Musical Worldview: Fiona Apple, 'Relay'
“Evil is a relay sport,
when the one who's burned,
turns to pass the torch”
Musical Worldview: Mike Doughty, 'His Truth Is Marching On'
“They say that God is great
They say that God is love and I believe them
Don’t fear the random fate
I trust the hand of the Almighty and the infinite
His truth is marching on
Let me know your enormity
And my tininess
And help me see your infinity
And my finiteness
And I’m fucking starved for love
I deeply need to feel connection with the infinite
I want the nourishment
I need to drink it just like water, and it will sustain me
His truth is marching on”
Musical Worldview: Michael Stipe, 'No Time for Love Like Now' (2 Versions)
“No time for breezy
No time for arguments
No time for love like now”
“Where did this all begin to change?
The lockdown memories can’t sustain
This glistening, hanging free fall.”
Musical Worldview (Easter Edition): Soma
“You were scorned and killed
we had run for the hills
‘Till the stone had been lifted from the grave
All our hearts were afraid
we were hiding away
‘Till the stone had been lifted from the grave
We had counted the cost
now our hope had been lost
‘Till the stone had been lifted from the grave
All the words that we’ve read
we’d forgotten what you said
‘Till the stone had been lifted from the grave
You were born here to die
for such sinners as I
‘Till the stone had been lifted away
What a day, what a year
what a life now without fear
For the stone had been lifted from the grave.
Adonai.
Elohim.”
Musical Worldview (Easter Edition): John Mark McMillan, 'Death In His Grave'
“So three days in darkness slept
The Morning Sun of righteousness
But rose to shame the throes of death
And over turn his rule
Now daughters and the sons of men
Would pay not their dues again
The debt of blood they owed was rent
When the day rolled a new
On Friday a thief
On Sunday a King
Laid down in grief
But awoke with the keys
To Hell on that day
The first born of the slain
The Man Jesus Christ Laid death in his grave.”
Musical Worldview: John Prine, 'Spanish Pipedream (Blow Up Your TV)'
“Blow up your TV
throw away your paper
Go to the country,
build you a home
Plant a little garden,
eat a lot of peaches
Try an find Jesus on your own”
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Musical Worldview: John Prine, 'When I Get To Heaven'
“When I get to heaven, I'm gonna shake God's hand
Thank him for more blessings than one man can stand
Then I'm gonna get a guitar and start a rock-n-roll band
Check into a swell hotel; ain't the afterlife grand?
And then I'm gonna get a cocktail: vodka and ginger ale
Yeah, I'm gonna smoke a cigarette that's nine miles long
I'm gonna kiss that pretty girl on the tilt-a-whirl
'Cause this old man is goin' to town”
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Musical Worldview: Bill Withers, 'Lean On Me'
“Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow
Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you won't let show
You just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
You just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me (call me)
If you need a friend (call me) call me uh huh(call me) if you need a friend (call me)
If you ever need a friend (call me)
Call me (call me) call me (call me) call me
(Call me) call me (call me) if you need a friend
(Call me) call me (call me) call me (call me) call me (call me) call me (call me)”
Musical Worldview: the Cranberries, 'Zombie'
“Another mother's breaking
Heart is taking over
When the violence causes silence
We must be mistaken”
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Musical Worldview: Massive Attack, 'Hymn Of The Big Wheel'
“I'd like to feel that you could be free
Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
Sometime again
You'll turn green and the sea turns red
My son I said the power of axis over my head
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes”
Musical Worldview: Public Image Ltd, 'Rise'
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“May the road rise with you”
Musical Worldview: Seryn, 'Headache'
“From our mouths we foam like beasts
We only smile to show our teeth
The river running down this line
Is a border between what's yours and mine
And all our lives we serve ourselves
It's the common curse of might-as-well
For all we live to know is known,
And all we seek to keep has flown away
Hold tight dear love, holding on is all we've got
Oh, well, our bodies break before their time
A little strength is hard to find, but still I try
Oh, well, and surely now I do believe
That death is coming after me”
Musical Worldview: Waterdeep, 'Good Good End'
“I'm amazed by life
And it's amazed by me
We're a strange old pair- me and eternity
It don't make good sense
It ain't easy to see
But I'm amazed by life
And it's amazed by me
It's a long hard road
With a good, good end
And if I keep on walking on past the crooked bend
I will meet my Maker
I will meet my Friend
It's a long hard road
With a good, good end”
Musical Worldview: Kendrick Lamar, 'Alright'
“I'm at the preacher's door
My knees gettin' weak and my gun might blow
But we gon' be alright”
Musical Worldview: Gil Scott-Heron, 'Work For Peace'
Back when Eisenhower was the President,
Golf courses was where most of his time was spent.
So I never really listened to what the President said,
Because in general I believed that the General was politically dead.
But he always seemed to know when the muscles were about to be flexed,
Because I remember him saying something, mumbling something about a Military Industrial Complex.
Americans no longer fight to keep their shores safe,
Just to keep the jobs going in the arms making workplace.
Then they pretend to be gripped by some sort of political reflex,
But all they're doing is paying dues to the Military Industrial Complex.
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary.
The Military and the Monetary,
get together whenever they think its necessary,
They turn our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, they are turning the planet into a cemetery.
