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“I am blind.”
Mark Pollock (born 1976) is an adventurer, athlete, rower, kayaker, author and international motivational speaker from Northern Ireland who became the first blind man to reach the South Pole. As part of a three-man team called South Pole Flag, alongside Simon O'Donnell and Inge Solheim he took just over three weeks in January 2009 to complete the Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race to his destination. Pollock admitted his disability had slowed him down but they finished fifth overall from six teams. He participated against nine other teams, including that of BBC personality Ben Fogle and the Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell, a friend of Pollock. An avid rower Pollock has won bronze and silver medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England and has also written a book titled Making It Happen. On 7 February 2009 he appeared on the RTÉ One chat show Tubridy Tonight.
Pollock was born to Barbara and Johnny in Holywood, County Down. He had been having problems with both retinas since he was a child. When he was five years old, he lost all sight in his right eye, with the rest of his childhood being spent attempting to avoid rough team sports, in order to preserve the vision in his left eye. He studied Business and Economics in Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a champion schools rower and captain of the university's rowing club. The college later awarded him an honourary degree following confirmation of his blindness.
Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down.
I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight
Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down.
Seasons came and changed the time
When I grew up, I called him mine
He would always laugh and say
"Remember when we used to play?"
Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down.
Now he's gone, I don't know why
And till this day, sometimes I cry
He didn't even say goodbye
He didn't take the time to lie.
Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Can't believe those days
It seems like such a haze
Of cigarettes and alcohol
It was so different then
Now it's just idol wind
And you were there to catch my fall
I wasn't a dream or even what you need but I
Promise to be it now
If you decide to stick around
I don't need to be so damn angry
To fend off all these enemies
And I finally see I don't need to be the life of the
party
To know there is someone who cares for me
Oh how things have changed
And even you just has to be amazed
You decided to stick around
I don't care of the longevity of Kodak high fidelity
I don't need plastic memories bombarding all my walls
Just throw them all to the floor
And tomorrow make one thousand more
I remember when I wanted to be
A punk rock star on MTV
Rich and drunk and dead at thirty
Seemed like the life I wanted to lead
Now I'm a sellout and a company man
working days to feed my family
This is not a rebel stand
It's just the pride of a common man
Before that I wanted to be
Plugged into the underground scene
Sad and hating everything
When I was young I had big dreams
Now I'm a sellout and a company man
working days to feed my family
This is not a rebel stand
It's just the pride of a common man
And all these things I wanted to be
In the end this was all I needed
In her eyes I saw my dreams
So you can call me anything
Like I'm a sellout and a company man
working days to feed my family
This is not a rebel stand
Do you remember when?
Do you remember when everything was so dark?
We were stealing then.
We were stealing then from anything with a spark
When the skies open up and the cloud roll away
and I'm left with nothing to say
I will never return to my yesterdays
It gets so cold here.
So cold I fear I'll never be warm
It's different here
So different but who's to say what's right or wrong
When the skies open up and the cloud roll away
and I'm left with so much to say
I will never forgive my yesterdays
We were free then
So free but still so angry
I had you and you had me
But it just wasn't what we need
When the skies open up and the cloud roll away
and I'm not sure what to say
I never did agreed that it's a sin
but a bullet in the head ain't
no way to live and
kinda glad I never had the guts
cause this ain't no dream but it's close enough
I've always been kinda fucked in the head
but I never really did have it all that bad
three squares, a mom, and a dad
but the truth is I never did liked myself
which tends to make the living kinda rough
as if being young wasn't hard enough
but it's the perfect recipe for making a punk
They say it's all how you grew up
Chemicals and all that junk
I just say some of us have all the luck
through bloodshot mornings and low wage days
Somehow I managed to find my way
But it wasn't cause of any of those things
Trying to define
the hues of the moonlight
but I haven't the vocabulary
nor the dictionary
so perfectly ordinary
that I forget what it's like
how pain is the price
to be here with you on Earth tonight
