Yes. Yes. Wonderful lines. Wise and funny and heart-stoppingly true.
And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said "All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them" But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And, of course, The Beatle's, Let it Be.
Ursula, always armoured by music...
Andy Amago wrote:
With me it wasn't the superstition but the quietness of the song. It worked the way a meditation might. This was before meditation was popular. I'm sure that's how prayer works too, through its meditative, repetitive quality, by focusing the mind. I don't really meditate. I've always liked Glen Campbell. Bobby McGee, especially by Janice Joplin but I'll take Kris Kristofferson, is on my list of ten all time best songs ever written.
Worked[Original Message] From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 12/27/2005 12:25:41 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FW: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Superstitious behaviour works every time. I used to say the Lord's Prayer just under my breath whenever my kids woke at night. I believed (still do) that my chanting put them magically back to sleep. And it was the chanting...I didn't have to mean it...just mouth the words...incantatory...magic...
Ursula
Andy Amago wrote:
I used to use him to get to sleep a gazillion years ago. When I couldn't
get to sleep, in my mind I'd sing I was a lineman for the county ...
------------------------------------------------------------------every time. I have this vague idea I heard him interviewed once. A dysfunctional person, like everybody. I'm wearing out this word dysfunctional. Now I'm sure people read my posts when they can't get to sleep. That's because I'm dysfunctional. That's why I think that.
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