Take all that you have
Burn it slowly just to stay warm
Please just shield your eyes
Save your baby blues

She held it in her arms
Like a lover she was missing
Laid down on the tracks
and the whistle blew

Her family broke apart
Sometime in that cold December
Mother lost her mind
When she heard the news

He drank himself to death
Stuck on all that she was missing
They found him on his back
When the whistle blew.

I can barely move
I can barely see where we're going now
The road is washed out from the river that flooded just north of town
We stick to the plan we laid out, but we know the saying
The best plans can go terribly wrong
And probably will, so please
Nobody speaks, nobody get any smart ideas
If we don't have any heroics we may just get out of here
And home to your families by dinner time safely and soundly sleeping
Cause we don't want trouble, we'll take what we came for and we'll leave quietly
Or maybe we will tear you up, take what you love, and burn it down.

Nobody moves, nobody moves and no one gets hurt
Nobody opens their mouth and we have nothing to worry about
We'll keep you alive cause we always need bargaining chips
For your lives, we will trade
Weighing the cost of the love you make
Make it again
Feeling the weight of the bones you break
Break them again.

You still can change.

If you wont accept anyone's pity
then you have no room to pity yourself.
You're a good kid.
Don't let it waste away.





Sometimes I wish I could take my own advice.

Josh Uncovers A Government Conspiracy.

Ok so maybe not a conspiracy, but something isn't right.
So on the bus today (this was all but an hour ago) it was way too crowded and a bit uncomfortable, so I decided to get off a few stops early and just walk to school. Upon doing this I passed the main Louisville library. Now about a month or so ago we had this "flood" if you live in Louisville you know about it, if you don't, well, it rained a lot, then the rain didn't go away, you know, the normal flood situation. Well the Library was one of the buildings affected.

One month or more later, the Library is still not fixed and up to 100%, yet everything else in Louisville is ok, even the buildings surrounding the Library, it's like nothing ever happened. Although this confused me a bit, I never really thought twice about it. Until today of course.

I was walking a long 4th street to school and saw a lot of construction workers standing around outside, one of them asked me for a smoke, I told him I didn't have any, then I asked what exactly they are doing to the Library. The guy looked and me and said honestly he doesn't know, the were assigned to cut out a bunch of metal from the building. Then he told me they started around 6 this morning and soon realized there was nothing wrong with the metal, the building is structurally fine, and that this whole operation is not even needed.

I was a bit amazed by this, but didn't think too much into it, until I was about a block away. We are in a recession, at least that is what the news is telling me, why use money we don't have to do something we don't need?

So, I'm at school now and decided to google this stuff. Turns out local governments (like our Louisville Metro) get grants from a higher office when doing reconstruction to buildings of importance, like our libraries, hospitals, police stations, and things of the sort. So to me, this sounds like just a way to get money.
The funny thing is, this is right around the time when we'll lose our beloved "mayor for life" because he is running as lieutenant governor in 2010.

Is it just me, or does this seem like some kind of scheme to raise money for his campaign coming up?

Maybe I'm looking to deep into this, but regardless something isn't right, when the library is probably the only building from the flood still having constant construction to it, when it wasn't even in a highly flooded area to begin with. Granted books may have gotten wet, and the carpet may need replacement, but no other building that I know of, or can find on handy dandy google, even had that bad of structural damage. Something just seems off here.

I need to go to class.

Moving parking cones into the middle of the street and watching all the unhappy motorist cuss and turn their cars around is a very fun way to spend a Tuesday night.