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		<title>Vancouver, BC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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So, I&#8217;ve been counting down the months and weeks. Now it&#8217;s merely a couple of days since I leave for Vancouver, BC. Canada. Still can hardly believe that I&#8217;ll be going to Canada on vacation.
Twenty years back I have lived behind the iron curtain and we dreamt about visiting these &#8220;exotic&#8221; places. Now we just [...]]]></description>
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<p>So, I&#8217;ve been counting down the months and weeks. Now it&#8217;s merely a couple of days since I leave for Vancouver, BC. Canada. Still can hardly believe that I&#8217;ll be going to Canada on vacation.<br />
Twenty years back I have lived behind the iron curtain and we dreamt about visiting these &#8220;exotic&#8221; places. Now we just book a flight and go there. It&#8217;s a strange world we live in, isn&#8217;t it? Constantly changing.</p>
<p>A friend of mine once said: &#8220;Nothing endures but change.&#8221; So true.</p>
<p>Well, make sure you keep following my travel blog, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oscailte/">my Flickr photostream</a> and the <a href="http://mla.apob.net/gps/index.php">maps</a>.</p>
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		<title>Gold Rush Brides</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads.
Pass the lone church spire. Pass the talking wire from where to who knows?
There&#8217;s no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the wild western
plains. Where a man could drift, in legendary myth, by roaming over
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<p><a href='http://mla.apob.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/dsc_4463.jpg'><img src="http://mla.apob.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/dsc_4463-300x200.jpg" alt="Prairie Roads" title="Roaming over Spaces" width="300" height="200" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-177" /></a></p>
<p>Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads.<br />
Pass the lone church spire. Pass the talking wire from where to who knows?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the wild western<br />
plains. Where a man could drift, in legendary myth, by roaming over<br />
spaces. The land was free and the price was right.</p>
<p>Dakota on the wall is a white-robed woman, broad yet maidenly. Such<br />
power in her hand as she hails the wagon man&#8217;s family. I see Indians<br />
that crawl through this mural that recalls our history.</p>
<p>Who were the homestead wives? Who were the gold rush brides? Does<br />
anybody know? Do their works survive their yellow fever lives in the pages<br />
they wrote? The land was free, yet it cost their lives.</p>
<p>In miner&#8217;s lust for gold, a family&#8217;s house was bought and sold, piece<br />
by piece. A widow staked her claim on a dollar and his name, so<br />
painfully.</p>
<p>In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as<br />
they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief.</p>
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<p><i><small>["Gold Rush Brides" by 10000 Maniacs]</small></i></p>
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		<title>Trippermap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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A while back I discovered a nice feature on Flickr where you can place your photos on a map if they don&#8217;t have geo coordinates in their EXIF meta data. Someone created a Flash application called Trippermap, so you can include a Flash in your own website with all your geo-tagged photos from Flickr.
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<p>A while back I discovered a nice feature on Flickr where you can place your photos on a map if they don&#8217;t have geo coordinates in their EXIF meta data. Someone created a Flash application called <a href="http://www.trippermap.com">Trippermap</a>, so you can include a Flash in your own website with all your geo-tagged photos from Flickr.<span id="more-165"></span><br />
As I&#8217;m into Silverlight now I was wondering if someone had already done the same thing in Silverlight or if I should start my own app. </p>
<p>What dou you think?</p>
<p>Silvermap would be kind of a cool name, aye?</p>
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		<title>Ãœber das Ende unseres Rechtsstaates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Wir alle haben es kommen sehen, nur wenige haben dagegen gekÃ¤mpft. Was ich persÃ¶nlich in Deutschland fÃ¼r unmÃ¶glich gehalten habe, ist nun auch durch den Bundesrat bestÃ¤tigt worden. In Deutschland sollen alle deutschen Piloten (auÃŸer Luftsportler) geZÃœPt werden.
