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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

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Letters

Atatakai suna no ue o arukidasu yo
Kanashii shirase no todokanai umibe e
Kimi ga inakutemo taiyou ga noboru to
Atarashii ichinichi no hajimari
Kyou eranda amidakuji no sen ga
Doko ni tsuzuku ka wa wakaranai
Namakemono na watashi ga mainichi hataraku riyuu
Ah ryoute ni sora wo
Ude ni arashi wo
Ah~ kimi ni o wakare o
Ah~ kono umibe ni nokosareita no wa
Itsumo okitegami
Ah yume no naka demo
Denwa goshi demo
Ah~ koe o kikitai yo
Ah~ kotoba kawasu no ga nigate na kimi wa
Itsumo okitegami
Isogashita renraku
Tama ni wasurechau kedo
Dare ni datte ichi, nido wa aru koto
Kyou hanashita toshiue no hito wa
Hitori demo daijoubu da to iu
Ikudashige na watashi wa mada kangaeteru tochuu
Ah hana ni namae wo
Hoshi ni negai wo
Ah~ watashi ni anata wo
Ah~ kono madobe ni kazararete ita no wa
Itsumo okitegami
Ah sukoshi dake demo
SHATSU no ue demo
Ah~ kimi ni furetai yo
Ah~ oboete iru? Saigo no ichigyou wa
Kanarazu kaeru yo
Ah yasuragu basho wo
Yume ni tsuzuki wo
Ah~ kimi ni okaeri wo
Ah~ kono sekai no dokoka kara watashi wo okuritsuzukeru yo
Ah yume no naka demo
Denwa goshi demo
Ah~ koe o kikitai yo
Ah~ kotoba kawasu no ga nigate nara
Kondo kyuu ni inaku naru toki wa
Nan ni mo iranai yo.
Tell me that you'll never ever leave me
Then you go ahead and leave me
What the hell is going on
Tell me that you really really love me
Then you go ahead and leave me
How the hell do I go on...

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Play Ball

Namaikisou to omowareru dai-ichi inshou ki ni shinaide
Sou saikou no bougyo wa toki ni kougeki da to iu desho
Matsuri no oto ga yasei yobisamasu
Suzushii yoru ni netsu wo sosogu
Hayari no uta ga watashi kakitateru (sounds like "play ball")
Shoubu dokoro
* Tsuka no ma no chinmoku o yaburu question
Kyuukai no ura de miseru PITCHAA no you ni
I'm throwing my heart
Hitori demo tsuzukeru to kimeta mission
Dare ni demo suki to ieru wake ja nai
Nerai wo sadamete
I'm throwing my heart at you
Natsu mo owari no kehai tadayou hachigatsu matsu akiramenaide
Zenryoku tsukushitemo DAME dattara sore mo mata fuuryuu
Hanabi no iro ga yokogao o someru
Sabishii sora ga kyuu ni warau
Kirei na hoshi ga kaeri okuraseru (sounds like "play ball")
Nozomu tokoro
Kimi no mune no dokoka ni nemuru passion
Wazuka na sukima nogasanu RANNAA no you ni
I'm stealing your heart
Hitori demo tsuzukeru to kimeta mission
Dare ni demo sugao miseru wake ja nai
Megane o hazushite
I'm throwing my heart
Karei ni gyakuten saseta first impression
Ashimoto ni buki o suteru HANTAA no you ni
I'm showing my heart
Hitori demo tsuzukeru to kimeta mission
Dare ni demo kiba wo mukeru wake ja nai
Kotae wo kikasete
I'm throwing my heart at you
* repeat

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Sweet Music

New sensation (3x)
Check out this groove and you're
Walkin' on air
Going into a new
Dimension, yeah
So put your vibes on my beat
And we'll lay it down like that
Slap the hi-hat in
Put the fairlight on the track
Ooh
And we can go
Crazy like that
Feelin' like that
Movin' like that
Drop it like that
Rockin' the track
I'm lookin for that new sensation
Woo hoo
I think we're on to somethin'
You're taste it mirrors mine
So high I'm in the moment
Let's make this demo right
I might just lose it
Woo hoo
When we make sweet music
Doesn't it bend the waves
that's in the air, yeah
Got samples and scratches
Let's do it, right here
Boys and girls.....a different kind of sound
'Cause every heartbeat babe
Is the soundtrack to your life, oh
And every man out there must be sent
To get me high
And we can go
Crazy like that
Feelin' like that
Movin' like that
Drop it like that
Rockin' the track
I'm lookin for that new sensation
Woo hoo
I think we're on to somethin'
You're taste it mirrors mine
So high I'm in the moment
Let's make this demo right
I might just lose it
Woo hoo
When we make sweet music
When we make sweet music

