Eminem - Higher

For the last few days, I’ve been listening to Curtain Call 2 by Eminem. It’s full of illumination and heart and it’s so funny. It is wonderful to hear this brilliant artist this courageous and ready to take charge. He’s also showing a lot honesty and vulnerability. Wonderful depth while still staying true to his unique style. I love seeing the real person shining through.

The people committing this endless crime to us are hiding their identities. That’s an interesting kind of war. Notice where their rules and their lies thrive best. I’ve noticed it’s wherever the government and banks hold sway. Who is pulling those strings? Why is he hiding? What a standoff. Their empire rises, exists and falls in OUR MINDS. In the words of Napoleon - Imagination Rules The World.

Higher Lyrics

Yeah
You know I've been around for a while now
Not sure if I have much left to prove
Yeah, I do, haha

I look at me now I'm thinkin, "Damn"
How proud of me I am
What I did, it's nothin' to sneeze at
Even if your allergies are bad
I'm up in a balcony in France
I look around, I see the fans
How they surround me in the stands
Probably could drown in a sea of hands

They hollerin', "Shady"
Yellin' it out to me and that's what I mean when I say
That one day someway, somehow, if I get a chance to get a crowd
I'll flip it around and have a crowd give me the chance
I've done it all, man
But in actuality I haven't, yet

Where am I supposed to go from here? Oh hey (oh-oh-oh)
Really I have no idea
All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling
I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been

Where am I supposed to go from here? Oh hey (oh-oh-oh)
Really I have no idea
All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling
I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been

Got no time for no haters in this bitch
Or toleration for this shit
But like medication, my dedication
And the time it takes to do this shit
Reminds me of how an overcrowded hospital waitin' room'll get

But I mean it's maybe I have more patience than I'm able to admit
Yeah, but I'm still mentally stable as a three-legged table in this bitch
Fame was a switch but I was grateful
To trade that shit for the trailer with the hitch
Thought it would made me a ravin' lunatic

But I made it through to my situation, I hit pay dirt
Now I get paper like a stapler in this bitch
But just 'cause I made a little bit of change
Don't mean I've changed a little bit
Brain full of wit, dangerous
Can't extinguish this English language when it's lit
Now I'm just paradin', you would still get Shady 'til I'm 82
I spit this crazy, even Dre, he knows I'ma blow
Better get the handkerchief again, haha

Where am I supposed to go from here? Oh hey (oh-oh-oh)
Really I have no idea
All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling
I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been
(Know I talk about this shit a lot but)

Where am I supposed to go from here? Oh hey (oh-oh-oh)
Really I have no idea
All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling
I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been

Oh, now what am I gonna do?
Can't nothing hold me I'm on the loose
Born a winner, damn it's so hard to lose
I can do it and do it, when I'm tryin' to
When my records flop they still go through the roof
This atmosphere's for a chosen few
Who was on their grind, to get money moves
And you ain't gon' get that if you want it down
You gotta take shots with 100 proof

Been in survival mode
Since a five year old, it was I alone
Since my trike was stole, spiral notebook and microphone
But lookin' back how bad it was then
If it hadn't been for the pad and the pen
Addict mom and deadbeat dad
I wouldn't have the savage within

Havin' to win, every single battle I'm in
All I ever wanted was to be an MC
Tediously I wrote obediently, believing in me
EPMD must've had teachin' degrees
Learn to defeat enemies with the ink, thinkin' of these rhymes
Would be as easy as eatin' graffiti
Would be like remedial readin' to me (yeah)

'Til my last breath leave my lungs, I'ma beat my drums (yeah)
For the streets I'm from (yeah), the East side slums (yeah)
Gotta read, mind numb (yeah) I take a foe out (yeah), like fee-fi-fum
You see my finger (what?), you see my thumb (what?)
You see my fist, fuck a peace pipe bum (what?)

Here for the smoke but it's not the weed I want (what?)
With this beat I brung for the beef I've come (woo)
But you better bring it if you wanna reply from
'Cause for you to be lyrically inclined, it'd be a steep climb up
That'll be an uphill battle
But I'm off kickin' feet in the recliner
And I think I'm about to go
Out on a limb like a tree climber
Time to push my ceiling higher 'cause

Where am I supposed to go from here? Oh hey (oh-oh-oh)
Really I have no idea
All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling
I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been
(Might be the last time, man)

Where am I supposed to go from here? Oh hey (oh-oh-oh)
Really I have no idea
All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling
I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been

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Roger Taylor - Foreign Sand

This is one of my favourite songs. I could listen to it all day and I have done so.

Foreign Sand Lyrics

Here we go, ain't it grand
Here we stand on foreign sand
And we're not alone

Why do we fear what we don't understand
Can't we reach out our hands to try to just say hello
Try to plant a seed, fulfill the need
To make it grow, just say hello
And when you're far from home try to learn from what you see
Your eyes will tell you everything you need

Why do we dread what we don't really know
Come not as concubine, come not as foe
Come with intentions clearly shown
Try to plant a seed, fulfill the need
To make it grow, just say hello
And though you're far from home try to learn from all you see
Your mind will tell you everything you need, everything you need

Here we go ain't it grand here we stand on foreign sand
And we're not alone
Red, yellow, black and white
Every man stand in the light, stand not alone

It's not a lie, it's not a sham we play for keeps, it's not a scam
No bigotry, we're hand in hand it ain't a cinch, we make a stand
We learn to live on foreign sand, just say hello

Why do we despise when we can't even speak
We keep on spreading lies
As far as we know it's the only way to be
Try to plant a seed, fulfill, the need
To make it grow, just say hello
And though you're far from home try to learn what you could be
Your heart will tell you everything you need
And though you're far from home try to learn what you could be
Your heart will tell you everything you need

Even though you stand, here you stand on foreign sand
Ain't it grand here we stand, on foreign sand
Together we stand, on foreign sand
Together we stand, here we stand
On foreign sand

Roger Taylor's site

U2 - Every Breaking Wave

It is very romantic to fight for a lost cause, particularly a very just one. The world is full of such causes right now and I dearly hope we will understand that if we are not morally insane and predatory - we are all on the side side.