Die ZuverlÃ¤ssigkeitsÃ¼berprÃ¼fung (kurz ZÃœP) nach Luftsicherheitsgesetz (LuftSiG) muÃŸ nun alle zwei Jahre vom Piloten selbst beantragt und gezahlt [...]]]></description>
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<p>Wir alle haben es kommen sehen, nur wenige haben dagegen gekÃ¤mpft. Was ich persÃ¶nlich in Deutschland fÃ¼r unmÃ¶glich gehalten habe, ist nun auch durch den Bundesrat bestÃ¤tigt worden. In Deutschland sollen alle deutschen Piloten (auÃŸer Luftsportler) geZÃœPt werden.</p>
<p>Die ZuverlÃ¤ssigkeitsÃ¼berprÃ¼fung (kurz ZÃœP) nach Luftsicherheitsgesetz (LuftSiG) muÃŸ nun alle zwei Jahre vom Piloten selbst beantragt und gezahlt werden. Die Sache ist hier: selbst beantragt. Klingt eigentlich nicht weiter tragisch, oder?</p>
<p>Das Problem an der Sache zeigt sich dem Interessierten erst, wenn man mal etwas genauer liest:</p>
<blockquote><p>Im Rahmen der ZuverlÃ¤ssigkeitsÃ¼berprÃ¼fung erfolgt eine Abfrage bei den Polizeivollzugs- und VerfassungsschutzbehÃ¶rden der LÃ¤nder, beim Bundeszentralregister, bei auslÃ¤ndischen Betroffenen auch beim AuslÃ¤nderzentralregister, sowie im Einzelfall beim Bundeskriminalamt, Zollkriminalamt, dem Bundesamt fÃ¼r Verfassungsschutz, dem Bundesnachrichtendienst, dem MilitÃ¤rischen Abschirmdienst, der Bundesbeauftragten fÃ¼r die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik und ggf. den AuslÃ¤nderbehÃ¶rden (Â§ 7 Abs. 3 Satz 1 LuftSiG) sowie den StrafverfolgungsbehÃ¶rden (Â§ 7 Abs. 4 LuftSiG).</p></blockquote>
<p>Das Ganze erfolgt <strong>ohne</strong> eine Schuldvermutung und ist nur deshalb auf eigenen Antrag durchzufÃ¼hren, da ansonsten das Datenschutzgesetzt rigoros greifen wÃ¼rde und eine Auskunft aller BehÃ¶rden unmÃ¶glich wÃ¤re. Laut Strafgesetzt ist eine solche Auskunftswut nicht ein mal bei GroÃŸkriminellen mÃ¶glich. Aber bei Privatpiloten. <em>Ohne Schuldvermutung!</em></p>
<p>Wer sich gegen ein solches Vorgehen der BehÃ¶rden wehrt, indem er einfach keinen Antrag stellt oder sogar dagegen klagt, bekommt im einfachsten Fall seine Lizenz entzogen (oder widerrufen), im schlimmsten Falle drohen sogar Zwangsgelder!</p>
<p>Am Besten finde ich persÃ¶nlich aber, das ich den Ausgang meiner ÃœberprÃ¼fung nur mit einer Mitteilung &#8220;zuverlÃ¤ssig&#8221; oder &#8220;nicht zuverlÃ¤ssig&#8221; bekomme, noch nicht einmal warum ich als unzuverlÃ¤ssig eingestuft wurde, da die GrÃ¼de hierfÃ¼r hÃ¶chstwahrscheinlich als geheim eingestuft sind. Daher kann ich auch nur sehr begrenzt Rechtsmittel anwenden, um den Vorgang formell (nicht inhaltlich!) von einem Gericht prÃ¼fen zu lassen. Wo leben wir hier eigentlich???</p>
<p>Nach meinem Rechtsverstand klingt obiges Vorgehen nach &#8220;NÃ¶tigung&#8221; und sogar &#8220;Erpressung einer Aussage&#8221;, welches, wenn durch einen AmtstrÃ¤ger begangen, zu erheblichen Freiheitsstrafen fÃ¼hrt. Nur leider unternimmt die Staatsanwaltschaft nichts bei einer Anzeige. Warum auch? Ist ja alles gesetztlich geregelt. Und Gesetze sind ja per se immer richtig, oder?</p>
<p>Ich fÃ¼r mich habe jedenfalls beschlossen, meinen PPL nicht in Deutschland zu machen, sonder in den USA und dort sowohl die amerikanische als auch die britische Lizenz zu erwerben, dann bleibt mir dieser ganze &#8220;Spass&#8221; erspart. WÃ¤re ich allerdings devon betroffen, wÃ¼rde ich den Weg vieler Leidensgenossen wÃ¤hlen und sehr dafÃ¼r kÃ¤mpfen! Ich sage nur &#8220;wehret den AnfÃ¤ngen&#8221;, denn wer hindert unsere Politiker daran, sowas auch fÃ¼r Autofahrer einzufÃ¼hren?</p>
