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Tyler Lyle

About Me

"I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.The way of life can be free and beautiful.But we have lost the way.Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish...Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."-Charlie Chaplain (The Great Dictator)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/10/2005
Band Website: www.virb.com/tylerlyle
Band Members:

Influences: charlie chaplain, greek tragedy, søren kierkegaard, maruchan ramen noodles, atlanta Ga, paris Fr, wilmore Ky, prague Cz, jan palach, bob dylan, jeff tweedy, neutral milk hotel, "the south", "the blues", earnest hemingway, henry miller, ipod, dad and his country music, cassie and her art, jack kerouac, the unbearable lightness of being, the impossible weight of becoming, eav, l5p, my bike, the oedipus cycle, hunter s. thomspon, am 1690, patrick park, "the walrus", friedrich nietzsche, lao tzu, christ, "the bible belt", flannery o'connor, brickstore pub, stark raving mad friends, friends who wish they were stark raving mad, friends who don't waiver/question/admit fear, european press, electronic music, karl marx, jean paul sartre, the ua tara on cheshire bridge
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Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

"The Future of the Music Industry" a rant/request

I've been in the studio four days a week since April, and I've met a lot of "music people." I've heard a bunch of complaining about the current state of the "music industry." Eight years ago (or so), ...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:26:00 GMT

An Explanation of the Love Song of Jan Palach

I lived in Prague, CZ in August of 2008. Many nights I would take the Metro into the center of new town and walk around Wenceslas Square to visit Jan Palach's (pronounced Yahn Pah-lock) memorial. Th...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:31:00 GMT

On the Music Industry...

I write songs. They are what they are. There have been times in the past when folks have wanted me to give them money/leverage over the songs I write in exchange for a (potential) open door into a bro...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:26:00 GMT

On God...

So this was a question posed to me on a blog by a guy named Jacob. The essence is- "Tyler, you used to be a good Christian- what's with the change in genre- what happened to your soul." I think that's...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:56:00 GMT

"An Update on Things Past and Things to Come" or "Update"

So, my life in Paris was cut short by the desire to be with friends and family during the holidays and to be there for my sister's 21st birthday. To clear this up, I'm not going to take my return tick...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:50:00 GMT

Charlie Chaplin

So I was taking this course on tragedy almost a year ago, and we read all sorts of Shakespeare and Greek Tragedy and Hegel and Nietzsche's thoughts about the philosophy behind tragedy. I discovered th...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:47:00 GMT

A Parade- lyrics

When we are old we won't need to touch to make loveOnly return my gaze from across the room and that'll be enoughBut now we are young- we must search out the depths of our heartEach stares at the othe...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:45:00 GMT

A letter to my friends in Atlanta

I've lived in this city since the summer of '05. I remember thinking in my first year, even before I knew anyone, that as much as anyone can love a city, I love Atlanta. My first year here was miserab...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:53:00 GMT

Iron Man and The Hulk- an existential approach

I'm not a comic book fan. I was once in sixth grade for about a day and a half, but then I moved on to collecting stamps. For some reason I've been entrigued by the superhero movies that have been com...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:53:00 GMT

Post 7

So, I'm sitting at a home in Greenwood, SC. It's the last away night of the first leg of the tour. I've played guitar every night since last saturday. It's been an interesting experience. I wish I had...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 22:38:00 GMT