The Basij (Persian: بسيج) (officially Basij-e Mostaz'afin, literally "Mobilization of the Oppressed") is a paramilitary volunteer militia established in 1979 by order of the Islamic Revolution's leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The original organization comprised the civilian volunteers whom the Ayatollah Khomeini urged to fight in the Iran-Iraq war. The force consists of young Iranians who have volunteered, often in exchange for official benefits. Currently Basij serve as an auxiliary force engaged in activities such as internal security as well as law enforcement auxiliary, the providing of social service, organizing of public religious ceremonies, and, more notoriously, policing of morals and the suppression of dissident gatherings.Basij is the name of the force; a basiji is an individual member.
The Basij are set up as subordinate to, receiving their orders from, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to whom they are known for their loyalty. They have also been described as "a loosely allied group of organizations" including "many groups controlled by local clerics." They have a local organization in almost every city in Iran.
Grand AyatollahSayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنه ای, Azerbaijani: سید علی حسینی خامنهای – Seyyid Əli Xameneyi, pronounced [ʔæˈliː hoseiˈniː xɒːmeneˈʔiː] ( listen); born 17 July 1939) is the Supreme Leader of Iran, and a Twelver Shi'a marja. He had also served as the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1981 to 1989. In 2010, Forbes selected him 26th in the list of 'World's Most Powerful People'.
Holding absolute power in his country, he has been described as one of only three people having "important influence" during the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran . Khamenei was the victim of an attempted assassination in June 1981 that paralyzed his right arm, although so far the biggest challenge to his leadership has been the mass protests following the June 2009 presidential elections during which he strongly supported president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They have had a falling out since.
Khamenei holds the title of Sayyed, which means that he claims direct patrilineal descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib. Some[which?] of Khamenei's ancestors are from Tafresh in today's Markazi province, and had migrated from their original home in Tafresh to Tabriz. Born in Mashhad, he is second eldest of eight children, and two of his brothers are also clerics. His younger brother, Hadi Khamenei, is a renowned newspaper editor and cleric. Khamenei is Iranian Azeri on his father's side and his mother is a Yazd-native Persian.
Under the hood, the coldwater pump
lets the Monkey angels get us sick,
our flying flees and millipedes
Read our white count
and screen for the bug
The old fashioned physician treated bumps and bruises
Not hungry with tube feeding,
but the new slumber party
Cancer can't keep its solids down
We watch saints of popularity, rail thin snack on their Hollow legs.
The hairless pairs of replicas dance and gossip,
While at their feet are fighting fish,
the upper half is pressing
Flesh-some compaign of the neurotic black heart,
a vomit Competition.
The autograph is a lap dance from the grammaphone No one will touch
Their priorities bruised, and without memory
they had to start turning away the ghosts
Of ignored parents like the old men who work the vending machines
Who've only asked to use the toilet
Plastic dresses ath the biotech frontier tonight,
the pigeons are Continuous, their feathers burn toxic.
The medicine animal is A misfit to the drum,
desperate to duplicate the whimper like a snapshot.
Genetic jennies sip white zin and choose wallpaper
For the first boy crossbred with a sneaker's new nursery,
to sit Amidst change, a speak 'n' spell in his heart,
soon pacemakers Will be able to run for president,
or any creature with the proper papers,
until Detroit machinists, our laureates of the chariot...
Jesus Chrysler, cut me a break,
lay off the feelings and the spiders in the sink
and leave a depression in the wild,
a missing man without A car alarm
Somebody lied to me,
it just can't be,
you cant be gone forever.
Somebody got it wrong,
you are gonna love me all my life.
Where'd we good together,
now I'm on my own,
And I don't think I'll ever learn to live,
one day alone.
CHORUS
So/woh I'm never gonna say goodbye,
say goodbye, is something I can't bring my self to do.
So I'll never gonna say goodbye,
darling I know, part of me will
always be with you.
What am I gonna do?
havin' you, is all I've ever wanted (wanted).
Where am I gonna go,
to feel the way I felt inside your arms?
Still my life is better,
lovin' you as I do,
Thank's for being with me darling thank's,
for being you...
(reapeat chorus 2X)
There was a time when I knew nothing about love
A silly little girl I'm askin' her feelings from the world
You bring me so much joy and I thank God from up above
Right now I know that what I'm feelin' is true love
I love you, I love you
CHORUS
I never thought I could feel this way
I never thought that we could go all the way
I never thought that I could fool my lips to say
I love you, I love you, I love you
INTERLUDE
Since you've gone away the days are long and my love grew stronger
And I can't hide these tears and yet my heart it grows fonder
The love I feel for you is like a child on Christmas day
You taught me how to love and just how to communicate
And that's why I sing this song to you and only you
I love you, yeah, I love you
CHORUS
I never thought I could feel this way
I never thought that we could go all the way (we could go all the way)
I never thought, hmm that I could fool my lips to say
I love you (I love you), I love you
BRIDGE
Love that brings me joy (love that brings me joy), it feels so natural (it feels so natural)
Innocent, I know, so unconditional, so emotional (ohh)
CHORUS
I never thought (never thought) ooh, never that I could feel this way
I never thought (never thought) ooh, that we'd go all the way
Hoo, never thought, ooh (never, never) that I could fool my lips to say
I love you, I love you, I love you
CODA
I love you, I really do, I love you
I love you, love you, love you
Waited by the phone all day
Thinkin' that you'd call
But you never did, oh no
You are diff'rent from before
Now you made me insecure
Like you never did, oh no
CHORUS
Tell me it's not over now, will you?
