La Vie Dansante
By: Jimmy Buffett, Michael Utley, Will Jennings 1984
[The Dancing Life]
They can come take it all away
Break your heart by the light of day
Drown your love in a distant bay
So lonely
See the ships heading for the rocks
See the time melting off of the clocks
There’s a light shatters all the locks
And saves me
It saves me

That’s why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante
On the night wind that takes me just where I want
That’s all I want La Vie Dansante
Why don’t you wander and follow La Vie Dansante
On the night wind that takes you just where you want
That’s all you want La Vie Dansante

Miss the beat if you close your eyes
Every night wears a new disguise
And I live when a new surprise surrenders

Feel it all with a willing heart
Every stop is a place to start
If you know how to play the part with feeling
I play with feelings

That’s why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante
On the night wind that takes me just where I want
That’s all I want La Vie Dansante
Why don’t you wander and follow La Vie Dansante
On the night wind that takes you just where you want
That’s all you want La Vie Dansante

That’s why we wander and follow La Vie Dansante
On the night wind that takes us just where we want
That’s all we want La Vie Dansante
Why don’t you wander and follow the dancing life
On the night wind that takes you just where you want
That’s all you want La Vie Dansante

That’s why we wander and follow La Vie Dansante
On the night wind that takes us just where we want
That’s all we want La Vie Dansante

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That’s all we want…

some music ah!

I’m Movin’ On

(Phillip White/Vincent Williams)

I’ve dealt with my ghosts and faced all my demons

Finally content with a past I regret

I’ve found you find strength in your moments of weakness

For once I’m at peace with myself

I’ve been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long

I’m movin’ on

I’ve lived in this place and I know all the faces

Each one is different but they’re always the same

They mean no harm but it’s time that I face it

They’ll never allow me to change

But I never dreamed home would end up where I don’t belong

I’m movin’ on

At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me

And I know there’s no guarentee’s, but I’m not alone

There comes a time in everyone’s life

When all you can see are the years passing by

And I have made up my mind that those days are gone

I sold what I could and packed what I couldn’t

Stopped to fill up on my way out of town

I’ve loved like I should but lived like I shouldn’t

I had to lose everything to find out

Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road

I’m movin’ on

I’m movin’ on

Announcer: Good afternoon, Diogenes. In keeping with your

reputation as a non-conformist, I see that you keep your bathtub

outside of your house?

Diogenes: The bathtub is my house.

Announcer: I see. Well there must be some advantage to that?

Diogenes: Certainly. No window can give a view like this, and if

the neighborhood goes bad, I can just walk off with the house.

Announcer: How did you earn your living?

Diogenes: I got a moonlighting job – begging. I went to every

statue in town and asked for money.

Announcer: Why statues?

Diogenes: It got me used to being refused. After a time, I tried my

Technique on people. I told each customer that if he had given to

Other beggars, then he should give to me as well. If not, he should

start with me.

Announcer: How did it go?

Diogenes: I lost 30 pounds and gained a philosophy.

Announcer: Why is it that people will give alms to the blind and

crippled, but not a philosopher?

Diogenes: People know that one day they could be blind or crippled,

but they never dream they will take up a philosophy.

Announcer: Diogenes, what is a wise man?

Diogenes: There is but a finger’s difference between a wise man and

a fool. If a man raises his first finger and speaks, people think

him wise. If he lifts his middle finger, they think him mad.

Announcer: Do you believe in the institution of marriage?

Diogenes: I believe in no institutions. Marriage does not exist -

there are only men who persuade and women who consent.

Announcer: What instructions will you leave for your funeral arrangements?

Diogenes: I want to be buried face-down. The world will soon be

turned topsy-turvy and I don’t want to present my backside to the

gods.

Announcer: Who will take care of the arrangements?

Diogenes: Whoever wants the house

Announcer: Well I see by the old sundial that it’s time to go. Any

last words of advice that you can leave us with?

Diogenes: Yes, ignore everything I say!

An excerpt from Diogenes interview!

Happy new Alexanderian era!