Plot
George Bird's rather lonely, anonymous existence as an underappreciated seller of farm machinery is jarred when his physician informs him that he is suffering from the rare malady Lampington's Disease and only has a few weeks to live. Believing he has nothing to lose, Bird resigns his position and withdraws his modest life savings in order to spend his remaining time in a "posh" seaside resort. There he keeps his own counsel about his condition and meets people who live in a world he could never have imagined existed. Incredibly he finds personal and professional opportunities now open to him that that he never dreamed would be his, but unfortunately he is no position to take advantage of them... until fate lends a hand.
Keywords: based-on-play, beggar, black-comedy, car-accident, card-game, croquet, death, elevator, gambling, golf-course
Guinness...The Great Lover!
George Bird: How do you keep smiling with a stiff upper lip?
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She is a proponent of revitalizing Lower Manhattan, improving public access to the Brooklyn waterfronts, improving commuter rail into the city, and reconsidering rezoning plans, and she has a reputation of holding developers to stricter design standards than previous planning directors. As stated in a 2007 profile of Burden in The New York Times: "Whether walking up and down 368 blocks in Jamaica, Queens, to see which streets can accommodate 12-story buildings, or grabbing a tape measure from her desk to set the dimensions of seating in public plazas across the city, Ms. Burden is leaving an indelible legacy of how all five boroughs will look and feel for decades to come."
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Words and Music: Mike Connell
And once said "please, some more"
And not even now and then.
Some place I know you swore
That you'd never go again.
I had this feeling once
That nothing was out of touch.
I found some comfort there
But that doesn't matter much.
And did we start digging around?
And did we start dragging around?
Be my burden
Christ, I'm certain I'm already bound.
I'm not ever quite together
I'm not sorted out.
You talked to me some more
And that was worth waiting for.
Sometimes I can't decide
And once said ";please, some more";
And not even now and then.
Some place I know you swore
That you'd never go again.
I had this feeling once
That nothing was out of touch.
I found some comfort there
But that doesn't matter much.
And did we start digging around?
And did we start dragging around?Be my burden
Christ, I'm certain I'm already bound.
I'm not ever quite together
I'm not sorted out.
You talked to me some more
And that was worth waiting for.
Sometimes I can't decide
If we're ever half alive.
Always a do or die situation
You can only see in black and white
But you never thought, never thought that I'd be
A little different this time, and
Not every color that you will see
Is the real one every time
Let me clue you in on complexity
And everybody is so very fine
And I didn't mean to be a burden
Just thought I'd share a little light
But I thought you needed to know something
Something that comes from the inside
Something that comes from the inside
And as you wasted time playing detective
Is it to figure out my mystery?
Well let me tell you now that I'm no secret
'Cause I can sin before you righteously
And I didn't mean to be a burden
Just thought I'd share a little light
But I thought you needed to know something
Something that comes from the inside
Something that comes from the inside
Something that comes from the inside
Don't grow bored too quickly
I haven't finished yet
I know it must be painful
To hear what's left unsaid
Don't refuse
It's no use
You can not run from this
Just sit still
And listen
Listen to all you missed
But it's always a do or die situation
You can only see in black and white
But you never thought, never thought that I'd be
A little different this time
And I didn't mean to be a burden
Just thought I'd share a little light
But I thought you needed to know something
Something that comes from the inside
Something that comes from the inside
I, once upon a time
Carried a burden inside
I sung a last goodbye
A broken rhyme I'd underlined
There's an ocean of sorrow in you
A sorrow in me
Saw a movement in their eyes
Said I no longer knew the way
Given up the ghost
A passive mind submit to fear
And the wait for redemption at hand
Waiting to fail
Failing again
If death should take me now
Count my mistakes and let me through
Whisper in my ear
You've taken more than we've received
you could say I might find it difficult
to show it on the outside
from far away
I should seem as ordinary as would seem the truth
but all we find
dishonesty and lies
it's hard to recognize the truth
and why can't I discover what the reason is
that I know there's something left that I should prove
I didn't mean to burden you
is there something more to this?
