Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Lyric of the indeterminate time period

It's come to my attention that I haven't updated in quite a while, again. And as it's a bit late and I'm tired*, right now it's going to have to be just another nice little quote that I've just come across and thought was cool. (I'll try and do a proper post tomorrow, promise.) This one's from Stanley Accrington, a singer-songwriter in the same vein as Billy Bragg, who is also the brother of an awesome family friend, Wendy Pratt. (Neither of them are awesome only for their hilarious names. Also, Stanley Accrington is not Stanley's real name but a stage name based on an amusing inversion of the popular football team. Obviously.)

Anyway, any more preamble and I'm setting myself up for yet another blogly anti-climax, so here's the lyric:

"Reality is not as real as it may seem
You pay and you pay but you're giving your life away

So you can say that I'm crazy
You can say I'm quite insane
It never ceases to amaze me
How people will conform
It's no insult that you've hurled
Only madmen change the world
So you can call me crazy
I don't mind."

I'm really only in this for the first and antepenultimate lines (and of course for the chance to use the word antepenultimate), which just struck some kind of chord with me, but they didn't make sense out of context so I thought I'd treat you to the whole bridge/chorus caboodle. If you liked it, visit this in-all-probability-very-out-of-date website to find out more.

* this was true when I wrote it, but bloody Blogger thwarted my efforts to publish last night, because it is Mean.

5 Comments:

At 9:33 am, October 01, 2006, Blogger Happy Crescendo said...

Huzzah! Dance in the streets! Sing Hallelujah from the rooftops! Christine has blogged again!!!

 
At 9:34 am, October 01, 2006, Blogger Happy Crescendo said...

P.S. What does antepenultimate actually mean?

 
At 7:28 pm, October 01, 2006, Blogger Christine said...

well, penultimate being second-to-last, antepenultimate is third-to-last (i believe). In this case it's the line 'only madmen change the world'. 'Cos i liked it.

 
At 9:10 am, October 08, 2006, Blogger Happy Crescendo said...

But doesn't that imply that we have to be insane to change the wolrd and if we're not then why are we bothering with Amnesty etc.?
(hypothetically of course)

 
At 1:20 pm, October 29, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Christine??????
Where are you?????

 

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