Posted by madgarlick on May 9, 2008
Conversation: Sheep to Tony, Tony to Sheep.
This is not about oil, its about freedom he said
We show them how life is with choices he said
To choose how to live and to not end up dead
And that is our aim in this war he said.
A life like our own? Is that it ? I said
Our freedom to choose, are you sure I said?
To have faith in the truth, and to not be mislead
Is that your true aim in this war I said.
Yes he said yes yes he said.
To be truly free and to never be dead.
To have lots of choice and to never be led,
Down the sorrowful path of dictation he said.
Well I don’t believe you, I think it’s a lie
For oil and for money these people do die
Your hunger for power is extraordinarily high
And that is why you lie, you lie.
How can you say that how do you know?
It can’t be because I told you so,
For I have said nothing that could contradict
Our allies and their assimilation remit
You must be some kind of traitor I think
So we’ll take all your pens and all of your ink
You’ll write no more, and you’ll dare not think
You’ll dare not think, you’ll dare not think.
You’ll write no more, and you’ll dare not think
You’ll dare not think, you’ll dare not think.
So I wrote no more, and I dared not think.
I dared not think, I dared not think.
© simon garlick
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Posted by madgarlick on April 24, 2008
I Hid
I hid, I hid,
I held my breath
They were coming
I could hear them
Hear their dogs barking
Hear the men shouting
I held my breath
And still I hid
I heard a gun shot
A crack, a scream
A child was crying
And still I hid
I hid in a dark space
Hid in my hiding place
I hid and I held my breath
And still I heard them
I heard them coming
The dogs were barking
The men were shouting
A child was crying
A gunshot cracked
For one brief moment
All was silent
Then a woman was screaming
And still I hid
The scream was silenced
There was still shouting
The dogs still barking
Came ever closer
My heart was pounding
My head was banging
My tears were rolling
Yet still I hid
Then there was knocking
And tapping and rapping
And then loud shouting
And louder barking
And then they were biting
The dogs were attacking
And then I was screaming
My tears were now streaming
And they were still shouting
At me where I hid
Then there was silence
A crack and then silence
And now I was drifting
My pain was now lifting
As higher I rose
Just drifting, just drifting
And that’s when I saw them
Just young men and children
All shooting and shouting
And dogs ever hounding
And there I was lying
In the place where I hid.
© simon garlick
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Posted by madgarlick on April 21, 2008
Bloodthirst, Bloodthirst, Bloodthirst, Roar
Bloodthirst, bloodthirst, bloodthirst, roar,
Kill the infidels by law
Burn them burn them burn them all
Its time to follow our gods call
Burn their flag and burn their homes
Burn their bodies and hang their bones
Bloodthirst, bloodthirst, bloodthirst, roar
Kill the infidels by law
Bloodthirst, bloodthirst, bloodthirst, roar,
Kill the infidels by law
Hang a tyre around their necks
Watch it melt and burn their heads
Laugh at them when they do scream
They must die by any means
Bloodthirst, bloodthirst, bloodthirst, roar
Kill the infidels by law
Bloodthirst, bloodthirst, bloodthirst, roar,
Kill the infidels by law
Kill their mothers, kill their wives,
Kill their children to stop their lies
There is no place left on earth
For them to live, they have no worth
Bloodthirst, bloodthirst, bloodthirst, roar
Kill the infidels by law
Bloodthirst, bloodthirst, bloodthirst, roar,
Kill the infidels by law
When their leaders all submit
Kill them, kill them, do not quit
Time has come for us to reign
So put a bullet in their brains
Bloodthirst, bloodthirst, bloodthirst, roar
Kill the infidels by law.
© simon garlick
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