Song Lyrics That Remind You Of The Watchtower

by Arthur 19 Replies latest jw friends

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  Arthur

  I was listening to a song today by Rush. It is the song "Show Don't Tell; off of the "Presto" album. I had heard the song a few times before, but today I really listened closely to the lyrics. I read the lyrics off of the CD jacket and the words remind me so much of how I felt in the Watchtower organization - never being allowed to ask serious questions or raise any kinds of objections to organizational practices. I thought I'd share them with you here. Do any of you have any songs that remind you of your time as a JW? Here is mine:

  "SHOW DON'T TELL" by Rush ( album: Presto / 1989)

  • how many times do you hear it?
  • it goes on all day long
  • everyone knows everything
  • no one's ever wrong

  until later

  • who can you believe?
  • it's hard to play it safe
  • but apart from a few good friends
  • we don't take anything on faith

  until later

  • Show Don't Tell
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • You've figured out the score
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • I've heard it all before
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • I don't care what you say
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • You can twist perceptions
  • reality won't budge
  • you can raise objections
  • I will be the judge

  and the jury

  • I'll give it due reflection
  • watching from the fence
  • give the jury direction
  • based on the evidence

  I, the jury

  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • Hey - order in the court
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • Let's try to keep it short
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • Enough of your demands
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • Witness take the stand
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • Hey - order in the court
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • Let's try to keep it short
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME
  • I don't care what you say
  • SHOW ME DON'T TELL ME

  Let's see exhibit A
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  brinjen

  It's A Sin by Pet Shop Boys

  When I look back upon my life
  It's always with a sense of shame
  I've always been the one to blame

  For everything I long to do
  No matter when or where or who
  Has one thing in common to

  It's a
  It's a
  It's a
  It's a sin
  It's a sin
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  jaguarbass

  There must be some kind of way out of here
  Said the joker to the thief
  Theres too much confusion
  I cant get no relief
  Businessman they drink my wine
  Plow men dig my earth
  None will level on the line
  Nobody of it is worth
  Hey hey
  
  No reason to get excited
  The thief he kindly spoke
  There are many here among us
  Who feel that life is but a joke but uh
  But you and I weve been through that
  And this is not our fate
  So let us not talk falsely now
  The hours getting late
  Hey
  
  Hey
  
  All along the watchtower
  Princes kept the view
  While all the women came and went
  Bare-foot servants to, but huh
  Outside in the cold distance
  A wild cat did growl
  Two riders were approachin
  And the wind began to howl
  Hey
  Oh
  All along the watchtower
  Hear you sing around the watch
  Gotta beware gotta beware I will
  Yeah
  Ooh baby
  All along the watchtower
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  bigdreaux

  oh, there's so many, but, todd rundgren is the one i relate them to best

  here come the sex police

  their at your bedroom door

  moving in next door

  searching from floor to floor

  you know what their searching for.

  someones always keeping score.

  everytime ya dip the oar,

  love isn't fun no more

  fascist christ

  come to the rescue

  gimme that old time religion

  let's get fundamental

  about this strange phylosaphy

  in which god and man are enemies

  in which there's no serenity

  unless you happen to believe

  excately what they want you to believe

  with no diversity

  come join the army

  and learn the noises

  that drown out the others voices

  and please the devil who rejoices

  when mankind has no choices

  and power exploits uswhile peace avoids us

  guess who to the rescue

  on a holy mission

  to uphold the tradition

  of the spanish inquisition

  and pre-empt your decision

  by forcing your confession

  now let that be a lesson

  who ya think your messing with

  are enemies
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  Scully

  Hotel California

  On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
  Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
  Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
  My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
  I had to stop for the night
  There she stood in the doorway;
  I heard the mission bell
  And I was thinking to myself,
  ’this could be heaven or this could be hell’Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
  There were voices down the corridor,
  I thought I heard them say...
  
  Welcome to the hotel california
  Such a lovely place
  Such a lovely face
  Plenty of room at the hotel california
  Any time of year, you can find it here
  
  Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends
  She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
  How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
  Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
  
  So I called up the captain,
  ’please bring me my wine’
  He said, ’we haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine’
  And still those voices are calling from far away,
  Wake you up in the middle of the night
  Just to hear them say...
  
  Welcome to the hotel california
  Such a lovely place
  Such a lovely face
  They livin’ it up at the hotel california
  What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
  
  Mirrors on the ceiling,
  The pink champagne on ice
  And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’
  And in the master’s chambers,
  They gathered for the feast
  The stab it with their steely knives,
  But they just can’t kill the beast
  Last thing I remember, I was
  Running for the door
  I had to find the passage back
  To the place I was before
  ’relax,’ said the night man,
  We are programmed to receive.
  You can checkout any time you like,
  But you can never leave!

