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- @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZTHE AMERICAN NIGHT - AN AMERICAN PRAYER
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- - JIM MORRISON -
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- static const char Prayer[] =
- {
- "Do you know the warm progress\n"
- " under the stars?\n"
- "Do you know we exist?\n"
- "Have you forgotten the keys\n"
- " to the Kingdom?\n"
- "Have you been borne yet\n"
- " & are you alive?\n\n"
- "Let`s reinvent the gods, all the myths\n"
- " of the ages\n"
- "Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests\n"
- "[Have you forgotten the lessons\n"
- " of the ancient war]\n\n"
- "We need great golden copulations\n\n"
- "The fathers are cackling in trees of the forest\n"
- "Our mother is dead in the sea\n\n"
- "Do you know we are being led to\n"
- " slaughters by placid admirals\n"
- "& that fat slow generals are getting\n"
- " obscene on young blood\n\n"
- "Do you know we are ruled by T.V.\n"
- "The moon is a dry blood beast\n"
- "Guerrilla bands are rolling numbers\n"
- " in the next block of green vine\n"
- "amassing for warfare on innocent\n"
- "herdsmen\n"
- " who are just dying\n\n"
- "O great creator of being\n"
- "grant us one more hour to\n"
- " perform our art\n"
- " & perfect our lives\n\n"
- "The moths & atheists are doubly divine\n"
- " & dying\n"
- "We live, we die\n"
- "& death not ends it\n"
- "Journey we more into the\n"
- " Nightmare\n"
- "Cling to life\n"
- " our passion`d flower\n"
- "Cling to cunts & cocks\n"
- " of despair\n"
- "We got our final vision\n"
- " by clap\n"
- "Columbus` groin got\n"
- " filled w/green death\n\n"
- " (I touched her thigh\n"
- " & death smiled)\n\n"
- "We have assembled inside this ancient\n"
- " & insane theatre\n"
- "To propagate our lust for life\n"
- " & flee the swarming wisdom\n"
- " of the streets\n"
- "The barns are stormed\n"
- "The windows kept\n"
- "& only one of all the rest\n"
- "To dance & save us\n"
- "W/the divine mockery\n"
- " of words\n"
- "Music inflames temperament\n\n"
- " (When the true King`s murderers\n"
- " are allowed to roam free\n"
- " a 1000 Magicians arise\n"
- " in the land)\n\n"
- "Where are the feasts\n"
- " we were promised\n"
- "Where is the wine\n"
- " The New Wine\n"
- " (dying on the vine)\n\n"
- "resident mockery\n"
- "give us an hour for magic\n"
- "we of the purple glove\n"
- "We of the starling flight\n"
- "& velvet hour\n"
- "We of arabic pleasure`s breed\n"
- "We of sundome & the night\n\n"
- "Give us a creed\n"
- "To believe\n"
- "A night of Lust\n"
- "Give us trust in\n"
- "The Night\n\n"
- "Give of color\n"
- "hundred hues\n"
- "a rich Mandala\n"
- "for me & you\n\n"
- "& for your silky\n"
- "pillowed house\n"
- "a head, wisdom\n"
- "& a bed\n\n"
- "Troubled decree\n"
- "Resident mockery\n"
- "has claimed thee\n\n"
- "We used to believe\n"
- "in the good old days\n\n"
- "We still recieve\n"
- "In little ways\n\n"
- "The Things of Kindness\n"
- "& unsporting brow\n"
- "Forget and allow\n\n"
- "Did you know freedom exists\n"
- " in a school book\n"
- "Did you know madmen are\n"
- " running our prison\n"
- "w/in a jail, w/in a goal\n"
- "w/in a white free protestant\n"
- "Maelstrom\n\n"
- "We`re perched headlong\n"
- " on the edge of boredom\n"
- "We`re reaching for death\n"
- " on the end of the candle\n"
- "We`re trying for something\n"
- " That`s already found us\n\n"
- "We can invent Kindoms of our own\n"
- "grand purple thrones, those chairs of lust\n"
- "& love we must, in beds of rust\n\n"
- "Steel doors lock in prisoner`s screams\n"
- "& muzak, AM, rocks their dreams\n"
- "No black men`s pride to hoist the beams\n"
- "while mocking angels swift what seems\n\n"
- "To be a collage of magazine dust\n"
- "Scratched on foreheads of walls of trust\n"
- "This is just jail for those who must\n"
- "get up in the morning & fight for such\n\n"
- "unusable standards\n"
- "while weeping maidens\n"
- "show-off penury & pout\n"
- "ravings for a mad\n"
- "staff\n\n"
- "Wow, I`m sick of doubt\n"
- "Live in the light of certain\n"
- "South\n\n"
- "Cruel bindings\n"
- "The servants have the power\n"
- "dog-men & their mean woman\n"
- "pulling poor blankets over\n"
- "our sailors\n"
- "(& where were you in our\n"
- " lean hour)\n"
- "Milking your moustache?\n"
- "or grinding a flower?\n"
