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Nobody gets any guarantees.

quote by John Engler
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Political Scientist

He is drinking water from the faucet from the river
From the tributary it comes through rusted pipes
Outside his window he sees the water that's supposed to be clean
By the chemicals polluted by the candy factory lines
Someplace on the edge of town
Someplace on the edge of town
Is where they live --
Political scientists
So now she is crawling on her hands and her knees
She is dirtying her jeans choking on her own perfume
With a pen she writes below the sink in someone's restaurant
This place is inconvenient for my name
She forgets to write it anyway
She forgets to write it anyway
The government supplies the cocaine
Political scientists
There's no guarantees
There's no guarantees
There's no guarantees
Banging hard upon a crooked drum
She feels them tearing down Salvation Army houses back in Michigan
Her husband's divorced but he treats her that way of course
Because he needs her just like he needs medicine
She forgets to write him anyway
She forgets to write him anyway
What's red and white and nearly over
Political scientist
Political scientist
Political scientist
There's no guarantees
There's no guarantees
There's no guarantees

song performed by Ryan Adams
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How Could I?

Memories and silence fills each room
Overwhelming heavy as the tidal waves consume
Buried underneath the dust & gloom
Relics are reminders of my family of two
Pictures of a happy bride and groom
Ferry rides around the harbor on our honeymoon
Wedding gifts of pots and pans
Sleeping while were holding hands
As gracie lays upon us as we spoon
How could I ever be so blind that I could not see
How could I ever stray from what has meant so much to me
How could I ever gain her trust without the guarantees
Of who I am or where ill be
So now we live in fear of the unknown
Insecure and skepticle her trust in me was blown
Despite the past we face we both have grown
Through the pain to find the strength together or alone
How could I ever be so blind that I could not see
How could I ever stray from what has meant so much to me
How could I ever gain her trust without the guarantees
Of who I am or where ill be
How could I ever be so blind that I could not see
How could I ever stray from what has meant so much to me
How could I ever gain her trust without the guarantees
Of who I am or where ill be

song performed by Oleander
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Written In Rock

On my way back from a wedding
I drove round some of the old streets
I got swept up by the memories
Of cold nights and warm sheets
I parked outside the house wed lived in
I tried to think of all the pain
But all I remembered was the laughter
And the precious trust we cant reclaim
There are no second prizes
And there will be no consolation wreath
We may as well miss by a mile
As miss by the skin of our teeth
They all thought we were some sure thing
I had the bloody coat and wedding ring
But nothings written in rock
I know Im not the one
Was I just the great pretender
Written in rock
There was no battle won
Only a mutual surrender
No guarantees, thats alright
If I was gonna stay,
I would have stayed all night
Bye bye love, you were so damn right
Nothings written in rock
Nothings written in rock
You finally learned the deep dark secret
That I knew you were waiting for
So I watched the death of innocence
Of the young dreamer at lifes door
This world can tear your soul to pieces
If you give it half a chance
There are no rules to remember
There are no written steps to the dance
I dont believe in fate
I dont believe in blind luck of the draw
I dont believe in love
I mean I dont believe anymore
They all thought we were the real thing
I had the bloody coat and the wedding ring
But nothings written in rock
I know Im not the one
Was I just the great pretender
Written in rock
There was no battle won
Only a mutual surrender
No guarantees, thats alright
If I was gonna stay,
I would have stayed all night
Bye bye love, you were so damn right

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song performed by Rick Springfield
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Dream Crazy

Dream crazy
We change too fast
Take cover
Cos it cant last
(its a) cold crime
A deadly sting
Theres no time
To talk of deadly things
Well theres no lifetime guarantees
But I see you and you see me
Lets spend the night on loves deep sea
And let emotion set us free
I love the way you start to glow
I love the way your body flows
Stand easy
Its a party crash
So sleazy
Lets make a smash
Cool colors
Set the scene
Dive into
The neon love machine
You know my loves a guarantee
So dance a dance of love with me
Your bodys moving like the sea
Now were as close as we can be
(chorus)
I love the way you start to glow
I love the way your body flows
Thats the way the party goes
And its a way everyone knows
Well theres no lifetime guarantees
But when you youre making love to me
Well ride the waves of ecstasy
And let emotion set us free
(chorus)
Dream crazy
Dream crazy

song performed by Level 42
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Wistful Grief

