[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 19:05:27 -0400
I remember when this song was out. At the time my non-philosophical self
didn't think much of it, rather liked it in fact. Today, decades later, I
think that if I were standing on a bridge ready to jump, this song would
push me over the edge. It could not be more reflective of a world that is
both superficial and hate filled.
Still searching for meaning and finding ever less of it,
Andy Amago
> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/28/2005 11:14:33 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
>
>
> Judy Evans:
> > MG> Mike Geary
> > MG> with no reason to live
> >
> > you mean with no right to live? we don't got no right to.
>
>
> No, I mean as in Randy Newman's song: "Short People."
>
> Short People
> Randy Newman
>
>
> Short People got no reason
> Short People got no reason
> Short People got no reason
> To live
>
> They got little hands
> And little eyes
> And they walk around
> Tellin' great big lies
> They got little noses
> And tiny little teeth
> They wear platform shoes
> On their nasty little feet
>
> Well, I don't want no Short People
> Don't want no Short People
> Don't want no Short People
> Round here
>
> Short People are just the same
> As you and I
> (A Fool Such As I)
> All men are brothers
> Until the day they die
> (It's A Wonderful World)
>
> Short People got nobody
> Short People got nobody
> Short People got nobody
> To love
>
> They got little baby legs
> And they stand so low
> You got to pick 'em up
> Just to say hello
> They got little cars
> That got beep, beep, beep
> They got little voices
> Goin' peep, peep, peep
> They got grubby little fingers
> And dirty little minds
> They're gonna get you every time
> Well, I don't want no Short People
> Don't want no Short People
> Don't want no Short People
> 'Round here
>
> Mike Geary
> tall in the Seatte
> but stuck in the Memphis
> for the moment.
>
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