Wish I could say
what you mean to me
but I haven't the dreamer's mind
nor the poet's rhyme
to describe my Heaven's sight
and I forget what it's like
how pain is the price
And I don't wanna be the one
To point out the wrong you've done
Saying I told you so isn't me
But this time maybe
Think you've got it right this time
Hearing voices in my head
Stories that you've been told
Never had this bad an end
And I wish that you were one to say
There will be a better day
Love is just around the bend
You should have seen it
Coming around the bend
You should have known that this was how
The story is gonna end
You spend your life uncaring
For the people that are sharing
This world with you
And they're gonna hold you
Accountable
It didn't have to be this way
No it didn't have to be this way
But know there's a price that you gotta pay
And maybe we'll all wake up in a better day
But the god awful truth is that it didn't have to be this
Saw the whole world dying
In your eyes tonight
Saw the streetlights stand against
An endless time
Let's walk the streets
Where we were children
Hold me like you can't imagine
Any other story underneath a different sky
And don't say goodbye
Saw the whole world dying
In your eyes tonight
Saw the streetlights stand against
An endless time
We watched this town dry up and die
And still we stood against the sky
Children of an ended time
Eternity was in our eyes
Another Captain Crunch Morning
Gonna eat up that good stuff
Another Captain Crunch morning
And then the...anal sex
Met her at a bar thought she
Was a sure thing told her I loved her
And that she was super rad
Didn't really love her thought
She kinda looked fat didn't even like her
But I wanted to tap that ass
Don't live in the past
Let me put this up your ass
It'll only hurt the first time
It'll only hurt the first time
She said "I don't want it up there"
"Take that thing out of there"
Lost my faith that day
Saw you how you are
Not much if anything worth saving
Somehow long ago
You weren't so very wrong
And saw things so much clearer
And you say you're happy now
But I can see right through you
There's not much left to say
Goodbye my so called friend
So when you're standing all alone
Can't say we told you so
There's no one else to blame
I'm sorry
So take your sorry life and throw it all away
You never had it right
Standing in the corner waiting for
My marching orders sometimes I wonder
Why I bother getting up in the morning
But it's just another dirty job
A mile that needs traversing
Just another bridge I crossed that's
Calling out for burning singing
Where were you when I saved the world
Where were you when I got the girl and
Where were you when I figured out my life
Where were you when I took my turn
Where were you when I got burned
Where were you when I was running out time
And where were you
Now the working day is done
I get to wrestle with the devil
Bad decisions that I made keep
Coming back to bite in the ass
At the end of the day I just gotta laugh
Because I finally found the straw
Trust is a funny thing
It runs out quick
Just think about the friend you had before you did this
And I know I only doubt it ‘cause I want the universe
to be just
I’m sure things will work out ‘cause, after all,
“This time its love!” and
I was always sure that life was never worth giving up
To waste the chance we’re given, man,
It’s just fucking criminal
And I was always sure there was a second chance for
everyone
Yeah, I was always sure
But I’m not so sure about you
Now the weddings all done
You got your pictures on the net
Classy move to keep the date
I’m sure that’s something that you’ll never regret
In time
As you’re rollerblading off to a brand new life
Just remember:
“You deserve this!”
We just wanted you to know before we said goodbye that
I was always sure that life was never worth giving up
To waste the chance we’re given, man,
It’s just fucking criminal
And I was always sure there was a second chance for
everyone
Whoa
All I want: the world
All I want
Crimson touch of my burning hand
I send my astro zombies to rape the land
Prime directive:
Exterminate the whole human race
And your face drops in a pile of flesh
And then your heart, heart pounds till it pumps in
death
Prime directive:
Exterminate whatever stands left
All I wanted to say
And all I gotta do
Who'd I do this for, hey, me or you?
Whoa
All I want: the world
All I want
Crimson touch of my burning hand
I send my astro zombies to rape the land
Prime directive:
Exterminate the whole human race
And your face drops in a pile of flesh
And then your heart, heart pounds till it pumps in
death
Prime directive:
Exterminate whatever stands left
All I wanted to say
And all I gotta do
Who'd I do this for, hey, me or you?
Whoa
All I want: the world
All I want
Crimson touch of my burning hand
I send my astro zombies to rape the land
Prime directive:
Exterminate the whole human race
And your face drops in a pile of flesh
And then your heart, heart pounds till it pumps in
death
Prime directive:
Exterminate whatever stands left
All I wanted to say
And all I gotta do
Who'd I do this for, hey, me or you?