The Military and the Monetary, use the media as intermediaries,
they are determined to keep the citizens secondary, they make so many decisions that are arbitrary.
We're marching behind a commander in chief,
who is standing under a spotlight shaking like a leaf.
but the ship of state had landed on an economic reef,
so we knew he was going to bring us messages of grief.
The Military and the Monetary,
were shielded by January and went storming into February,
Brought us pot bellied generals as luminaries,
two weeks ago I hadn't heard of the son of a bitch,
now all of a sudden he's legendary.
They took the honour from the honourary,
they took the dignity from the dignitaries,
they took the secrets from the secretary,
but they left the bitch in obituary.
The Military and the Monetary,
from thousands of miles away in a Saudi Arabian sanctuary,
had us all scrambling for our dictionaries,
cause we couldn't understand the fuckin vocabulary.
Yeah, there was some smart bombs,
but there was some dumb ones as well,
scared the hell out of CNN in that Baghdad hotel.
The Military and the Monetary,
they get together whenever they think its necessary,
War in the desert sometimes sure is scary,
but they beamed out the war to all their subsidiaries.
Tried to make So Damn Insane a worthy adversary,
keeping the citizens secondary,
scaring old folks into coronaries.
The Military and the Monetary,
from thousands of miles in a Saudi Arabian sanctuary,
kept us all wondering if all of this was really truely, necessary.
We've got to work for Peace,
Peace ain't coming this way.
If we only work for Peace,
If everyone believed in Peace the way they say they do,
we'd have Peace.
The only thing wrong with Peace,
is that you can't make no money from it.
The Military and the Monetary,
they get together whenever they think its necessary,
they've turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
they are turning the planet, into a cemetery.
Got to work for Peace,
Peace ain't coming this way.
We should not allow ourselves to be mislead,
by talk of entering a time of Peace,
Peace is not the absence of war,
it is the absence of the rules of war and the threats of war and the preparation for war.
Peace is not the absence of war,
it is the time when we will all bring ourselves closer to each other,
closer to building a structure that is unique within ourselves
because we have finally come to Peace within ourselves.
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary.
Get together whenever they think its necessary,
they've turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
they are turning parts of the planet, into a cemetery.
The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary,
We hounded the Ayatollah religiously,
Bombed Libya and killed Quadafi's son hideously.
We turned our back on our allies the Panamanians,
and saw Ollie North selling guns to the Iranians.
Watched Gorbachev slaughtering Lithuanians,
We better warn the Amish,
they may bomb the Pennsylvanians.
The Military and the Monetary,
get together whenever they think its necessary,
they have turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
they are turning the planet, into a cemetery.
I don't want to sound like no late night commercial,
but its a matter of fact that there are thousands of children all over the world
in Asia and Africa and in South America who need our help.
When they start talking about 55 cents a day and 70 cents a day,
I know a lot of folks feel as though that,
thats not really any kind of contribution to make,
but we had to give up a dollar and a half just to get in the subway nowadays.
So this is a song about tommorrow and about how tommorrow can be better. if we all,
"Each one reach one, Each one try to teach one".
Nobody can do everything,
but everybody can do something,
everyone must play a part,
everyone got to go to work, Work for Peace.
Spirit Say Work, Work for Peace
If you believe the things you say, go to work.
If you believe in Peace, time to go to work.
Cant be wavin your head no more, go to work.
Musical Worldview: Black Sabbath, 'War Pigs'
“Gen'rals gathered in their masses,
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction,
Sorcerer of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning,
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind,
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh Lord yeah
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role for the poor, yeah
Time will tell on their power minds,
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess,
Wait 'till their judgement day comes, yeah
Now in darkness world stops turning,
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more War Pigs have the power,
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees the war pigs crawling,
Begging mercies for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
Oh Lord yeah”
Musical Worldview: Jon Foreman, "White As Snow"
Have mercy on me, oh God
According to Your unfailing love
According to Your great compassion
Blot out my transgressions
Would You create in me a clean heart, oh, God?
Restore in me the joy of Your salvation
Would You create in me a clean heart, oh, God?
Restore in me the joy of my salvation
The sacrifices of our God
Are a broken and a contrite heart
Against You and You alone
Have I sinned?
The sacrifices of our God
Are a broken and a contrite heart
Against You and You alone
Have I sinned?
Musical Worldview: Lee Hazlewood, "Cold Hard Times"
“I heard my brother died last week,
or was that just a rumor
From an overdose of hate taken in his vein
I heard the preacher said
God must have a sense of humor
'Cause when they put him in the grave,
it didn't even rain
It's a cold hard world, love
These are cold hard times
These are cold hard times”
Musical Worldview (Andrew Weatherall Remix Edition), Primal Scream, 'Come Togther'
“Come together as one
(gospel)
This a beautiful day
It's a new day
We are together
We are together
We are together, we are unified
We are together
We are unified, because together we got power
Apart we got power, we are together”
Musical Worldview: Marvin Gaye, "God Is Love"
“Oh don't go and talk about my father
God is my friend
Jesus is my friend
He made this world for us to live in,
and gave us everything
And all he asks of us
is we give each other love"