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Info Superhighway

Key:-
A - anita
R - ray
A: technology
R: virtual society
Info superhighway interaction
A: into the future, into the furture
Technology
A: see the world progressing all around us, its a virtual society
Info superhighway interaction, computer pal or enemy
So communicate with me
Wont you interact with me?
R: technicians, technique, technology
Its the most important thing in the industry
Its going further nowadays, cause they wanna get paid
Every day new discovery and plans to be made
Now get connected like an electric wire
Look out for the shock, look out for the fire
Just imagine how it would be
Without the thing they call technology.
A: interactive main
Interactive main
Info superhighway
A: see the world progressing all around us, its a virtual society
Info superhighway interaction, computer pal or enemy
So communicate with me
Wont you interact with me?
R: technicians, technique, technology
It runs the world and society
Digital revolution, technical solutions
For some it only brings more and more confusion
Do we still talk about civilization
cause we gotta look out for the computer invasion
Radio, telephone, or tv..
Would it be there without technology?
A: into the future
Into the future
R: energy from the inner mind
Technology
A: so communicate with me
Want you interact with me
A: see the world progressing all around us, its a virtual society
Info superhighway interaction, computer pal or enemy
So communicate with me
Wont you interact with me?
R: info superhighway interaction
A: technology
Technology
Technology

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Playing With Technology

What happens when a child plays with a razor?
What happens when a child plays with fire?
What happens when a child drives a car?

Man in his pursuit of technology is in the same pose
In his hand is a tool of technology, powerful and dangerous
But he’s acting like a child and doesn’t know its purpose.

Man’s still a child, no sense of purpose, no vision of the future
For a child the razor, the fire and the car are just for pleasure
It is obvious, for this same reason man pursues technology.

Man’s still a child, so selfish, self-centered and irresponsible
Doesn’t care about the world, his possessions is all that matters
But his mind, his most precious one, is neglected and in tatters

We’re like a child mesmerized by technology, by its power
Creating for us so much stuff, we feel much richer
But we’ve forgotten our world is delicate, our life fragile.

We’re like a child mesmerized by technology, so tempting
So much pleasure, so much convenience to us it’s giving
But we’ve forgotten our goal in this hostile universe is survival.

We’re like a child mesmerized by technology, so exciting
Faster and faster now we are driving it, not hesitating
It’s just a matter of time, it will crash! It will crash!

Now, we can see the destruction on the horizon looming
It’s been scientifically determined our planet is warming
Because, technology, that’s meant to save us, we abused it!

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Beyond Mirrors

The age of science has failed to explain our universe in rational terms.
Consequently the power of magic has gradually emerged from our conscious minds to fathom the unfathomable.
Our most distinguished scientists reluctantly admit, that mankind is nothing but some billion creatures, sitting on a piece of solar driftwood floating in space.
Magic is the art of influencing the cause of events by the intervention of spiritual forces or some other occult device.
According to arthur c. clarke any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Early civilization often mistook the unexplainable world around them to be magic.
Rupert sheldrake in his book seven experiments that could change the world has stated that scientists attitude toward their experiments affect the results of their experiments.
There is no such thing as a definite fact in science and therefore the irrationality of magic plays an important part in our rational world.
Werner heisenberg, the leading 20th. century physicist has stated, that mass is a physical interpretation of energy.
Religious organizations have understood the power of magic; and therefore monopolized the interpretation of the supernatural to control the human mind.
The universe as a whole is beyond explanation.
Only at the end of the 20th century the roman catholic church admitted, that the great visionary galileo galilei was, in fact, correct.
The second millennium has come to an end. scientists have to admit that the universe is magic.

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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

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Dreamworks

DREAMWORKS
Eyes saw reflection Monday, when World War II was won,
emerging, letters learning, to betters bowed, begun
a journey spread like butter upon life’s bread, which seems
to be about to stutter before landlord of dreams.

Eye Tuesday schooled, life's masquerade began to understand
how letters strung together rung bells brain took in hand,
soft strength no bitter toil required to channel patterned streams,
blood flood no rudder needed to feed forever's dreams.

Eyes which advanced one Wednesday upon emotions’ tide
to woo, to win, together, as groom to beauty bride,
felt joys would last for ever, like strawberries and cream,
tapped hope's sap, never'd sever eternity from dreams.

