Donny Hathaway ~ Song for You

I've been so many places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my love in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you

I know your image of me is what I hope to be
I've treated you unkindly but darlin' can't you see
There's no one more important to me
Darlin' can't you please see through me
Cause we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you

You taught me precious secrets of the truth witholding nothing
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together
Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding

I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for in my life you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing this song for you

You taught me precious secrets of the truth witholding nothing
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together
Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding

I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for in my life you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing this song for you
We were alone and I was singing this song for you

Bag Lady... Erikah Badu

I guess nobody ever told you
All you must hold on to
Is you, is you, is you

One day all them bags gone get in your way
One day all them bags gone get in your way
I said one day all them bags gone get in your way
One Day all them bags gone get in your way

So pack light
Pack light
Pack light
Ooh ooh

Bag lady you gone miss your bus
You can't hurry up
Cause you got too much stuff
When they see you comin
Niggas take off runnin
>From you it's true oh yes they do

One day he gone say you crowdin my space
One day he gone say you crowdin my space
I said one day he gone say you crowdin my space
One day he gone say you crowdin my space

So pack light
Pack light
Pack light
Ooh ooh

Girl I know sometimes it's hard
And we can't let go
Oh when someone hurts you oh so bad inside
You can't deny it you can't stop crying
So oh, oh, oh
If you start breathin
Then you won't believe it
You'll feel so much better
(So much better baby)

Bag lady
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Ooh, ooh
Girl you don't need it
I betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
(Need someone to love you right)
Betcha love can make it better
(I betcha love, betcha love)
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
(I betcha love, betcha love)
Betcha love can make it better
(I betcha love, I betcha love, oh)
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
(Oh...)
Betcha love can make it better...

Bag lady, hmm
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Girl you don't need that, hmm

Erikah Badu ~ A Child with the Blues Lyrics

Could have never known that when losin'
Could hurt you so very bad
Could have never known that when chosin'
Would make you so very sad

I don't know what to do
I just feel so confused
I'm a child with the blues

Take your time, smell the flowers
Make a smile for yourself
Girl, don't make livin' so hard,
So hard, So hard, I keep tellin' myself

Feels like I'm goin' away
Sometimes it ain't all damn fair
A child with the blues

Sisters, sisters
I know you're watchin' me
There are a lot of games reachin' for you
Constantly

When you think you're grown
You're entering the unknown
Baby, check yourself
Brace yourself
Protect yourself
Face yourself

Feels like my life is just existing
And I'm missing someone

It's hard to replace the simple fact
'cause my lover is gone, gone on

Never too young to pay your dues,
And you're walkin' in my shoes
You're a child with the blues, so blue, so blue

I can't stop the flow, can't stop it
Of the tears in my eyes

And if you're any of the many kind of women in pain,
Woman in pain, realize, realize

The same emotion we share
Movin' fast but goin' nowhere

Like a child with the blues
A child with the blues
Baby, blue
This child is blue
Show no blues

A child with the blues, ooh

Blue...

How I am feeling now...................................................................

I’m my own worst enemy
I set myself up to fall
And falling I am
And I have knots in my throat
And the tears sting my eyes
As they well up and fill my cheeks
My stomach feels hollow and
And my heart feels blue
From lack of oxygen
I’ve been holding my breath
Closing my eyes
Waiting to land
But it seems I’m free falling
And the spark that set my heart on fire
Was nothing but a passing fancy
And my wings are wet
They don’t hold my weight
I’m just careening
Waiting for the end.

From the Album...Chinatown... by the B Goods

"In spite of all the Damage"

If I wanted to say to you
That I wanted to see your face again
That I want to hear you laughing
In spite of all the damage I've done

If I wanted to hear you talkin'
Or to hear your sense of things
Or to call you up on a Sunday morning
In spite of all the damage I've done

Well I broke our home and left you nowhere to run
Yes I broke our home and left you nowhere to run

But I never knock my days away
I think you understand that I could not stay
But I like to hear you laughing
In spite of all the damage I've done
In spite of all the damage I've done

Well I broke our home and left you nowhere to run
Yes I broke our home and left you nowhere to run

"Lonesome Blues"

Some blues are just blues, mine are the lonesome blues
Some blues are just blues, mine are the lonesome blues
All the birds flew south for the winter
Left me these lonesome blues

My baby left me, hitched a train down south
My baby left me, hitched a train down south
I still taste his kisses
Like candy in my mouth.

I wish I had wings, just like an aeroplane
I wish I had wings, just like an aeroplane
Fly down, find my baby. never be lonesome again.

"Midnight Moonlight"

if you ever get lonesome
and you're down in san antone
just beg, steal or borrow
two nickels or a dime
and call me on the phone

i'll meet you at the alamo mission
and we will say our prayers
the holy ghost and the virgin mother
will heal us, as we kneel there

in the midnight moonlight
midnight moonlight, moonlight
in the midnight, moonlight, in the mid-
night
moonlight midnight

if you ever feel sorrow
for deeds that you have done
with no hope for tomorrow
in the setting of the sun
and the oceans are howlin'
for things that might have been
and the last good morning sunrise will be
the brightest you've ever seen

Hmmmmmmmmmmm............. MOO?

PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk
Group Says Move Would Help Humans, Cows

WATERBURY, Vt. -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

"PETA's request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," the statement says.

PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.

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"The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."

"We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child," said a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry's.

Read PETA's letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

September 23, 2008

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Cofounders

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.

Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield,

On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters, I'd like to bring your attention to an innovative new idea from Switzerland that would bring a unique twist to Ben and Jerry's.

Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breast milk procured from human donors who are paid in exchange for their milk. If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers-and cows-would reap the benefits.

Using cow's milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer's health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow's milk to children, saying it may play a role in anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease-America's number one cause of death.

Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months. After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup.

And of course, the veal industry could not survive without the dairy industry. Because male calves can't produce milk, dairy farmers take them from their mothers immediately after birth and sell them to veal farms, where they endure 14 to17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they can't even turn around.

The breast is best! Won't you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow's milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Tracy Reiman

Executive Vice President

Looking for Talent for The Coffee-Opp Grand Opening Benefit Festival

We at "The Coffee-Opp" are looking for local entertainers and musicians to share their talents, entertain, and enthuse us for our Grand Opening Benefit to be held November 15th beginning at 10 am & ending at 5 pm ... in, at, and around the Ink People Building... located on 12th street in Eureka between "E" and "F" streets.

We are also looking for people who would like to run workshops with kids/people, teaching them skills… such as juggling, belly dancing, puppet making, poi, etc….

If you are interested in entertaining, sharing your talent, running a workshop, or even volunteering… please contact Kevin, at one of the following: The Ink People at 442-8413 or 442-3212 or kvin4u@hotmail.com. OR you can respond to ME (Innana) right here/ right now.

For more information about the Coffee-Opp, please visit our websites at www.myspace.com/thecoffeeopp or you can find us on facebook if you type in “The Coffee-Opp.” We would appreciate anything that you can do to help this event be a successful fundraiser as well as an enjoyable community experience. This is your opportunity to shine and to get involved in your community.

Pheoby Snow ~ Harpo's Blues

I wish I was a willow
And I could sway to the music in the wind
And I wish I was a lover
I wouldn't need my costumes and pretend
I wish I was a mountain
I'd pass boldly thrue the
clouds and never end
I wish I was a soft refrain
When the lights were out I'd play
and be your friend
I strut and fret my hour upon the stage
The hour is up
I have to run and hide my rage
I'm lost again
I think I'm really scared
I won't be back at all this time
And have my deepest secrets shared
I'd like to be a willow
A lover, a mountain or a soft refrain
But I'd hate to be a grown-up
And have to try to bear my life in pain
I wish I was a soft refrain
When the lights were out I'd play
and be your friend
I strut and fret my hour upon the stage
The hour is up
I have to run and hide my rage
I'm lost again
I think I'm really scared
I won't be back at all this time
And have my deepest secrets shared
I'd like to be a willow
A lover, a mountain or a soft refrain
But I'd hate to be a grown-up
And have to try to bear my life in pain

Stevei Wonder... Place in the Sun

Like a long lonely stream
I keep runnin' towardas a dream
Movin' on, movin' on
Like a branch on a tree
I keep reachin' to be free
Movin' on, movin' on.

'Cause there's a place in the sun
Where there's hope for ev'ryone
Where my poor restless heart's gotta run.
There's a place in the sun
And before my life is done
Got to find me a place in the sun.

Like an old dusty road
I get weary from the load.
Movin' on, movin' on
Like this tired troubled earth
I've been rollin' since my birth
Movin' on, movin' on

'Cause there's a place in the sun
Where there's hope for ev'ryone
Where my poor restless heart's gotta run.
There's a place in the sun
And before my life is done
Got to find me a place in the sun.

my dreams as of late...

As of late, the dreams I've been "experiencing" are becoming more vivid, more memorable, more realistic (in some cases) than anything I have experienced before, and other dreams are so amazingly surreal that it reminds me of paintings I've seen on the walls of museums and on the pages of books that line the walls where I work just layer upon layer of bright yummy colors, melting into each other. Some of my dreams I can smell and feel... this is not too new... it's been so long since I have dreamt like this... and although at times it is more than enjoyable... it can be quite lonely to wake from... even with someone lying next to me.... lonely indeed. Especially when the dreams hold so much more passion, liveliness, joy, a sense of peace, and at times ecstasy filled pleasure for me to experience… more, often, than my waking hours hold (for the most part anyway). But alas, dreams are simply movies in our mind run by the real to real of our soul… and though there may be elements of these dreams that hold a jewel of truth… they all quickly fade once my eyes are open… but still lingering in my gut, my heart, my soul, and my wishes are elements of these dreams that I wish to be true… however absurd or unfitting…