Imagine
by John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
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Level IV, Unit 3 • Poetry
Straight Time
Bruce Springsteen
Got out of prison back in '86 and I found me a wife.
Walked the clean and narrow
just tryin' to stay out and stay alive.
Got a job at the rendering factory, it ain't gonna make me rich.
In the darkness before dinner comes
Sometimes I can feel the itch.
I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line
I'm sick of doin straight time.
My uncles at the evenin' table makes his living runnin' hot cars
Slips me a hundred dollar bill,
says "Charlie, you best remember who your friend are."
I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line
I ain't makin' straight time.
Eight years in, it feels like you're gonna die.
But you get used to anything.
Sooner or later it becomes your life.
Kitchen floor in the evening, tossin' my little babies high
Mary's smilin', but she watches me out of the corner of her eye.
Seems you can't get any more than half free.
I step out onto the front porch, and suck the cold air deep inside of me
Got a cold mind to go tripping cross that thin line
I'm sick of doin' straight time.
In the basement, huntin' gun and a hacksaw
Sip a beer, and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor
Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands.
Lay my head down on the pillow and go driftin' off to a foreign land.
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Level IV, Unit 3 • Poetry
Deep Inside
Mary J. Blige & Elton John
The problem is, for many years
I've lived my life, publicly
So it's hard for me to find a man I trust
I really trust
And every time I find someone I like
Gotta worry about if it's really me
That they see
And I thought you were the one
Deep inside I wish that you could see
That I'm just plain old Mary
Mary
I don't have a lot of friends
And sometimes I have to wonder
Is it cash they see when they look at me
‘Cause they're looking for a ride that's free
So I made the choice to be
Good to those who were good to me
Don't judge me or think I'm bitter
For the evil God's allowed me to see
I'm just Mary
It's the car I drive
The clothes I wear
The diamonds, the furs, and the house
Don't make the woman
So I need someone
To stand by me
And supply my needs
And I'm just plain old Mary
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Level IV, Unit 3 • Poetry
Brass in Pocket
The Pretenders
Got brass in pocket
Got bottle I’m gonna use it
Intention I feel inventive
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Got motion restrained emotion
Been driving detroit leaning
No reason just seems so pleasing
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
(chorus)
Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination
’cause I gonna make you see
There’s nobody else here
No one like me
I’m special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me
Got rhythm I can’t miss a beat
Got new skank it’s so reet
Got something I’m winking at you
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
(chorus)
’cause I gonna make you see
There’s nobody else here
No one like me
I’m special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention…
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Level IV, Unit 3 • Poetry
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana
Load up on guns, bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's overboard and self-assured
Oh, no, I know a dirty word
Hello, Hello, Hello, How Low (x3)
Hello, Hello, Hello
With the lights, out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
Hello, Hello, Hello, How Low (x3)
Hello, Hello, Hello
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah a denial
A denial…!!!
A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah!
Hey...Yay
I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group (tribe) has always been
And always will until the end
Hello, Hello, Hello, How Low (x3)
Hello, Hello, Hello
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah!
Hey...Yay
And I forget just why I taste
Oh, yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it's hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
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Level IV, Unit 3 • Poetry
Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
Born down in a dead man’s town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the u.s.a., born in the U.S.A.
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A…
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said son if it was up to me
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said son, don't you understand
I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I’m ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain’t got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., I’m a long gone daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A., I’m a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.
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Level IV, Unit 3 • Poetry