Vice is a monster of so frightful mein.
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar, with her face.
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
Times have changed,
And we've often rewound the clock,
Since the Puritans got a shock,
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today,
Any shock they should try to stem,
'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.
Good authors too who once knew better words,
Now only use four letter words
Writing prose, Anything Goes.
The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today,
And black's white today,
And day's night today,
When most guys today
That women prize today
Are just silly gigolos
And though I'm not a great romancer
I know that I'm bound to answer
When you propose,
Anything goes.
And we've often rewound the clock,
Since the Puritans got a shock,
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today,
Any shock they should try to stem,
'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.
Good authors too who once knew better words,
Now only use four letter words
Writing prose, Anything Goes.
The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today,
And black's white today,
And day's night today,
When most guys today
That women prize today
Are just silly gigolos
And though I'm not a great romancer
I know that I'm bound to answer
When you propose,
Anything goes.
4 comments:
It's not the picture with the porn star. It's the realization that your pastor and religion are shamming you.
Don't look so disappointed, Kitteh. There is a lot more where that came from.
Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance or unintended connection that goes beyond the most evident meaning. It is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
Example: Quoting a lyric from 1934 to make the point that everything in 2010 is different from the "good old days."
The good old days aren't what they used to be!
To I. J Reilly.
To say a thing is so, does not make it so, unless one happens to be God, and this you are not.
What the good old days steadfastly retain for us - in our current modern day and situation - remains irrefutable; notwithstanding any and all efforts of modern man (you, for example) to assert otherwise.
One may call black, white. Or white,black, but does this make it so ? Of course not !
Self-deception - for worldly considerations of one kind or another - obviously misleads you.
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