The Lurker Radio (o que se ouve p´ra lá de Bagdá)

Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell
Disco: Ladies of the Canyon (04/1970)

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

The Lurker Says: "You don't know what you've got till it's gone"

The Lurker and the happy life of middle management (ou vida de pedreiro)

Um velho pedreiro que construía casas estava pronto para se aposentar.

Ele informou o chefe do seu desejo de se aposentar e passar mais tempo com a sua família. Ele ainda disse que sentiria falta do salário, mas realmente queria se aposentar.

A empresa não seria muito afetada pela saída do pedreiro mas o chefe estava triste em ver um bom funcionário partindo e ele pediu ao pedreiro para trabalhar em mais um projeto como um favor. O pedreiro não gostou mas acabou concordando. Foi fácil ver que ele não estava entusiasmado com a idéia.

Assim ele prosseguiu fazendo um trabalho de segunda qualidade e usando materiais inadequados. Foi uma maneira negativa dele terminar a carreira.

Quando o pedreiro acabou, o chefe veio fazer a inspeção da casa construída. Depois deu a chave da casa ao pedreiro e disse:

"Esta é a sua casa. Ela é o meu presente para você".

O pedreiro ficou muito surpreso. Se ele soubesse que estava construindo sua própria casa, teria feito tudo diferente....

Construímos nossa vida um dia de cada vez e muitas vezes fazendo menos que o melhor possível na sua construção. Depois, com surpresa, nós descobrimos que precisamos viver na casa que construímos. Se pudéssemos fazer de novo, faríamos diferente.

The lurker says: Vanitas, vanitatum et omnia vanitas.

The Lurker Radio

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)

Hey, hey, hey ,hey
Ohhh...

Won't you come see about me?
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby

Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out and
Love's strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on

Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down

Will you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ohhhh.....

Don't you try to pretend
It's my feeling we'll win in the end
I won't harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and security

Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Going to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
When you walk away

Or will you walk away?
Will you walk on by?
Come on - call my name
Will you call my name?

I say : La la la...

The Lurker says: will you walk away?