Mark looked down at his feet. He couldn't stand to look Lisa in the face. "What. . . what if I wanted to break?" he asked hesitantly. "All. . . um . . . all I ever needed was a little time, and someone who understood me. And, uh. . .I don't think you do."
Confrontation was really hard for Mark. And he really didn't have a good reason to break up with Lisa, except that he had become closer to Rachel on the frequent trips they took together. He didn't tell that to Lisa, though. Rachel had acted interested, had even flirted some, but Mark didn't know if she'd actually go out with him. What he DID know, however, is that she WOULDN'T go out with him if she thought he was still with Lisa.
"Fine, Mark, just fine. You can look down at your feet all you want. They're not going to help. Guilty feet have got no rhythm." Lisa snapped. "Mark my words, you'll soon regret this. "
Power wears those out who don't have it, and right then, Mark had as little as he ever would. Lisa was angry that he broke up with her, not remorseful. He'd burned that bridge behind him.
He slowly got into his car and drove over to Rachel's neighborhood. He didn't want to be seen driving past her house, so he stopped a couple of blocks away, and ran through the rain to her house.
Standing outside, he could see Rachel's silhouette through the sheers in her living room. She was holding another boy tightly, and they were kissing. Glancing up, she could see Mark standing by the tree under the streetlamp on the corner of her yard. She went to the door.
"Mark. . . .Mark, is that you?" she called. "You took your coat off, and stood in the rain. What are you doing out there?"
"Uh. . . nothing," Mark feigned nonchalance. "I was just visiting down the street. I'm on my way back to my car."
He hurried back up the street to his car, and drove past Lisa's house. Her lights were all out. She'd already gone to bed. Mark remembered the parable of the dog who had a bone, and saw his reflection in the water. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
2007-07-19 14:30:52
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answered by Anonymous
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All I have ever needed was you and all you could say was, "what if I needed a break"? Mark my words, quilty feet have no rhythm. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. I turned around and you took your coat off and stood in the rain, and shouted, "power wears those out who don't have it." All had been said and that was the end of us.
2007-07-18 13:24:31
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answered by Lea 6
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"You took your coat off and stood in the rain?" Said the astonished wizard to the young pupil. "Whatever possessed you? Mark my words, you will become ill. Go straight to the infirmary for treatment."
The school nuse looked at the pupil with concern. "What were you thinking she said.
"I felt so free, and so powerful, standing out in the open with the rain pelting down of me."
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. You had your health child. Power wears those out who don't have it, and if you don't jump into bed this instant you will have no power to do anything for a long time."
The young pupil tripped over as he was walking to the bed.
"Guilty feet have got no rhythm" said the nurse, clucking under her breath. "Silly students. What if I wanted to take a break. A nice warm coffee or brandy by the fire? No. Always silly students doing silly things, hurting themselves and getting sick."
She tucked the pupil into bed, and produced some hot liquid on a spoon and shoved it into the scared pupils mouth.
The wizard entered the infirmary later in the day to check on the pupil. He chuckled at the sight of the cold pale looking boy. "All I ever needed to feel free and powerful was a run through the school grounds on a beautiful sunny day with my friends" he said.
2007-07-18 13:02:11
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answered by smile_girl 4
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I grabbed my jacket and yelled to the supervisor,"What if I wanted to break?" He yelled back,"15 minutes, and your back on the floor!" Outside I saw you with a cigarette. You took your coat off, and stood in the rain. I asked you what was wrong and you said, "All I ever needed------", and broke off in silence. Then you said, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." Then you walked away. Later I found out that you were going to jail for fraud. Mark my words, she'll never work around here again. Years later I saw her at a night club, to my companion I said,"Guilty feet have got no rhythm." As she danced clumsily on by us. When she realized who we were she stopped to sarcastically say, "Power wears those out who don't have it."
I haven't written anything in awhile, so sorry, this is the best I could come up with, while stopping to chase my 2year old.
