Poem by British poet, comedian, songwriter and presenter of radio and television programmes Ms Pam Ayres, MBE.
Picture: G. Willoughby.
Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth.
Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth, And spotted the perils beneath, All the toffees I chewed, And the sweet sticky food, Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.
I wish I’d been that much more willin’, When I had more tooth there than fillin’, To pass up gobstoppers, From respect to me choppers, And to buy something else with me shillin’.
When I think of the lollies I licked, And the liquorice allsorts I picked, Sherbet dabs, big and little, All that hard peanut brittle, My conscience gets horribly pricked.
My Mother, she told me no end, “If you got a tooth, you got a friend” I was young then, and careless, My toothbrush was hairless, I never had much time to spend.
Oh I showed them the toothpaste all right, I flashed it about late at night, But up-and-down brushin’, And pokin’ and fussin’, Didn’t seem worth the time… I could bite!
If I’d known I was paving the way, To cavities, caps and decay, The murder of fillin’s, Injections and drillin’s, I’d have thrown all me sherbet away.
So I lay in the old dentist’s chair, And I gaze up his nose in despair, And his drill it do whine, In these molars of mine, “Two amalgum,” he’ll say, “for in there.”
How I laughed at my Mother’s false teeth, As they foamed in the waters beneath, But now comes the reckonin’ It’s me they are beckonin’ Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth. END
Vocals: Award winning English singer, songwriter, producer, composer, Eurovision 2022 contestant and social media personality Sam Ryder. Lyrics: Jamie Hartman; Sam Ryder, and Tom Howe.
Fought & Lost.
Congratulations on your jubilation. Our hearts are breaking underneath all the applause. This devastation is of our own making, But we’ve never tasted this much bitterness before, And everybody falls, But some of us are born to fight, and fight, and fight some more, So, we will see you here, Same time, same place, next year, And you may win this battle but you’ll never win the war. Better to have fought and lost than never fought at all. Go take a bow, Your audience is waiting. We’ll take the shadows since the limelight isn’t ours. We wanted it so bad. Gave it all we had, Oh, but wanting it doesn’t always make it yours. This time was ours to lose, But fortune favours those who ride the storm and make it through. So, we will see you here, Same time, same place, next year, And you can take this battle ’cause we’re gonna win the war. Better to have fought and lost than never fought at all. So, here on the same ground, When the tables have turned around. Oh, and your tears fall as your world is crashing down. I hope when you see me, You remember that feeling, Oh, ’cause we’ve both seen the world from both sides now, And everybody falls, And life will tear you down to show you what’s worth fighting for. Oh, we will see you here, Same time, same place, next year, And you may win this battle, but you’ll never win the war. Better to have fought and lost than never fought at all. Better to have fought and lost than never fought at all. END
Lyrics: Alex Raymond Salibian – Harry Edward Styles – Jeffrey Nath Bhasker – Mitchell Kristopher Rowland – Ryan Thomas Nasci – Tyler Sam Johnson.
Vocals: English singer, songwriter, actor and original members of the boy band ‘One Direction‘, Harry Edward Styles.
Sign of the Times
Just stop your crying, it’s a sign of the times. Welcome to the final show. Hope you’re wearing your best clothes. You can’t bribe the door on your way to the sky. You look pretty good down here, but you ain’t really good. If we never learn, we been here before. Why are we always stuck and running from, The bullets? The bullets. We never learn, we been here before. Why are we always stuck and running from, The bullets? The bullets. Just stop your crying, it’s a sign of the times. We gotta get away from here. We gotta get away from here. Just stop your crying it’ll be alright. They told me that the end is near. We gotta get away from here. Just stop your crying, have the time of your life, Breaking through the atmosphere, And things are pretty good from here. Remember everything will be alright. We can meet again somewhere. Somewhere far away from here. We never learn, we been here before. Why are we always stuck and running from, The bullets? The bullets. We never learn, we been here before. Why are we always stuck and running from, The bullets? The bullets. Just stop your crying, it’s a sign of the times. We gotta get away from here. We gotta get away from here. Stop your crying baby, it’ll be alright. They told me that the end is near. We gotta get away from here. We never learn, we been here before. Why are we always stuck and running from, The bullets? The bullets. We never learn, we been here before. Why are we always stuck and running from. The bullets? The bullets. We don’t talk enough, we should open up, Before it’s all too much. Will we ever learn? We’ve been here before, it’s just what we know. Stop your crying, baby, It’s a sign of the times. We gotta get away, We got to get away, We got to get away, We got to get away, We got to get away, We got to, we got to, away, We got to, we got to, away, We got to, we got to, away. END
The phrase ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’; taken from William Shakespeare’s play Richard III, is widely used to label social and political unrest, as is witnessed at this sad time, particularly in Israel, Gaza, Ukraine and Russia. The word ‘winter’ stands as a powerful metaphor for a bleak and discouraging interval currently being experienced; while the word ‘discontent’ suggests a sudden restlessness, which for many, was not bargained for, yet now is an emerging threat to the aspirations of those who long for world peace on this planet.
The song, with lyrics shown hereunder, clearly forms the opinion, “We’re fools to make war”, while hoping for future peace.
Lyrics: By British guitarist and singer-songwriter Mark Knopfler.
Vocals: Former British rock band formed in London in 1977, by the same Mark Knopfler, and more popularly known as ‘Dire Straits’.
Brothers In Arms.
These mist covered mountains, Are a home now for me. But my home is the lowlands, And always will be. Someday you’ll return, To your valleys and your farms, And you’ll no longer burn to be, Brothers in arms. Through these fields of destruction, Baptisms of fire, I’ve witnessed your suffering, As the battle raged high. And though they did hurt me so bad, In the fear and alarm, You did not desert me, My brothers in arms. There’s so many different worlds, So many different suns, And we have just one world, But we live in different ones. Now the sun’s gone to hell, And the moon’s riding high, Let me bid you farewell, Every man has to die. But it’s written in the starlight, And every line in your palm, We’re fools to make war, On our brothers in arms.
There goes my heart beating, ‘Cause you are the reason, I’m losing my sleep. Please come back now, And there goes my mind racing, And you are the reason, That I’m still breathing. I’m hopeless now, I’d climb every mountain, And swim every ocean, Just to be with you, And fix what I’ve broken. Oh, ’cause I need you to see, That you are the reason. There goes my hands shaking, And you are the reason. My heart keeps bleeding. I need you now, And if I could turn back the clock, I’d make sure the light defeated the dark. I’d spend every hour, of every day, Keeping you safe. And I’d climb every mountain, And swim every ocean, Just to be with you, And fix what I’ve broken. Oh, ’cause I need you to see, That you are the reason, I don’t wanna fight no more. I don’t wanna hide no more. I don’t wanna cry no more. Come back I need you to hold me, (you are the reason). I need you to hold me tonight. I’d climb every mountain, And swim every ocean, Just to be with you, And fix what I’ve broken. ‘Cause I need you to see, That you are the reason.
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