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Close Encounter with the Third Kind
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All that you need is one rhythm, one rhyme... Oh yes... and of course, a colse encounter with the Third Kind
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Singin' songs by the fireside
I am a rambling blues and folk songwriter and stringplucker. I have been living in Belize, Central America for the past 9 years, originally from Pennsylvania, USA. My songs speek for my travels and experiences, which have carried me to many amazing, inspiring, and eye-opening places and encountered many awesome, couragous, interesting, and encouraging people(s). Some of my songs address the system and the many problems which are arising through its fasaud of democracy and its perpetuation of Plutocracy which is the ruling of the rich over the poor.(ie:Big Corporations siezing power over everyone and everything else on the planet) Music and songs have also provided me with a way to express humor in life experience as well as encouragment to others and contemplation of Life, Love, God, and many perspectives too dificult to communicate to others without the tools of poetry and melody. I think I have the links set so that you can download the mp3 audio files, absolutely FREE!!!...Please feel free to give any of these tunes radio play on pass them along with this web site to your friends...and foes...let them all hear!
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #131
Peak in subgenre #22
Author
Jes Karper
Uploaded
May 05, 2005
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MP3 5.7 MB • 128 kbps • 6:10
Story behind the song
I began writing this song while driving through the deserts of Mexico late at night, I had my friend Iren who was in teh passenger seat scribble some words down on a piece of paper, and mainly the song is discussing the impression that aliens would have if they were here on earth long enough to see how we humans are treating teh place.
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Well I had a close encounter with the Third Kind They POPPED! out of the ground while I was looking behind And when I turned back around not expecting to find Well I found myself in a most peculiar bind… You see the Third Kind as I tried to find out Started singing and shining and POPPING! About There were fifteen or twenty, Kind of short, but quite stout They made me bend down and walk in a zig zagging route And then all of the sudden they started to SHOUT! They said “I am the Third Kind I come in PEACE do not fear We came to make a few things most visibly clear So light up a fire and keep the rhythm near And lets call into questioning the reason why you’re even here.” They said “Now Who are you Where are you Where is your SOUL? Is it all alone there or is it part of a Whole? A Whole that’s in a motion on a North and a South Pole A Whole with one big ocean and mountain peaks that roll and roll and roll. Oh and you People, you think that you’ve not yet reached your goal You start building up skyscrapers and digging up a hole And you dig and you cut and you think that you really control. And now What do you do with all that oil and coal that you stole? Oh you burn it in your factories, you burn it in your cars You count up all your papers and you look out at the stars And say ‘Now which other planet can we Rape for all its tars? I hear there ain’t nobody livin’ out over there on Mars!’ And the Third Kind you see we don’t like this kind of talk You see we don’t want your kind coming our way in Bulk So to those who sit and stare and laugh and Mock To those who look out at the milky-way and say the we’re the only living piece of rock. I wish that you would realize it’s with the UNIVERSE that you’re dealing And it just does not tolerate your rapping and your stealing So throw away all those guns and all that negativity that you are feeling Start to live a simple life and then maybe this place can start the healing!” … Well I thanked the Third Kind for their Kindly advice I offered them a meal a simple plate of beans and rice I made sure to put on the proper amount of special spice Then we danced round the fire to the rhythm for the rest of the night Now right before dawn Third Kind climbed into their dome It had openings beneath where all these colors shown They said they had to go there were other galaxies out there for them to roam Then suddenly the sun was rising and I was sitting there all alone… Now was that the sun rising or was it all in my head You know it really could have been the Third Kind’s Space Ship instead They both look quite alike you know with that purple, yellow, orange and RED Either way I think I’ll go get a pen and try and remember what it is that they said. Now I had a close encounter with the Third Kind Maybe a metaphysical manifestation of the mind But I don’t mind to take the time and try to find Oh the sublime in what’s happening right here right now in real time Cause in real time you don’t need any of that hatred or crime In real time you don’t need to count up any of those nickels and those dimes Yes all that you need is One Rhythm and One Rhyme O Yes… and Of Course… a Close Encounter with the THIRD KIND!
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