Athenaeus ([pronunciation?]; Ancient Greek Ἀθήναιος Nαυκρατίτης - Athếnaios Naukratítês, Latin Athenaeus Naucratita), of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor.
Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives.
Athenaeus himself states that he was the author of a treatise on the thratta — a kind of fish mentioned by Archippus and other comic poets—and of a history of the Syrian kings. Both works are lost.
The Deipnosophistae, which mean "dinner-table philosophers" or perhaps "authorities on banquets", survives in fifteen books. The first two books, and parts of the third, eleventh and fifteenth, are extant only in epitome, but otherwise the work seems to be entire. It is an immense store-house of information, chiefly on matters connected with dining, but also containing remarks on music, songs, dances, games, courtesans, and luxury. Nearly 800 writers and 2500 separate works are referred to by Athenaeus; one of his characters (not necessarily to be identified with the historical author himself) boasts of having read 800 plays of Athenian Middle Comedy alone. Were it not for Athenaeus, much valuable information about the ancient world would be missing, and many ancient Greek authors such as Archestratus would be almost entirely unknown. Book XIII, for example, is an important source for the study of sexuality in classical and Hellenistic Greece.
Who'd believe with the way things are here
We'd be going anywhere telling people
How to live?
Who'd believe we'd spend more
Shippin' drugs and guns
Than to educate our sons? Sorry but
That's what they did
I can't help but think,
Someone's forsaken you and me
Luck deserted me and the truth
Beat out my brains
Men rise on stepping stones of their
Selves to higher things
I've stepped over lots of bodies on my way
Thanks for the information don't need no
More anything
We are the damned of all the world
With sadness in our hearts
The wounded of the wars
We've been hung out to dry
You didn't want us anyway
And now we're making up our minds
You tell us how to run our lives
i came to die
terminal patient
dies inside
pain & evil
side by side
final treatment
final fear
come and take me
out of here
i came to die
Why the noise
And why the protest?
Why try to talk
When it's all been said?
Why the dream
And why the dreaming?
Why try to get away
When there's no place ahead?
Feel the way teardrops fall.
Feel the weight
Teardrop fall.
Teardrop fall.
Why the rage
And why the anger?
Why try to fight
When you've got no defence?
Why the hope
And why the hoping?
Why try to understand
When it never made sense?
Shut your mouth
Close your eyes.
Don't try to answer,
Don't try to try.
Feel the way teardrops fall.
Feel the weight
Teardrop fall.
Teardrop fall.
Teardrop fall.
Shut your mouth
Close your eyes.
Ah, don't try to answer,
Don't try to try.
Feel the way teardrops fall.
Feel the weight
Teardrop fall.
Teardrop fall.
You followed me
with reckless gnosis
such a free kingdom of haughtiness
(you've) owed me trust
+and owed me just lies
such an endless flight
lasting broken
and never dying
Discover me
in a splendid glory
where parrots pray
a final rosary
blue bleeding blasts in purple skies
with an antic of lies
such an odious paradise
... paradise ...paradise
I am your overdose end
and you want to fly
so discover me
and you'll find a place
where you never die
I am your overdose end
and you want to fly
so discover me
and you'll find a place
Are you down?
So down?
Slow down cuz it won't get no good
Low?
So low?
I know it can only get worse from here
It turns black from grey
There's no way of getting up now
Now when you are down
Cuz you see
I've got some news for you
There is no way of getting up
And this road will only take you to the end
So come on
It's done
No one is going to help you
And I
I lie
Yes I'd do it again
One thing you know will be there
Is your darkest fear
And now it's time for you to do what's right to do
It's just the way it's meant to be
There is no light at the end to see
Everyday is one step closer
Everyday is one step further down
And do you know where we all are going?
You should die but they won’t let you.
They’ve plugged you in so you have to,
stay alive cause they don’t want to,
let you die like your supposed to.
Life is nimble, death is quick.
Who knows the cure for what makes you sick?
How much longer will machines prolong,
the unavoidable death of a lifeless form?
You should die, they can’t help you.
Came back to life or let death release you.
What should I do, should I kill you?
What is right, what is wrong?
Life is nimble, death is quick.
Who knows the cure for what makes you sick?
