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    <title>Hmmmm</title>
    <link>http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog</link>
    <description>Tribe.net. Local Connections</description>
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      <title>The Man</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/4504cb70-de55-4857-a1fd-2337be00c124</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/4504cb70-de55-4857-a1fd-2337be00c124"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/e38/ec6/e38ec69b-ce5f-4fc0-a6b9-b8f15404b20f.thumb" width="51" height="78" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;What you’re doing isn’t what you dreamed of.  Those dreams have gotten displaced.&#xD;
Where you are isn’t where you were going.  Now your time’s gone to waste.&#xD;
Who you are isn’t who you are being.  That person’s being subdued.&#xD;
What’s effects everything in this world now…has cast its shadow on you.&#xD;
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And you struggle and sigh cause you don’t like the life that’s been dealt you.&#xD;
Think the world could be better, but you don’t know what it is that you can do.&#xD;
&#xD;
Don’t let the man tell you what is what.&#xD;
Say you’re someone, he’ll try and tell you your not.&#xD;
Trust him to guide you and your life will go nowhere.&#xD;
He wants to keep you close at hand.&#xD;
Makes you his possession and he is the man.&#xD;
Live for his purpose, so shocked he doesn’t play fair.&#xD;
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You know you’re making some dreams come true…just not for yourself.&#xD;
Half the time you’ve spent living this life…benefited someone else.&#xD;
What started as a tool in life… has opened into a hell.&#xD;
Running yourself down in an exchange…that just isn’t mutual.&#xD;
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Try to take it in stride but just getting thru life makes you so stressed.&#xD;
Don’t take too much to see what you want isn’t really of their interest.&#xD;
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Don’t let the man tell you what is what.&#xD;
Say your someone, he’ll try and tell you your not.&#xD;
Trust him to guide you and your life will go nowhere.&#xD;
He wants to keep you close at hand.&#xD;
Makes you his possession and he is the man.&#xD;
Live for his purpose, so shocked he doesn’t play fair.&#xD;
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I’ll not be owned by a rich man…nor will I be afraid.&#xD;
Won’t bear that burden my whole damn life…too much a price to be paid.&#xD;
It’s all the difference in life to me…can’t let myself be used.&#xD;
Why spend my life dreaming I had another…with so much I’ve left to do?   No! NO!&#xD;
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Too much struggle inside…don’t have to wonder why I don’t fit in. &#xD;
I know I’m better off…cause something isn’t right with their system.&#xD;
&#xD;
Don’t let the man tell you what is what.&#xD;
Say your someone, he’ll try and tell you your not.&#xD;
Trust him to guide you and your life will go nowhere.&#xD;
He wants to keep you close at hand.&#xD;
Makes you his possession and he is the man.&#xD;
Live for his purpose, so shocked he doesn’t play fair.&#xD;
&#xD;
I may stumble or even fall…I’ll always climb back to my feet.&#xD;
Keep trying till I get it right…you just can’t give up that easy. &#xD;
If we stop relying on the man…a smaller man he would be.&#xD;
We can start to direct our own fate…and life may begin to feel free.&#xD;
Life just may begin to feel free! &#xD;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:29:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pamelaq</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-16T05:29:57Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Balance</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/3888952b-e699-4790-8972-beb39b0bc05a</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/3888952b-e699-4790-8972-beb39b0bc05a"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/a88/981/a88981bc-19bb-46aa-8c85-bfcc48fe740a.thumb" width="65" height="48" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;(said)&#xD;
Life in balance&#xD;
Clarity of mind&#xD;
Heightened sensation&#xD;
Perception refined&#xD;
&#xD;
Lucidly attuned&#xD;
Receptive, retaining&#xD;
Drinking every nuance&#xD;
Finding value and meaning&#xD;
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(sung)&#xD;
The greatest potential of humankind&#xD;
Blossoms in the refuge of peace of mind&#xD;
&#xD;
(inside parenthesis from here on is said rather than sung)&#xD;
We are inflicted...&#xD;
                    (Life in balance)&#xD;
A sick society,&#xD;
Too damn conflicted...&#xD;
                    (Clarity of mind)&#xD;
And we don't get what we need.&#xD;
Blugeoned, unwitted...&#xD;
                    (Heightened sensations)&#xD;