Eyes which in turn one Thursday sired fruit so well desired,
who queried much, yet stayed untouched by vain ambitions tired,
felt feelings frank, not clever, that seek 'together's' gleams,
to sow, reap, harvest, gather the essence of shared dreams.

Eyes which Friday celebrate, see seed to stripling strong
stretch skywards, never hesitate, sift just from wrong's pronged tongs,
subjective views eliminate, zest tests through searchlight beams,
shows all may know glow grows, fair flows, to feed tomorrow’s dreams.

Eyes weary on this Saturday sense Winter drawing near,
reach through rhyme’s interplay to transmit loud and clear
before Time’s ‘weak~end’ weather may ravage, mock soul’s gleams,
this theme: ~ that one should never compromise on dreams.

Eyes which one Sunday may pass away, life legacy would leave:
ideals unbetrayed, pray none know poison, prison, grieve.
Life's cycle turns as candle burns, warms all within its beams, ~
road cats' eyes snake, make no mistake, tomorrow takes your dreams...

9 May 2005 minor modifications 21 April 2008 revised 30 April 2008,8 March 2011

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DREAMWORKS

Eyes saw first light one Monday, when World War II was won,
emerging, letters learning, to betters bowed, begun
a journey spread like butter upon life’s bread, which seems
to be about to stutter before landlord of dreams.

Eyes which were schooled one Tuesday began to understand
how letters strung together rung bells brain took in hand,
soft strength no conscious effort to channel patterned streams

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Revenge

'Ah! quit me not yet, for the wind whistles shrill,
Its blast wanders mournfully over the hill,
The thunder’s wild voice rattles madly above,
You will not then, cannot then, leave me my love.'--

I must dearest Agnes, the night is far gone--
I must wander this evening to Strasburg alone,
I must seek the drear tomb of my ancestors’ bones,
And must dig their remains from beneath the cold stones.

'For the spirit of Conrad there meets me this night,
And we quit not the tomb 'till dawn of the light,
And Conrad's been dead just a month and a day!
So farewell dearest Agnes for I must away,—

'He bid me bring with me what most I held dear,
Or a month from that time should I lie on my bier,
And I'd sooner resign this false fluttering breath,
Than my Agnes should dread either danger or death,

'And I love you to madness my Agnes I love,
My constant affection this night will I prove,
This night will I go to the sepulchre's jaw
Alone will I glut its all conquering maw'--

'No! no loved Adolphus thy Agnes will share,
In the tomb all the dangers that wait for you there,
I fear not the spirit,--I fear not the grave,
My dearest Adolphus I’d perish to save'--

'Nay seek not to say that thy love shall not go,
But spare me those ages of horror and woe,
For I swear to thee here that I'll perish ere day,
If you go unattended by Agnes away'--

The night it was bleak the fierce storm raged around,
The lightning's blue fire-light flashed on the ground,
Strange forms seemed to flit,--and howl tidings of fate,
As Agnes advanced to the sepulchre gate.--

The youth struck the portal,--the echoing sound
Was fearfully rolled midst the tombstones around,
The blue lightning gleamed o’er the dark chapel spire,
And tinged were the storm clouds with sulphurous fire.

Still they gazed on the tombstone where Conrad reclined,
Yet they shrank at the cold chilling blast of the wind,
When a strange silver brilliance pervaded the scene,
And a figure advanced—tall in form—fierce in mien.

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Book Sixth [Cambridge and the Alps]

THE leaves were fading when to Esthwaite's banks
And the simplicities of cottage life
I bade farewell; and, one among the youth
Who, summoned by that season, reunite
As scattered birds troop to the fowler's lure,
Went back to Granta's cloisters, not so prompt
Or eager, though as gay and undepressed
In mind, as when I thence had taken flight
A few short months before. I turned my face
Without repining from the coves and heights
Clothed in the sunshine of the withering fern;
Quitted, not loth, the mild magnificence
Of calmer lakes and louder streams; and you,
Frank-hearted maids of rocky Cumberland,
You and your not unwelcome days of mirth,
Relinquished, and your nights of revelry,
And in my own unlovely cell sate down
In lightsome mood--such privilege has youth
That cannot take long leave of pleasant thoughts.

