Lyn Fromme (Red) & Sandra Good (Blue) Interview

 

I Can't Remember When

 ...so I went to school to learn to be a fool 

find out what I already knew 

that I am you and you are the world 

and I am me and I am the world 

we are one girl together 

love is always the weather 

though it seems but a dream 

time that you spend on the ocean all around 

every place you could conceive 

battled and you fought you lived and died 

you've been everything you could be  

how can one compete with the ocean? 

how can one compare the sun? 

You can see that you'll never be over 

you can see that it’s all  in your mind...

"I Can't Remember When"

The Family Jams

Lyrics by Charles Manson

A Deer in the Forest

 

ATW Roots

The game is coming to an end, and you laugh and talk among your friends,
for me there is no romancing, no beginning again,
'cause I'll never stop remembering my forgotten dream, forgotten dream.
Charles Manson
'Now Is The Time'
1960's

...Everyone says crazy fool, your always gazing at the night, with my arms around a tree, loving life with all my might...
Charles Manson
‘my world’
1960’s

When I was a deer in the forest, I saw a man as God, and thats your rightful order. I came to you with all the love in my heart, for I was for you, and you slaughtered me.
Charles Manson
1968

...Everything has been here for you, it’s all been at your hand, but don’t try to build a new world, just learn to live on the land...
Charles Manson
‘Give Your Love To Be Free’
1968

...Stop killing all of the wildlife, everyone let your kids go free, just open you eyes Mister, you can see that you can see...

...Soon we’ll move California, an earthquake will surely come, Valley of Death and you’ll find us, their ain’t nowhere else to run...
Charles Manson
‘The Young Will Overcome’
1969

as fast as man can go he is destroying everything he can destroy. The pace that he has picked up in sawing the trees down, killing the animals and shooting everything...You know, there's one thing I flashed on the other day: a police man took me over, and on his helmet, you know, right on his forehead, there's a beast, a bear, a bear beast on his forehead. And I say 'Well, can't the people see the mark of the beast? it's not a hard thing to see.
Charles Manson
Tuesday's Child
1970

Have you ever seen the coyote in the desert? Watching, tuned in, completely aware. Christ on the cross, the coyote in the desert--it's the same thing man. The coyote is beautiful. he moves through the desert delicately, aware of everything, looking around. He hears every sound, smells every smell, sees everything that moves. He's always in a state of total paranoia, and total paranoia is total awareness. You can learn from the coyote just like you can learn from a child. A baby is born into the world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let little children lead you.
Charles Manson
Rolling Stone
1970

If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire. I would go out into the desert. The desert is magic. I love the desert, it is my home. Nobody ever wanted me and nobody wants the desert. The stone that the builders rejected, do you remember that story?

I'll live in the desert, like a coyote. I know where every waterhole is, and every berry and fruit that's edible. They will come after me in the desert and they will die. The desert is God's kingdom.

Charles Manson
Rolling Stone
1970

...Start yourself a nice garden, for times will be trying sooner than you can think it. Yes love, I am greatly blessed. Also I want to tell you, when you pray to yourself, there is only one. One is all and all is one. Peace is inside and your love is now. Now look to life and the children are God. Why write on paper what’s in the heart? Just look around you and know I am everywhere and you are everywhere and love is all as I know you are only a reflection of the love you have.

Charles Manson
Letter
1973

''the fields they are a' golden, the cycle will complete
in order to harvest the grain, you have to cut the wheat''

Charles Manson
'Get On Home'
1969

Every morning you eat that meat with your teeth. You're all killers, you kill things better than you. And what can I say to you that you don't already know?

Charles Manson
Testimony

I knew a guy that used to work in the stockyards and he used to kill cows all day long with a big sledgehammer, and then go home at night and eat dinner with his children and eat the meat that he slaughtered. Then he would go to church and read the bible, and he would say, "That is not killing." And I look at him and I say, "That doesn't make any sense, what you are talking about?" Then I look at the beast, and I say, "Who is the beast?"
I am the beast.
I am the beast.
I am the biggest beast walking the face of the earth. I kill everything that moves. As a man, as a human, I take responsibility for that. As a human, it won't be long, and God will ask you to take responsibility for it. It is your creation. You live in your creation. I never created your world, you created it.
Charles Manson
Testimony

Where does the garbage go? as we have tin cans and garbage alongside the road, and oil slicks in your water, so you have people, and I am one of your garbage people.
Charles Manson
Testimony

Restless people, from the sick city
Burnt their homes down to make the sky look pretty
What can I do, I'm just a person
Just a line that we always seem to hear
You just sit there
Things get worse watch TV and drink your beer

Walkin' all alone not goin' anywhere
Walkin' all alone nobody seem to care

Restless as the wind
This town is killin' me
Got to put an end
To this restless misery

I'm just one of those restless people
Who can never seem to be satisfied with livin'
'In this sick old sick sick sick old sick city
It may be too late for me to say goodbye
And it may be too late
To watch this sick old city die
Goin' on the road
Yeah I'm gonna try to say
Sick city so long goodbye and die
Charles Manson
;Sick City'
1967

And then we went and got out in the desert, we found a whole world out in the desert, then I got to see the animals are smarter than people, you know, like I've never been around many animals. In jail there are hardly any animals around.
Charles Manson
Tuesday's Child
1970

We saw the little animals in the desert, and we'd see the hunters come up in their jeeps, you know? and they'd be all drunk. Their awareness level would be about this high, and we'd see all the squirrels and ground squirels and chuckers and we'd say ''hide you guys, get in the holes 'cause the beasts is comin' down the road...
Clem
1970

