Sunday, September 15, 2013

Better than you are

Along the same lines as yesterday's post, a song about being better than you are and how it is our choices that ultimately define us.


Would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a mule?

A mule is an animal with long funny ears
Kicks up at anything he hears
His back is brawny but his brain is weak
He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak
And by the way, if you hate to go to school
You may grow up to be a mule

Or would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a pig?

A pig is an animal with dirt on his face
His shoes are a terrible disgrace
He has no manners when he eats his food
He's fat and lazy and extremely rude
But if you don't care a feather or a fig
You may grow up to be a pig

Or would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a fish?

A fish won't do anything, but swim in a brook
He can't write his name or read a book
To fool the people is his only thought
And though he's slippery, he still gets caught
But then if that sort of life is what you wish
You may grow up to be a fish

A new kind of jumped-up slippery fish
And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo
Every day you meet quite a few
So, you see it's all up to you
You can be better than you are
You could be swingin' on a star

24 comments:

  1. Along the same lines as yesterday's post, a song about being better than you are and how it is our choices that ultimately define us.

    just like it's that crazy borderline's choise to spam

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    1. Leave her crazy as alone
      she's bored out of her fucking mind, picking away at her scabs


      No way to live, man

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    2. and as you're squatting down
      remember don't make a sound
      cuz if you're mother happens to see
      you'll have to eat your way through me

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  2. That song was popular when I was a child, and it always disturbed
    something inside me.
    It seemed that the singer was issuing some subtle threat. "If you hate
    to go to school, you may grow up to be a mule."
    Well, I DID hate to go to school. It was always a tramadic experience
    for me.
    The secret meaning behind the song is that nothing is out of reach-IF
    you play along with the rules and OBEY authority figures. You could
    attain everything-or be doomed to a life of social ostrasism.
    Well, I guess there was some truth to the song. I couldn't/wouldn't
    play by the rules and I'm pretty much a social outcast today.
    The song DOES NOT necassrily aplie to sociopaths. Bing Crosby and
    Frank Sinatra two of the most infulencial singers of their time were
    both sociopaths.

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    1. why are you a social outcast today, anon 351?

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    2. I would be more interested, why he hated to go to school and why he experienced it as traumatic. Always, or only at one point. Or what exact rules he did not want to play by.

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    3. Sorry, Anonymous at @3:51 AM, I guess I prevented to get an answer by not addressing you directly.

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  3. Bing Crosby and
    Frank Sinatra two of the most infulencial singers of their time were
    both sociopaths.


    Narcissists, I think.

    This can your reply to the song...it went around my school


    *clears throat*

    Oh would you like to sit on my face
    It's a very comfortable place
    And if you promise not to fart
    I'll eat my way up to your heart

    Analyse THAT sw

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    1. 2nd verse

      and as you're squatting down
      remember don't make a sound
      cuz if you're mother happens to see
      you'll have to eat your way through me


      i had to post this poetry again. It's in the wrong place above

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    2. Some folks grow up to be "Bee-Keepers". This does not mean they sell honey. They ARE the bad honey, so to speak. Addictive stuff on two legs. These folks "buzz around in the background". I wish I could go into detail with this, but its supposed to be mysterious stuff, I guess? Beings in thousands disguises fluttering about, perhaps having some sort of "hidden agenda". If one have met a Bee-Keeper one knows this with certainty..

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    3. I wish there were numbers at the end of any "Anonymous" since I find it a little difficult to follow whom is adding to their own comment, or is replying to another Anonymous.

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    4. Many "special people" know other special people by their style of Writing. Or perhaps this is a mercurial "special people"-thing? (the zodiac signs Gemini & Virgo are ruled by planet Mercury)

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    5. I used to do astrological readings for people for about four years. And, of course, it can get a little more complicated than that. Look at the signs corresponding to planet, rising sign, moon sign. Look at what houses each of those planets reside. Look how each planet is related by degree of separation, like conjunctions and sextiles and trines, etc. It's a veritable maze through mythology.

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    6. Some say all one really has to bother with is the sun/moon-combo, that´s where the precision is (many don´t get that the moon is "second in command"). Some say Mars should be given more attention than the Rising sign.

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  4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYAUAELUSts

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  5. This might not matter, but is there any copyright or other potential legal consequence in using this song and the lyrics? Has it turned public domain?

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    1. you mean here at sw?

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    2. Yes, but also the specific song. Can a song be public domain, but does there add another layer by virtue of who sings the song, so that overrides public domain?

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    3. public domain is public domain
      Arrangements of public domain material.....idk,

      if you're talking about whether or not someone has rights to use other's work ontop of the fact it's originally public domain material... idk

      Like if there is a person making money off of another's obviously very, very unique interp/orchestration of the original material, i bet that isn't exactly kosher.

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    1. The best way to lure sociopaths and narcissists, isn't it? It may arrive like a plague of locusts. Prepare your pesticide.

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yG0QE9ce3U

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