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The ONLY way a guilty person can ease their own conscience in their dealings with others, is to exonerate themselves from ALL blame in any dealings they have with another person, and then to dump that blame squarely on the shoulders of the other person. They will even lie KNOWING that the truth is out there with which they can be convicted. THIS is the standard Modus Operandi of the guilty party in any relationship, friendship or other dealings with other people. Private Investigations speaks very eloquentl...

The ONLY way a guilty person can ease their own conscience in their dealings with others, is to exonerate themselves from ALL blame in any dealings they have with another person, and then to dump that blame squarely on the shoulders of the other person. They will even lie KNOWING that the truth is out there with which they can be convicted. THIS is the standard Modus Operandi of the guilty party in any relationship, friendship or other dealings with other people. Private Investigations speaks very eloquently of this phenomenon.

One of the 18th century's great poets wrote:
"In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee
With silence and tears"
~Lord George G. Byron

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "Ode to a Skylark"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHGoa...
This bitter earth
Well, what fruit it bears
Ooooo, This bitter earth
And if my life is like the dust
Oooh that hides the glow of a rose
What good am I
Heaven only knows

Lord, this bitter earth
Yes, can be so cold
Today you're young
Too soon, you're old
But while a voice within me cries
I'm sure someone may answer my call
And this bitter earth
Oo may not
Oohh be so bitter after all

This bitter earth
Aaahh this bitter earth
What good is love
Mmm that no one shares
And if my life is like the dust
Ooo that hides the glow of a rose
Then what good am I
Heaven only knows

{Dinah Washington}

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
? Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

To my Beloved -- my one and only love. ~ Ephesians 1:6
"My Beloved is mine, and I am his.." ~ Song of Solomon 2:16
I can no longer fight him or his memory, my Lord.
Neither have I the desire anymore. I have lost the battle!
Nevertheless, my Lord, remember Thou Thy servant, Elizabeth,
And Thy promises to her, that my prayers are effectual for
all those for whom I intercede with you. Whether those prayers
are effectual for this temporal world we live in, or whether they
are effectual for those for whom eternal life has been predestined,
according to Thy word. Amen.


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"Private Investigations" is a popular song by Dire Straits from their album Love Over Gold. Although it was not released as a single in the US, it reached the number 2 position in the UK (despite its length), and is one of their biggest chart successes in the United Kingdom, on a par with "Walk of Life". Similarly, the album it came from, Love over Gold, only sold 500,000 copies in the US, though it was well-received elsewhere. The track also appeared on the compilation albums Money for Nothing and Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits, and is the title track to the more recent 2005 compilation, The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations.

The song begins with a sinister, deep pitched synthesizer orchestration, leading into a slow piano progression accompanying a classical guitar. Throughout the several spoken verses, Knopfler expresses the disillusionment and bitterness of a betrayed lover, likening his position to that of a private investigator uncovering scandal: "A bottle of whiskey and a new set of lies / Blinds on the windows and a pain behind the eyes.....Scarred for life, no compensation / Private investigations."

After the verses, the song opens up into a slow, bass-driven beat, with strident electric guitar chords at the end, before the gradual diminuendo featuring extended interplay between Mark Knopfler's acoustic guitar and marimba played by Mike Mainieri.

On the Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits DVD, Mark Knopfler said this about the song: "It's just about the Private Investigations... "What have you got at the end of the day" - Nothing more than you started out with..." It is said the song was inspired by author Raymond Chandler.[citation needed]

This song was also modified by Mark Knopfler into a film score for the Bill Forsyth movie Comfort and Joy in 1984, where you can hear the song broken up into portions and used for certain scenes.

The riff from the song was used on a BT advert in 1994.

Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_...