<p>Hier noch ein Zitat eines Kollegen, der sich in dieser Sache an seinen Landtagsabgeordneten wendet (siehe auch <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pilotundflugzeug.de/artikel/2006-09-25/Bundsratsbeschluss_zur_ZUP">Pilot und Flugzeug</a>):</p>
<blockquote><p><font class="messageText"><em> Jens-Christian Henke	Wiesbaden, den 24.09.2006</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>Herrn MinisterprÃ¤sidenten<br />
Roland Koch, MdL<br />
Hessischer Landtag<br />
Schlossplatz 1-3<br />
65183 Wiesbaden</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>Gedankenexperiment: &#8220;GrÃ¶ÃŸte Gefahren durch Muslime&#8221;</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>Sehr geehrter Herr MinisterprÃ¤sident Koch,</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>stÃ¼nde in einem Beschluss des Bundesrates &#8220;Nach einhelliger Expertenmeinung gehen die grÃ¶ÃŸten Gefahren von den Muslimen aus.&#8221; dann wÃ¤re â€“ berechtigterweise â€“ die EmpÃ¶rung nicht nur bei den Betroffenen, sondern im ganzen Land und in den Medien groÃŸ. Noch unvorstellbarer wÃ¤re eine ZuverlÃ¤ssigkeitsÃ¼berprÃ¼fung aller Muslime, die von diesen &#8220;freiwillig&#8221; beantragt und bezahlt werden muss. Wer die ZuverlÃ¤ssigkeitsÃ¼berprÃ¼fung aufgrund von verfassungsrechtlichen Bedenken verweigert, weil er seine bÃ¼rgerlichen Grundrechte nicht aufgeben will, der wird abgeschoben. Das gilt natÃ¼rlich nur fÃ¼r die Muslime mit deutschem Pass. Kompletter Unfug?</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>Wenn Sie in der aktuellen Bundesrat Drucksache 520/1/06, S. 3 oben &#8220;Privatpiloten&#8221; durch &#8220;Muslimen&#8221; ersetzen, dann erhalten Sie das fiktive, diffamierende und diskriminierende Zitat oben. Dass von den deutschen Privatpiloten &#8220;die grÃ¶ÃŸten Gefahren&#8221; ausgehen sollen, ist leider kein Gedankenexperiment, sondern steht schwarz auf weiÃŸ im Bundesrat Beschluss vom vergangenen Freitag. Die weiteren Punkte meines Gedankenexperiments sind ebenfalls â€“ Ã¼bertragen auf die Privatpiloten â€“ traurige Wirklichkeit, wobei das Analogon der &#8220;Abschiebung&#8221; der &#8220;Widerruf der Pilotenlizenz&#8221; ist und das Analogon zum &#8220;deutschen Pass&#8221; die &#8220;deutsche Pilotenlizenz&#8221;. AuslÃ¤nder dÃ¼rfen ja &#8220;ungeZÃœPt&#8221; den deutschen Luftraum befliegen.</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>Um an dieser Stelle sachlich weiterzukommen â€“ wir Privatpiloten reagieren eben nicht so wie manche Muslime, wenn sie sich vom Papst oder von Zeichnungen beleidigt fÃ¼hlen â€“ bitte ich Sie hÃ¶flichst um AufklÃ¤rung:</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>(1) Wer sind die in der Bundesrat Drucksache erwÃ¤hnten Experten?<br />
(2) Was genau ist deren (einhellige) Meinung?<br />
(3) Wie wird diese einhellige Meinung im Detail begrÃ¼ndet?</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>Vielen Dank im Voraus!</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>Ãœbrigens: Ich habe mich schon vor einigen Monaten entschlossen, die ZÃœP komplett zu verweigern. Mein Anwalt und ich sind uns sehr sicher, dass spÃ¤testens das Bundesverfassungsgericht die ZÃœP &#8220;kassieren&#8221; wird, weil sie klar gegen unser Grundgesetz verstÃ¶ÃŸt. (In diesem Fall wÃ¼rde ohne jeglichen Sicherheitsverlust auch ein gutes StÃ¼ck BÃ¼rokratie abgebaut.) ZunÃ¤chst einmal rechne ich mit dem Widerruf meiner Pilotenlizenz durch das RP Darmstadt im Laufe der kommenden Woche. FÃ¼r RÃ¼ckfragen und weitere Informationen stehe ich gerne zur VerfÃ¼gung!</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>Mit freundlichem GruÃŸ</em></font></p>
