Hear Venus call to one and all
Come taste delight while you may
The world is bright and all is right
And life is merry and gay
GUENEVERE
What else do the simple folk do?
They must have a system or two
They obviously outshine us at turning tears to mirth
Have tricks a royal highness is minus from birth
What, then, I wonder, do they
To chase all the goblins away?
They have some tribal sorcery you haven't mentioned yet
Oh, what do simple folk do to forget?
ARTHUR
Often, I am told, they dance a fiery dance
And whirl 'till they're completely uncontrolled
Soon the mind is blank and all are in a trance
A violent trance astounding to behold
And that's what simple folk do
So I'm told
GUENEVERE
They dance?
ARTHUR
So I'm told
(they dance)
GUENEVERE
What else do the simple folk do
To help them escape when they're blue?
ARTHUR
They sit around and wonder what royal folk would do
And that's what simple folk do
GUENEVERE
(spoken)
Oh, no, really?
ARTHUR
I have it on the best authority.
BOTH
(sung)
Yes, that\'s what simple folk do
 
garth marenghi's dark place.

which i'm also watching.

because it's fucking hilarious.
 
I ran the only way I knew how: by placing one leg in front of the other in quick succession.
 
Nona Hendryx

Rust to dust, us to them
Change your mind, change your skin
Life to death, weak to strength
Cash a check, change your sex
Day to night, dark to light
Hard to soft, on to off
Push to shove, hate to love
In and out, it's all about


They're just transformations
Variations, alternations, deviations
You know, Mother Nature rules us all


I move and I go
In time, fast or slow
I move, because
Each time there's some more
Wet to dry, eye to eye
Yin to Yang, pleasure or pain
Good to bad, crazy or sane
You make the rules, then you play the game
Fist to glove, lose or win
You live a life of sin, then you're born again
Trash to art, heart to heart
Big or small, we're all a part

They're just transformations
Variations, alternations, deviations
You know, Mother Nature rules us all

Aretha Franklin


Rock steady baby!
That's what I feel now
Let's call this song exactly what it is
Step and move your hips
With a feeling from side to side
Sit yourself down in your car
And take a ride
And while you are moving
Rock steady
Rock steady baby
Let's call this song exactly what it is
(What it is -what it is - what it is)


Rock steady baby!
That's what I feel now
Let's call this song exactly what it is
Step and move your hips
With a feeling from side to side
Sit yourself down in your car
And take a ride
And while you are moving
Rock steady
Rock steady baby
Let's call this song exactly what it is
(What it is -what it is - what it is)


It's a funky and low down feeling'
(What it is)
In my hips from left to right
(What it is)
What it is
Is I might be doing
(What it is)
This funky dance all night
Oh!
(Let me hear ya gotta feeling in the air)
Oh!
(Gotta a feeling an ain't got a care)
Oh!
(What fun to take this ride
Rock steady will only slide)


Rock steady........ rock steady baby
Rock steady........ rock steady baby

Step and move your hips
With a feeling from side to side
Sit yourself down in your car
And take a ride
While you are moving rock steady
Rock steady


Let's call this song exactly what it is



Rock steady baby
Rock steady... woo!
Rock steady
(Rock.... steady!... rock... steady
 
I heard a Grimes song for the first time today! I think it was called "Go."

She's got this kind of surreal, angelic sound - occasionally brought back to reality as you hear her sweet lisp in certain parts of her songs :heart:
 
Listening to Leonard Nimoy doing an impression of James T. Kirk, who is giving an eulogy for Spock.
 
You take me down the Vine Street
Stop when you hear the back beat
And I'll sneak past the bounccer at the door
Now I know that he ain't looking
Not when the band is cooking
Because he's watching the ladies dancing on the floor
Going down in Hollywood
You better hope that you don't run out of gas

Down in Hollywood
He'll drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
Down in Hollywood
They're standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
Down in Hollywood
Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through

Be careful, don't look back, keep moving, keep moving
Well, the scotch has started flowing
And some girls she is showing everything she's got
Folks, it's a sight!
Some men will give a week's pay if she would just dance down their way and say
"Baby, I'm gonna take you home with me tonight"
Outside the streets is shaking and I hear the windows breaking
Some poor fool's gonna land in jail tonight
Well, all those hookers trying to pull your coat and the pimps reach out to cut your throat
Ain't no way out of here without a fight
(What's that fool saying?)

Going down in Hollywood
You better hope that you don't run out of gas
Down in Hollywood
He'll drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
Down in Hollywood
They're standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
Down in Hollywood
Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through

Be careful, don't look back, keep moving, keep moving

"Hi. You know that you're going to get arrested the way that those pants fit around your thighs. Oh, come back honey! Don't leave now."
"Hey, bud. Come here, let me talk to you for a second. Give me that"
"Cops coming"
"869 Victor"
"Jesus, this guy's a mess"
"Well, he's just drunk. Come on, pick him up, put him in the car and take him downtown"

Well, his mama told him not to go
Little sister told him too
But the poor boy just didn't listen
Like he should have, that's too bad
He hitchhiked all the way from Burbank
Now, he's gonna end up in drunk tank
Some old man say, "Yeah, well, that's just the way it goes down in Hollywood"

Going down in Hollywood
You better hope that you don't run out of gas
Down in Hollywood
He'll drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
Down in Hollywood
They're standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
Down in Hollywood
Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through

For truth! Man, I'm telling you

Well, they'll do anything down in that low-down Hollywood
He'll be in a world of trouble now
Lord, have mercy
Can I get a witness!

-Ryan Cooder
 
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