Tired from the siege,&#xD;
life complicated...&#xD;
                    (Perception refined)&#xD;
Don't know what to believe.&#xD;
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In a world filled with suffrage and strife...&#xD;
                                 (Lucidly attuned, receptive, retaining)&#xD;
What have we left to cherish in our lives? &#xD;
                                 (Drinking every nuance, finding value and meaning)&#xD;
&#xD;
The greatest potential of humankind&#xD;
Blossoms in the refuge of peace of mind.&#xD;
Balance in life nurtures whats living inside.&#xD;
Find yourself there, the rest falls in line.&#xD;
&#xD;
Willfully engaging&#xD;
Open and limitless&#xD;
A newborn state of being&#xD;
A higher consiousness&#xD;
&#xD;
Appreciation deepens&#xD;
Elation swells inside&#xD;
So high from the vibration&#xD;
Desire to spread the light&#xD;
&#xD;
The greatest potential of humankind&#xD;
Blossoms in the refuge of peace of mind.&#xD;
Balance in life nurtures whats living inside.&#xD;
Find yourself there, the rest falls in line.&#xD;
&#xD;
Wave of inspiration &#xD;
Dreams start to manifest&#xD;
Effective good intention&#xD;
Collective vision quest&#xD;
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Where once was desperation&#xD;
Hope thrives and heals the heart&#xD;
Strength to heal the word around us&#xD;
Of which we're all a part&#xD;
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Life turns into art&#xD;
&#xD;
The greatest potential of humankind&#xD;
Blossoms in the refuge of peace of mind.&#xD;
Balance in life nurtures whats living inside.&#xD;
Find yourself there, the rest falls in line.&#xD;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:29:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pamelaq</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-12-13T16:29:17Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Religion</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/d7440240-1127-4cf0-88b1-c7577750da53</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/d7440240-1127-4cf0-88b1-c7577750da53"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/df5/235/df523527-55e8-4b2e-8b79-7a3983092e48.thumb" width="65" height="17" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;&#xD;
God never asked for your religion &#xD;
She just meant to bless your life &#xD;
With some basic rules for guidance &#xD;
Away from hardship and strife &#xD;
Her words have been abused and twisted &#xD;
For the agenda of a few &#xD;
Portrayed as jealous and spiteful &#xD;
To manipulate you &#xD;
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God never asked for your religion &#xD;
You are not required to give him praise &#xD;
And if you use the mind he gave you &#xD;
You won't be judged for lack of faith &#xD;
He didn't make you in his image &#xD;
That's a human vanity &#xD;
Born from a human ego &#xD;
To satisfy his needs &#xD;
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Tread lightly sons and daughters&#xD;
Lightly woman and man&#xD;
God's wisdom's more than anyone&#xD;
Could ever completely understand&#xD;
Stay humble and remember&#xD;
You'll be held to what you do&#xD;
It's your relationship with your God&#xD;
And not your point of view.&#xD;
&#xD;
God never asked for your religion &#xD;
And she never told you to &#xD;
Have hatred for others &#xD;
Who do not see her as you do &#xD;
To devalue another's life &#xD;
Or be cruel in her name &#xD;
Take retribution for her &#xD;
And you'll be judged the same &#xD;
&#xD;
God never asked for your religion &#xD;
That concept's from the minds of men &#xD;
Interpreted and expanded &#xD;
With poetic license &#xD;
You say the bible is the word of God &#xD;
Part of his master plan &#xD;
I find it hard to take verbatim &#xD;
Written by the hand of man &#xD;
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Tread lightly sons and daughters&#xD;
Lightly woman and man&#xD;
God's wisdom's more than anyone&#xD;
Could ever completely understand&#xD;
Stay humble and remember&#xD;
You'll be held to what you do&#xD;
It's your relationship with your God&#xD;
And not your point of view.&#xD;
&#xD;
God never asked for your religion &#xD;
And she really thinks it's time &#xD;
You practiced what you preach &#xD;
And keep yourself in line &#xD;
Leave judgment to the higher power &#xD;
Cause your the one committing sin &#xD;
Her rules aren't for you to judge others &#xD;
But to judge yourself  within &#xD;
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Tread lightly sons and daughters&#xD;
Lightly woman and man&#xD;
God's wisdom's more than anyone&#xD;
Could ever completely understand&#xD;
Stay humble and remember&#xD;
You'll be held to what you do&#xD;
It's your relationship with your God&#xD;
And not your point of view.&#xD;
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God never asked for your religion &#xD;
