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Originally posted by kirk
taking suggestions for the 1st 2 lines in the lyric!
anyone's welcome to join in.
"basic as-----------------,
basic as--------------------,
basic as a human need
basic as the air we breathe"
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Ok, I reworked it a bit:
"Basic as lack and greed.
Basically we don’t care.
Basic as human need.
Basic as the want of air."
I dropped the "a" in the third line and redid the last line. Notice the juxtoposition of "need" and "want" in that couplet. Now, I twisted "basic" to "basically" in the second line. "Need" has many definitions, but using it as "essential (n.)" and "poverty" you get a good bit of synonym play with "need," "want," and "lack." The first couplet says a lot, I think, about the desire to help eliminate poverty and the basic problem that we're all greedy - we want SOMEONE ELSE to end poverty. Maybe the goverment, maybe rich philanthropists, but we're never quick to sacrifice of ourselves - myself included. So anyway, that's what I did with it....
PS. If "Nuke" were a name that'd be a good name for a punk band. "Please welcome to Club 40, Nuke the Gay Whale."
