Listen to the little clues....
Doodles, pages falling open in a book, people we meet and places we get to.
Whatever you feel has the power. So if you feel fear, it has the power.
Learn to recognise the fear and then draw on faith and trust.
Common People - Jarvis Cocker - Pulp.
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College
That's where I caught her eye
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said in that case I'll have a rum and coke-cola
She said fine and in thirty seconds time she said
I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you
Well what else could I do - I said I'll see what I can do
I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere, so it started there
I said pretend you've got no money
She just laughed and said oh you're so funny
I said yeah? Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here
Are you sure you want to live like common people
You want to see whatever common people see
You want to sleep with common people
You want to sleep with common people like me
But she didn't understand
She just smiled and held my hand
Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'Cos when you're laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall
If you call your Dad he could stop it all
You'll never live like common people
You'll never do what common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do
Sing along with the common people
Sing along and it might just get you thru'
Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along even though they're laughing at you
And the stupid things that you do
Because you think that poor is cool
Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you, look out
They'll tear your insides out
'Cos everybody hates a tourist
Especially one who thinks it all such a laugh
And the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath
You will never understand
How it feels to live your life with no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You are amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why
Wanna live like common people like you
I was talking with a friend about the film Never Let Me Go - he was likening it to the vast differences between the rich and the poor. I think he has an anger about this means it's difficult for me sometimes to pick through jealousy and resentment to keep the main point. I agree with the fundamental point but not the jealousy and blame. So yes these lines "You will never understand. How it feels to live your life with no meaning or control" ... are really biting. Money can buy a degree of freedom, a big degree of freedom compared with the lives of the poor. There is no way out. And I can see his point with the film. The clones have no choices and are in the grips of the "originals". Whilst it isn;t the point JB was making, I wonder if in the book the originals are those with money or if everyone has a clone. I imagine on the monied as someone is having to pay for the keeping of their clone in readiness ...
And so it is a point within a bigger point if that is the case. It's certainly not a point I saw clearly in the film but can liken the inevitability of the clones whilst the "originals" live on. And how on earth as Charlotte Rampling states would it be possible to ask people to return to Cancer, motor neuron diseases etc. The more people gain the more they want and the less likely they are to give up on things. I can certainly relate that to politics and states. People have things and stuff - they do not want to give this up for the sake of a more equal and united world. No, no, no.
I am in there. Here I am with two computers. How baffling. Will I give one away - nah! B ut I feel it sticking in my conscience despite the lack of drive to change the situation. I did give my computer away to a more deserving home when I got my laptop. HB and little HB still have it and it meant that they were able to be online and little HB will be even more computer literate. She is an incredibly bright kid. So is HB but somehow her addiction and health and self esteem have kept her trapped in a similar way - no hopers as there is not the medical support to get truly well. Just managed along with the others. We are the common people. Trapped and tricked into believing there is freedom. However, there is freedom of mind and with faith.
Doodles, pages falling open in a book, people we meet and places we get to.
Whatever you feel has the power. So if you feel fear, it has the power.
Learn to recognise the fear and then draw on faith and trust.
Common People - Jarvis Cocker - Pulp.
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College
That's where I caught her eye
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said in that case I'll have a rum and coke-cola
She said fine and in thirty seconds time she said
I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you
Well what else could I do - I said I'll see what I can do
I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere, so it started there
I said pretend you've got no money
She just laughed and said oh you're so funny
I said yeah? Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here
Are you sure you want to live like common people
You want to see whatever common people see
You want to sleep with common people
You want to sleep with common people like me
But she didn't understand
She just smiled and held my hand
Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'Cos when you're laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall
If you call your Dad he could stop it all
You'll never live like common people
You'll never do what common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do
Sing along with the common people
Sing along and it might just get you thru'
Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along even though they're laughing at you
And the stupid things that you do
Because you think that poor is cool
Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you, look out
They'll tear your insides out
'Cos everybody hates a tourist
Especially one who thinks it all such a laugh
And the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath
You will never understand
How it feels to live your life with no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You are amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why
Wanna live like common people like you
I was talking with a friend about the film Never Let Me Go - he was likening it to the vast differences between the rich and the poor. I think he has an anger about this means it's difficult for me sometimes to pick through jealousy and resentment to keep the main point. I agree with the fundamental point but not the jealousy and blame. So yes these lines "You will never understand. How it feels to live your life with no meaning or control" ... are really biting. Money can buy a degree of freedom, a big degree of freedom compared with the lives of the poor. There is no way out. And I can see his point with the film. The clones have no choices and are in the grips of the "originals". Whilst it isn;t the point JB was making, I wonder if in the book the originals are those with money or if everyone has a clone. I imagine on the monied as someone is having to pay for the keeping of their clone in readiness ...
And so it is a point within a bigger point if that is the case. It's certainly not a point I saw clearly in the film but can liken the inevitability of the clones whilst the "originals" live on. And how on earth as Charlotte Rampling states would it be possible to ask people to return to Cancer, motor neuron diseases etc. The more people gain the more they want and the less likely they are to give up on things. I can certainly relate that to politics and states. People have things and stuff - they do not want to give this up for the sake of a more equal and united world. No, no, no.
I am in there. Here I am with two computers. How baffling. Will I give one away - nah! B ut I feel it sticking in my conscience despite the lack of drive to change the situation. I did give my computer away to a more deserving home when I got my laptop. HB and little HB still have it and it meant that they were able to be online and little HB will be even more computer literate. She is an incredibly bright kid. So is HB but somehow her addiction and health and self esteem have kept her trapped in a similar way - no hopers as there is not the medical support to get truly well. Just managed along with the others. We are the common people. Trapped and tricked into believing there is freedom. However, there is freedom of mind and with faith.
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