2007-07-18 13:06:41
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answered by marriedw/children 3
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Florida. Prison. Gonna rain and rain some more. Stormy. I was sitting in the rain, watching where the water went. Planning, maybe. Gonna leave. Tired o' the guards. Just plain tired. Power wears those out who don't have it.
Olduvai George, that's what we called the geezer. He'd been in the pokey since Roosevelt was president. Teddy Roosevelt, not the wheelchair guy. "Hey, you took your coat off, and stood in the rain?" he asked me. "Mark my words, you'll catch your death o' cold."
"What if I wanted to break out?" I asked.
"Yeah, you and Ronnie, Bobby, Mickey and Mike," he scoffed. "Freedom, ain't seen that in a lifetime, almost. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
"All I ever needed was a break." I said.
"Yeah, you and a thousand other mugs," he said. "Got chocolate?"
I shook my head.
The next morning, I was up and in the yard. Still raining. The heavy rainfall was hiding me from the guard towers, and no one else was in the yard. I'm t'only one without sense to come in from the rain. I lifted the grate off the drain culvert, and slipped in, slid the grate back on. Tight fit, if I weren't slender, I wouldn't 'a' made it. Prison diet had been good to me. Took me a while to figure out how to move though. I had to pull with my toes, while pushing with my hands. Didn't get the hang of it at first, guilty feet have got no rhythm.
Took me a long time, slip sliding away, slipping and sliding, floating downstream. Ended up in a canal. Yup, I was a runaway.
2007-07-18 15:16:51
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answered by Anonymous
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I used to think that all I ever needed to be happy was my freedom. I realize now that freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, and back then, well....I felt like I had nothing to lose! In fact my desire for freedom is what gave me the determination to reclaim my life.
I well remember the day I gathered up enough courage to leave you for good. The day I stopped making excuses for your behavior, the day I decided that my days of oppression were over and done with !!!!
I had packed up all of your things and left them stacked up right outside the door. Although you knew it had been coming for an eternity, it surprised you. You looked at me dead in the eye and for the first time, I met your awful gaze head on. That stopped you dead in your tracks. Even then, you STILL tried to intimidate me. "What if I wanted to break your neck?" you said. I was beyond fear at that point, but the confrontation left me weary, power wears those out who don't have it.
Never the less, I stood my ground, telling you that there was nothing you could do that would change anything. My cool resolve frightened you, I think. You were so used to seeing me cower in fear. You shuffled back and forth restlessly, guilty feet have got no rhythm I suppose.
Your final attempt at seducing me into changing my mind was your declaration of undying love. It fell on barren ground. I felt my heart harden in my chest. You felt it too.
I watched you from the window after you had left.
You took your coat off, and stood in the rain, looking up at the window. "Mark my words, you'll beg me to come back" you yelled, shaking your fist up at me.
That was the last time I ever saw you.
Where ever you are I'd like you to know that having my freedom has been liberating and although I don't have total happiness yet, I'm a helluva lot closer to it than I ever was with your sorry ***!
2007-07-18 15:04:24
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answered by Silva 6
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All i ever needed------- was my own unique dancing style, something that would show how my power wears those out who don't have it. They would be in awe at my skills....but my guilty feet have no rhythm right now...for they have murdered Michael Flatley...
It was the middle of the night, you were there, you took your coat off, and stood in the rain. Suddenly, Flatley lunged out at me with his feet. I grabbed his neck with my feet and he struggled to say "You want this to break?" "What if I wanted to break?" *SNAP*
He went pale...hell, freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, thats why I want to get this new dance style. Mark my words, people will forget about my actions.
2007-07-18 12:55:02
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answered by PSU840 6
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Dodge City, Kansas
Circa 1876
As U.S.Marshal Matt Dillon dragged bank robber Mark Bills into the jail, it was indeed a struggle. Mark fought every step of the way.
Mark Bills:" I'm wearing you down, Dillon! Admit it!!!"
Matt:"(1)Power wears those out who don't have it..........
I have it.
You,on the other hand, do not....Therefore you are a pain in the *** ."