So I won't be hangin' around
And you won't see me crying
Ooh, ooh
Oh, girl, you've got it wrong
You've been thinking all along
But I've really changed, oh babe
Love's been knockin' at your door
Do you hear it?
Do you really, really care?
CHORUS
Tell me it's not over now, will you?
So I won't be hangin' around
And you won't see me crying
Ooh, ooh
BRIDGE
Take me into your sweet loving arms
Let's make love like we've never done before
Like we've never done before
CHORUS
Tell me it's not over now, will you?
So I won't be hangin' around
And you won't see me crying
AD LIB
CHORUS
Tell me it's not over now, will you?
Say you love me, say it loud
Say you want me, say it now
And you won't see me crying
Ooh, oh
CODA background
You won't see me cry
You won't see me
You won't see me cry
You won't see me
You won't see me cry
CODA [w/ CODA background]
You won't
You won't see me cry
You won't see me
You won't see me cry
You won't see me cry
Unless it's over
Girl, it's never over
Tell me, tell me when it's over
You won't have tears to cry
You won't...
You won't see me cry
You won't see me cry
Each passing night
I try and close my eyes
But thoughts of you
They wake me up
And tear me inside out
Each passing night
I ask myself who's right
And try to find the reasons why
It had to end that night
Didn't we share each other's dreams
We held each other tight
Ang tears fell fromm my eyes
As you walked and left me here
Like the wind you passed me by
I try but I can't see
If it's something that I said
Baby please won't you tell me now
'Cause it gets harder each passing night
I often pray
That you'd come back and stay
We've had too much together
To ever live a part
I'll wait and see
'Cause I know and I believe
Someday you'll come to realize
What you and I can be
Then we'll share each other's dreams
We'll held each other tight
Kiss the tears that burn my eyes
'Cause you walked and left me here
Like the wind you passed me by
I try but I can't see
If it's something that I said
Baby, please won't you tell me now
'Cause it gets harder each passing night
I never meant to hurt your heart this way
Sooner or later
There'd be someone else who'd stay
Didn't we share each other's dreams
(share each other's dreams)
You tear me inside out
(and tears fell from my eyes)
Someday you'd realize
(as you walked and left me here)
Like the wind you passed me by
(I try but I can't see)
Kiss the tears that burn my eyes
(Baby please won't you tell me now)
'Cause it gets harder each passing night
(I try but I can't see)
Push the button at night, trying to reproduce sunshine,
The sixties were peanuts, back then people had recourse.
"There is no such thing as a five percent nuclear war."
"There is no such thing as a five percent nuclear war."
"Now this is a very strange argument that, uh, says,
two hundred warheads get through the defense that's going to destroy everything."
Duck and cover
Duck and cover
"Ballistic missile launches..."
"When they launch, where they launch..."
"When they launch, where they launch..."
"When they launch, where they launch..."
"When they launch, where they launch..."
What's up with missile shield monkeys trying to white boy the planet.
I hear the music of rockets between the radio stations,
Hey look it's poison boy yapping and he looks awfully mechanical.
Keep your nose in the air and your dick in the book.
Make a baby in the fallout and maybe if your lucky
It'll look a little like an et jack in the box
With the googly eyes of a control group hooker.
ICBM six guns, uranium belt buckle,
You're all liquored up for the old testament barbeque.
It's you and your girlfriend getting licked by the clock
And your nursery's finished, every last sick little flower.
There's dirt on your date, don't even bother to keep it.
Say that's a nice looking famine, let's start dividing the ocean.
Our burning cities are tacky, yeah but they're still fucking burning,
The ghastly cowboy in office i think is knocking off early.
Emergency broadcast's a grim informercial,
But listen closely for the great, big, final school cancellation.
We're talking big old decisions that leave the earth to the roaches,
Flaming swords of whomever and all that other good bullshit.
The order of knick knacks thinking trading will continue
Has another thing coming, their kids are glowing in the dark.
It was a hell of blast,
The cowbell never came back.
It ain't a blow to the market,
It's a hole in the cosmos
It was a hell of blast,
The cowbell never came back.
It ain't a blow to the market,
It's a hole in the cosmos
To leave ears ringing and the anglos singing
"There ain't no shield..."
"There ain't no shield..."