Sarsen
Sarsen stones are sandstone blocks found in quantity in the United Kingdom on Salisbury Plain, the Marlborough Downs, in Kent, and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Hampshire. They are the post-glacial remains of a cap of Cenozoic silcrete that once covered much of southern England – a dense, hard rock created from sand bound by a silica cement, making it a kind of silicified sandstone. This is thought to have formed during Neogene to Quaternary weathering by the silicification of Upper Paleocene Lambeth Group sediments, resulting from acid leaching. The word "sarsen" (pronunciation ['sa:sǝn]) is a shortening of "Saracen stone" which arose in the Wiltshire dialect. "Saracen" was a common name for Muslims, and came by extension to be used for anything regarded as non-Christian, whether Muslim, pagan Celtic, or other.
Human uses
The builders of Stonehenge used these stones for the heelstone and sarsen circle uprights.Avebury and many other megalithic monuments in southern England are also built with sarsen stones.
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Don't Say
by: Sierra SwanI'm twenty-one, barely twenty-two
And why do I feel like I've paid all my dues?
I've never tried heroin, I've never done time
So why do I feel like I've committed the crimes?
And he got me drunk
And laid me down
He treated me like a servant
Me into the ground
And now I'm scared straight
Can't a procreate
I just can say I never
Should have shaved
Hey, don't say "Everything's fine"
When your life is like a clear blue glass of water
Hey, don't say that everyone's kind
When you say you love her and then you're a goner
So now I'm fine
Thank God, for your time
I can lay in my bed
And waste a different part of my mind
I made a promise
I looked up to the sky
And repeated positivity's
To all mankind
So now I'm straight
I can procreate
But I just can't say
I never got laid
Hey, don't say "Everything's fine"
When your life is like a clear blue glass of water
Hey, don't say that everyone's kind
When you say you love her and then you're a goner
Hey, don't say "Everything's fine"
When your life is like a clear blue glass of water
Hey, don't say that everyone's kind
When you say you love her and then you're a goner
And these are the days I'd like to forget
I go out every night and regret
Everything and everyone I've done
Hey, don't say "Everything's fine"
When your life is like a clear blue glass of water
Hey, don't say that everyone's kind
When you say you love her and then you're a goner
Hey, don't say "Everything's fine"
When your life is like a clear blue glass of water
Hey, don't say that everyone's kind
When you say you love her and then you're a goner
Hey, don't say "Everything's fine"
When your life is like a clear blue glass of water
Hey, don't say that everyone's kind
When you say you love her and then you're a goner