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* Let’s start the day with a song for the governor…

Out of nine lives, I spent seven
Now, how in the world do you get to heaven?
Oh, you don’t know the shape I’m in

posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:03 am

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Save your neck or save your brother
Looks like it’s one or the other
Oh, you dont know the shape I”m in

Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:06 am
Sorry Rezko, I gotta go
I’m governing and gotta to say no
The budget and Madigan are driving me
Now, they are trying to impeach me
Oh, you don’t know the shape I’m in

Comment by keepin up with jones Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:13 am
Well it’s late in the hour,
and a few more grains of sand will fall,
on the colorful flowers grown upon the dust and moss.
Now I fear the worst is near.
I hold them close and count their years.
I pray a ray of light appears,
to shine down on us here.

Break down in the shape of things to come.
But I’m moving on like a soldier.
And I’ll say it now, when all is said and done.
It’s not ours to break the shape of things to come.

There’s a crack in the clouds,
but only for a moment now.
Like an eye looking out,
the blue sky spies the roads we will go down.
I wonder what they hold for us.
I hold my family to my breast.
I fear the worst and hope the best,
will come to see us blessed.

Break down in the shape of things to come.
But I’m moving on like a soldier.
And I’ll say it now, when all is said and done.
It’s not ours to break the shape of things to come.

Given one more try what would I change?
I won’t deny the thought is strange.
I’ve done my best and I will lay no blame,
but on myself.

Break down in the shape of things to come.
But I’m moving on like a soldier.
And I’ll say it now, when all is said and done.
It’s not ours to break the shape of things to come.

The shape of things to come.
The shape of things to come.

Comment by Audioslave Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:23 am
It is good to see ol’Rick Danko again!

Comment by Bill Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:24 am
I prefer I’m all Shook Up. Or Jailhouse Rock. Heartbreak Hotel. Or after the lawyers, In the Getto.

Comment by Maggie Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:33 am
Mike Madigan might start a ruckus,

…better stop there.

Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:37 am
Paraphrasing Lawyers, Guns and Money…

I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Rod, get me out of this

Comment by Plutocrat03 Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:39 am
Pluto-

You forgot the first line-

I was gambling in Las Vegas,

Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:44 am
===I prefer I’m all Shook Up. Or Jailhouse Rock. ===

Too obvious. Plus, I love The Band.

Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:50 am
We gotta get outa this place if it’s the last thing I ever do?

Comment by Lefty Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 7:57 am
This is going to be a great day for the people. He’s going to balance the budget. Then he’s going to create a 1/2 million jobs. Just watch.

Comment by The 'Broken Heart' of Rogers Park Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:01 am
Has anybody seen my [pardon]
This livin’ [in fear] will drive you crazy
Oh, you don’t know the shape I’m in

I’m gonna go down to the river
But I ain’t gonna jump in no no
I’ll just be looking for my [pardon]

Comment by Ghost Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:09 am
TBHORP, that’s it in a nutshell! As Rich said, “the sheer gall.” (Or something like that.)

Comment by Ahem Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:13 am
Good choice Rich - I love the Band too.

Comment by HoBoSkillet Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:16 am
How about the old CCR song:

I see a bad moon a-rising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earth quakes and lightnin’.
I see bad times today.

Comment by Nowhere Man Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:20 am
Nothing like The Band to start off a great day. The Last Waltz was a Classic!!

Comment by He Makes Ryan Look Like a Saint Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:24 am
King Crimson:
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying

Comment by Excessively rabid Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:25 am
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But Im running behind

Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I dont know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, thatll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave

Comment by trafficmatt Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:30 am
There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief

No reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I we’ve been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour’s getting late

Comment by ZC Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:32 am
Wow, what a cool post. Anytime I can start my day with the band and other cool poetry to boot is an up day. Thanks Rich.

Comment by Garp Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 8:35 am
You’re holding the rope
and I’m taking the fall
‘Cause I’m a loser,
I’m a loser.

Loser - 3 Doors Down

Comment by so-called "Austin Mayor" Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 9:00 am
So I took blah-blahs word for it at this time
I thought just havin a friend couldnt be no crime
cause I have friends and thats a fact
Like agnes, agatha, germaine, and jacq
Forget about that, lets go into the story
About a [donor] named blah-blah-blah that adored me
So we started talkin’, gettin’ familiar
Spendin’ a lot of time so we can build up
A relationship or some understanding
How its gonna be in the future we was plannin’
Everything sounded so dandy and sweet
I had no idea I was in for a treat ***

You, you got what I need but you say he’s just a friend
And you say he’s just a friend,
Oh Baby
You, you got what I need but you say he’s just a friend
But you say he’s just a friend,
Oh Baby
You, you got what I need but you say he’s just a friend
But you say he’s just a friend

Just A Friend - Biz Markie

Comment by so-called "Austin Mayor" Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 9:07 am
Yeah, Bill, I really miss Danko. He was really something.

Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 11:29 am
Bill has surfaced! You see us shiver, with antici……….

Comment by Frank N. Furter, M.D. Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 12:15 pm
I remember Tim Johnson and his intermural fist fight with Dwight.

Comment by Agent 99 Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 10:19 pm
Just had to say, perfect song… perfect Band.

Comment by Heartless Libertarian Thursday, Jun 5, 08 @ 11:41 pm