Dakota 24

She's not a girl who misses much
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane

Turn off your mind relax and float downstream
It is not dying
It is not dying

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free

With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living

Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book

You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
You know it's three weeks, I'm going insane
You know I'd give you everything I've got
for a little peace of mind

When I hold you in my arms
And I feel my finger on your trigger
I know that no one can do me no harm
Because

Nobody loves you when you're old and grey
Nobody needs you when you're upside down
Everybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground

So this is Xmas
And what have you done

Comments

[Isaac]

Beatles remixed?

[Kitty]

Wow, this is the best blog entry for Lennon I've seen yet. Outside of the song context, those lyrics are like zen snippets.

[matt rossi]

I remember being a kid and sitting on the couch of my living room, sick to my stomach on an unrelated reason (bad cake, I think) when my mom screamed. That was the first time I'd ever heard of Lennon.