I didn't mean to burden you
is there something more to this?
was it something that I've already missed?
peel away the fear that I'm not good enough
to give back what I've taken
it's hard to say
the dissappointment tends to make
the optimism fade
I'm still behind and running out of time
it's nothing but a trite excuse
and why can't I discover what the reason is
I have to lay it down
Before the sky falls down on me
Feels like the way goes down
My forgotten guilt will rise again
No use to live this life
With all these fears inside my heart
I need a place to hide
'Cos my forgotten guilt will rise again
I will try to get out of this pain
So I cry
That's the way to release the pain out of my head
It's hard to smile when I'm down
But I'll do the best I can
Crime in the currency
Fire down a bending wall
Or would you care to be
In all the gambling that got started
No one is better off
Hope is a candle lit night
No one is meant to be
On anything afloat
We just lie awake in a stolen thought
We just lie awake and imagine what we are
We hide and wait for some golden star
And hope the dirt is wearing off
Fall like a domino
Lob up another mistake
All of it's killing me
Let's find a bitter end and restart it
Love isn't what you want
Hold if you can't believe
Facing a loaded gun
In time to take a look at what's causing
all the fuss, we mustn't buckle all
At once
We just lie awake in a stolen thought
We just lie awake and imagine what we are
We hide and wait for some golden star
And hope the dirt is wearing off
I just can't hold it together
We just lie awake in a stolen thought
We just lie awake and imagine what we are
We hide and wait for some golden star
And hope the dirt is wearing off
The devil is not the nature that is around us
Don't let, don't let it go to your head
For now you are victorious but soon to dread
The thought of your actions with such great passion
She's basically dead on the cold cement.
And you should of seen the way my eyes burned in disbelief
And I let them heat until the flames burst on right out of me
Hard to believe that I won't forget
About the burden buried deep inside my chest.
And I can't forget the night I destroyed both of our heads?
If I could see the hatred that was burning through your eyes
Then I would have to come alone and cast myself as a sacrifice
Hit and run, don't deny she loves you to death and try to take her life
(Don't know two words) but don't be proud see what happen when tomorrow come round
If I could say that love is what makes us aim to kill
Then I'd aim it toward the sky cuz we don't know why or what can make us feel
And I won't forget about the burden buried deep inside my chest
And I won't forget the night I destroyed both of our heads
She, she cannot speak
Does it tear you apart at night while you sleep
And I really need to know
There's a fire burning up in me and I'm about to blow
Heat, do you feel heat?
Cuz I'm creeping up the side of your bed and onto the sheets
Burn, won't you let it burn?
You destroyed so many lives and now it's your turn.
And weep, I hope to God you weep
Disintegrated--His Will--Burdened by life
You got caught!
The problems you make for yourself keep repeating
And you find yourself caught in that trap
You're ready to start the cycle again
You'll do it all the same again
Never going to change your ways
Never change
Got Caught
Disintegrated--His Will--Burdened by life
Little did I know, I'm wrong again
Turned out, not the way I'd expect
And to be told, I'm wrong before I began
Come crashing down with the usual effect.
Did anybody tell me to live this way
I want to fail, fail as I see fit
And when it all comes crumbling down
Cast a spell on my hate - Enchant, transform, modify
Kill me, determine my fate - Stop me, I'll uncover your lies
See where your attitudes have led you
Realize what your system has done
Your artificial world cannot challenge me
Biocentric nations will start to rise
No god will absolve or exempt your allies
Achieve perfection, teach me a lesson
Create your army, empower your clones
As I walk into a black room
I can feel the relieve (sic)
A million rays of light
Have worn out my skin
Oh and as I shut the door
Silence is veiling me
Veiling me finally
A room so dark
Couldn't tell if it's white
It's darker than the deepest shade of black night
Where's it to be found
Oh take me into the black
Where's it to be found
The black room
The road to ruin is paved
Oh crumbling crooks
I chase my decay
When you walk through minds
And up to the spirits you rise
When there is no sound
And you can feel the pull of time
Your body is a crook that must be
Left behind
Where's it to be found
Too much confusion had forced me to rest
Burning my eyes and stabbing my chest
Guilt and response is a pain in my neck
Deepest depression had made me a wreck
No more prospects for me to take
I'm watching you
Through the glass in my hand
My bottle of treatment
I get on demand
For once I could speak to my inner voice
Unmasking your farce of offering me choice
Accepting the way I'd have to go
The way that deceived me so
In the glance of jealousy I stand
Tryin' to ease my grief
But I can't
When will you ever see the things I've seen
To be left alone
When will you ever feel the pain I feel
To be cast aside,
The root of my being
My soul I've behold
When you crossed my way
The secrets of all my demons unfold
