For the Love of Ivy

Gonna buy me a graveyard of my own
Kill everyone who ever done me wrong
Gonna buy me a gun just as long as my arm
Kill everyone who ever done me harm
-- Jeffrey Lee Pierce / Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club) 1981

subhuman

So ladies, fish and gentlemen,
Here's my angled dream.
See me in the blue sky bag,
And meet me by the sea.
-- Eric Bloom / Sandy Pearlman (BÖC) 1974

girl on a motorbike

Too many folk in the middle lane don't want to swerve against the rails.
Apathy balanced with disdain;  dogs chasing their own tails.
-- Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) 1993

missing person

Home to sweet home, it just occurred to me
To be on my own in search of bitter treats.
I get so removed, but you never notice it
Step in my shoes; you'll see that I don't fit.

I walk home the wrong way
Hoping I'll go astray.
I'd like to be a missing person.

-- Neil Finn (Split Enz) 1980

Precious

Angels with silver wings
Shouldn't know suffering
I wish I could take the pain for you

If God has a master plan
That only He understands
I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through

-- Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) 2005 

community design

Reliance on physical activity as an alternative to car use is less likely to occur in many cities and towns unless they are designed or retrofitted to permit walking or bicycling. The location of schools, work sites, and shopping areas near residential areas will require substantial changes in community or regional design.
-- Journal of the American Medical Association, Editorial (10/27/99)

government scale

"In a small town, government proceeds tolerably well. There is not much distance between governors and the governed. The latter know where the former live... and how they live... and how little difference there is between them. If the governors overreach, they are likely to find themselves beaten in the next election... or in the middle of the street.  But as the scale increases... as the distance between the governed and the governors increases... and as the institutional setting grows and ages... government becomes a bigger deal. More formal. More powerful. It can begin governing more grandly...."
-- Bill Bonner, The Daily Reckoning (11/21/12)