Culture Club

Before extravagant, painted musicians with fantastical hats and synthesizers crooning 80's melodies and harmonies, there was us. A small band of two conjoined families with an insatiable hunger for culture We picked a nation out of a hat Germany, Russia, Hawaii, Spain and prepared their food wore their clothes sang their songs told their stories We planned and planned and planned to events worthy of being called "eventful" Then we picked composers: Beethoven, Bartok, Chopin, Grieg and played their music told their lives wrote their poems cried their tears We lost ourselves in history and the present tense Memories to bless the skin and swallow the mind - whole. There isn't a child born, who wouldn't expand their existence with such an upbringing. So we said: "Kill the TV!" "Run 'till panting" "Never judge" "Yearn to learn" We dreamed away the evenings spent in other lands, as other people with the true realization that culture can be found in your own living room... if you look hard enough.