Category: Soci Words

I asked myself for peace, and found it at my feet. Staring at the sea.

A Dream Of You And Me - Future Islands - YouTube

I wrestled by the sea
A loneliness in me
I asked myself for peace
And found it at my feet
Staring at the sea...

All that glitters is gold
Don't believe what you've been told
People lie, people love, people go
But beauty lies in every soul

I wrestled by the sea
A dream of you and me
I let it go from me
It washed up at my feet
Staring at the sea...

Superman never made any money, savin' the world from Solomon Grundy. And sometimes I despair the world will never see another man like him.

Superman's Song - Crash Test Dummies - YouTube

Tarzan wasn't a ladies' man
He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm like that
Quick as a cat in the jungle

But Clark Kent now there was a real gent
He would not be caught sittin' around in no junglescape,
Dumb as an ape doing nothing

Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see another man like him

Are you looking for peace of mind? You won't find it in your status line.

Contact High - Allen Stone - YouTube

Are you looking for peace of mind?
You won't find it in your status line
What are you trying to prove?
Whose mountain are you trying to move?

I fell for it, too, yeah
Whatever keeps you occupied
Whatever gives you contact high
Whatever keeps you busy, baby
Will never make you satisfied

Are you looking for security
Validation or identity?
You won't find it in things
The more you got, oh, the less you see, yeah

I've been all over the world, yeah
I've dug for diamonds and I've dove for pearls
And the real treasure that we all seek
Is hiding in plain sight of me, oh

We used to wait for it, now we're screaming sing the chorus again.

We Used To Wait - Arcade Fire - YouTube

I used to write
I used to write letters, I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing light settled deep in my brain

Now our lives are changing fast
Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last
Hope that something pure can last

Now it seems strange
How we used to wait for letters to arrive
But what's stranger still
Is how something so small can keep you alive

We used to wait for it
Now we're screaming sing the chorus again
We used to wait for it
Now we're screaming sing the chorus again

I'm always left of center and that's right where I belong. I'm the random minor note you hear in major songs.

I Like That - Janelle Monae - YouTube

A little crazy, little sexy, little cool
Little rough around the edges but I keep it smooth
I'm always left of center and that's right where I belong
I'm the random minor note you hear in major songs

And I like that
I don't really give a fuck if I was just the only one
Who likes that
I never like to follow, follow all around and chase the sun

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell - YouTube

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot

When I say infinity I mean now. Kiss the one you are right now.

Spud Infinity - Big Thief - YouTube

What's it gonna take?
What's it gonna take?
What's it gonna take?
To free the celestial body

When I say celestial
I mean extra-terrestrial
I mean accepting the alien you've rejected in your own heart

When I say heart, I mean finish
The last one there is a potato kinish
Baking too long in the sun of Spud Infinity

When I say infinity I mean now
Kiss the one you are right now
Kiss your body up and down, other than your elbows

'Cause as for your elbows they're on their own
Wandering like a rolling stone
Rubbing up against the edges of experience

They want me to be this picture-perfect girl, in a little picture-perfect world. You won't bring me down.

Ego - Bibi Bourelly - YouTube

They want me to be this picture-perfect girl
In a little picture-perfect world
But I cuss when I talk, and I lean when I walk
And I've been through some shit and I've gained and I've lost

And all of the teachers used to keep me after the class
Behind the school bleachers suckin' on cigarettes
I'm out of the norm since the day I was born
And I put this on life, I won't ever conform

You won't bring me down, down, d-d-down
Down, d-d-down, down, d-d-down

And what's a song without you, when every song I write is about you?

Ran - Future Islands - YouTube

Ingest, where it goes, nobody sees but me
So perfect and so sweet
But the rest, feels incomplete
Like the rabbit's foot I keep
In the locket, with no key

And I can't take it, I can't take this world without
This world without you
I can't take it, I can't take it on my own
On my own

And what's a song without you?
When every song I write is about you
When I can't hold myself without you
And I can't change the day I found you

The lights are so nice and bright and let's dream, but some of us are stuck like stones in a slipstream.

Europe Is Lost - Kate Tempest - MetaTube

Europe is lost, America lost, London lost
Still we are clamouring victory
All that is meaningless rules
We have learned nothing from history

The people are dead in their lifetimes
Dazed in the shine of the streets
But look how the traffic's still moving
System's too slick to stop working

Business is good, and there's bands every night in the pubs
And there's two for one drinks in the clubs
And we scrubbed up well
Washed off the work and the stress
And now all we want's some excess
Better yet; a night to remember that we'll soon forget

All of the blood that was bled for these cities to grow
All of the bodies that fell
The roots that were dug from the earth
So these games could be played

Sleep like a gloved hand covers our eyes
The lights are so nice and bright and let's dream
But some of us are stuck like stones in a slipstream
What am I gonna do to wake up?

