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Tree Bee
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Love is the Answer by England Dan and John Ford Coley may be hippy dippy but it speaks to me.
It's a bit like a proverb as it expresses the difficulties of living interspersed with joy.
The chorus encapsulates my faith and feels like a hymn.
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Wow. I can only say that some of the choices are at the opposite end of the spectrum for me. Bette Middler (both that song and generally) is not at all for me!
I will submit Bruce Cockburn's Creation Dream
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...You were dancing
I saw you dancing
Throwing your arms toward the sky
Fingers opening
Like flares
Stars were shooting everywhere
Lines of power
Bursting outward
Along the channels of your song...
There is more in earth and heaven that I can imagine. (edit: and more to code too)
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Snags
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Originally posted by Stetson:
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Originally posted by Paul.:
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Originally posted by the famous rachel:
One of Us by Joan Osborne
Yes! I once wrote blog post on the now defunct St. Pixels website about that song and how Jesus ought to be the "one of us" of the song but somehow doesn't feel that way.
The writer of that song seemed completely oblivious to the idea of the Incarnation.
More interesting was the much earlier New Approcah Needed, in which Kingsley Amis accepts the idea of the Incarnation, but basically just shrugs his shoulders at it.
Yet One Of Us performed by Martyn Joseph, especially live, is a powerful thing.
I quite like the Michael Marshall book, too, but that's very different.
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For me its the second verse of the communion hymn which starts "And now O Father, mindful of the love...
verse 2:
Look Father, look on his anointed face,
And only look on us as found in him.
Look not on our misusings of thy grace,
Our prayer so languid and our faith so dim.
For lo, between our sins and their reward,
We set the passion of thy Son, our Lord.
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Eutychus
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Especially for pastors on bad days (Of Montreal, Gronlandic Edit):
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the church is filled with losers, psycho or confused
I just want to hold the divine in mind
I had this as my sig for a while.
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Galilit
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"Kookaburra sits in the ol' gum tree
Merry merry King of the Bush is he-ee
Laugh kookaburra laugh kookaburra
Gay your life must be"
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the famous rachel
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Originally posted by Snags:
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Originally posted by Stetson:
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Originally posted by Paul.:
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Originally posted by the famous rachel:
One of Us by Joan Osborne
Yes! I once wrote blog post on the now defunct St. Pixels website about that song and how Jesus ought to be the "one of us" of the song but somehow doesn't feel that way.
The writer of that song seemed completely oblivious to the idea of the Incarnation.
More interesting was the much earlier New Approcah Needed, in which Kingsley Amis accepts the idea of the Incarnation, but basically just shrugs his shoulders at it.
Yet One Of Us performed by Martyn Joseph, especially live, is a powerful thing.
I think you read the song differently, if (like me) you assume that the writer/singer is fully aware of the concept of the incarnation. For me, from there it can go two ways:
Either - the concept of God as "one of us" demands a response from us and this song reminds us of the incarnation and of the demand this places on us. Essentially, this calls us towards the Christian faith.
Or - the concept of God as "one of us" is seen as unreal (although possibly desirable), despite the supposed existence of Jesus as God incarnate - because we don't really see Jesus as one of us - perhaps for the reasons that the Kingsley Amis poem suggests. Essentially, this pushes us away from the Christian faith.
These two seem somewhat exclusive of one another, but actually some people probably hold the two ideas in tension.
Interestingly, a brief google has revealed that Joan Osborne, who released the song originally, is a lapsed catholic, so presumably was aware of the incarnation when she recorded this. However, the song was actually written by someone else. Weirdly, a reviewer at the time of it's release is quoted on Wikipedia as calling it "a simple, direct statement of faith", whereas I see it as anything but. I think it is the apparent simplicity of it, contrasted with the available double meaning which attracts me.
Best wishes,
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Teilhard
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"Dust in the Wind" -- by Kansas
"Hang On" -- by the Little River band
"I Bind Unto Myself Today" -- ancient hymn
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Snags
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the famous rachel:
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I think you read the song differently, if (like me) you assume that the writer/singer is fully aware of the concept of the incarnation. For me, from there it can go two ways: <snip>
I've always liked the ambiguity of it, and have always assumed that was written in quite a knowing way. It seems to contain a strange mix of lament and challenge, both to the established church in making God distant, and to those who take the "give me proof" line for not actually wanting the proof when push comes to shove.
I've always heard it with a silent, knowing, almost keening undertone of "He was/is, and yet in our own ways we all still mist the point".
Which may well say more about me than Joan Osborne (or Eric Bazilian - thanks for the pointer, hadn't realised she didn't write it. And of course Bazilian via the Hooters gave us Satellite, which is a good knife-twister at the tele-evanglist culture of the 80s, and All You Zombies. Which makes me all the more convinced he knew what he was writing).
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Paul.
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Originally posted by Snags:
I quite like the Michael Marshall book, too, but that's very different.
[pedantry]One of Us was actually a Michael Marshall Smith book. (same author, different pen name)[/pedantry]
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"Logical Song" Supertramp
But then they send me away
To teach me how to be sensible
Logical, responsible, practical
And then they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable
Clinical, intellectual, cynical
There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep for such a simple mind
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?