The bonds of indolent society
Relaxing in their hold, henceforth I lived
More to myself. Two winters may be passed
Without a separate notice: many books
Were skimmed, devoured, or studiously perused,
But with no settled plan. I was detached
Internally from academic cares;
Yet independent study seemed a course
Of hardy disobedience toward friends
And kindred, proud rebellion and unkind.
This spurious virtue, rather let it bear
A name it now deserves, this cowardice,
Gave treacherous sanction to that over-love
Of freedom which encouraged me to turn
From regulations even of my own
As from restraints and bonds. Yet who can tell--
Who knows what thus may have been gained, both then
And at a later season, or preserved;
What love of nature, what original strength
Of contemplation, what intuitive truths
The deepest and the best, what keen research,
Unbiassed, unbewildered, and unawed?

The Poet's soul was with me at that time;
Sweet meditations, the still overflow
Of present happiness, while future years
Lacked not anticipations, tender dreams,
No few of which have since been realised;
And some remain, hopes for my future life.
Four years and thirty, told this very week,

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Conversations With Tesla

The old grandfather clock on the living room mantle chimed 4: 00 A.M.
Awake but a moment, I rolled onto my side and went back to sleep.

A voice in the room said “Ray, are you still awake”?
Uh, yes I mumbled, just before I sat up in bed wide eyed.

In the corner of my bedroom I could see the outline of someone standing.

“Who are you? ”

The figure said nothing.

“Who are you? ”

In a low voice the figure answered, “My name is Nicola Tesla”.

“Wait just a minute; you died a long time ago”

“Death and time are subjective” he replied.

“What do you want? ”

“To speak to you about energy…unlimited energy”

“Why talk to me? ”

“Why not?

“Alright, so talk to me”

“I bring good news from the future”

“You died years ago and now you come from the future? ”

“Yes”

“So? ”

“Let me just say that mankind is in deep trouble”

“No kidding, tell me something I don’t know”

“As you know long ago I developed Alternating Current (AC) to help mankind use electricity to light up and power cities. After this I began work on transmitting electricity through the air over great distances, but my research laboratory was burned to the ground by your Government”

“Why? ”

“It was a matter of economics and business, as there was no way the utility company could make money from my free energy idea, so they shut me down.”

Tesla went on;
“I’ve come back at a critical time when wars are being fought over fossil fuels and when mankind is destroying air, water and world eco-systems. It’s time to re-introduce technology that will stop chaos and destruction.”

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Deaf Rush Limbaugh's Macaronic Blues

Soon I'll hear your voices, people,
and you'll sound like Donald Duck.
I'll hear every car horn honk,
every plink and plunk and plonk.
And you'll sound like Donald Duck--
one voice, indistinguishable, under God.
Every plink and plunk and plonk.
Comprised of pitches and lengths,
One voice, indistinguishable, under God.
It was like free jazz there towards the end,
Just comprised of pitches and different lengths.
Soon I'll hear your voices, people,
every immigrant, businessman, pundit.
And you all sound like Donald Duck.

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Now is the time of our awakening

I

Now is the time of our awakening
in world where things are beautiful,
with the first caressing touch
of the morning’s refreshment

where the sun falls bright and hot,
where birds are singing together in joy,
in the blue jewel of the universe
about the glory that summer brings,

the earth is fresh after the first summer rain
with every tree, plant and flower
that grows much more powerful than previously
in the glory of their maturity

in every touch, colour and scent
we find nature at her prime.

II

We find nature at her prime
with birds singing joyous in the branches,
and we cannot draw ourselves away
of a world intruding into us,

every morning has something glorious
that we only have got to discover
and every time that you look at me
your glance wants to draw me into depths,

the essence of love is caught
in every day hanging around us,
we celebrate our intimate connection
in every wish and urge

that we yearn for in this world;
now your smile falls brightly.

III

Now your smile falls brightly
over the darkness of my life,
shining like a glorious day,
you bring new meaning each day

when your hand folds finely over mine
you look fragile, modestly
and I see the heavenly cobalt blue colour

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Give Me A Reason

Only sixteen kon'ya
Mujun-darake no jiyuu ni
Owarenagara hashiridasu
Nan ni mo shibararetakunai-tte sakebinagara
Kizuna motometeru hey
Mamorareru dake ja naku
Dareka wo mamoritai
Give me a reason to show you
Riyuu mo naku hohoemu tabi ni
Should tell me why I should try to
Ashita o mitsumeyou to shinaide
Give me a reason to love you
Subete no housoku uragitte miseru
Tatoe sore ga unmei demo
Hitori dake no chikai
GYUtto sasayaite nemuru
Mou sukoshi dake sunao demo ii
Yatto mitsuketa kotae wa sugata o kae
Watashi o madosu hey
Kuyashii hodo tooku kara
Kara kawareteru mitai
Give me a reason to show you
Itsuka kimi ni oitsukitai
Should tell me why I should try to
Chikazuku hodo ni tooku naru mitai da
Give me a reason to love you
Ima wa hitori ni shinaide
If I had you
Kono yoru mo KOWAKUnai noni
Give me a reason to show you
Furikaerinagara kita michi
Should tell me why I should try to
Mou tachidomaru koto wo osorenai yo
Give me a reason to love you
Honto wa WAKE nante iranai
Kodomo mitai ni koe o agete
Hashirou

