The Fallen by Franz Ferdinand
Just because you like to destroy
All the things that bring the idiots joy
Well, what’s wrong with a little destruction?
And the Kunst won’t talk to you
Because you kissed St Rollox Adieu
Because you robbed a supermarket or two
Well, who gives a damn about the prophets of Tesco?
Did I see you in a limousine
Flinging out the fish and the unleavened
Turn the rich into wine
Walk on the mean
For the fallen walk among us
Walk among us
Never judge us
Yeah we’re all…
Up now and get ’em, boy
Up now and get ’em, boy
Drink to the devil and death at the doctors
Did I see you in a limousine
Flinging out the fish and the unleavened
Five thousand users fed today
As you feed us
Won’t you lead us
To be blessed
So we stole and drank Champagne
On the seventh seal you said you never feel pain
“I never feel pain, won’t you hit me again?”
“I need a bit of black and blue to be a rotation”
In my blood I feel the bubbles burst
There was a flash of fist, an eyebrow burst
You’ve a lazy laugh and a red white shirt
I fell to the floor fainting at the sight of blood
Did I see you in a limousine
Flinging out the fish and the unleavened
Turn the rich into wine
Walk on the mean
Be they Magdalene or virgin you’ve already been
You’ve already been and we’ve already seen
That the fallen are the virtuous among us
Walk among us
Never judge us to be blessed
So I’m sorry if I ever resisted
I never had a doubt you ever existed
I only have a problem when people insist on
Taking their hate and placing it on your name
Some say you’re trouble, boy
Just because you like to destroy
You are the word, the word is ‘destroy’
I break this bottle and think of you fondly
Did I see you in a limousine
Flinging out the fish and the unleavened
To the whore in a hostel
Or the scum of a scheme
Turn the rich into wine
Walk on the mean
It’s not a jag in the arm
It’s a nail in the beam
On this barren Earth
You scatter your seed
Be they Magdalene or virgin
You’ve already been
Yeah, you’ve already been
We’ve already seen
That the fallen are the virtuous among us
Walk among us
If you judge us
We’re all damned
Intuition by John Lennon
It takes me for a ride
But I never understood other people’s superstitions
It seemed like suicide
As I play the game of life
I try to make it better each and every day
And when I struggle in the night
The magic of the music seems to light the way
Ah, Intuition takes me there
Intuition takes me everywhere
Well my instincts are fine
I had to learn to use them in order to survive
And time after time confirmed an old suspicion
It’s good to be alive
And when I’m deep down and out and lose communication
With nothing left to say
It’s then I realize it’s only a condition
Of seeing things that way
Ah, Intuition takes me there
Intuition takes me anywhere
(Takes me anywhere, alright)
Ah, Intuition takes me there
Intuition takes me there
Intuition takes me there
Intuition takes me there
Intuition takes me there
Intuition takes me there
2) I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not live.
3) I wanted to live deep and suck out the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if proved to mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meaness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Both quotes mean to live life at it’s fullest, to do whatever you want to do. Yo don’t have to waste your life in something you don’t want to do. You can have liberty, do what you please because it’s your life. It’s yours, no one else and you decide what you want to do with it, not someone else. Both quotes are like the two songs because they both talk about how they do what they want to do in life. “You are the word” is a phrase from 1 of the songs, in this phrase I think they meant, you’re the only one that can decide what to do, and you are the only one that knows what you want to do, not anyone else.
johanhaeussler 