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║oasis.-.the importance of being idle║
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I sold my soul for the second time
'Cos the man don't pay me
I begged my landlord for some more time
He said "Son, the bills are waiting"
My best friend called me the other night
He said "Man - are you crazy"
My girlfriend told me to get a life
She said "Boy - are you lazy"
But I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine, if you give me a minute, a man's got a limit
I can't get a life if my heart's not in it
Hey Hey

I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine, if you give me a minute, a man's got a limit
I can't get a life if my heart's not in it
Hey Hey

I lost my faith in the summer time
'Cos it don't stop raining
The sky all day is as black as night
But I'm not complaining
I begged my doctor for one more line
He say "Son - words fail me"
It ain't no place to be killing time
I guess I'm just lazy

BUT I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine, if you give me a minute, a man's got a limit
I can't get a life if my heart's not in it
Hey Hey

What's the difference between a lazy man & a dead man? One takes up your time, the other takes up space.

It's not my fault that I'm lazy. If you have St. Peter to welcome you at Pearly Gates, why is it that no one came to pick me up at the hospital & briefed me about the meaning of my life? Generations, it's the blind leading the blind. What could be more true? We have never seen the past ourselves, & we can't see the future. With history as experience & knowledge as the walking stick, mankind is tapping its way forward in the dark. But I guess it's hard to have a sense of direction when you can't see & judge. Sounds seem so much closer than they are. Callings from the Devil often rock us from our feet. Of apocalypse & armageddon they speak, of redemption & forgiveness we seek. But everyday we look up at the clear blue sky, we huff a puff at it. How can we be so almighty as to cloud the big great skies? Or to drain the Earth of its black blood? Like ants on a table, how could we have brought down a whole basket of broccoli? Working like an invisible network of bacteria, we have overwhelmed Earth, yet practically invisible from space. Thomas Edison invented the Telephone, but probably even he can't comprehend how telecommunications networks could have progressed so exponentially fast. I could make an invention & sell it to a few friends, but I can never make the whole world buy it. Or use sublimal messages. Or create a weapon of mass destruction & threaten to take over the world. We can only control our influence across a very restricted degree of separation, & then predict for a few miles more. How it carries on then depends on the dandelion flower floating in the wind. What force controls our evolution, we do not know. This guiding hand on us blind people has made us travelled continents, turned from black to white, sings in a hundred languages, & made us from tall to short. No matter how funny he made us look, we never fail to question his directions, or even ask for his name. For simplicity's sake, we refer to him as the guide dog, or just "dog".

No questions, he made us the way we are, & he never laughed at us. Whenever we do wrong, he could forgive us. Don't you wish you have parents like that? & the best part of all, he is there wherever & whenever you need him. Even a worried mother with a cellphone on a corporate business plan with auto-raoming can't beat his accessibility. You don't even need to speed-dial; just look up & there he is. Somewhere in that direction.

But the devil speaks more than the saint, & I hear one calling out for me now. The importance of being idle it sings, warm & comfortable it lies. It's everyone's final resting place for the day, above ground. The one you really wish to lie in all day, but can't. & so I shall retire, brain & all, while the calling is loud, & wake up the next day as if nothing has happened. I shall be forgiven, for whatever I have done wrong.

Especially by my girlfriend, for not picking up her call later.

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