Whoa
All I want: the world
Somethings are best left unsaid
Most times I would rather not know
All these things we talked about
I will have no control
On your twenty-one
Twenty-one
Twenty-one
When it's all up to you
I wish I could steal a rocket ship
Go a million years into the future
Where they already have the antidote
And fly back home with your cure
On your twenty-one
Twenty-one
Twenty-one
Suicide standing
Sucking in her cheeks
Too much lips and too much eyes
Hasn't slept for weeks
She don't know
Just where it goes
Jackie T said she saw death
She's done it fifty ways
She's been off that medicine for
Almost fifteen days
She don't know
Just where it goes
So turn around and run
Back where you're from
You can't get on
Don't shake those hips
Don't bite those lips
Just keep it hid
Come on now you gave it away
And all the friends you had got paid
Come on you were never that shy
And that's no way for you to say bye bye
So turn around and run
Back where you're from
You can't get on
Don't shake those hips
Don't bite those lips
Just keep it hid
Baby, you drive me crazy
Don't come around here no more
You drive me crazy
Don't come around here no more
You drive me crazy
Don't come around here no more
I remember when money
was oh so rare
You'd spend your last dollar on me,
On a whim, and a dare
You had bad habits
But how could I even care
When you looked so good
In your cheap dress
And your pulled back hair
It doesn't matter where I go
Cause your memories will follow
You left for adventure
With someone I didn't know
Then you called me up to say
You don't think your ever coming home
Well if I had some sense
I might still be angry
But someone so beautiful
I'm not gonna be
Fodder for your monarchy
I'd rather stand and die
On my own two feet
We shouldn't be afraid
To Stand up for what is right
How can you listen to them lie
And still refuse to fight
They took it all away
Now we want it back
Scared into submission
Now we're taking it back
So what is left to fight for
When our freedoms lie
On Iraqi shore
Our brothers and sisters
Are dead at your hand
Traded in their lives
Step Up….
I shouldn’t be who they want to be…
Analyzed, Desensitized to their tears
“Cruel to be Kind” is a worthless response
Kids don’t know just how far to go
You should show them to stand proud
Not cut them right down to the ground
And I know I’m supposed to respect you
But I can’t understand why you do the things you do
And I don’t have time to change your mind
Saturday night you’re going out and I don’t want to get
in that fight
So here is to wasted night
Self deception
Hat's off to
My pointless youth
Here is to drunk, stupid
And going backwards
It sure was a good time
While it lasted
She'd come into my room
Ignore the filth piled everywhere
I'd look at her and know
She deserved better
But I couldn't talk her
Into greener pastures
So here is to wasted night
Self deception
Hat's off to
My pointless youth
Here is to drunk, stupid
And going backwards
It sure was a good time
While it lasted
I'd spent the last five years
Just drinking until my head
Hit that night's floor
Didn't have anything going on here
And sure the hell wasn't going anywhere
So here is to wasted night
Self deception
Hat's off to
My pointless youth
Here is to drunk, stupid
And going backwards
It sure was a good time
While it lasted
I told her so many times
But it seemed so goddamn unlikely
She never left my side
Guess it's not my job
To talk people out of suicide
So here is to wasted night
Self deception
Hat's off to
My pointless youth
Here is to drunk, stupid
And going backwards
It sure was a good time
Someone told me a story
About the end of times
Someone told me a story
It was a fucking lie
Sometimes I wonder why
Nothing’s ever cut and dried
Sometimes I wonder how I-I got to have you in my life
This is a song for the girl that never went away
This is a song for the thousand things that go right
every single day
That no one ever seems to write a song about
It’s funny because they’re the things that make you stick
around
A bowl of ice cream
It’s fuckin’ February
Ten minutes you’ll be telling me you’re cold
Sometimes I wonder why your crazy never got on my nerves
But you do have sex with me and that makes up for quite a
This is a song for the girl that never went away
This is a song for the thousand things that go right
every single day
That no one ever seems to write a song about
It’s funny because they’re the things that make you stick
I always kinda liked you so I'm not going to laugh
But it's hard to listen to you make a myth
out of my past and I know it's hard to keep
Out of that easy lie about how much better
Things were for us once upon a time
But I remember sitting drinking
On a long, dead day
Thinking I don't give a damn
About what they say