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Say Anything

Sawameki dake ga
kokoro o sashite
kikoenai mune no toiki
toki o wasurete motome samayou
takanaru omoi nurashite
Run away from reality
I've been crying in the dream
Koritsuita toki ni furuete
yugande mieni kioku kasaneru
kanashimi ga kieru made
* You say anything
kizutsuke au kotoba demo
say anything
tachikirenai kokoro ni
You say anything
Just tell me all your sweet lies
say anything
enji kirenai kokoro ni
If I can't go back to where I have been
yume no naka ni dake ikite
owaranai ame ni nureru
nagareru namida o
hakujitsuyume ni somete
You say anything
wathever you like to say to me
say anything
you leave me out of my eyes
you say anything
all I can hear is voice from dream
say anything
you can dry my every tear
Akari no kieta
on the stage
hitori mitsumete
t?ritsugita
hibi ni dakareru
kowashite kure nani mo ka mo
kazatta ai mo
toki no suna ni kieru made
Repeat *
Close your eyes and
I'll kill you in the rain
kirei ni koroshi aeba
z?ka no bara ni umoreta
shijin no namida wa
kioku ni nagarasete
Time may change my life
but my heart remains the same to you
time may change your heart
my love for you never changes

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Say Anything

Sawameki dake ga
kokoro o sashite
kikoenai mune no toiki
toki o wasurete motome samayou
takanaru omoi nurashite
Run away from reality
I've been crying in the dream
Koritsuita toki ni furuete
yugande mieni kioku kasaneru
kanashimi ga kieru made
* You say anything
kizutsuke au kotoba demo
say anything
tachikirenai kokoro ni
You say anything
Just tell me all your sweet lies
say anything
enji kirenai kokoro ni
If I can't go back to where I have been
yume no naka ni dake ikite
owaranai ame ni nureru
nagareru namida o
hakujitsuyume ni somete
You say anything
wathever you like to say to me
say anything
you leave me out of my eyes
you say anything
all I can hear is voice from dream
say anything
you can dry my every tear
Akari no kieta
on the stage
hitori mitsumete
t?ritsugita
hibi ni dakareru
kowashite kure nani mo ka mo
kazatta ai mo
toki no suna ni kieru made
Repeat *
Close your eyes and
I'll kill you in the rain
kirei ni koroshi aeba
z?ka no bara ni umoreta
shijin no namida wa
kioku ni nagarasete
Time may change my life
but my heart remains the same to you
time may change your heart
my love for you never changes

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Canto the Second

I
Oh ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain,
I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,
It mends their morals, never mind the pain:
The best of mothers and of educations
In Juan's case were but employ'd in vain,
Since, in a way that's rather of the oddest, he
Became divested of his native modesty.

II
Had he but been placed at a public school,
In the third form, or even in the fourth,
His daily task had kept his fancy cool,
At least, had he been nurtured in the north;
Spain may prove an exception to the rule,
But then exceptions always prove its worth -—
A lad of sixteen causing a divorce
Puzzled his tutors very much, of course.

III
I can't say that it puzzles me at all,
If all things be consider'd: first, there was
His lady-mother, mathematical,
A—never mind; his tutor, an old ass;
A pretty woman (that's quite natural,
Or else the thing had hardly come to pass);
A husband rather old, not much in unity
With his young wife—a time, and opportunity.

IV
Well—well, the world must turn upon its axis,
And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails,
And live and die, make love and pay our taxes,
And as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails;
The king commands us, and the doctor quacks us,
The priest instructs, and so our life exhales,
A little breath, love, wine, ambition, fame,
Fighting, devotion, dust,—perhaps a name.

V
I said that Juan had been sent to Cadiz -—
A pretty town, I recollect it well -—
'T is there the mart of the colonial trade is
(Or was, before Peru learn'd to rebel),
And such sweet girls—I mean, such graceful ladies,
Their very walk would make your bosom swell;
I can't describe it, though so much it strike,
Nor liken it—I never saw the like:

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poem by Byron from Don Juan (1824)
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