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Natural Man

You know, there was a time when, if someone told you to
do somethin', you did it. Bam! Right on! No questions asked.
It was "Yes, sir" and "Yes, mam". You never said no. You know? Huh. But, you know, things are changing nowadays. It's a new day, babies. Folks want to take their own lives into their hands and make their own choices. No longer do they wanna go along with the program 'cause everybody say it's right. You know what I mean?
Let me tell ya what I'm talkin' about, ya see, 'cause...

I don't want no gold watch for workin' fifty years from nine till five A-while the boss is guzzling champagne and I'm beltin' beer in some dive

'Cause I want to be happy and free
Livin' and loving for me
I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
Like a natural man (like a natural man)
A natural man (like a natural man)

Well now, I refuse to listen to people's thinkin' that I live too high I'm gonna taste it now before my one life streaks on by

'Cause I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
Just like a natural man (like a natural man)
I said a natural man (just like a natural man)

Well now, I tried to do what others say that I should do
They say that I should fit in, fool 'em, fake it, well
Those kinda dues just make me crazy and blue
Man, I just can't take it

So when ya see me walkin', won't ya notice that proud look in my eyes
My feet are on the ground and my soul is searchin' for the sky

'Cause I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
Just like a natural man (just like a natural man)
A natural man (just like a natural man)
Just like a natural man (just like a natural man)
My feet are on the ground (just like a natural man)
My soul is searchin' for the sky (just like a natural man)
Like a natural man (just like a natural man)
No more "Yes, sir" (just like a natural man)
No more "Yes, mam" (just like a natural man)
Huh, 'cause I'm a natural man (just like a natural man)
I'm a natural man (just like a natural man)

Lou Rawls, Natural Man

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Wer sich mit Entsagung nach dem Modell "Schmerzvermeidung durch Lustverzicht" Gewalt antut, ist genauso auf dem falschen Weg wie ein Mensch, der sein Heil in totaler Vergeistigung sucht. Auch jede Anstrengung, innerlich ein freierer, gelösterer Mensch zu werden, verstößt gegen den Geist von Wu shih. Zumal die Schwierigkeit hinzukommt, dass Korrekturversuche exakt an dem Bild vorgenommen werden, das ohnehin nur bedingt mit dem wahren Menschen übereinstimmt. Es wird nur ein Bild retuschiert.

Theo Fischer: Yu wei


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No reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke

Jimi Hendrix, All along the Watchtower

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Ich möchte wissen wo die Wurzel der Dummheit ihre hässlichen Arme
unter der Erde in jungen, frischen, fruchtbaren Boden austreibt. Ich möchte
sie aufspüren und mit meiner Axt meine Wut in sie treiben. Ich reisse sie aus ihren roten Gelenken und schleppe das bluttriefende Bündel zur Brücke, wiege es und werfe es in den Feuerstrom.