Cause that is never gonna be
A place for me
And maybe I'm just bitter cause
I was never part of it but your scene
Looked kinda empty from the outside
In it was mostly punk rock coat racks
With 60 minute hair who were too
36-24-36
See a girl walkin' down the street
Just the kind of girl that I'd like to meet
It ain't her hair, her clothes, her feet
Somethin' much more discreet
Now I ain't loud baby I ain't proud
I just want what I'm not allowed
Movin on up & help myself
Do a world of good for my mental health
36-24-36
Something's brookin' that needs to be fixed
I don't know how to tell you this but
I'm getting bored and I need some kicks
Like 36-24-36
Man-o man-o man-o man
I got a red hot plan if you understand
Cannot fail it's plain to see
I'm have'n fun and makin' money
I know this summer's gonna be the best
If I don't die from lack of rest
Experience what my daddy said
That's what I got just like he said
36-24-36
Something was broke but I got it fixed
I don't know if I should tell you this
But I was gettin' bored and I got my kicks
Like 36-24-36
Somethings special 'bout her personality
Somethings special 'bout her psysiology
36-24-36
I want lots of pretty chicks
36-24-36
I want lots of pretty chicks
36-24-36
I want lots of pretty chicks
36-24-36
My girlfriend broke up with me (x)
We played this show in Green Bay,Wisconsin
I met this chick she was totally awesome
I took her out to Wendy's and then Taco Bell
Then we went back straight to the hotel
My girlfriend broke up with me (x)
Her name was Cindy
She use to date this total fucking douche bag
I guess he use to spend all of his money on her
And do whatever she wanted then she totally left him for
Because I'm totally awesome. Yes I am. I'm totally
awesome.
This band that opened up for us had this sweet-ass bass
player
He had a bass coach. That bass coach taught him some
Don't pity this poor immigrant
My eyes were open when I caught the boat
All I wanted was your shelter, and maybe just a little
hope
But you turned your anger on me for the courage that
you lack
I don't want your half-assed freedom
You can have the whole deal back
Now let me tell you something
Let's get this straight from the start
Don't call me harp, don't call me harp
You said "Bring me your poor and destitute
And I can kick them when they're down"
Cause there's always enough misery
And we'll be sure to share it round
Now I'll turn my anger on you for the decency you lack
For the morals you fail to uphold, your cocaine, crack
and smack
To the land that wears it's heart up front
I'm screaming from the back
Don't call me harp, don't call me harp
And the ghetto's almost full now
It's time the trash was moved uptown
And the sight of all those beggars on the streets
Must really get you down
Soon they'll turn their anger on you for the promises
you broke
For all the lies you told them as their dreams went up
in smoke
And I feel I stand among them as I shout this from the
heart
Don't call me harp, don't call me harp
You built your land on principles decent, brave and
true
I find it hard to understand just what went wrong with
Looking back now I guess I can't define
But we never thought we'd live see a better time
And looking back now I'll never know why
But I lived and left that world behind
Sometimes I feel like I left you to die
Like I let you down when I moved on with my life
And I remember better times
Back before you lost your mind
This is how it looks when our town dies
Looking through a bottle at another bloodshot day
Strange to think that drunk and unhappy
Would be the way you'd want me to stay
Guess you got your life
And it's fair to say that I got mine
I can't believe those days
It seems like such a haze
Of cigarette smoke and alcohol
It was hard to leave it then
Now it's just idol wind
And you were there to catch my fall
I wasn't a dream or even what you need
But I promise to be it now
If you decide to stick around
I don't need to be So damn angry
To fend off, all these enemies
Now I finally Don't have to be the life of a the party
To know there is someone who cares for me
Oh how things have changed
And even you just has to be amazed
You decide to stick around
I don't care of the longevity of Kodak high fidelity
I don't need plastic memories bombarding all my walls
Let's through them all to the floor and tomorrow make one
thousand more
I guess it’s safe to say
That we should’ve seen it coming
Maybe put us in the way
And the look in your eyes like you believed the lies
And like title ever could have took the place of pride
I don’t know
Hardly seems worth the effort to explain
And I don’t know if I’m disgusted more or less than I’m
betrayed
But we never could have stood to see another man a
slave
And to think how close we came to a brand new day
Hey!