Mark :" I'm soaking wet, Dillon!!! Give me a blanket!!"
Matt:" (5)You took your coat off, and stood in the rain.
(6)Mark...... my words to you at the time, and I remember them DISTINCTLY, were.......'PUT ON THE DAMN SLICKER!!! ' But did you listen to me.....Nooooooooooooo."
Matt slammed the door shut and went to get an extra blanket.
Mark Bills surveyed the cage he was in. Then he spoke to the guy in the next cell........ "(7)What if I wanted to break? Would you be in on it, too?"
Kris KristopherSin shook his head:"Nawwwww."
Mark: "Don't you miss your freedom?"
Kris:" (4)Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
And nothin' and worth nothin'.....but it's free.....But I surely miss Bobbi McGee .......... That girl knows the secrets of my soul."
Mark:"Uh, hun."
Kris :(3) "All I ever needed to be happy is my good old guitar.
He pulled out a dirty red bandana, wiped off the strings and started strummin' and singin'.
Mark tried to keep the beat.
Kris stopped singing.......... "(2)Guilty feet have got no rhythm, Bills!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g26mnr83HTE
2007-07-18 13:44:09
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answered by I am Sunshine 6
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remember the time YOU TOOK YOUR COAT OFF, AND STOOD IN TH RAIN? MARK MY WORDS ALL I EVER NEEDED was for you to wear a white shirt that day. or no shirt what so ever would be fine! i mean, FREEDON'S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE right? what do you say we dance in the rain naked tonight? GUILTY FEET HAVE GO NO RHYTHM and i'm not about to feel guilty tonight! i don't think i could possibly grow tired of seeing you play nude in the rain, but WHAT IF I WANTED A BREAK? POWER WEARS THOSE OUT WHO DON'T HAVE IT. and surely jumping around in the rain will wear me out!
2007-07-18 13:07:37
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answered by Tashia 3
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I had fun with this! Here it is.
My short story.
"Oh yeah?" she shouts, "Mark my words! What if I wanted to break?"
"Break? Break what?" He retorts. "And what words do I mark this time? You never follow through with anything - you just threaten."
"You've done nothing to contribute to this relationship, except make sure that I feel as though I have absolutely no rights whatsoever!" she screamed. "No right to go out, no right to talk with others, regardless of sex..."
He holds up his hands defensively; like in a way a street cop would tell a driver to stop and replied, "Hey - I never said you had to stop going out with your friends. You misinterpreted me that night we went out, and then you embarrassed yourself when you got upset and ran out of the club. Then you got all melodramatic - you took your coat off and stood in the rain like you were some poor soul that has to put up with me..."
"Why were we even having that conversation in FRONT of my friends?" She said, tears forming in her eyes.
Her face was turning red from frustration and anger, and as she looked at him, she began to realize that she wasn't free.
Was that his fault? Or was she looking for an out? Did she feel freedom was another word for nothing left to loose? Did she realize that perhaps it was she that creating chaos for the two of them to enable that outlet to present itself?
In other words, was she driving him away?
Or was it that power wears those out who don't have it? Was she really feeling so powerless, or was she being too unreasonable when it came to fulfilling his needs?
"Hellooooo," he said sarcastically. "Remember me? The other person in this discussion?"
As she turned on her guilty feet have got no rhythm to walk away, she looked back at him. Not in anger, not in frustration, not even in sadness.
She looked at him with respect. She really did respect him - she just didn't understand him sometimes.
"All I ever needed - “she started, "was to hear that you want to be with me. And not by fighting about it."
"Yeah, well," he said, scratching his forehead with his left hand. Suddenly, he began to sing:
Sha la la la la la, don't be scared
You got the mood prepared
Go on and kiss the girl
Sha la la la la la, don't stop now
Don't try to hide it
How you wanna kiss the girl
Sha la la la la la, float along
And listen to the song
The song say kiss the girl
2007-07-18 13:26:04
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answer #10
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answered by Done 6
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