<p><font class="messageText"><em>Jens-Christian Henke </em></font></p></blockquote>
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		<title>there are three kinds of people</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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See, there&#8217;s three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just wanna fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want is to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in [...]]]></description>
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<p>See, there&#8217;s three kinds of people: <em>dicks</em>, <em>pussies</em>, and <em>assholes</em>. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just wanna fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want is to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because&#8230; pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also-fuck-assholes, Chuck. And if they didn&#8217;t fuck the assholes, you know what you&#8217;d get? You&#8217;d get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!</p>
<p><em>[from: Team America (the movie)]</em></p>
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		<title>Reasons I love flying</title>
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On an airliner:Â 

The roominess of it all.
The food.
The idle time while waiting / standing in the aisle.
Duty-free / Tax-freeÂ shopping (yes, I almost always get myself a bottle of Whiskey on my journey back home)
Old in-flight entertainment.
The comforting feeling of being in complete control.
Adjustable air nozzles.
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<p>On an airliner:Â </p>
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<li>The roominess of it all.</li>
<li>The food.</li>
<li>The idle time while waiting / standing in the aisle.</li>
<li>Duty-free / Tax-freeÂ shopping (yes, I almost always get myself a bottle of Whiskey on my journey back home)</li>
<li>Old in-flight entertainment.</li>
<li>The comforting feeling of being in complete control.</li>
<li>Adjustable air nozzles.</li>
<li>Watching someone attempt to close the overhead bin at least 15 times before giving up and letting the attendant deal with it.</li>
<li>SomeÂ idiot closing the overhead bin whilst empty and pretending it&#8217;s all packed up!Â </li>
<li>Ear-popping fun.</li>
<li>Enjoying the quality of public transport.</li>
<li>Quality reflection time.</li>
<li>Fumes.</li>
</ol>
<p>So this is why I want to do it myself:</p>
<ol>
<li>Planning the flight yourself.</li>
<li>Starting up the engine. (You have to feel that yourself!)</li>
<li>Freedom.</li>
<li>Enjoying the view (and not seeing only the clouds below).</li>
<li>The mere fun of it.</li>
<li>Pulling 3+ Gs while turning final.</li>
<li>The feeling in your stomach whileÂ flaring and settling the plane on the runway. (And the looks of the passenger).</li>
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		<title>Moment of Tranqulity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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As I look outside the window I just realized that the winter is gone and was replaced by spring. This must have been done by the One.  
