Soulful poetry, sounds from Adam Duritz

I have always loved Counting Crows, and this song is soulful - you need to get this song!

GOOD TIME from the album HARD CANDY

by Adam Duritz

The gentleman caller in the blue suede shoes
He don't know what to do

He just wants to look good for you

So he rushes in to tell you what he did today

But he can't think of what to sayI think you listen anyway

He wants to have a good time just like everybody

He doesn't want to fall apart

You watch him as he stutters over what to say

It's just a little game you play

It's no easier for you some days

You wish you could tell him it'll be okay

But you feel a little shy these days

Cause everybody goes away

You just want to have a good time

Just like everybody else

You don't want to fall apart this time
I can look into your eyes and see the mess we're in

Well darling, if it's shit came out

Then I suppose that it's shit went in

Even though I couldn't say I've been the places that you've been

You know he made my heart real strong

Even if he made my head real thinI want to have a good time

Just like everybody

And I don't want to fall apart

I just want have a good time

Just like everybody else

And I don't want to fall apart this time

So would you please invite me in

I really love the red haired girls

I'm just another boy from texas

Come on and take a spin

I got a brand new set of wings

Words & Music by Adam F. Duritz Songwriter/Composer DURITZ ADAM FREDRIC PublishersEMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC JONES FALLS MUSIC

Learn from the East; The Dalai Lama

For Americans to understand Eastern thought, we have to tear away what our society and government agenda has taught. Our culture in the US is so different from the East, and based on centuries of behaviors taken from Europe and played out here. His Holiness The Dalai Lama can teach us much, and I have taken a few words from his web site.

"Under present conditions, there is definitely a growing need for human understanding and a sense of universal responsibility. In order to achieve such ideas, we must generate a good and kind heart, for without this, we can achieve neither universal happiness nor lasting world peace. We cannot create peace on paper. While advocating universal responsibility and universal brotherhood and sisterhood, the facts are that humanity is organized in separate entities in the form of national societies.

"Thus, in a realistic sense, I feel it is these societies that must act as the building-blocks for world peace. Attempts have been made in the past to create societies more just and equal. Institutions have been established with noble charters to combat anti-social forces. Unfortunately, such ideas have been cheated by selfishness.

"More than ever before, we witness today how ethics and noble principles are obscured by the shadow of self-interest, particularly in the political sphere. There is a school of thought that warns us to refrain from politics altogether, as politics has become synonymous with amorality. Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.

"However, politics is not axiomatically 'dirty'. Rather, the instruments of our political culture have distorted the high ideals and noble concepts meant to further human welfare. Naturally, spiritual people express their concern about religious leaders 'messing' with politics, since they fear the contamination of religion by dirty politics."