/lit/ - Literature

>Joyce didn't win the prize
>Proust didn't win the prize
>Pynchon didn't win the prize
>Delillo didn't win the prize
>Roth didn't win the prize
>Nabokov didn't win the prize
>Borges didn't win the prize
>Rilke didn't win the prize
>Henry James didn't win the prize
>Pessoa didn't win the prize
>Mishima didn't win the prize
>Calvino didn't win the prize
>Perec didn't win the prize
>Bernhard didn't win the prize
>Musil didn't win the prize
>Broch didn't win the prize
>Celan didn't win the prize
>Crane didn't win the prize
>Stevens didn't win the prize
>Auden didn't win the prize
>Merrill didn't win the prize
>Gass didn't win the prize
>Gaddis didn't win the prize
>Shakespeare didn't win the prize
>Donne didn't win the prize
>Dante didn't win the prize
>Milton didn't win the prize
>Hegel didn't win the prize
>Deleuze didn't win the prize
>Murakami didn't win the prize
>Cohen didn't win the prize
>And yet.....

>Joyce didn't win the prize
>Proust didn't win the prize
>Pynchon didn't win the prize
>Nabokov didn't win the prize
>Borges didn't win the prize
>Rilke didn't win the prize
>Henry James didn't win the prize
>Pessoa didn't win the prize
>Mishima didn't win the prize
>Calvino didn't win the prize
>Perec didn't win the prize
>Bernhard didn't win the prize
>Musil didn't win the prize
>Broch didn't win the prize
>Celan didn't win the prize
>Trakl didn't win the prize
>Crane didn't win the prize
>Stevens didn't win the prize
>Gass didn't win the prize
>Gaddis didn't win the prize
>Shakespeare didn't win the prize
>Dante didn't win the prize
>Deleuze didn't win the prize
>Murakami didn't win the prize
>And yet.....

>Joyce didn't win the prize
>Proust didn't win the prize
>Pynchon didn't win the prize
>Borges didn't win the prize
>Rilke didn't win the prize
>Henry James didn't win the prize
>Pessoa didn't win the prize
>Mishima didn't win the prize
>Calvino didn't win the prize
>Perec didn't win the prize
>Bernhard didn't win the prize
>Musil didn't win the prize
>Celan didn't win the prize
>Crane didn't win the prize
>Stevens didn't win the prize
>Gass didn't win the prize
>Gaddis didn't win the prize
>Shakespeare didn't win the prize
>Dante didn't win the prize
>Deleuze didn't win the prize
>Murakami didn't win the prize
>And yet.....

>Joyce didn't win the prize
>Pynchon didn't win the prize
>Borges didn't win the prize
>Rilke didn't win the prize
>James didn't win the prize
>Pessoa didn't win the prize
>Mishima didn't win the prize
>Calvino didn't win the prize
>Perec didn't win the prize
>Celan didn't win the prize
>Crane didn't win the prize
>Stevens didn't win the prize
>Shakespeare didn't win the prize
>Dante didn't win the prize
>Murakami didn't win the prize
>And yet.....

As I was walkin' down Grosvenor Square,
Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air,
From the other direction she was calling my eye,
Could be an illusion but I might as well try, might as well try.

She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes,
And I knew without askin' she was into the blues.
She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls,
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls.

In the heat of the evening when the dealin' got rough,
She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff.
As I picked up my matches and was closin' the door,
I had one of those flashes, I'd been there before, been there before.

Well I ain't often right but I've never been wrong,
Seldom turns out the way it does in the song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Well there ain't nothin' wrong with the way she moves,
All scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues.
And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes
I had to learn the hard way to let her pass by, let her pass by.

The wind in the willow's playing "Tea for Two, "
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue,
Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand,
Everybody's playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band.

I close my eyes when I get too sad
I think thoughts that I know are bad
Close my eyes and I count to ten
Hope it's over when I open them

I want the things that I had before
Like an Elvis poster on my bedroom door
I wish I could count to ten
Make everything be wonderful again

Hope my mom and I hope my dad
Will figure out why they get so mad
Hear them scream, I hear them fight
Say bad words that make me want to cry

Close my eyes when I go to bed
And I dream of angels that make me smile
I feel better when I hear them say
Everything will be wonderful someday

Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world's so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
Tell me everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

I go to school and I run and play
I tell the kids that it's all okay
I like to laugh so my friends won't know
When the bell rings I just don't want to go home

Go to my room and I close my eyes
I make believe that I have a new life
I don't believe you when you say
Everything will be wonderful someday

Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world is so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
When you tell me everything is wonderful now
I don't want to hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
I don't want to hear you say
That I will understand someday
No, no, no, no
I don't want to hear you say
We both have grown in a different way
No, no, no, no
I don't want to meet your friends
And I don't want to start over again
I just want to my life to be the same
Just like it used to be
Some days I hate everything
I hate everything
Everyone and everything
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
I don't want to hear you tell me everything is wonderful now