Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Lyrics

And now I know
Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say
I thought I knew
But now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City

Until you've seen this trash can dreams come true
You stand at the edge while people run you through
And I thank the Lord
There's people out there like you
I thank the Lord
There's people out there like you

While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers
Turn around and say good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But they can't and that is why
They know not if it's dark outside or light

This Broadway's got
It's got a lot of songs to sing
If I knew the tune I might join in
Oh, and go my way alone
Grow my own
My own seeds shall be sown in New York City

Subway's no way for a good man to go down
Rich man can ride and the hobo he can drown
And I thank the Lord
For the people I have found
I thank the Lord

For the people I have found

Oh
While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers
Turn around and say good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But they can't and that is why
They know not if it's dark outside or light

And now I know
Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say
I thought I knew
But now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City

Until you've seen this trash can dreams come true and
You stand at the edge while people run you through
And I thank the Lord
There's people out there like you, yeah
I thank the Lord
There's people there like you, oh

While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers
Turn around and say good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But they can't and that is why
They know not if it's dark outside or light
They know not if it's dark outside or light

-----------------------------The meaning --------------------------------

This song is about New York City.

Many people come to this city because they want to make the dream come true. It make there are a lot of people in New York City. There are many types and many nationalities in there. There are not the clearly ways in New York City.

New York City's life is spent most of the time in the building. Work, work and work in the building. They can not know there is day or night. Cause of they can’t see the sky. How can they know it's dark or light?

It talks about the places.

Spanish Harlem that is in the north-eastern of Manhattan. There are not just only words to say. If you visited it with yourselves, you will know how wonderful it is.

Broadway, it is the street that has many theaters and there are many musical plays. It got a lot of songs.

Subway, the mass transit that people who rich won’t to come in but it is the place that people homeless can live. The richer can ride their car or take taxi.

I thank the god for every thing I met in New York City.

This song is composed by Elton John.

My parents’ opinions

My father isn’t a serious person. He does the things that he wants to do like play games or sport in his free time. It doesn’t make a problem for his job. His life doesn’t have only work. He said if we can control how to use time,we will know what time is good for relaxing or doing work. I think that it is his life style.

My mother is the opposite of my father although she doesn’t do only work but she does things seriously.

I think they think society today is dangerous but some part of it isn’t like that. My mother told me many time about danger thing like Thai traffic or the danger of other people wanting something from us. They know we can’t live without society but we can have the life with experience and take care of ourselve carefully.

My parents think education is very important for get tiny a job. Special study can help us have a method to make the test to be easy but it can’t help us to make life be easy.

I agree with their opinions, I want to have life style like my father, I like it because I think it is the way to have fun with life and it would be better if I had to do something for other people. If I can do it like that, I think my life will be useful and a happy life.

How do you feel when you do something special or important?

Sometimes the important thing wouldn’t be the thing that you like. But we know those are the activities we must do. Such as the job or the work ,if we haven’t high education other people would not hire us and if we can’t make some money then we can’t live.

I don’t like to learn some subjects. I feel bored. But my emotion isn’t important ,although I hate it ,but if societiy accepts it I must do it. My opinion if I can change my feeling about it maybe my life would be better and I would be happier than now.

If I like or want to do those activities it would make the good result ,because I would do it with all my ability and have concentration. I couln do it for a long time and I not be bored. Like when I read the novels I can read it all of the day and can remember the story for a long time. My feeling when I do it is fun but it is not important for other people. If the important things are the things that I like it would be better.

World’s Culture(New version)

What is the culture?

Someone told me “culture is the activity people do to conform to morals, beliefs and resource”. I don’t understand what it means. In my opinion the culture is the activity that people do. But my thing is wrong.

In every society there is ones own culture and in the other places there are different culture. It makes every society different.

I think culture changes by society accepting change (or maybe by influential people) because when people around you haven’t agreed with you maybe they would ban you. Or if they accept maybe they would support you.

Almost thing is grey. It isn’t white or black. Nothing that is all good and nothing is all bad too. The culture is like this is. Some cultures many people think it is very bad or wild but some people think it ok or maybe good. It’s like that because everybody has different experience. They don’t meet the same thing. They have their reason,such as their beliefs. It’s not wrong if their opinions are different.

The culture that I think people around the world agree with most is from the western like the language if anybody can’t use English language there are the problem to conversation with a lot of people(Language isn't culture).

What society expects of me

Now society expects many people to a have high education. If they don’t have high education they would not have the work. It is very important because if they haven’t a job they would not have the money.

Because of that my family wants me to have good work and a good future then they want me to have high education. Although they don’t take me have too much special learning they take me to have special learning about the things that they think is important. I am bored with it. I don’t want to do it but I didn’t tell them “I don’t like it”. Maybe they didn’t know my opinion. It is my mistake.

I think the education is not the only thing to make the good future.

Sometimes they stop me from going out from the house. They don’t let me know about outside. They think it is dangerous for me and outside is really dangerous. I don’t agree with them about this too much. It makes me to be an innocent girl and in the future I would be in danger because I don’t have a protector like now.
Maybe inside my house is better than outside. I don't know.

Teenagers today in my thinking

Teenagers today have more chances than in the past.

The good chances are like the chance about education . We can learn by the technology like searching information by the internet. It is faster than finding information from books. They can find the information from around the world.

Society today is very dangerous. Sometimes we see somegirl teenagers wearing the sexy clothes. It is the fashion but it is dangerous for them from the men. I think they can wear like that if they can take care of themselves but if I was them I would not wear clothes like that. Or sometimes we see some teenagers use the brand name that is expansive with their parents money. I think they can do this because their parents give them the money.

Some teenagers are lazy, maybe it is like that because there is much technology to make them comfortable or because now there is more entertainment than in the past. I think many people like entertainment more than doing the work (me too) but if we can’t control ourselves to do the thing that should done it can make us lose the chance.

For every teenager "thinking carefully before do something and use the chance that you have".

My name is..."Aim".

I am a simple girl in Thailand. People who know me call me “Aim”. Now I am 15 years old.

In my free time I like to read novels and sleep all the time. Sometimes I like to play games but I am bored too fast and that means I can’t be the gamer. I start to read novel books when I was 10-12 years old. My first book that I read all of it was “Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets”. I used 1 month or more(to read that book) I can’t really remember. But it made me like to read novels.

My dream when I was 6 years old was I wanted to be an inventor but when I was 11 years old I wanted to be an architect like my father, but then now I want to be a doctor. I don’t know in the future maybe I can’t be doctor because I am too lazy or maybe I can be the doctor, we can’t know. “The dream will be come true if we try and do it” I think like that because of that I must try and do something for my dream.