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  Tainted Love

  Sometimes I feel I've got to
  Run away I've got to
  Get away
  From the pain that you drive into the heart of me
  The love we share
  Seems to go nowhere
  And I've lost my light
  For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night
  
  (chorus)
  Once I ran to you (I ran)
  Now I'll run from you
  This tainted love you've given
  I give you all a boy could give you
  Take my tears and that's not nearly all
  Oh...tainted love
  Tainted love
  Now I know I've got to
  Run away I've got to
  Get away
  You don't really want any more from me
  To make things right
  You need someone to hold you tight
  And you think love is to pray
  But I'm sorry I don't pray that way
  
  (chorus...)
  
  Don't touch me please
  I cannot stand the way you tease
  I love you though you hurt me so
  Now I'm going to pack my things and go
  Tainted love, tainted love (x2)
  Touch me baby, tainted love (x2)
  Tainted love (x3)
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  I Know what I like, and I like what I know

  About the fading process:

  Marillion - Heading for the great escape

  Heading for the great escape
  Heading for the rave
  Heading for the permanent holiday
  
  Heading for the winter trip
  Heading for the slide
  Heading for the dignified walk away
  
  Heading for the open road
  Goodbye to all that
  Heading for the automatic overload
  
  Standing in the open boat
  Standing in the swing
  Waiting for the ringing and the bright light
  
  Waiting to be recognised
  Quiet applause will do
  They shower you with flowers when they bury you
  
  You're holding on, you're holding on ...
  
  (i) the last of you
  
  Just when I thought I'd seen the last of you
  You come here scratchin' at my door
  Your pain and anger's in the howling dark
  Of every corridor I walk
  
  So tell me more about the love that you rejected
  Tell me more about the trust you disrespected
  I still don't know, why did you hurt the very one
  Why did you hurt the very one that you should have protected?
  
  (ii) fallin' from the moon
  
  Don't ask me why I'm doing this
  You wouldn't understand
  You're asking the wrong questions
  You couldn't understand
  
  A bridge is not a high place
  The fifty-second floor
  Icarus would know
  A mountain isn't far to fall
  
  When you've fallen from the moon
  
  There's murder on the street
  I'm ashes on the water now, somewhere far away
  
  I have fallen, fallen from the moon
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  brinjen

  Black Fingernails Red Wine by Eskimo Joe

  Black fingernails, red wine
  I wanna make you, all mine
  A lot of people, underground
  You wanna get there
  You gotta go straight down
  
  There's a culture, everywhere
  Smoke clouds, hang in the air
  It's so loud, can't hear you talk
  You and I, should take a walk downtown
  
  
  Straight down
  
  Downtown
  
  Straight down
  
  The argument over god continues
  In this house
  All of us stand and point our fingers
  At the ground
  All of us stand and point our fingers
  
  Straight down
  
  Red-letter day, black heart
  Its gonna tear you, all apart
  It's so loud; can't hear you call
  You and I, are gonna fall straight down
  
  Straight down
  
  Downtown
  
  Straight down
  
  The argument over god continues
  In this house
  All of us stand and point our fingers
  At the ground
  Argument over all continues
  In this house
  All of stand and point our fingers
  
  Straight down x3
  
  Black fingernails, red wine
  I wanna make you, all mine
  A lot of people, underground
  You wanna get there, you gotta go straight down
  
  The argument over god continues
  In this house
  All of us stand and point our fingers
  At the ground
  The argument over all continues
  In this house
  All of us stand and point our fingers
  
  Straight down x3
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  Anti-Christ

  Read my topic on Metallica.
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  Jankyn

  Jefferson Airplane:

  When the truth is found

  To be lies

  And all the hope

  Within you dies

  Don't you want somebody to love

  Don't you need somebody to love

  Wouldn't you love somebody to love

  Better find somebody to love
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  brinjen

  Wake Up by The Living End

  I've been buried in the sand
  I've come down with no place to land
  I don't need you to understand
  It's not what I had planned

  All the hunger
  All the yearning
  With the lifeline
  That you're burning
  Poison lesson
  That you're learning
  The road ahead is turning

  Suicidal education
  It got sold to our generation
  Wake up to the manipulation
  Wake up to the situation
  Suicidal education

  Stick together side by side
  We no longer need to hide
  From the darkness into the light
  Now is your time

  I need something to numb the pain
  Forget me and forget my name
  Waiting for the time to arrive
  No one gets outta here alive

  Suicidal education
  It got sold to our generation
  Wake up to the manipulation
  Wake up to the situation
  Suicidal education

  Wake up
  Wake up
  Wake up
  Wake up

  Wake up
  Wake up

  I've been buried in the sand
  I've come down with no place to land
  I don't need you to understand
  It's not what I had planned

  Suicidal education
  It got sold to our generation
  Wake up to the manipulation
  Wake up to the situation

  Suicidal education
  It got sold to our generation
  Wake up to the manipulation
  Wake up to the situation

  Suicidal education
  It got sold to our generation