Oh, but spirituality &#xD;
Is a guiding light in your dark hour &#xD;
To find the happiness you seek&#xD;
Spirituality -yea!  Spirituality!&#xD;
I don't need your religion to guide me...&#xD;
I've got spirituality.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:41:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pamelaq</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-15T16:41:39Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Our true nature is to be creators -now get started.</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/33f646ac-4b46-490c-bfaa-b458c431ad42</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/33f646ac-4b46-490c-bfaa-b458c431ad42"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/86a/beb/86abebd1-0098-44ac-ae71-6c8e889d4f8b.thumb" width="65" height="36" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;Doesn't help to look at life as something you can't change.&#xD;
Doesn't help to reject new things as trivial or strange.&#xD;
Doesn't take a genius to know the world's in troubled days.	   &#xD;
Doesn't help to pretend that life can still go on this way.	&#xD;
   &#xD;
You can ignore the problem, but it will not change your fate.&#xD;
You can hope someone will fix it for you and that they don't come too late.		&#xD;
You can add to the destruction and hope more pain will set you free				   &#xD;
You can repeat history til it kills you -but not me!    Not me!!  Yea!!!				   &#xD;
		   &#xD;
I am -a creator!  	&#xD;
We are creators!			   &#xD;
		   	   &#xD;
Well I make music, beauty, love, and art,	   &#xD;
Within creation's splendour -explored the reaches of my heart.	   &#xD;
I have created answers to the problems that have plagued me	   &#xD;
And with belief's persistence created  way to be...Yea!	   &#xD;
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Creation gives you wisdom -a spirituality,&#xD;
An homage to your higher power -no matter what your faith may be.			&#xD;
No purer way to live a life in the things we say and do-&#xD;
A cretor -in the image o what created you! .....Yeah!	&#xD;
			   &#xD;
I am -a creator!  &#xD;
We are -creators!			&#xD;
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When in the grip of despiration -counter with belief.&#xD;
Takes more than to just end a conflict -you've got to create peace.				   &#xD;
Can't answer hate with hatred -because it only breeds.&#xD;
Can't end destruction with destruction -only creation sews that seed!			&#xD;
	   &#xD;
Create a positive inlfuence -where there's negtivity!&#xD;
Create solutions -where there's overwheling need!&#xD;
Create resistance -where opression threatens fate!&#xD;
Most of all -create love when in the face of hate!	&#xD;
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We are -creators!  &#xD;
We are  -crea -to -oh -ors!			&#xD;
	   &#xD;
We can create true freedom!  We can create our fate!   &#xD;
There is not a situation -we cannot create!	&#xD;
We can create our future!  Listen to what I say!	&#xD;
Creation is a living power and we will create  way!&#xD;
We will create a way!				 &#xD;
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We are -creators!  We are creators!		&#xD;
We are -creators!  We are creat -oh -oh -ors!				 &#xD;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 15:06:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pamelaq</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-05-02T15:06:51Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>FEAR and PRIDE</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/9c7a42bd-e698-436d-9548-bbd93e11d66a</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/9c7a42bd-e698-436d-9548-bbd93e11d66a"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/f4f/223/f4f223a6-14b7-4edb-964a-79f979c1e764.thumb" width="65" height="57" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;Always talking about your job, the one you say you hate.&#xD;
Your time’s given to values to which you can’t relate.&#xD;
You wonder how you let your life get in such a sorry state.&#xD;
But uncertainty seems scarier than a mediocre fate.&#xD;
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Been told all your life that your country is the best,&#xD;
Your wrong from right, your way of life is never second guessed.&#xD;
So damn anxious to call yourself better than the rest,&#xD;
You can’t admit that in your name the world’s been made a mess.&#xD;
&#xD;
Must be talkin bout –Fear….and Pride&#xD;
Has got it’s hand on your life.&#xD;
Living your life in –Fear and Pride&#xD;
Sho takin you for a ride&#xD;
Living your life in –Fear&#xD;
&#xD;
So you’ve got the right to hate someone cause they don’t act like you do.&#xD;
They have a different God, How they like sex seems odd –did you even think it though?&#xD;
Won’t contemplate that this tirate leaves you slightly more than screwed,&#xD;