I'm facing a passionate fool
An enemy worth to fight
This shallow weakness
And my demons to tame
I accept my burden
And from where it came
You can't cope with reality
To the border of insanity
Melancholy obsessin' me
Setting all the demons free
They multiply infinity
Daze me make me numb a doctrine becomes an ideal
I hang onto every word you mouth no doubt, no doubt
I'm stampeding with the crowd it makes me dull in a way
Relieve me from my reason I am collateral to the collective
To your wisdom I am worthless no doubt, no doubt
I'm stampeding with the crowd it makes me dull in a way
I will follow
Burn down what I've been before
I will follow you
Me fellows, my brothers
Through the illusion of war
Collapsing
So much pressure
It grinds you
It makes you weak
You are the soil
Every wave drags you out some more
Into the nothing
So much blood
On your hands
Tears in regret won't wash it away
Where did you go
Where have you been
You have control
Of this process you're in
You made mistakes
They cannot be solved in flames
Burning deep into your skin
Your skin
Is this your skin
Is this what you are
Does it itch when you try to sleep
When you lie awake
You wanna trade your itch
For pain
Go walk the earth
See the rivers recur
Behold my eyes
While I cut down the tree
Through my spine
A rush of doubt choking me
Choking me hard
Just once to be a man of no account
No frames to keep me down
No fences and walls
No sacred crown
Can make me yield my ground
What you say
What you will be
Remains to you
Behold my eyes
While I cut down the tree
Through my spine
A rush of doubt choking me
Choking me hard
Hard to be a man in misery
A privilege to own
My sunken cheeks and tired eyes
Got time to tell you so
Who I am
What I will be
Remains to me
You're like a splinter to my mind
Like a nail to my wrist
A dagger to my heart
Like needles through my soul
No bricks and steel
No concrete fields
No smothers and lies
No bullshit and flies
No backbone and guts
No stabs and cuts
Can take what I'm yearning for
All our lifes (sic)
Washed away instantly
I take my time
Your hands choking me
Everywhere is nowhere
Now where's the sense in that?
The inner me gets colder
While my skin can't hold more beads of sweat
With every mile I'm tumbling
My surface molds to fit
Lapsing from faith in you
Forever done
Done with denial
Forever done
Why king, why king, why
Is your kingdom overcome?
Why king, why king, why
Overgrown with moss and mold
His majesty is growing old
I feel my time expiring
From my wanderings I rest
Don't believe in my creator
But my disbelief I detest
I grasp onto the feeling
That I'm the only one
I have chosen
Smothering warmth no more
As I crater deep
Into the conflict laden
Blackness below
All hope is gone
While the backdrop of sense
In our conflict's fading
Blackest ideation
Eats me up alive
I am drowning
In fragile revelations
Twisting and turning
I cannot retain no more
As I crater deep
Into the conflict laden
Blackness below
All hope is gone
While the backdrop of sense
In our conflict's fading
Blackest ideation
Eats me up alive
I am drowning
In fragile revelations
I am too tired to cover
Sick and tired of giving myself away
You suck the life out of me
So I have given away my cover
So I bear my wounds to this world
Been carrying this pain around forever
I give in I can't walk no more
Been facing the throes of this world
How it shook me
Oh it shook me goddamn well
In my anger my misgiving
All I need is your distressful delusion
To kneel down to
And all I will be is living proof to the thrust
Of misguided feelings
We bless the broken!
We bless the broken!
We bless the broken!
Take your fucking souls
Pile 'em up high
Burn 'em down low
Cut deep into the flesh
Let it bleed
Let it heal
The ghost it faints collecting the spores from the air
Feeding the growth with minimal cuts the body is nurtured
The spirit untouched a life led by pride
Rots from the inside a death wish uncomplied
Mirrors in his eyes
Can you hear me, As I'm screaming
Do you understand, What I'm saying
Can you feel me, As I'm touching
Do you suffer the pain, I endure
Can you see me, As I'm reaching
Do you see what I'm reaching for
Can you feel me, As I'm lying
Here touching you, touching
Touching you, touching
I am your...
Can you feel me, (Can you feel me) As I'm breathing (As I'm Breathing)
One last breath
Yearning for yours
Can you hear me, (Can you hear me) As I'm screaming (As I'm Screaming)
Do you understand, What I'm fighting for
Can you see me, As I'm reaching
Do you see what I'm reaching for
Can you feel me, As I'm lying
Here touching you, touching you,
Touching you, touching
I am your burden
Cause I'm reaching out to, And I need you
I'm reaching out to, You to carry me, Carry me
Can you see me, As I'm reaching
Do you see what I'm reaching for
Can you feel me, As I'm lying
Here touching you, touching you,
Touching you, touching
I am your burden
Why do you walk around
Searching for so long
Trying to please yourself
How could you take so long,
To carry on, your burdens
are, there weighing me down,
Weighing me down
I've carried you for so long,
So now I'm thru with you
A burden you're, weighing me
Down, why can't I get to you?
Nothing else to choose.
Stop, weighing, me, down.
You're pieces fall to the
Ground, as you stare in
The mirror, why do you
Play all these games?
