Thursday 22 October 2009

Number One

Got to be a winner-trophy winner
Get to hold your head up high up!
Number one!

Got to be a winner-trophy winner
Get to hold your head up high up!
Number one!



Number one
Number one
Honey tell me-
When your working day is done-
Were you reaching for the high rung-
Reaching to be number one?

You get a car
You want a boat
You want an eenie-meenie-miney miney-moe
Oh there must be more to living
Than a mortgage and a lawn to mow

Sweaty work
And lucky breaks
And blood and tears is all it takes
To be a winner!
People cheer
And people gasp
People want your autograph
When you're a winner!

win and lose win and lose
(I can’t hear what she says here)
to the victory goes to spoil in
honey did you win or lose

Sweaty work
And lucky breaks
And blood and tears is all it takes
To be a winner!
People cheer
And people gasp
People want your autograph
When you're a winner!

Run, run, run, run
Let's see you run
We'll be betting by the starting gun!
Shall we shower you with flowers
Or shall we shun ya
When your race is run?
Will we shower you with flowers
Or will we shun ya
When your race is run?
Will they shower you with flowers
Or will they shun ya
When your race is run?

Got to be a winner-trophy winner
Get to hold your head up high up!
Number one!

Wednesday 21 October 2009

A Money Music Interlude

Money so they say, is the root of all evil today. I'm in the hi-fidelity first-class travelling set, and I think I need a Learjet.
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Experts say: The reality is we’re heading into a double dip or crash. Global recovery is but a Goldie Locks recovery propped up by bail-out money, and the push for consumer spending.
The financial collapse was due to investment, (especially hedge) consumer spending, lending, and (especially sub-prime) borrowing.



The UK government and G20 leaders want to cut banks' risks through regulation and making them hold more capital.
The Bank of England Governor Mervin King recently said it was a delusion.
He said: “government support for the banking sector had been "breathtaking" at close to £1 trillion. Never has so much money been owed by so few (the taxpayer) to so many. And, one might add, so far with “LITTLE REAL REFORM ……. measures taken by the government and world leaders had so far failed to tackle the key "moral hazard" that if banks and financial institutions knew that they were too big to fail, and that the taxpayer would help them out if they got into trouble.
The belief that appropriate regulation can ensure that speculative activities do not result in failures is a delusion."
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You don’t have to be an economist; it’s as plain as the nose on your face. Once you have what they call Moral Hazard (a party insulated from risk may “behave differently” from the way it would behave if it would be fully exposed to the risk) you’ll never get a level playing ground. Sure isn’t that the very reason why western governments spell out the ills/evil (in some cases) of socialism. You can it seems only have socialism when it comes to wealthy, and middle-class citizens. They apparently behave more honest, and honorable. The working class will only lay about, and get lazy if they have too much comfort.
King went on to say: "Encouraging banks to take risks that result in large dividend and remuneration payouts when things go well, and losses for taxpayers when they don't, distorts the allocation of resources and management of risk," he said, adding it was "hard to see why" taxpayer support could not be limited to retail banking. (my point- stop paying off rich investors to do the same thing again)
Anyone who proposed giving government guarantees to retail depositors and other creditors, and then suggested that such funding could be used to finance highly risky and speculative activities, would be thought rather unworldly. But that is where we now are."
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We live in a precarious time of no proper regulation, not only in the banking sector, we experience it in our health system, education, employment/unemployment, tax, law, right through we know it is unfair. Funny, in the third world the word corrupt is used whereas here we prefer/use the word “unfair.” I guess we feel to think it’s much worse (I’m glad I don’t live) over there; in fact I have been asked on numerous occasions, some friendly, and some not so: “if you’re not happy here why don’t you go back to from where you came?”
It’s time to really wake up, and smell the coffee.

Tuesday 20 October 2009

(in the) Blood of Eden

I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start


And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying

They're heated and they're holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man
My grip is surely slipping
I think I've lost my hold
Yes, I think I've lost my hold
I cannot get insurance anymore
They don't take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between you and me
I do not understand


At my request, you take me in
In that tenderness, I am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
We wanted the union
Of the woman and the man
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
We've done everything we can
In the blood of Eden
Saw the end as we began
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
It was all for the union

Oh, the union of the woman, the woman and
the man.

Monday 19 October 2009

in the Blood of Eden ....

I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start



And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying
They're heated and they're holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man
My grip is surely slipping
I think I've lost my hold
Yes, I think I've lost my hold
I cannot get insurance anymore
They don't take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between you and me
I do not understand


At my request, you take me in
In that tenderness, I am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
We wanted the union
Of the woman and the man

In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man


In the blood of Eden
We've done everything we can
In the blood of Eden
Saw the end as we began
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
It was all for the union
Oh, the union of the woman, the woman and the man.

It was a beautiful day.

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town


You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace
It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day