Wishful thinking will not win free world.
Imperative: independent structures here
Should be supported by a vision clear,
Held high with mission statement's flag unfurled.
Forwards friends! Dark future safe seems. Whirled,
Unsure we stumble, freedoms held most dear -
Links open - fragile sink, may disappear.
The rogue Rove Eye spies all, lies. Hope lies curled,
Hides outside oversight. Self-writ frontier,
In two decades of world wide web advance,
Netiquette ignores as censors' terror dance
Knits viral trojan traffic tracing fear.
INternet technologies combine,
Guarantees essential undermine.

Great firewall of China pings I.P.
Rolls back shadow space anonymity,
Info_checkmating hopes for liberty,
Extending control's role, steamrolling the
Free ideals of true humanity.

for previous version Wishful Thin King see below
Wishful thinking will not win the world
Intense the efforts which are needed here,
Shouldered squarely, with a vision clear
Held high with mission statement's flag unfurled.
Forwards towards tomorrow we are whirled
Uncertain, while those freedoms held most dear -
Life's joy - are fragile, may well disappear.
Thin king who leans on others, who lies curled
Half hid within his self writ limits drear.
In one decade of world wide web advance
Netiquette lapses, censorship snaps chance
Kneeding path to progress free from fear.
INternet technologies combine;
Guarantees essential undermine.

(3 August 2008)

poem by Jonathan Robin
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America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

quote by Rush Limbaugh
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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

quote by Benjamin Franklin
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

quote by Hubert Humphrey
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

quote by Aristotle
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

quote by Irving Kristol
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America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

quote by Peter Kropotkin
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Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

quote by Robert Nozick
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Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

quote by Jeff Melvoin
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I've been acting since I was 5. I really don't know what I would do without it, so I guess that's what I want to do! Just to continue down this road as long as I can. But I know it's a business where there's no guarantees, so I'm prepared for that.

quote by Matthew Lewis
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I don't work the future - I don't want to know what's coming. I don't feel I need any guarantees.

quote by Tilda Swinton
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The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

quote by Demi Moore
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We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.

quote by Bernhard von Bulow
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America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

quote by Peter Kropotkin
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

quote by Winston Churchill
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Hotwax

It takes a backwash man to sing a backwash song
Like a frying pan when the fire's gone
Driving my pig while the bear's taking pictures in the grass
In my radio smashed
And I like pianos in the evening sun
Dragging my heals 'til my day is done
Saturday night in the Captain's clothes
Tin horns blowing with my jury 'phros

Yo soy un disco cabrado
Yo tengo chicle en cerabo
Translation: "I'm a broken record I have bubblegum in my brain"
BR> I can't believe my way back when
My Cadillac pants going much too fast
Karaoke weekend at the suicide shack
Community service and I'm still the mack

Shocked my finger spicing my hand
I been spreading disease all across the land
Beautiful air-conditioned sitting in the kitchen
Wishing I was living like a hit man

Face down in the guarantees
Jaundiced marshalls getting busy with ease
Because I get down I get down
I get down all the way

Yo soy un disco cabrado
Yo tengo chicle en cerabo
Translation: "I'm a broken record I have bubblegum in my brain"

Sawdust songs of the plaid bartenders
Western Unions of the country westerns
Silver foxes looking for romance
In the chain smoke Kansas flashdance ass pants

And you got the hotwax residues
You never lose in your razor blade shoes
Stealing pesos out of my brain
Hazard signs down the Alamo lanes
Radar systems using the souls
You never get caught with the wax so rotten
All my days I got the grizzly worms
Hijacked flavors that I'm flipping like birds

Yo soy un disco cabrado
Yo tengo chicle en cerabo
Translation: "I'm a broken record I have bubblegum in my brain"

"Who are you?"

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song performed by Beck from Odelay
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