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THE FIRST HIDDEN ARTICLE
OK. This one was easy to find - very easy, as a matter of fact.
It's a policy of ours, however, to always make one hidden article
that is easy to find. The others, we can assure you, will be
harder to find (especially two of them, one of which being the
last one).
This will be a hidden article like the 'old' ones were:
Containing stuff we couldn't put elsewhere in this issue, as well
as some song lyrics.
The first thing I'd like to do is catch up with some song
lyrics. Although we have already published some in earlier
issues, we have skipped the lyrics of one particular song all the
time. This song deserved to be lyricized here nonetheless,
because it is the world's most beautiful ballad ever written:
"Silent Lucidity" by Queensrÿche.
The song with the power to make you cry. The song that grips
your heart. The mother of all ballads.
SILENT LUCIDITY
(Lyrics by Chris DeGarmo)
Hush now, don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over...or has it just begun?
There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realize it and you were scared
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you hear and see
This magic new dimension
I - will be watching over you
I - am gonna help you see it through
I - will protect you in the night
I - am smiling next to you...in Silent Lucidity
If you open your mind to me
You won't rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down, and a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize
Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but...
I - will be watching over you
I - am gonna help you see it through
I - will protect you in the night
I - am smiling next to you...
Beautiful. Beautiful. I would advise anyone to get Queensrÿche's
"Empire" album (as well as Metallica's "Metallica", of course).
It's not all too heavy, and just very good. If you like it, you
can also dig some of their earlier albums which were a bit
heavier.
Another ballad that I would like to confront you with is very
old. As a matter of fact, it was written in the year I was born
by Jimi Hendrix for his album "Axis: Bold as Love". It has been
covered by countless other bands since then, including Sting and
Metallica (though they usually have Kirk Hammett do it
instrumentally).
The lyrics are really beautiful, however.
LITTLE WING
(Jimi Hendrix)
Well, she's walking through the clouds,
With a circus mind that's running wild,
Butterflies and Zebras,
And Moonbeams and fairy tales.
That's all she ever thinks about.
Riding with the wind.
Whem I'm sad, she comes to me,
With a thousand smiles she gives to me free.
It's alright, she says it's alright,
Take anything you want from me,
Anything.
Fly on little wing.
*****
POETRY TIME!
In plain English: Skip the following two pages or try not to
feel sick all of a sudden!
This particular bit was written the day before my first English
test which covers the Introduction to English Literature. After
having read lots of poems and looking outside I felt inspired to
write a little poem you will find below. I have even taken the
trouble of analysing it for you (the styles and literal devices I
used).
Well, here it is.
The sun stands low but shines bright
Autumn shows its growing might
Dead leaves lie silent on the ground
Nature's beauty doth abound
A distinct smell pervades the air
Makes me forget spring fair
The strangely fresh smell of decay
The warmth of the sun is pure
Makes me forget winter's demure
The warming chill finds its way
Earth becomes bright brown and red
Makes me forget green summer's bed
If only it could forever stay
...
When I sat down to write it, I discovered that it is more
difficult to write a poem than you might think. A good poem (in
my eyes) has a certain metre (the rhythm of reading, the way
stressed syllables are intertwined with non-stressed ones) and a
certain rhyme - I only succeeded in the latter I'm afraid.
The rhyme scheme is a-a-b-b-c-c-d-e-e-d-f-f-d for which there is
no name as far as I know. I could have used either Petrarchan or
Shakespaerean sonnet rules, of course, but I do not aspire to
their grandeur (yet).
Further, I tried to implement to other devices: Paradox and
personification. The latter is used in "green summer's bed"
(summer cannot have a bed, of course) and the first is used on
several occasions: "Autumn growing" (autumn is decay), "fresh
smell of decay" (decay only smells fresh when it's because of
leaves in autumn air, but otherwise never) and "warming chill"
(which here refers to the warm feeling of my heart when feeling
the nice chill of autumn).
So far this analysis.
It's a bit crap, actually, don't you agree? I've seen some far
better poems regarding autumn, though. I would not want to
withhold these from you, so...
To Autumn
(by William Blake, 1783)
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
"The narrow bud opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;
Blossoms hang round the brows of morning, and
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest eve,
Till clust'ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head.
"The spirits of the air live on the smells
Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees."
Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat;
Then rose, girded himself, and o'er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.
To Autumn
(by John Keats, September 19th 1819)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For until summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells
Who hath not see thee oft amid thy store
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy took
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, --
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
A chap called James Thompson also wrote a poem about autumn
around 1730, but that's too long for me to duplicate (yet
beautifully majestic).
Before I really quit writing this, however, I would like to
confront you with some song lyrics of Faith No More, a band that
I recently 'discovered' and that is actually very brill (listen
to "The Real Thing" or "Live At Brixton Academy")! They are the
real thing if you ask me - this band instantly got high up in my
personal top five!
SURPRISE! YOU'RE DEAD!
(Faith No More)
Surprise! you're dead!
Ha ha ha! open your eyes
See the world as it used to be when you used to be in it
When you were alive and when you were in love
And when I took it from you!
It's not over yet
You don't remember?
I won't let you forget
The hatred I bestowed
Upon your neck with a fatal blow
From my teeth and my tongue
I've drank and swallowed, but it's just begun
Now you are mine
I'll keep killing you till the end of time
Surprise! you're dead!
Guess what?
It never ends
The pain, the torment and torture, profanity
Nausea, suffering, perversion, calamity
You can't get away
It's not over yet
You don't remember?
I won't let you forget
The hatred I bestowed
Upon your neck with a fatal blow
From my teeth and my tongue
I've drank and swallowed, but it's just begun
Now you are mine
I'll keep killing you till the end of time
Surprise! you're dead!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Surprise! you're dead!
Guess what?
It never ends
It never ever ends
...
So this hidden article turned out not to be that 'standard'
after all...
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