Every Breaking Wave Lyrics

Every breaking wave on the shore
Tells the next one there'll be one more
And every gambler knows that to lose
Is what you're really there for
Summer I was fearlessness
Now I speak into an answer phone
Like every fallen leaf on the breeze
Winter wouldn't leave it alone, alone

If you go
If you go your way and I go mine
Are we so
Are we so helpless against the tide?
Baby, every dog on the street
Knows that we're in love with defeat
Are we ready to be swept off our feet
And stop chasing every breaking wave

Every sailor knows that the sea
Is a friend made enemy
And every shipwrecked soul knows what it is
To live without intimacy
I thought I heard the captain's voice
But it's hard to listen while you preach
Like every broken wave on the shore
This is as far as I could reach

If you go
If you go your way and I go mine
Are we so
Are we so helpless against the tide?
Baby, every dog on the street
Knows that we're in love with defeat
Are we ready to be swept off our feet
And stop chasing every breaking wave

The sea knows where are the rocks
And drowning is no sin
You know where my heart is
The same place that yours has been
We know that we fear to win
And so we end before we begin
Before we begin

If you go
If you go your way and I go mine
Are we so
Are we so helpless against the tide?
Baby, every dog on the street
Knows that we're in love with defeat
Are we ready to be swept off our feet
And stop chasing every breaking wave

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Roger Taylor - Journey's End

"Journey's End" lyrics

In my life, I've always dreamed
In my dreams, I live to fly
And when I fly, I'm flying blind
So many questions, spring to mind
And see the snakes, around the bend
On my way, to journey's end

Around the bend, just out of sight
Around the corner, shines a light
Just out of touch and out of reach
Beyond all sound, beyond all speech
The curtain falls, but who knows when
Hmm, my journey ends
My journey's end

Fly like the swallows
That dance through the sky
Fly into tomorrow
Through the wind, through the fire

Fly like an eagle
Fly straight, with no fear
Fly from all sorrows
From all sadness, from all care

Fly...

Roger Taylor's site

Roger Taylor - Gangsters Are Running This World (Purple Version)

This is an important message from Roger Taylor’s wonderful new album Outsider.

. . .

Stand up and fight
You have no rights
They own you whole
They own your soul

"Gangsters Are Running This World (Purple Version)" lyrics

Wake up, you boys
Shape up, you girls
Are you aware
There's gangsters running this world

Gangsters are running this world
Gangsters are running this world
Gangsters

There's gangsters running this world

Stand up and fight
You have no rights
They own you whole
They own your soul

Gangsters are running this world
Gangsters are running this world
Gangsters

Gangsters running this world

Gangsters
Gangsters
Gangsters

Roger Taylor's site

Roger Taylor - Absolutely Anything

There is so much to appreciate about Roger Taylor’s wonderful new album Outsider. He is speaking his truth and his heart has a lot to say and I hope we can lift his beautiful soul up. He basically says it in this album, if we don’t revolt and if we stay in fear - we will not keep our souls. We have to stand up and own it to keep it.

I have really been fighting to keep my soul and I knew I couldn’t keep it by going along with the organised crime in my life once I REALLY understood it. There were all kinds of ways in which I was being pressured to shut up and take the money. The price of their money is always too high. The price is one’s soul.

Absolutely Anything Lyrics

Ah anything
Ah ah ah ah anything
Absolutely anything
And everything is true
Mad and bad and funny things
All there for me and you

Ah anything (absolutely anything)
Ah ah ah ah anything (absolutely anything)
Absolutely anything
For you

I would give you everything
It's in my power to do
Shiny pointy funny things
A thousand pairs of shoes

Ah anything (absolutely anything)
Ah ah ah ah anything (absolutely anything)
Absolutely anything
For you

If it should happen that I please you
You know I'd do it all for free
Then I might dare think you might care
Someday, one day for me

And then again if you should leave me
I'd stand aside and let you free
For any man would want to be me
Knowing for a while you really cared for me

Ah anything (absolutely anything)
Ah ah ah ah anything (absolutely anything)
Absolutely anything
For you

Roger Taylor's site

U2 - Song For Someone

This is incredible. WE need to get free.

This could be the situation between me and EC. What are the chances? Blocking freedom of association my whole life is such a violation of every single human right. The torment they have put us through for that sick game of theirs.

Lyrics

You got a face not spoiled by beauty
I have some scars from where I've been
You've got eyes that can see right through me
You're not afraid of anything they've seen
I was told that I would feel nothing the first time
I don't know how these cuts heal
But in you I found a rhyme

If there is a light
You can't always see
And there is a world
We can't always be
If there is a dark
Now we shouldn't doubt
And there is a light
Don't let it go out

And this is a song
A song for someone
This is a song
A song for someone

You let me into a conversation
A conversation only we could make
You break and enter my imagination
Whatever's in there
It's yours to take
I was told I'd feel nothing the first time
You were slow to heal
But this could be the night

If there is a light
You can't always see
And there is a world
We can't always be
If there is a dark
Within and without
And there is a light
Don't let it go out

And this is a song
A song for someone
This is a song
This is a song for someone

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

And I'm a long way
From your hill of Calvary
And I'm a long way
From where I was, where I need to be
If there is a light
You can't always see
And there is a world
We can't always be
If there is a kiss
I stole from your mouth
And there is a light
Don't let it go out

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