Time's wasting, wasting
Away.
I've tried so long
To walk along this
Lonely cliff that's
Breaking, why do
You push me away,
Your pushing, you're pushing
I've been waiting for fucking nothing at all.
I must be crazy to be thinking that something would
come along.
Now I'm fucking done with everything you have done to
You talk too fucking much all you have done to me is
mislead.
You won't get the best of me.
Shut your mouth.
You're playing me.
These days are getting older and I'm just getting
colder.
I'll fucking do whatever, but I won't wait forever.
I watch the guys march in one by one just for you and
I'm still fucking here waiting.
I am going to let go.
I am going to show you how life is without me bitch.
Fuck everything about you.
I stand in the blistering cold and all you do is watch
me shake.
Not offering a hand or anything.
That's pretty fucking low of you, but I've adapted to
Now watch me rise and I will show you what suffering
really is.
All fucking tricks must die fucking now.
I will give you a taste of your own fucking medicine.
Shut up and don't act ignorant.
I can read you like a fucking book you dumbass bitch.
Every fucking day you never see that I'm the fucking
neck supported to that heartless head of yours. Taken
for granted again.
Grab a needle.
Take some thread.
If this is what you want, then this is what youll get. No
more bullshit the past is the past, this could not last.
Mother fucking two timing bitch, youll never be any
better than this. Wipe these tears you know i dont care,
i dont care. When will these words sing to me, they never
will be able to see, why i choose to write this to you. i
am the posion that will burn in your fucking heart. In
your fucking heart. These words are put in my head, were
falling further up from gravity. These words are put in
my head, they never meant much you never meant much now.
If this is what you want the this is what youll get.
youll get! what happend to me, what happend to you, what
happend to us. just sit back and cover yourself. What
Born under the moon of the elven goddess of battle.
Raised by the elves, the mighty dwellers of the woods.
Fire in the heart of this divine son.
Battle, his destiny's to fight the evil.
Many shall be thy enemy,
and great is the danger that'll seek you.
Signs of your birth made you to be the one,
So carry your sword with honour.
For many years he fought, many years he spent in battle.
Soon was to be known the divine strength of this elven youngster.
Fire in the heart of this divine son.
Battle, his destiny's to fight the evil.
Many shall be thy enemy,
and great is the danger that'll seek you.
Signs of your birth made you to be the one,
So carry your sword with honour.
All the way through the valley of the magical beasts he fought alone.
Finally he reached the dungeon of the undead wizard.
"Fear me, feel me, you can't beat me.
Fear me, feel me, you can't beat me."
"I don't fear you. You'll be gone soon.
I don't fear you. You'll be gone soon."
So has the last battle began.
So has the last battle began.
The ending of this duel is a mystery for every one.
Never seen is the wizard nor the elven man anymore.
Fire in the heart of this divine son.
Battle, his destiny's to fight the evil.
Many shall be thy enemy,
and great is the danger that'll seek you.
Signs of your birth made you to be the one,
Seems you've crossed the seventh border
Strive with the load on your back
Endless weight upon your shoulder
Stray from the chosen track
Fall off the edge in the blink of an eye
Tossed and thrown down the stony side
Trapped under stone and the weight on your mind
Walk with your burden
Toe the line
Time you lost your fierce debaucher
Tire aches in muscle and bone
Find someone to share the torture
Can't stand to bear this alone
Lost on the way
I appreciate the absence of chains around my feet
And I'm thankful for the open door and a chance to
breathe.
But we're measured by this distance within these four
walls
And we're reduced by this screaming and the slamming of
doors.
This distance is too far for our hands to reach
And these bruises are too blue and these cuts are too
deep.
I know how it is raising a fucked up kid like me.
You don't have to bear this burden alone
And for the last nineteen years, I'm sorry.
Father, I don't blame you for drowning with the bottle.
I need to escape, I must break free.
These chains of depression have taken hold of me.
The nights grow longer no fear within,
My minds at war with the fear of sin.
(It never ends) in my life I can't forget.
(My life a constant descent) past mistakes I still regret
(I am) I can't escape from the things I've done
(The king of nothing) I tried to hide, and I tried to run
From the pain that's eaten away
At my insides every day.
No shelter from my own dismay.
Where I roam it rains.
I look unto myself with disdain.
You could never relate
To my qualms with life, don't speak my name.
(It never ends) In my life I can't forget
(My life, a constant descent) Past mistakes I still regret
(I am) I can't escape from things I've done.
(The king) Of nothing.
I tried to hide, I tried to run,
And look up to you as a son.
Wanting some but getting none,