The sky grows bigger every day
And the other week I hopped on a train
Cutting through state lines
To come to you as the crow flies
And out there in there offing everything was melon and orange
Did you know, my sweet
That I once took the liberty of watching you in your sleep?
I rolled over and over
Trying to touch your knees underneath the sheets
I just want you to know
that every pool of water reminds me of you
Is that all right?
I hope you think it’s cool
‘Cause sometimes a train can’t go as fast as I want it to
Everything seemed a little easier
when we weren’t one hundred miles apart
The person across from me
sitting in her train seat, reminded me of you
And I looked out past her cheeks
through the glass-light conduit
But the sun had sunk already
Disappeared into New Jersey
Oh, why don’t they have phones on these things?

These songs motivate me to party.  Maybe they will do the same for you:

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Old Mexico Way

Well I Shot A Man In Louisville About One Year Ago
he Was Looking At Me Cockeyed
and I Guess It Goes To Show
jack Daniels And A Pistol Can Be A Powerful Enemy,
especially When The Whiskey?s Inside Me
and Robbed A Bank In Tulsa Running From The Federal B.I.
i Don’t Mind Telling You That I Shot The Guard Just To Watch Him Die.
and He’s Still Hot On My Trail
as My Drunk Driving Hugs The Rail
going South Bound On The Way Down 55
well I’m Prison Bound,
they’re Gonna Send Me Down Forever And A Day
so I’m Jumping In My Truck And I?m Headed Down
old Mexico Way
in Salt Lake City, Utah There’s A Warrant On My Head
for A Girl In A Bordello That Someone Left For Dead
and Though It Wasn’t Me
i Must Admit That I Was In Town At The Time:
drunk And Shooting Guns Beneath The Desert Sky
well I’m Prison Bound,
they’re Gonna Send Me Down Forever And A Day
so I’m Jumping In My Truck And I?m Headed Down
old Mexico Way
i Got 500 Miles Until I’m Free
when I Hit The Rio Grande “john Law” Can’t Do Nothing To Me
i Got 500 Dollars And 5 Bullets In My Gun
and If I Have To, I’ll Unload Every One
well I’m Prison Bound,
they’re Gonna Send Me Down Forever And A Day
so I’m Jumping In My Truck And I?m Headed Down
old Mexico Way

 

Heaven Help Me

My friend Jimmy works on the Union Pacific line.
Passed me a line about 9 AM and since then I been feeling fine.
Passed a fifth of Old Kentucky in his garage all day
using tattoos like old photo albums, we reminisced the olden days.
Jimmy put a cigarette where his front teeth used to be
got in his truck and pulled six beers from underneath his seat.
He said “I gotta go to work or the wife’s gonna holler at me”
so I hopped in grabbed a beer and drank my way to the beer hall down the street.

Hey friend, when you gonna take me home?
‘Cause I’m too drunk for driving but I think it’s time to go.
Scotch and cocaine, whiskey, beer and gin.
Heaven help me if I see the letters DUI again.

When Jimmy dropped me off it was 3 in the PM.
That Mississippi sun made the barroom look mighty dim.
Me and three old timers all hunkered at the bar.
Bought four shots of whiskey with money that I squandered from a penny jar.
Whiskey kept a flowing as the sun went down
coating my insides 8 ounces syrupy, sweet and brown.
Checking the door for the law or my wife.
They know where to find me. I guess they ain’t looking for me tonight.

So now it’s 3 AM and the cocaine’s all but gone.
If I can buy a bottle from the bar then I can make it through till dawn.
Double vision, double trouble if I get behind the wheel
‘Cause my guts are rotten from too many prison meals.

This will be my last post until next week.  If you need, me…too bad - I'll be in Vegas @ Sam's Town for the 10th annual Punk Rock Bowling Tournament. 

Bottom line…if I haven't posted anything by the end of next week - you better come to Vegas looking for me!

Check out this sick video of the Rammstein song Feuer Frei - The one from the start of the movie XXX - done completely with Legos!  This is AWESOME!

I listen to music all day at work and I can’t get enough of DragonForce.  This band rocks harder than anything ever created.  Dual wailing guitar solos, sweet effex, double bass so fast my ears can barely keep up.  It gets me so pumped up to do database maintenance its all I can do to stay sitting.  Makes me work faster and more efficiently, yelling unwanted advice like “Rock Harder!” at co-workers that walk by and occasionally pumping a fist in the air whilst merging a duplicate customer record, hell I even punched my friend Matt in the face.  Just because. 

Instead of being Ian - Jr. CRM Administrator sitting behind a desk all day hacking away at an ungodly CRM system, I am a Cyber Warrior - clad in bright steel shining armor and riding a cybernetically modified steed across the battleground that is the internet.  Slashing viruses, Creating reports with the greatest of ease, firing away emails without regard for spelling…I stand atop a virtual mountain overlooking my domain - a virtual king in charge of cyber-serfs whose only existance is to do my bidding. 

Now I’m sure you probably read that without listening to Dragonforce, and were like “WTF is he talking about?”.  Now, please click play on the video below and re-read what I wrote above.

There is a guy playing a fucking Keytar!  Are you kidding me?!  This is not shit to be taken lightly.

Please, delve into these lyrics, deeper than a Harry Potter novel.  The only thing that could make this better is if these guys rocked out wearing suits of armor. 

Smashing through the boundaries
Storming through the burning fields
Stand before the evil one
On towards the morning sun
Falling under skies of pain
Soldiers searching endlessly
Crashing over seven seas
Torturing the winter skies
Riding over plains of ice
Shadows in the fields of the slain
Crashing steel and raging fury
Smash the quest, destroy their army
Crush the legions of the twilight
Templars of steel will burn
Cry far away, as we reach for the day
Blasting our way through the punishment and the pain
Reach for the world, as the sky begins to fall
Rising through the darkened ashes praying that I’ll see you all
Far away, will our eyes now see the day
For today, the everlasting eternal sun
Washed away, the dreams of a brighter day
Forever hold the dream inside
The chance to fight another fight
The breaking hearts that stand for all our lives
Live tonight
Watch you die I watch you die inside
While fear controls your life
And reject this animosity that killed so many minds
We feel the power deep within
The fear you hold inside
Just to find the reason for the treason
Now you will be mine
Screams of pain in death descending
Rise again from hell defending
Burn their hearts within the fire
Warriors of light will be slain
Rise through the pain, like the sun will rise again
Day after day but the memories never change
Stand before the storm, as the last horizon falls
Blinded by the vision and the innocence of our souls
Far away, will our eyes now see the day…
Wo…
Wo…
Solos: Sam/Herman/Sam/Herman
Far away, will our eyes now see the day
For today the everlasting eternal sun…
Far away will our eyes now see the day…

 

Now, god damn it, I’m going to work!