Raven in Green again..

nothings changed the senates still corrupt & the emporer remains insane, and every day, is a new strain of slaughter, supply lines are less protected, evil on all sides, eye can smell the death on your flesh--creeping in, trapped within the twisting fingers of fear, and all eye see is ewe, that face, those eyes, burning like leprosy, eye can see u there poisoning the air, prostituing Nationalism, and eye want to attack, to rip out your heart and lay you flat on your back, and vomit a world of agony and truth into your throbbing illness of memory...and hate guides our way, eye long for the icy slap of a belt across my back, for the acceptance of death and blind cave war, the giving sleep of depression, the sweet elucidation of savage meaningless agression, chiseled in the meaty forearms of Mother Jupiter and his slave disciples, in the harem tents--outside, just beyond the edges--eye ride, a cycoptic mare in the fires of imagination. feeding my disease, a river of plagues, eye need something to remind me I'm still sinning that pain is important, that wurdz matter, that healing is possible, that eye am not alone ...in this --guard the houses--triple the watch,--Maidens, dig up your sorcery --sirens, sharpen your rocks..ewe will eat my pain again. whatever you need unite messiah ME

--Wurdz by Otep Shamaya

Tom Petty Classic
January 28, 2004 9:25 a.m.

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So I’m currently listening to Tom Petty’s Wildflowers album. And that got me thinking about the song “Last dance with Maryjane” and how it seems to have become one of the if not the most loved Tom Petty song ever. And I was recalling that it was originally released as a single off of the greatest hits cd. I think it might have been with the release of that album and the success of it and the song that since so many musicians have been releasing greatest hits albums and including at least one new song. …and it most cases that new song is rather sub par and generally a gigantic disappointment on the album.

So I’m curious to know how did they know “Maryjane” would be so good and so beloved. Did they know some how that it was an absolute classic? I mean, was it Tom’s favorite song ever so he knew it had to be good? This is such a rare occurrence…..to beat the odds like that…or rather to set the bar so high that no one else can live up to it. That’s impressive.

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