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Bacchus and the Ivy

by <{Baba^Yaga}>

Member since 2002 · Posted 22 Nov 2002 · Edited 22 Nov 2002 · 13 comments

I heard they left you at the tar-pits Just another wounded troglodyte Mother said she had high wishes For your seed, and why it might Story was immaculate conception I guess your blood is wiser than A box of grapefruit with no sugar My broken Uncle, and his gin Because you are the citrus I am the ivy I bend as the willow You snap like an oaktree You are the saltweed I am the grape vine of pure misery You are the citrus I am the ivy They said you gave up on the long dance and that your song had gone a-stray Now you're selling empty soup cans and saying everything's okay? A pack of dogs has found your shadow that's why you cannot tie your shoes The fear of no teeth is sheer terror and why you must protect your muse Because you are the citrus I am the ivy I bend as the willow You snap like an oaktree You are the saltweed I am the grape vine of pure misery You are the citrus I am the ivy Out through the storm waves Under the new moon Bled by an old thorn I wish i could love you

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[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 23-Nov-02/9:42 AM Reply
I bet you're wondering how I knew about your plans to make me blue with some other guy that you knew before. Between the two of us guys you know I love you more. It took me by surprise, I must say, when I found out yesterday.
[n/a] <{Baba^Yaga}> › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 23-Nov-02/1:27 PM Reply
why torture me so..when you know..i only flow...when i blow..you...yes true..we were never brand new...cashew.
[n/a] <~> › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 24-Nov-02/3:25 PM Reply
wrong vine, sirrah. but then, when even the walls have ears, who's to say the ivy doesn't?
[9] razorgrin 25-Nov-02/6:49 AM Reply
cool.
[7] lunar 9-Dec-02/1:59 PM Reply
do you actually know dark angel? (or baccus for that matter?!)
[n/a] <{Baba^Yaga}> › lunar 9-Dec-02/2:06 PM Reply
i know bachus, but i don't know dark angel, ah..not in the physical sense (d.a that is) i have read all of his writings, and i've had some interesting comment battles that is with him...um i was sort of obsessed by a notion ABOUT HIM, for awhile, but i'm over that now...i enjoy his work very much and count him as a peer though. i believe him to be quite the philosopher and scholar. like myself. occasionally.
[n/a] <{Baba^Yaga}> › lunar 9-Dec-02/4:16 PM Reply
on the other hand, i do know bachus alot, and horus8 a little.
[7] lunar › <{Baba^Yaga}> 10-Dec-02/1:58 PM Reply
horus8 is cool there seems to be a group of u over there and one of us over here!
[n/a] <{Baba^Yaga}> › lunar 11-Dec-02/12:13 AM Reply
the group is small and tight like a pigeons scrotum.
[7] lunar › <{Baba^Yaga}> 11-Dec-02/2:08 PM Reply
that is certainly a lovely visual way of putting it
[7] lunar 9-Dec-02/2:13 PM Reply
i see what u mean i rather like dark angel myself he is very elusive and seems to be above everyone else
[9] wOrnella Mutiw 19-Jan-03/10:42 PM Reply
I like this alot especially the chorus, but you knew that already. The song is quite nice. Hmmmmmm....someone gave you a one...shame really....here's a 9.
[6] nentwined 27-Feb-09/5:56 AM Reply
"and why it might"?

Has a good lyric sense to it, but it feels like too much nonsense, too. A touch of bob dylan, a touch of the beatles, and other things I recognize but can't name--but I think more it winds up just "touched".

Then again, 6am, I might be reading too much or too little...

In the end, I enjoyed it, and that's always a plus.