- "I`m sick of dour faces\n"
- "Staring at me from the T.V.\n"
- "Tower. I want roses in\n"
- "my garden bower; dig?\n"
- "Royal babies, rubies\n"
- "must now replace aborted\n"
- "Strangers in the mud\n"
- "These mutants, blood-meal\n"
- "for the plant that`s plowed\n\n"
- "They are waiting to take us into\n"
- " the severed garden\n"
- "Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful\n"
- " comes death on a strange hour\n"
- " unannounced, unplanned for\n"
- "like a scaring over-friendly guest you`ve\n"
- " brought to bed\n"
- "Death makes angels of us all\n"
- " & gives us wings\n"
- "where we had shoulders\n"
- " smooth as raven`s\n"
- " claws\n\n"
- "No more money, no more fancy dress\n"
- "This other Kingdom seems by far the best\n"
- "until its other jaw reveals incest\n"
- " loose obedience to a vegetable law\n\n"
- "I will not go\n"
- "Prefer a Feast of Friends\n"
- "To the Giant family\n\n"
- "\033cII\n\n"
- "Great screaming Christ\n"
- "Upsy-daisy\n"
- "Lazy Mary will you get up\n"
- "upon a Sunday morning\n\n"
- "'The movie will begin in 5 moments'\n"
- "The mindless Voice announced\n"
- "'All those unseathed, will await\n"
- "The next show'\n\n"
- "We filed slowly, languidly\n"
- "into the hall. The auditorium\n"
- "was vast, & silent.\n"
- "As we seated & were darkened\n"
- "The Voice continued:\n\n"
- "'The program for this evening\n"
- "is not new. You have seen\n"
- "This entertainment thru & thru.\n"
- "You`ve seen your birth, your\n"
- "life & death; you might recall\n"
- "all of the rest - (did you\n"
- "have a good world when you\n"
- "died?) - enough to base\n"
- "a movie on?'\n\n"
- "An iron chuckle rapped our\n"
- "minds like a fist.\n\n"
- "I`m getting out of here\n"
- "Where`re you going?\n"
- "To the other side of morning\n"
- "Please don`t chase the clouds\n"
- "pagodas, temples\n\n"
- "Her cunt gripped him\n"
- "like a warm friendly\n"
- "hand.\n\n"
- "'It`s all right.\n"
- "All your friends are here.'\n\n"
- "When can i meet them?\n"
- "'After you`ve eaten'\n"
- "I`m not hungry\n"
- "'O, we meant beaten'\n\n"
- "Silver stream, silvery scream,\n"
- "impossibly concentration\n\n"
- "Here come the comedians\n"
- "look at them smile\n"
- "Watch them dance\n"
- "an indian mile\n\n"
- "Look at them gesture\n"
- "How aplomb\n"
- "So to gesture everyone\n\n"
- "Words dissemble\n"
- "Words be quick\n"
- "Words resemble walking sticks\n\n"
- "Plant them\n"
- "They will grow\n"
- "Watch them waver so\n\n"
- "I`ll always be\n"
- "a word-man\n"
- "Better than a birdman\n\n"
- "But I`ll charge\n"
- "Won`t get away\n"
- "w/out lodging a dollar\n\n"
- "Shall I say it again\n"
- "aloud, you get the point\n"
- "No food w/out fuel`s again\n\n"
- "I`ll be, the irish loud\n"
- "unleased by beak\n"
- "at peak of powers\n\n"
- "O girl, unleash\n"
- "your worried comb\n\n"
- "O worried mind\n\n"
- "Sin in the fallen\n"
- "Blackwoods by the blind\n\n"
- "She smells debt\n"
- "on my new collar\n\n"
- "Arrogant prose\n"
- "Tied in a network of fast quest\n"
- "Hence the obsession\n\n"
- "Its quick to admit\n"
- "Fast borrowed rythm\n"
- "Woman came between them\n\n"
- "Woman of the world unite\n"
- "Make the world safe\n"
- "For a scandalous life\n\n"
- "Hee Heee\n"
- "Cut your throat\n"
- "Life is a joke\n\n"
- "Your wife`s in a moat\n"
- "The same boat\n"
- "Here comes the goat\n\n"
- "Blood Blood Blood Blood\n"
- "They`re making a joke\n"
- "of our universe\n\n"
- "\033cIII\n\n"
- "Matchbox\n"
- "Are you more real than me\n"
- "I`ll burn you, & set you free\n"
- "Wept bitter tears\n"
- "Excessive courtesy\n"
- "I won`t forget\n\n"
- "\033cIV\n\n"
- "A hot sick lava flowed up,\n"
- "Rustling & bubbling.\n"
- "The paper face.\n"
- "Mirror-mask, I love you mirror.\n\n"
- "He had been brainwashed for 4 hrs.\n"
- "The LT. puzzled in again\n"
- " 'ready to talk'\n"
- "'No sir' - was all he`d say.\n"
- " Go back to the gym.\n"
- " Very peaceful\n"
- " Meditation\n\n"
- "Air base in the desert\n"
- "looking out venetian blinds\n"
- "a plane\n"
- "a desert flower\n"
- "cool cartoon\n\n"
- "The rest of the World\n"
- "is reckless & dangerous\n"
- "Look at the\n"
- "brothels\n"
- "Stag films\n"
- "Exploration\n\n"
- "\033cV\n\n"
- "A ship leaves port\n"
- "mean horse of another thicket\n"
- "wishbone of desire\n"
- "decry the metal fox\n"
- };
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