I decided to go into the mountains to talk to God, to apologize for 1900 years of this mess. Thats when they got me and brought me here.
Charles Manson
L.A. Free Press
1970

I am calling all to bring down this tower in Babylon, where the beast keeps me in a cage in the name of justice. When we all come together in the name of One God, love and peace- each one with himself, ready to face Judgement Day for man, standing with our hearts and lives in our hands, giving all, facing ourselves for what we have done and help me stop what man is doing, the last battle is upon us. I've seen it coming for the last 10 years, only the men who will face their own destruction- look at it coming faster and faster, tune with it. Face the blood and death as the wildlife does.
Charles Manson
Open Letter to Timothey Leary
L.A. Free Press
1970

THE EARTH IS BEING DESTROYED FASTER THAN YOU WANT TO LOOK AT IT. MY GOD, MAN, CANT YOU SEE YOUR BOTHER STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU GIVING ALL?

Brenda McCann
L.A. Free Press
1970

The only thing we're concerned about at all is our children and that there is something left for our children...for my children to see that there is something left for them...
You look in the newspaper - THE EARTH, all these articles about the Earth, 'is it going to last?'
It;s getting pretty heavy you know, there ready to put there finger on that button and blow the whole thing up, and like we see that there is something left to save for the children, even if it's just the sunset.
Gold
Vigil
Hall of Justice
1971

He is the one who will set all love free ... for it is hiding—and pushed down by those who fight wars and hunt animals, and cut down trees.
It's time for all love to stand and show itself...
Red, 1971

We live in a very magic world ... everyone does ... but not everyone knows it!
Red, 1971

Everything we're making good
Home is heaven in the wood—
& we make the best of cities
scornful faces—opinions, pities,
None of which have any matter
& we sing & let the clatter
rumble with itself.
Red, 1971

How strong are you?
Do you have a pair of good shoes, a warm coat or cape you could sleep in, a knife & a small pack? Are you ready to survive?
Red, 1971

Charlie and the girls are starting trial Monday. It's going to be a long summer with a lot of confusion, but if you're strong you'll be able to make it to the desert. If you can get a copy of Rolling Stone Magazine it has a lot of silly people's intellectual opinions and how they see themselves through us but if you weed through it you can see that some of our quotes come through.
Red, 1971

From "Jury" (1970)

If you stand for it, you are a part of it.
If you let them do it, then it shall be done to you also.
Red, 1970

We are at Barker's now, sneaked in at dusk. It feels good here all in one room, all in one circle. We're dusty brown and smoothly tough, with cactus cut hands of lizard scale and sun. The feeling is animal, of wind and rough ground under our feet, and real. We can't stay here at Barker's. There's too many of us. We are hunted. So tonight we dig.
 
Lynette Fromme, 1969

Charles Manson | A Beautiful Rainforest

"You've destroyed a whole rain forest. This United States of America was a beautiful rain forest. All those dams -- those Hoover dams and Tennessee Valley Authorities that you've got running up and down the water, that's why the dam water's so fucked up now is all them aqueducts and those artificial lakes and rivers that they create for those shopping malls and to water their automobiles down. They've created an artificial environment on the planet with that industrial revolution and its killing all the life on earth."

- Charles Manson

Charles Manson | Many Fine Dreams

"Thinking about putting out positive energies towards your spiritual existence, if there is such a thing as your spiritual existence. If you fly in your minds eye in forever - why is the sun burning? In the crystals of many things, space dreams, thoughts I've seen, a place to be or something free to be whatever one might consider. To be what everyone might calculate in their own existence.

But in the simple minded thoughts of a sad sack of shit called Charlie Manson, there has been the burning of your own thoughts and honor that you preach to me and say that you are for or against. Being for or against something could roller-skate within ones own survival instinct until the purpose of life seems to be lost in some bum fuddled freak out with a bunch of kids on the side of a mountain when they heard the sound of Christ dying on the cross and they became aware of the Christ consciousness  - what has been kept there under the ground, so far around that it became a space shuttle back to Earth and landed all the technology of the planet underneath the rattlesnake.

Guarantee survival to the flies and the bugs and the birds and bees and trees and all the things scream and say please - cant you see there's other life other than your own miserable petty selfish trips? But then I upon my petty selfish trip am also a king, in my stables ride many fine dreams."

- Charles Manson

Charles Manson | This Hemisphere

'The European Hemisphere - Europeans are noted by their tribes; the German tribe, the French tribe, all the different tribes. Austrian tribes...all the different boundaries that were set be 1000's and 1000's of years of wars and the Greeks and the Romans, all that small little bit of history that they teach goes much deeper here in this hemisphere then those Pharaohs tombs or the bird gods of the mexican heritage of Quitzicotl  and Altowapes and all those guys that were equally powerful as the pharoahs in their pyramid
So all of those come down to a stone quarry in a big black hole of a prison called Moundsville, where my people, most of them were in and out of that prison for the Tennessee Valleys were building those dams on the river and all my uncles that died in nut wards or died in the prisons fighting against those people who were taking the moonshine and the stills and forcing us to go to schools and forcing their way of life over on us after they divided us with Abe Lincoln. So this all comes down to the bottom line in the last days of Armegeddon is only the Christian concept of that Armegeddon, there is a deeper Armegeddon that comes up with the AntiChrist...

- Charles Manson