When it aint hurtin nobody –why even bother –when it’s only about you?&#xD;
&#xD;
You say the muslim man and you can’t live side by side,&#xD;
Cause he’s diametrically opposed to the way you live your life.&#xD;
Can’t see this image for what it is –manipulation and lies.&#xD;
Put out there to confuse you and keep your mind occupied.&#xD;
&#xD;
Must be talkin bout –Fear….and Pride&#xD;
Has got it’s hand on your life.&#xD;
Living your life in –Fear and Pride&#xD;
Sho takin you for a ride.&#xD;
Living your life in –Fear&#xD;
&#xD;
Your pretty sho what you think you know –or at least so you’ve been told.&#xD;
Tossin words round, wanna hold your ground, but the story’s tired and old.&#xD;
Won’t be so great when it’s too late &amp;amp; your life’s been bought and sold.&#xD;
Your fear and pride has you compromised and your left out in the cold.&#xD;
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Must be talkin bout –Fear….and Pride&#xD;
Has got it’s hand on your life.&#xD;
Living your life in –Fear and Pride&#xD;
Sho takin you for a ride.&#xD;
Living your life in –Fear&#xD;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:42:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pamelaq</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2006-07-23T17:42:46Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Your Destiny</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/dc8b9ee0-c3e5-409e-9238-f2a7ebc5b2c5</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/dc8b9ee0-c3e5-409e-9238-f2a7ebc5b2c5"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/f1d/dd3/f1ddd331-e521-4613-ad1b-276288f2b025.thumb" width="65" height="64" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;Preacher, Preacher out there teaching the golden rule&#xD;
Teacher, teacher busy passin the word on too&#xD;
Will your life have meaning in a world that's screwed?&#xD;
Tellin you, now more than ever it's up to you&#xD;
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Crazy people comondeering your life for greed&#xD;
Blood and warfare over an obsessive need&#xD;
Poisoning our life source poisons us too&#xD;
How can you pretend there’s no effect on you? &#xD;
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Control your destiny............or someone else will&#xD;
Control your destiny or someone else will&#xD;
You better control your destiny...........or someone else will...&#xD;
Control your destiny... &#xD;
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Runin around pretending you don't have to care&#xD;
Looking for comfort, surprised there isn't comfort there&#xD;
Waitin for someone to save your life so displaced&#xD;
Your life's in your own hands, and life is interlaced &#xD;
&#xD;
Control your destiny ...or someone else will&#xD;
Control your destiny or someone else will&#xD;
You better control your destiny...or someone else will...&#xD;
Control your destiny&#xD;
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Far as I know in life you only get one chance&#xD;
Your life's potential is the consequence&#xD;
Don’t let your prescious world be wasted for someone else’s cheap thrill&#xD;
You better control your destiny or someone else will&#xD;
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Control your destiny...........or someone else will&#xD;
Control your destiny or someone else will&#xD;
You better control your destiny...........or someone else will...&#xD;
Control your destiny &#xD;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2005 16:19:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pamelaq</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2005-08-06T16:19:22Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Disposable People</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/03d38629-0876-4c2b-9637-16a07a0efd55</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/03d38629-0876-4c2b-9637-16a07a0efd55"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/2b4/2b7/2b42b746-bac0-4ecd-a7a4-749a34d8b738.thumb" width="65" height="65" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;When I was a young girl&#xD;
I did not understand&#xD;
I was already being thought of as a resource&#xD;
In somebody else's plan&#xD;
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You know the rich man wants to put me to work&#xD;
So he can reap my reward&#xD;
The woman wants to sneak behind my back&#xD;
So she can be my man's whore&#xD;
The politician wants to keep me in line&#xD;
So I can work for him the best&#xD;
The con man wan'ts to sell me some fake dreams&#xD;
So he can take the rest&#xD;
&#xD;
But I say...&#xD;
We're not disposable people&#xD;
My life is not throw away&#xD;
Your motive's selfish and evil&#xD;
If you're tryin to use up a part of me&#xD;
&#xD;
Now that I'm older I still have my dreams&#xD;
Some old and now some new&#xD;
And life's experience has afforded me wisdom&#xD;
And clarified my view&#xD;
&#xD;
Because government is just another word for big business&#xD;
I'ts money resource is you&#xD;
And the taxman don't give a damn about freedom&#xD;
When the bill is due&#xD;
And that lover man, he'll fade out after a while&#xD;
gets his kicks then move on&#xD;
It seems like every man wants to jerk off in my body&#xD;
cum and then then be gone&#xD;
&#xD;
But I say...&#xD;
We're not disposable people&#xD;
My life is not throw away&#xD;
Your motive's selfish and evil&#xD;
If you're tryin to use up a part of me&#xD;
&#xD;
If you've dreamed you're life different from this picture&#xD;
You want to write a different page&#xD;
If we don't start placing value on each other&#xD;
It aint ever gonna change&#xD;
&#xD;
Because respect is the only answer to avoiding extinction&#xD;
I said respect is the only answer to avoiding extinction&#xD;
&#xD;
We're not disposable people&#xD;
My life is not throw away&#xD;
Your motive's selfish and evil&#xD;
If you're tryin to use up a part of me&#xD;
&#xD;
This aint a world of disposable people&#xD;
We live and we love and we hurt and we bleed&#xD;
If you live your life through using people&#xD;
You're putting your want in front of our need&#xD;
I'm standing up for all this worlds people&#xD;
Not here to be used and then just fade away&#xD;
We'll no longer tolerate your kind of evil&#xD;
We're making a stand, Yea it ends here today&#xD;
&#xD;
We're not disposable people&#xD;
My life is not throw away&#xD;
Your motive's selfish and evil&#xD;
If you're tryin to use up a part of me&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 01:35:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pamelaq</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2005-06-17T01:35:59Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Change</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/8a594ca5-096e-4984-9bf8-a3556a42ce8b</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/pamelaq/blog/8a594ca5-096e-4984-9bf8-a3556a42ce8b"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/4e8/249/4e8249d5-87d5-43a2-b644-5c245d7efd5c.thumb" width="65" height="65" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;All my life I tried to live like &#xD;
People told me to&#xD;
I didn't trust my instincts&#xD;
Or what I wanted to do&#xD;
I listened to the fools&#xD;
when they told me&#xD;
Girl you dream too loud&#xD;
I followed in the rut&#xD;
 they paved for me&#xD;
hoping it would work out&#xD;
&#xD;
Years pased by and I got tired&#xD;
Nothing seemed to change&#xD;
I watched the same fools &#xD;
who would mold my life&#xD;
Act through selfishness and rage&#xD;
Then I realized I'd&#xD;
grow old and die still&#xD;
Waiting for my turn&#xD;
I took a good look inside myself&#xD;
This is what I learned&#xD;
&#xD;
You can only be told lies for so long &#xD;
Before you just have to trust yourself&#xD;
You can only be led for so long &#xD;
Before you decide to lead yourself&#xD;
You can stand by and watch for so long&#xD;
Before you have to stand up for what is true&#xD;
the lesson's impact is lifelong&#xD;
The only one you can trust to bring change is you&#xD;
&#xD;
Aint it funny how nobody&#xD;
seems to recognize&#xD;
what feels right for themself&#xD;
fear demands reassurance&#xD;
it also justifies&#xD;
It puzzles me&#xD;
how we'd rather listen&#xD;
to the ideas of someone else&#xD;
it leaves us victim to usery&#xD;
Because we didn't trust ourselves&#xD;
&#xD;
Or just maybe we're too lazy&#xD;
to take back control&#xD;
seems too big a task&#xD;
programmed to accept last&#xD;
and a life that can't feel whole&#xD;
With so much unjust&#xD;
how can we trust&#xD;
their claims that this is the best way&#xD;
When in your gut you know its not&#xD;
you don't believe what they say&#xD;
&#xD;
You can only be told lies for so long &#xD;
Before you just have to trust yourself&#xD;
You can only be led for so long &#xD;
Before you decide to lead yourself&#xD;
You can stand by and watch for so long&#xD;
Before you have to stand up for what is true&#xD;
the lesson's impact is lifelong&#xD;
The only one you can trust to bring change is you&#xD;
&#xD;
trust yourself to really hear this&#xD;
then you can decide&#xD;
life's new meaning is greed&#xD;
Were ruled and bullied&#xD;
Into living for a lie&#xD;
It has come to a place&#xD;
where theres such careless waste&#xD;
If we don't try to transcend &#xD;
this world that values want&#xD;
and makes a world of need&#xD;
We can't avoid its bitter end&#xD;
&#xD;
You can only be told lies for so long &#xD;
Before you just have to trust yourself&#xD;
You can only be led for so long &#xD;
Before you decide to lead yourself&#xD;
You can stand by and watch for so long&#xD;
Before you have to stand up for what you know to be true&#xD;
the lesson's impact is lifelong&#xD;
The only one you can trust to bring change is you&#xD;
&#xD;
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