Masters of War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ELgFGd2fs

Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs

You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just don't want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy

You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
While the death count gets higher

Then you hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world

For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned

But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?

I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon

And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Znn5a-88tY

I saw a newspaper picture from the political campaign
A woman was kissing a child, who was obviously in pain
She spills with compassion, as that young child's
Face in her hands she grips

Can you imagine all that greed and avarice
Coming down on that childs lips?
Well I hope I don't die too soon
I pray the lord my soul to save

Oh Ill be a good boy, Im trying so hard to behave
Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live
Long enough to savour
That's when they finally put you in the ground
I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down

When England was the whore of the world
Margeret was her madam
And the future looked as bright and as clear as
The black tarmacadam

Well I hope that she sleeps well at night, isn't
Haunted by every tiny detail
'cos when she held that lovely face in her hands
All she thought of was betrayal

And now the cynical ones say that it all ends the same in the long run
Try telling that to the desperate father who just squeezed the life from his only son
And how it's only voices in your head and dreams you never dreamt
Try telling him the subtle difference between justice and contempt

Try telling me she isn't angry with this pitiful discontent
When they flaunt it in your face as you line up for punishment
And then expect you to say thank you straighten up, look proud and pleased
Because you've only got the symptoms, you haven't got the whole disease

Just like a schoolboy, whose head's like a tin-can
Filled up with dreams then poured down the drain
Try telling that to the boys on both sides, being blown to bits or beaten and maimed
Who takes all the glory and none of the shame

Well I hope you live long now, I pray the lord your soul to keep
I think I'll be going before we fold our arms and start to weep
I never thought for a moment that human life could be so cheap
'cos when they finally put you in the ground

They'll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg

Chosen people

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92403&sectionid=3510203

Odawara

Every sunset, or most - I look out across the bay to Izu and Fuji-san and the lights coming on in Odawara, so far far away but still so very close

Kite

Do you remember when we used to go up to Kiteflyers' Hill ?
Those summer nights so still
With all of the city beneath us
And all of our lives ahead
Before cruel and foolish words
Were cruelly and foolishly said

Sometimes I think of you and then I go up to Kiteflyers' Hill
Wrapped up against the winter chill
And somewhere in the city beneath me
You lie asleep in your bed
And I wonder if ever just briefly
Do I creep in your dreams now and then ?

Where are you now ?
My wild summer love
Where are you now ?
Do you think of me sometimes
And do you ever make that climb up to Kiteflyers' Hill ?
I pray one day you will
We won't say a word, we won't need them
Sometimes silence is best
We'll just stand in the still of the evening
And whisper farewell to loneliness

Where are you now ?
My wild summer love
Where are you now ?
Do you think of me sometimes ?
Have the years been kind ?
And do you think of me sometimes ?

Where are you now ?
My wild summer love
Where are you now ?
Do you think of me sometimes
And do you ever make that climb up to Kiteflyers Hill ?
Kiteflyer?

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/eddi_reader_sings_kiteflyer_s_hill.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm551hlvbUg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk8OsZESTxg&feature=related

Brief Encounter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWluCzzu4jk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hubyFqSUaGA

Faves

Fave films off the top of my head

Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
Dr. Zhivago
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Woodstock
Gandhi
La Vie en Rose
Fanny and Alexander
A Streetcar named Desire
Sophie's Choice
12 Angry Men
Casablanca
The Deerhunter
Wuthering Heights
Amadeus
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
To Kill a Mockingbird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QejIcJxmWCM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idA7ilynSl0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P479O3GrZGs

Sounds of silence

I see Simon and Garfunkel are playing here in July - wonder if they'll play this one, 40 years on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGWQauQOAQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO9Ild2cvdg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOhdSCYskHM