MITCH+B's+FAVOURITE+POEMS

 Welcome to where time stands still No one leaves and no one will Moon is full, never seems to change Just labeled mentally deranged Dream the same thing every night I see our freedom in my sight No locked doors, no windows barred No things to make my brain seem scarred
 * __WELCOME HOME (SANITARIUM) __**
 * METALLICA **

Sleep, my friend, and you will see That dream is my reality They keep me locked up in this cage Can't they see it's why my brain says “rage”

Sanitarium, leave me be Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Build my fear of what's out there Cannot breathe the open air Whisper things into my brain Assuring me that I'm insane They think our heads are in their hands But violent use brings violent plans Keep him tied, it makes him well He's getting better, can't you tell?

No more can they keep us in Listen, damn it, we will win They see it right, they see it well But they think this saves us from our hell

Sanitarium, leave me be Sanitarium, just leave me alone Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Fear of living on Natives getting restless now Mutiny in the air Got some death to do Mirror stares back hard “Kill,” it's such a friendly word Seems the only way For reaching out again

 The meanings I made from these lyrics are mainly of someone in society going against what is thought of normally, and becoming a social outcast, being blamed for his actions, because of others misunderstanding him. The literal meaning of these lyrics is that people in an insane asylum are not insane, but being held against their will, and also that they are trying to get out. The inferred meaning is that people get accused and judged in society, and that freedom is highly sought after, but rarely received. 
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KATH WALKER**
 * __COLOUR BAR__

When vile men jeer because my skin is brown, This I live down.

But when a taunted child comes home in tears, Fierce anger sears.

The colour bar! It shows the meaner mind Of moron kind.

Men are but medieval yet, as long As lives this wrong.

Could he but see, the colour-baiting clod Is blaming God

'Who made us all, and all His children He Loves equally.'

As long as brothers banned from brotherhood You still exclude,

The Christianity you hold so high Is but a lie.

Justice a cant of hypocrites, content With precedent.

The main meaning of this poem is racism, and that racism is terrible/bad. I got this meaning through the title of the poem, but also through some certain lines that are in the poem, which are used also to get sub-meanings across to the reader. The title 'Colour Bar' is showing the reader where this poem is going, by bringing up one of the things people have created to show that white people and black people, are different, which is wrong. The colour bar is making a difference to these two groups of people. A line in this poem that really gets the idea of racism across to the reader is the first one, 'When vile men jeer because my skin is brown' showing that the people that are racist are bad, with the use of the word 'vile'. That is how I got the meaning of racism being bad from 'Colour Bar'.
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