Could’ve ended better but instead I’m gonna walk away
It’s always been this way
Such a fucking shame
Row on row of empty causes
Nets and losses
Stupid goddamned game
And I don’t know if I’m disgusted more or less than I’m
betrayed
But we never could have stood to see another man a
slave
And to think how close we came to a brand new day
Hey!
Could’ve ended better but instead I’m gonna walk away
And the look in your eyes like you believed the lies
And like title ever could’ve took the place of pride
I’ve walked a lot of lines
Had a couple bad times
Young and strong
Shred of confidence unfounded
I was leading with my chin
Never knew a better way than this
It was 1995
I had yet to take a fall
And I was just cannon fodder
For The wider World
So I traveled far from home
chasing dreams and fleeing daemons
Ended up an empty drunken shell within
Three years of freedom
It was 1997 I had fallen hard and often
And I'd lost my battle
With the wider World
So I went back home
Maybe bent a little broken
Ready to start my life again
Maybe do it a little better this time
It was 1999 I had got back up again
And I'd be damned if I'd be
She stood there and watch the building burn with a voice
trapped in side
She was too scared to even try and be burned alive
You don't under stand and you don't care “what difference
would it make”
You got the jacket and the spiky hair “what else can I
say?”
There is something in those sullen eyes that reminds me
we're in...
Paradise, Paradise, what difference would it make
Paradise, Paradise, what else can I say
You told me you would watch them drown with nothing they
could do
Because if they had the chance they'd do the same to you
There something in those sullen eyes
Paradise, Paradise, what difference would it make
You wrote me a song that night
But you said not all teh words rhyme
I said I never heard anything so pretty
You aid that you feel fine
But at night you still cry
I said now isn't this world funny
Sometimes you gotta throw away what you got
When you're just playing a role you're not
And I hope you know I didn't mean hurt you
Guess I didn't think it through
How I was to me and you to you
You wrote me a stroy that night
But you said it didn't have an ending
I said one would come with time
You said you loved me and
waited for me answer
Bt you got your ending that night
Sometimes you gotta throw away what you got
When you're just playing a role you're not
And I hope you know I didn't mean hurt you
Guess I didn't think it through
I remember when we cut the string
I remember wishing I could think of anything to say
And I was never very good at ends of things
I usually try to be somewhere kinda not around
When it starts
To come down
And I remember talking to you on an afternoon
The weather just cold enough for thinking “jacket soon”
And I remember thinking this was gonna come between us
And never wanting any less to be right
I remember saying maybe I was being an asshole
But I was only trying to avoid a fight, ‘cause I knew
And it’s not that I begrudge you the peace of mind
It’s just that we can never figure how to fit inside
Fucking complicated lives
Did I mention that I’m sorry for the wasted time?
It’s just I thought that there’d be more before the well
ran dry
It’s alright
We’ll get by
Can’t say we didn’t try
And it’s not that I begrudge you the peace of mind
It’s just that we can never figure how to fit inside
Fucking complicated lives
It wasn't all that long ago
When I got drunk and you got stoned
We had had some swell times back in our prime
In 1999
When everything was brand new
But you were so hard on yourself
I swear you were set on self-destruct
And there was nothing I could do
This isn't what I wanted when I said i had to go
I wish you never had
Got so low
I wish you never got so low
I wish you never would have got so low
I hope you're not i to deep
I hope the ground still touching feet
If you find a better place to call home
I wish you never got so low
I wish you never would have got so low
I hope you find a better place to call
I wish you never would have got so low
I wish you weren't such a dirty hoe
You come to work everyday and you’re driving me insane
It’s like you’re eating at my brain
With your hair done up and your clothes all fancy
You try so hard, but you’re just not pretty
I know those shoes weren’t mine
Makes me want to gouge out your eyes and
I’d feel much better, if you would die, die, die
Die, die, die tonight
Your name’s not a name it’s just letters pushed together
No one wants human chain it’s 100 degrees out here
Young girl in the parking lot
She has misplaced her heart
But the party still rages on
Young man at the top of the roof
Cries out there's no use
But the party still rages on
Wrong neighborhood wrong time
Should have been at home sleeping it all off
But the party still rages on
You know it always will
Pretty girl in a tight spot
Violated and she wants to stop
But the party still rages on
Old man at the end of the block
Trying to remember what he's forgot
But the party still rages on
Wrong neighborhood wrong time
Should have been at home sleeping it all off
But the party still rages on