Funny Chinwag

This song is unique. Trust Billy Joel to write these stuff. Imagine having to sing this at a karaoke if you aren't very sure of the lyrics. Reading the lyrics and singing it coul be a challenge for some. Best to memorize the lyrics before singing it. Some might call it the modern tongue-twister. Imagine a schoolteacher instructing you to sing this song for talking too much. It would be funny. And try singing this after you have gone to your dentist for a regular. Those numbed nerves around your mouth can pose a very creative vocal composition. It would be a challenge for the listeners, though. There you go :

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenberg, H-Bomb,Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queenMarciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

Chorus :

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller,Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu and Rock Around The Clock

Einstein,James Dean,Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
princess Gace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", space monkey, Mafia
hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon, back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollolah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune" , Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

Sleep Where Art Thou?

I can't go to sleep. I am counting sheep. I am counting Simon Cowells. I am counting Colin Firths. I still can't go to sleep. The clock is ticking and ticking. Soon it will be dawn. Soon it will be time for everyone who had a good night's sleep to wake up to a new day. I am still trying to sleep. No way. I am not taking any medication to make me sleep. I will not touch that thing. No way. No way. I still can't go to sleep.

I should make myself physically exhausted; perhaps I would be able to go to sleep, then.

When can I go to sleep ? I am still wide awake...

You Are My Friend

I guess I am overdoing it already but this is the final 'deathly' poem for today, at least.

The Friend

In a circle of friends, the one who dies first is the friend you'll never forget
This is the death that unhinges you from the trappings of everyday life
And makes you - suddenly - absurdly grateful
For each new breath - beginning with this one.

This is the death that could break you apart in every way possible
That persuades you - in memory of that friend - to turn away
From whatever refuses to speak to your heart
From whatever threatens to numb your soul
From whatever it is that revels in death.

Yet this, too, is the friend you need by your side
Listen, together they urge you : Live Your Life


Alice Kavounas (1945 - )

Life Goes On

Here's yet another poem that caught my eye - I guess I am in the mood for 'deathly' poems today.

Life Goes On

If I should go before the rest of you
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone
Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice
But be the usual selves that I have known
Weep if you must, parting is hell !
But life goes on, so SING as well.

Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979)

PRAYER

My Lord God


I Have No Idea Where I Am Going


I Do Not See The Road Ahead Of Me


I Cannot Know For Certain Where It Will End


Nor Do I Really Know Myself And The Fact That


I Think I Am Following Your Will Does Not Mean


I Am Actually Doing So


But I Believe The Desire To Please You


Does In Fact Please You


And I Hope That I Have The Desire In All That


I Am Doing


I Hope I Will Never Do Anything


Apart From That Desire


And I Know That If I Do This You Will Lead Me


By The Right Road Though I May Know Nothing


About It


Therefore I Will Trust You Always


Though I May Seem To Be Lost And


In The Shadow Of Death


I Will Not Fear For You Are Ever With Me


And You Will Never Leave Me To Face My Troubles Alone.





Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)


Taken from Poems and Readings For Funerals


Edited by Julia Watson

All The Best

It was indeed a journey of sorts - even better than Indiana Jones. I wish you both all the best. May you continue to stay in love with each other. .ups and downs alike. May you both grow in your ministries and minister as the Lord has planned for you. God bless you both, Aaron and Sharon. This song, old as it seems, is dedicated to the both of you.


MULANYA DI SINI




Tibanya di sini , bagai terulang lagi


Kisah yang indah, di antara kita berdua





Sehingga di sini, tiada berpaling lagi


Kita berteman, seiring jalan dan sehaluan





Sama-sama...menjejak mimpi


Sama-sama...mencari dan menanti


Segalanya direstui cinta sejati


Sama-sama ... gunung didaki


Sama-sama ... turun ke lembah sepi


Suka duka bersama dirasai





Mulanya di sini, ku kenali dirimu


Sehingga kini, sehingga ke akhir waktu





Akhirnya di sini, ku kenali hatimu


Sehingga kini, kita akan terus berlalu





Sama-sama ... menjejak mimpi


Sama-sama ... mencari dan menanti


Segalanya direstui cinta sejati


Sama-sama...gunung didaki


Sama-sam ...turun ke lembah sepi


Suka duka ... bersama dirasai





Di hadapan kita ada jalan


Menuju di kejauhan ada sinar menanti


Di penghujung perjalanan ini





Oh ... sambil bernyanyi


Mendendang senandung yang syahdu


Riangnya hati dan indah duniaku





Sama-sama ... menjejak mimpi


Sama-sama ... mencari dan menanti


Segalanya direstui cinta sejati


Sama-sama ...gunung didaki


Sama-sama ... turun ke lembah sepi


Suka duka ... bersama dirasai




( Freedom - Royston Sta Maria & Syed Haron Ahmad )

There I I go Again

This is not embarassing. This is not even making a fool of myself. I blew it when I was given the opportunity to do something. When it mattered most, I just blew it. Just like when I was in Form 2. I guess that I am not that reliable. I'd like to do something like that one day - guess I will just have to deal with it (at least for a few more days, weeks or months). Sigh,,,'