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Too Bad
Never done dope,
Never smoked cigs when I wasn't supposed to,
Never tried to drink on a dark road with a bonfire at my back.
Sit at home and listen to fast music,
Feeling my blood pump to the beat of
Sex
Drugs
and
Rock
and
Roll
Always the good girl, dreaming bad dreams
Wanting to wear the bra and
Scream along with the real fans
Pumping a fist in the air and coming out hoarse,
instead I play solitaire and turn the speakers as loud as they can go
only as high as 11.
pretending I'm the girl in the songs who traveled 160 miles
to sleep with the band.
Living?
Who knows '
But listening '
I want so bad to be that girl all the good girls
wish they could be.
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Comment by: digs Online- 2007-05-30 08:24
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| Loved this, Meleina. Full of rich twists and turns. |
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This is great. Could be a teenage girl, or a woman reaching mid-life with a lot of regrets--more likely the former. Good Job!
-Jeff |
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Comment by: abnich - 2007-04-02 13:34
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Every girl wants a little rebellion in their life it seems, but girls tend to just be too afraid to disobey their parents. It always seems to be more difficult to be both a poet and a 'good girl' because parents can be too restrictive, and a lack of perspective causes some limitations in their work. But from what I've seen here you obviously know enough about what goes on that you could substitute it for being there.
I think the most brilliant line of the piece was 'Living? Who knows..." |
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This is great.
Wonderful chanting at the start:
"Never done dope,
Never smoked cigs when I wasnâ??t supposed to,
Never tried to drink on a dark road with a bonfire at my back."
It's sad but also very visual.
i can vividly see everything you dream about as you stay home, cranking your stereo to 11 (love that!).
It's sad how "good girl" becomes such a bad label in many Western Countries. How being YOURSELF isn't right. How the collective
tries to confine us all into neat little boxes, attemtping
to force the norm. Egads! |
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Comment by: PANDORA - 2007-02-14 21:21
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The battle of the good and bad we all have in ourselves. I know it is a constant battle for me.
Sometimes I fake the sweet but I am really being a iittle devil :)
Great write from start to finish,** |
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