I can see the type of man I want to be versus the type of man I actually am and I know that I'm doing it but I'm incapable of what needs to be done.

The Double - Rotten Tomatoes

I don't know how to be myself. It's like I'm permanently outside myself. Like you could push your hands straight through me if you wanted to. I can see the type of man I want to be versus the type of man I actually am and I know that I'm doing it but I'm incapable of what needs to be done. I'm like Pinocchio, a wooden boy. Not a real boy. And it kills me.

Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come.

Peace Train - Cat Stevens - YouTube

Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train

If they ask you to stand, well they just want you to kneel.

Come On Come On - Jet - YouTube

Now I am a young man I see cracks in the steel
If they ask you to stand, well they just want you to kneel
If you don't know what you want then you just have to take it all

Hey man, you gotta understand
I got the world in my two hands
Hey man, never goin' back, never going back

Come on come on
I don't need anyone
To tell me what to believe

Come on come on
Shout it out everyone
You can't tell me what to believe

The report warned that the new technology would raise difficult issues of privacy and control that will have to be addressed soon to ''maximize its benefits and minimize its threats to society.''

Study Says Technology Could Transform Society - NY Times - 1982

A report commissioned by the National Science Foundation and made public today speculates that by the end of this century electronic information technology will have transformed American home, business, manufacturing, school, family and political life. The report warned that the new technology would raise difficult issues of privacy and control that will have to be addressed soon to ''maximize its benefits and minimize its threats to society.''

• The home will double as a place of employment, with men and women conducting much of their work at the computer terminal. This will affect both the architecture and location of the home. It will also blur the distinction between places of residence and places of business, with uncertain effects on zoning, travel patterns and neighborhoods.
• Home-based shopping will permit consumers to control manufacturing directly, ordering exactly what they need for ''production on demand.''
• There will be a shift away from conventional workplace and school socialization. Friends, peer groups and alliances will be determined electronically, creating classes of people based on interests and skills rather than age and social class.

You tie their hands behind their back and expect them not to bite. Well yes it is what it is but what it is isn’t right.

What It Is - Mellah - YouTube

Well yes it is what it is but what it is isn't right
When you're falling into the feeling losing the fight to feel bright
I'm tired of listening to the pillars and the preachers of night
Well yes it is what it is but what it is isn't right

You take it out on the weakest for no reason but spite
Preach you exultation just because your skin's white
You tie their hands behind their back and expect them not to fight
Well yes it is what it is but what it is isn't right

The less you give the more we'll take
The stronger the chain the more we'll shake
The less you give the more we'll take
The stronger the chain the more we'll shake

The kids are having none of it. They can't be bought, they can't be taught your hate.

The Kids Are Having None Of It - Frazey Ford - YouTube

Get out of the way
You've had your day
And it's no longer how we gon' play

The kids are having none of it
The kids are having none of it
They can't be bought, they can't be taught your hate

Always a mistake
To underestimate
Watch them now, they're stepping to the plate

The kids are having none of it
The kids are having none of it
They can't be bought, they can't be taught your hate

Are we friends? Do you care? Let it go, let it go, let it go.

Enlightened - Rotten Tomatoes

Are we connected?
What do you say about me?
Was I mean to you?
Were you to me?

What do you think of me? Deep down?
Am I ridiculous? Or sweet? Or decent?
Are we friends? Do you care?
Let it go, let it go, let it go.

If you give, you begin to live. You begin, you get the world.

You Might Die Trying - Dave Matthews Band - YouTube

To change the world
Start with one step
And however small
First step is hardest of all
Once you get your gait
You'll be walking tall
You said you never did
Because you might die trying

If you give, you begin to live
You begin
You get the world

Well I can only love someone I am just a person. Yes I'm only something, and I can only love someone.

Battle Of Someone - Blues Traveler - YouTube

Well I can only love someone I am just a person
My father loved my mother and I am her son
The preceding verses are the halves of my soul
I'm just the battlefield and that is my role
There's a tug of war between what I can and can't feel
The inevitable compromise determines the real
The equation the reason for my being here
The struggle resulting in my invention of the tear

For I'm only something
Yes I'm only something
Yes I'm only something
And I can only love someone

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride.

He That Is Down Needs Fear No Fall - Hymnary

He that is down needs fear no fall;
He that is low, no pride;
He that is humble ever shall
Have God to be his guide.

I am content with what I have,
Little be it or much;
And, Lord, contentment still I crave,
Because thou savest such.

Fulness to such a burden is
That go on pilgrimage;
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age.