[lit-ideas] I need new music
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:52:14 EDT
Not Sarah McLachlan(sp?)-ish, probably not bluesy; something sedgy but not
head-banger. I've worn out my Annie Lennox "Bare" CD, Tori Amos (God I love
those women), Cake, Johnny Lang, U2, and some others I'm probably forgetting
at the moment. I've done in Randy Newman's Songbook Vol 1, particularly
"God's Song" (permit me to quote the lyrics, as that along with his entirely
unique piano artistry and voice are grounds enough, is why that track is
nearly
worn down.)
"God's Song
(That's Why I Love Mankind)
Cain slew Abel and Seth knew not why
For if the children of Israel were supposed
to multiply
Then why must any of the children die?
So he asked the Lord
And the Lord said:
Man means nothing he means less to me
Than the lowliest cactus flower
Or the humblest yucca tree
He chases round this desert
'Cause he thinks that's where I'll be
That's why I love mankind
I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee
From the squalor, and the filth, and the misery
How we laugh up her in heaven at the prayers
you offer Me
That's why I love mankind
The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on sattelite TV
They picked their four greatest priests
And they began to speak
They said, "Lord a plague is on the world
Lord no man is free
The temples that we built to you
Have tumbled into the sea
Lord if you won't take care of us
Won't you please please let us be"
And the Lord said
And the Lord said:
I burn down your cities
How blind you must be
I take from you your children and you say how
blessed are we
You all must be crazy to put your faith in Me
That's why I love mankind
You really need Me
That's why I love mankind"
Turn THAT up at full volume and read the best pieces of Sexton and Zymborska
(sp?) and see what happens to you.
Anyway. I'm open to suggestions for new music. Anyone?
Julie Krueger
trying not to live a life of quiet desperation
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