Anyways. I enjoy the first warm rays of light, Angel Rays &#8211; as I learned in an Irish film the other day. Listening to &#8220;Moment of Tranquility&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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<p>As I look outside the window I just realized that the winter is gone and was replaced by spring. This must have been done by the One. <img src='http://mla.apob.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Anyways. I enjoy the first warm rays of light, Angel Rays &#8211; as I learned in an Irish film the other day. Listening to &#8220;Moment of Tranquility&#8221; by Apoptygma Berzerk (APOB).</p>
<blockquote><p><font size="2" color="#000000"></font><font></font><font size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color="#000000"><a id="lyrid" style="color: #050505">I turn around to talk<br />
I face your eyes<br />
Fight replaces fright<br />
To my surprise<br />
I feel the sun falling<br />
And I see<br />
Your soul in your eyes<br />
As I die.</p>
<p>I try to stand tall<br />
You roll your eyes<br />
You feel the same way I do<br />
To my surprise<br />
I feel this weird drowning in the deepest sea<br />
You die your gun just like me.</p>
<p>Still your eyes are staring at me<br />
Empty as the sky<br />
In this Moment of Tranquility<br />
I realize<br />
This is goodbye.</p>
<p>Still Her eyes are staring at me<br />
Empty as the sky<br />
In this moment of tranquility<br />
I realize<br />
This is goodbye.</a></font></p></blockquote>
<p>I can really imagine this. See this. World in Slow Motion&#8230;</p>
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		<title>the future of technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Thinking back on how I started with all this IT stuff, back in my early days, about 15 years ago&#8230; Goo&#8217;ol time! Back then we had Z80 processors with 64k of RAM, BASIC was a high level programming language. I started programming the hard way, first steps were in BASIC &#8211; for about 1 year [...]]]></description>
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<p>Thinking back on how I started with all this IT stuff, back in my early days, about 15 years ago&#8230; Goo&#8217;ol time! Back then we had Z80 processors with 64k of RAM, BASIC was a high level programming language. I started programming the hard way, first steps were in BASIC &#8211; for about 1 year &#8211; and after that I went straight to Assembler. No compilers, just a code table converting the Assembler instructions to plain hex numbers. Performance optimization was done with calculators, simply add the number of CPU cycles needed for a certain part of you code and see if you find a solution which is faster.</p>
<p>Compared to the BASIC code the performance was unbelievable. I think it could even catch up with modern apps because you wouldn&#8217;t need as much crap as there is today in the apps. Who knows what the IT world would be like if Novell had been the Microsoft of the 80s. Or IBM. Or Linus Torvalds had been Bill Gates. Never mind.</p>
<p>Looking out to a future 15 years from now, maybe this comic will be reality. I hope not. Not in my airplane. If you click yes, be prepared to be thrown out of the airplane (while up at 35000ft) &#8211; no questions asked!</p>
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<p>But if I remember back when the Intel Pentium was brand new:</p>
<p><img alt="User Friendly - The Comic Strip" src="http://mla.apob.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/UF20060310.gif" /></p>
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		<title>Fight back the Call Centre Agent Spam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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If a call centre agent is getting on your nerves and tries to sell you something, maybe you should try this.
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<p>This was featured in an article on the german online magazine Telepolis.</p>
<p>If a call centre agent is getting on your nerves and tries to sell you something, maybe you should try <a target="_blank" title="Call Centre Agent Spam" href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/22995489/">this</a>.</p>
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		<title>wanted</title>
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I have wandered far and wide
for something real something to die for
but I have found you and you do not see
all that is me all that is true
I know, I know you like the way
you feel when I play
I know, I know you don&#8217;t really
hear what I say
I know, I know you are waiting
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<p>I have wandered far and wide<br />
for something real something to die for<br />
but I have found you and you do not see<br />
all that is me all that is true</p>
<p>I know, I know you like the way<br />
you feel when I play<br />
I know, I know you don&#8217;t really<br />
hear what I say<br />
I know, I know you are waiting<br />
for something to raid<br />
I know, I know you wish you could be<br />
more than you say</p>
<p>I am more than you will see,<br />
I am more than you will need,<br />
I am more than you will see,<br />
more than wanted </p>
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