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Come and Get Down

October 3, 2009
By Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.


In these days you come like the weather
Always so quick to slaughter an umbrella
Yet here we are and here we’ll stand
Something short of a marching band
How we speak and how we sing
Has nothing on your cavalry
How we come and where we go
No one cares because no one knows
In your mind and out of sight
Like a phobia in the night
We are all confused and baffled
O do we dare prepare for battle?
Although I can honestly say
That I survived your ruthless ways
When standing together as team
We only won half the victory
From where you came and where you’ll go
Everyone desperately wants to know
Even though we are reaching out
We dare not emerge from the crowd
Because all our hope and all our dreams
Are slowly stretching from the cheese
So all the ones that dare lay wake
Are like the toast on your wretched plate
Waiting to be put to sleep
By the dreadful tune of marching feet
Of your armies’ perfect timing
Stretching out across the horizon
Like a phobia in the night
In your mind but not in sight
All stand confused and baffled
Look who dares prepare for battle
How you came and where you’ll go
We don’t ask ‘cause we all know
How you speak and how you sing
Something like a cavalry
Here you are and here you’ll stand
Something short of a marching band.



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Aderes47 GOLD said...
on Aug. 6 2011 at 9:44 pm
Aderes47 GOLD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. <br /> Henry Drummond

The first lines didn't quite grab me(they confused me too much so I didn't keep up reading. Sorry! 

on Sep. 24 2010 at 10:52 am
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
34 articles 1 photo 682 comments

Favorite Quote:
learn from your past to live for the future.

No, haha, I was implying YOU were.

on Sep. 23 2010 at 1:50 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

i thought you were implying that pinkypromise is a murderement of the conversation.

on Sep. 22 2010 at 9:36 pm
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
34 articles 1 photo 682 comments

Favorite Quote:
learn from your past to live for the future.

No, I like pinkypromise, he/she(?) stays.

on Sep. 22 2010 at 12:35 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

*note to self: in order to conversate, one must be here.

did we just reject pinkypromise? -the irony.


on Sep. 22 2010 at 11:18 am
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
34 articles 1 photo 682 comments

Favorite Quote:
learn from your past to live for the future.

I know, but I was trying to keep the conversation alive.  (Sorry, pinkypromise)

on Sep. 21 2010 at 5:22 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

I was just quoting what she said. tell her that captain.

on Sep. 21 2010 at 11:03 am
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
34 articles 1 photo 682 comments

Favorite Quote:
learn from your past to live for the future.

But then the unexpected would not be unexpected.  It's expected.

on Sep. 20 2010 at 12:55 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

you know, as in that stranger from about 5 posts ago? "expect the unexpected"?

on Sep. 20 2010 at 11:35 am
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
34 articles 1 photo 682 comments

Favorite Quote:
learn from your past to live for the future.

Well, now you've gone and got me confused!  [picks up pencil and scratches out face]

on Sep. 20 2010 at 6:04 am
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

i think pnkypromism is stalking us-how does she(?) know that i replied to her(?) comment?

on Sep. 17 2010 at 1:23 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

.....................okay.

on Sep. 17 2010 at 10:46 am
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
34 articles 1 photo 682 comments

Favorite Quote:
learn from your past to live for the future.

AHH!!  I love Will Smith!  I'm not someone to hang an actor's poster up in my room or completely text-creep their facebook life, but as far as actors go, he's my fav!  I actually just watched i-robot, so yeah, that's where I got it. 

on Sep. 16 2010 at 5:19 am
pinkypromise23 PLATINUM, Cranston, Rhode Island
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i know that you believe you understand what you think i said, but im not sure you realize that what you heard is not what i meant.

well as they say, expect the unexpected.

on Sep. 15 2010 at 9:48 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

you really came out of nowhere captain. i should've known you were standing back there.

on Sep. 15 2010 at 2:55 pm
pinkypromise23 PLATINUM, Cranston, Rhode Island
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i know that you believe you understand what you think i said, but im not sure you realize that what you heard is not what i meant.

haha not to butt in here, but i love that quote dreamwriter(; lol it made my laugh haha

on Sep. 15 2010 at 2:11 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

I love it. i didnt know that was an official quote. i thought it originated with will smith off of irobot. you're such a hypocrite.

on Sep. 14 2010 at 9:34 pm
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
34 articles 1 photo 682 comments

Favorite Quote:
learn from your past to live for the future.

You've probably heard it:

 

ACHOO!! [people glance over] I'm sorry, I'm allergic to bullsh**


on Sep. 8 2010 at 11:44 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
55 articles 0 photos 2066 comments

Favorite Quote:
What the front door.

do your dance captain...

on Sep. 8 2010 at 10:57 pm
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
34 articles 1 photo 682 comments

Favorite Quote:
learn from your past to live for the future.

Haha, I love the last one.  Unfortunately, my favorite quote right now has a bad word in it [guilty face] but I can censor it...