You’ve had a chance to live your life

Song recommendation: Birmingham Jail by Chatham County Line

Four little girls tying their sash in the basement room that day 

Poking fun and making jokes before getting on their knees to pray 

Just so young with all their dreams and years to their end

Strewn away in the rubble by the hatred of scared white men 

It was early December in the year of ‘63 

George Wallace defied what the federal courts they did decree 

They said make your school doors open for the child of black & white 

Wallace clenched up both his fists and he called out for a fight 

Down in the Birmingham Jail 

Down in the Birmingham Jail 

You’ve had a chance to live your life but now you’re locked. . . 

In the Birmingham Jail 

When the locals heard the news that day, their blood began to boil 

They decided the only good coloured man is down beneath the soil 

So with their hate and money, they began to conspire 

And soon in Birmingham the air was thick with powder and fire 

Down in the Birmingham Jail 

Down in the Birmingham Jail 

You’ve had a chance to live your life but now you’re locked. . .

In the Birmingham Jail 

Four little girls tying their sash in the basement room that day 

Poking fun and making jokes before getting on their knees to pray 

Just so young with all their dreams and years to their end

Strewn away in the rubble by the hatred of scared white men 

Down in the Birmingham Jail 

Down in the Birmingham Jail 

You’ve had a chance to live your life but now you’re locked. . .

In the Birmingham Jail 

Let's still believe in love (Parlons encore d'amour)

Song recommendations: The Ugly and the Beautiful and La Bête et la Belle by (the real) Tuesday Weld

Well after all that we've been through

Would you still call this love baby?

Cause love's the only proof

That the ugly could be beautiful

God knows i'm feeling spent

Though i've still got my money honey

Money's the revenge

Of the ugly on the beautiful

Well the drugs just ain't enough

Though i like the way they made us crazy

But love's the only drug

It turns the ugly into beautiful

And i can't tell you why

I'm still so much afraid of dying

Dying reconciles

The ugly with the beautiful

Though we've been burned by it

Let's still believe in love

Cause love's the greatest gift

Of the ugly to the beautiful

(repeat 1x)

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Au lendemain de nos déboires

Pourra-t'on parler d'amour

Mon amour

Écoute bien cette histoire

C'est l'histoire de la bête et la belle

Dieu sait que j'ai ramé

Mais j'ai gardé mes sous ma pauvre

Dignité

Car l'argent est la revanche

Que la bête prendra sur la belle

Les drogues étaient trop douces

Mais quelle exquise petite folie

Mon amour

Les drogues sont la seule route

Qui fera de la bête une belle

Non ne me demande pas

Pourquoi j'ai tellement peur de mourir

Alors que la mort verra

La bête s'unir à la belle

Bien qu'il nous ait brûlés

Parlons encore d'amour

Car l'amour est le plus vrai

C'est le cadeau de la bête à la belle

Non ne me demande pas

Pourquoi j'ai tellement peur de mourir

Alors que la mort verra

La bête s'unir à la belle

Happy birthday! (Your life still isn't over)

This Post is dedicated to my best friend AI.  Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!

(Happy Birthday by the Arrogant Worms)

Once a year we celebrate

With stupid hats and plastic plates

The fact that you were able to make

Another trip around the sun

And the whole clan gathers round

And gifts and laughter do abound

And we let out a joyful sound

And sing that stupid song

Happy birthday!

Now you're one year older

Happy birthday!

Your life still isn't over

Happy birthday!

You did not accomplish much

But you didn't die this year

I guess that's good enough

So let's drink to your fading health

And hope you don't remind yourself

your chance of finding fame and wealth

Decrease with every year

Does it feel like you're doing laps

And eating food and taking naps

And hoping that someday perhaps

Your life will hold some cheer

Happy birthday!

What have you done that matters?

Happy birthday!

You're starting to get fatter

Happy birthday!

It's downhill from now on

Try not to remind yourself

Your best years are all gone

If cryogenics were all free

Then you could live like Walt Disney

And live for all eternity

Inside a block of ice

But instead your time is set

This is the only life you get

And though it hasn't ended yet

Sometimes you wish it might

Happy birthday!

You wish you had more money

Happy birthday!

Your life's so sad it's funny

Happy birthday!

How much more can you take?

But your friends are hungry

So just cut the stupid cake

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, dear...

(random calling out of names, including Ralph, Bill, Ralph Kramden, bob,

Skippy, the bush kangaroo, Stanly, starts with a 'J', and the b-b-b-b-b-bu-bu-bu- that leads into

"Dangerous")

What I got to do to be heard?

Song recommendation: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word by Elton John

What I got to do to make you love me?

What I got to do to make you care?

What do I do when lightning strikes me?

And I wake to find that you're not there?

What I got to do to make you want me?

What I got to do to be heard?

What do I say when it's all over?

Sorry seems to be the hardest word.

It's sad, so sad

It's a sad, sad situation.

And it's getting more and more absurd.

It's sad, so sad

Why can't we talk it over?

Oh it seems to me

That sorry seems to be the hardest word.

What do I do to make you want me?

What I got to do to be heard?

What do I say when it's all over?

Sorry seems to be the hardest word.

It's sad, so sad

It's a sad, sad situation.

And it's getting more and more absurd.

It's sad, so sad

Why can't we talk it over?

Oh it seems to me

That sorry seems to be the hardest word.

Yeh. Sorry

What I got to do to make you love me?

What I got to do to be heard?

What do I do when lightning strikes me?

What have I got to do?

What have I got to do?

When sorry seems to be the hardest word.