How much longer will machines prolong,
Writing at deaths door
Life is unnecessary for him
Being tied to machines
Won't give him the will to live
Law gives permission to kill
While it prohibits the will to die
People are against
It is his life not yours
Euthanasia
Give him the chance to die
Decision belongs to him
Human rights are against euthanasia
'cos they believe
Human must live
Whatever in peace or in pain
Pain-pain-pain is the same
Walk the twisted road that makes you bleed again
The same one that made you dry like an empty well
Smash your head into the wall again
You were a slave in heaven and now a superstar in hell
And in the pouring rain...
Lie like a black-thorned rose,
In a sea of harpies, dream,
Dream for the euthanasia,
Dream and dream...
Fall between the lines that made you scream again
so loud it made you crack just like a broken doll
And a magic pill to fix a broken will
We'll break the walls of silence,
Until the sun comes shining through
And in the pouring rain...
Lie like a black-thorned rose,
In a sea of poppies, dream,
Dream for the euthanisia,
Dream and dream...
And in the pouring rain...
Lie like a black-thorned rose,
In a sea of puppies, dream,
Dream for the euthanisia,
Dream and dream...
Lie like a black-thorned rose,
In a sea of puppies, dream,
Dream for the euthanisia,
You're all locked up in darkness
You’re still scratching the surface
And you’re stitching the red dress to the black
You are wandering nervous and searching for purpose
But with death on your mind you seem right on track
Now you know that I love you
You use that against me
You try to offend me until I charge
The mass reaction inside the last refractions grasp
In what you thought was real is only real because
You went and made it up
You're chained up
You locked us up
And you broke the silence with one word
A bad word
A sad word
And you can't stop going you know two
You want to
It takes two
But there ain't no coming back
You know
We both know
As we slowly slip between the cracks
Now you feel this injustice
You feel it within you
You let it control you and I know why
Because you can’t see the colors
Can't see the love here
You can't see the something that you can't find
Now you know that I love you
You use that against me
You try to offend me until I charge
The mass reaction inside the last refractions grasp
In what you thought was real is only real because
You went and made it up
You chained us up
You locked us up
And you broke the silence with one word
A bad word
A sad word
And you can't stop going you know two
You want to
It takes two
But there ain't no coming back
You know
We both know
As we slowly slip between the cracks
Suicide mirror
It's time to wake up
And see now
Open your eyes
For me it's time to wake up
And see
Your eyes are still closed and the lights are all still dim
And I still see this inside my mind
You're still far the hole and digging my feet in
Why would you take me so far inside
’Cuz you know that I love you
You use that against me
You try to offend me until I charge
The mass reaction inside the last refractions grasp
In what you thought was real is only real because
You went and made it up
You're chained up
You locked us up
And you broke the silence with one word
A bad word
A sad word
And you can't stop going you know two
You want to
It takes two
But there ain't no coming back
You know
We both know
As we slowly slip between the cracks
Suicide mirror
It's time to wake up
And see now
Open your eyes
For me it's time to wake up
And see
Now open your eyes
Please see, you know want this
Inside this dream
You know you got it
Please see
You have to stop this
Suicide is not a dream
And this is not worth being your friend
I feel your grinding
It's alike
But it's not
If it only wasn't
I'd refrain from my speech
You went and made it up
You're chained up
You locked us up
And you broke the silence with one word
A bad word
A sad word
And you can't stop going you know two
You want to
It takes two
But there ain't no coming back
You know
We both know
As we slowly slip between the cracks
Suicide mirror
It's time to wake up
And see now
Open your eyes
For me it's time to wake up
And see
Please see you know want this
Inside this dream
You know you got it
Please see
You have to stop this
Suicide is not a dream
Suicide is not a dream
Suicide is not a dream
Drag your carcass out of bed and into the revolution,
Or sleep through it all instead and take the credit.
Ain't that the fashion of the rich human pollution?
And all of you accredited anarchists feel free
To bring your wet nurses and prized possessions to war.
You wanna buy into the good fight?
There's no better time
I am your clenched fist, personified.
But if you wanna stay home and jerk off
To pictures on facebook that's fine
Or if you've got a gun,
And a couple of bucks we can youthanize.
..we can youthanize.
Change!? Change!? Can you spare any change??
Can you spare any?