I know it sounds absurd please tell me who I am
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Snags
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Originally posted by Paul.:
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Originally posted by Snags:
I quite like the Michael Marshall book, too, but that's very different.
[pedantry]One of Us was actually a Michael Marshall Smith book. (same author, different pen name)[/pedantry]
I know, I was on the phone, I couldn't be arsed with the extra characters ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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ThunderBunk
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Dancing with Christ
Sorry about the youtube link, but the lyrics are different from what seems to be the traditional version, and to my mind infinitely preferable.
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The5thMary
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There are so many U2 songs that resonate with me, lyrically. Sure, many times I get sick of Bono's ridiculous pronouncements (saying Patti Smith was a goddess was one of the main ones) but when he drops all the b.s. and is "in it" (in the Spirit?) he writes some spiritual stuff that leaves me shivering. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is right up there with the shivers. A lot of U2's songs could be applied just to women or humans that they love but also to God. And a feminine God a lot of the time, I think.
@U2
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The5thMary
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Originally posted by ExclamationMark:
"Logical Song" Supertramp
But then they send me away
To teach me how to be sensible
Logical, responsible, practical
And then they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable
Clinical, intellectual, cynical
There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep for such a simple mind
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?
I know it sounds absurd please tell me who I am
Yes! This. I've loved Supertramp since "Breakfast In America". This song and "Take The Long Way Home" always makes me cry, probably because both came out around '79 when I was twelve and my mother had just died. Anyway...
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Zappa
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Originally posted by cosmic dance:
For me its the second verse of the communion hymn which starts "And now O Father, mindful of the love...
verse 2:
Look Father, look on his anointed face,
And only look on us as found in him.
Look not on our misusings of thy grace,
Our prayer so languid and our faith so dim.
For lo, between our sins and their reward,
We set the passion of thy Son, our Lord.
Oooh yes .. that would have been my next choice
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The5thMary
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Another one that is right this minute comforting me to no end is Supertramp's "Lord Is It Mine?"
www.metrolyrics.com
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How have we got this far without any Dylan? One of my favourite's is from Summer Days
I'm standing by God's river, my soul is beginning to shake
I'm standing by God's river, mt soul is beginning to shake.
I'm counting on you love, to give me a break.
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Aravis
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In this one of many possible worlds
All for the best, or some bizarre test?
It is what it is - and forever
Time is still the infinite jest...
The measure of a life
Is a measure of love and respect,
So hard to earn, so easily burned;
In the fullness of time
A garden to nurture and protect.
The treasure of a life
Is the treasure of love and respect,
The way you live, the gifts that you give,
In the fullness of time
A garden to nurture and protect...
Neil Peart 2013
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Schroedinger's cat
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There is no song that encapsulates my theology - it would be a tedious song if it did. There are many songs - including a number of those above - that reflect some aspect of what I believe.
However, I am currently on a Stevie Nicks love-in so I will quote a couple of lines from "Sara" (which is such an awesome song):
"Drowning in a sea of love, where everyone would love to drown" - seems to me like a good description of being lost in God, the fear, the dread, the death and yet life involved.
"When you build you house, call me home" - there is something about the fact that other people show me God more than anything else, so when someone else has found a place they call home, I want to visit, and be with them, not suggest they find me in my home.
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Teilhard
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
There is no song that encapsulates my theology - it would be a tedious song if it did. There are many songs - including a number of those above - that reflect some aspect of what I believe.
However, I am currently on a Stevie Nicks love-in so I will quote a couple of lines from "Sara" (which is such an awesome song):
"Drowning in a sea of love, where everyone would love to drown" - seems to me like a good description of being lost in God, the fear, the dread, the death and yet life involved.
"When you build you house, call me home" - there is something about the fact that other people show me God more than anything else, so when someone else has found a place they call home, I want to visit, and be with them, not suggest they find me in my home.
Yes !!! I also hold up Christine McVie's wonderful song, "Over My Head" … (much more interesting than the kids' campfire song, "Oh, How I love Jesus" …)
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Fr Weber
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Originally posted by Hilda of Whitby:
Bargain, by Pete Townsend, from the album 'Who's Next' (a masterpiece, IMO).
Most people think this is a love song, and so it is--but to me, it's a love song to God. The lyrics have a far deeper resonance when you look at them in that way.
In the same vein, the third verse of "Who Are You" jumps from the first two verses' recounting of a rough night out to address the Almighty thus :
I know there's a place you walked
Where love falls from the trees
My heart is like a broken cup
I only feel right on my knees
I spit out like a sewer hole
Yet still receive your kiss
How can I measure up to anyone now
After such a love as this?
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Some of these fit my current beliefs, and others helped me in previous stages, and all have helped with spiritual feelings/support:
--"Morning Has Broken", lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon, music the Cat Stevens version and sung by him.
--"Lord Of The Dance".
--Ditto to "Feed The Birds" *with the visuals from that scene in the film*. Gave me some of my strongest, earliest religious feelings. (I was maybe 5 or 6, I think.)
--"Kyrie", performed by Mister Mister.
--"Sanctus Kyrie", from the film "Jonathan Livingston Seagull".
--Jennifer Berezan's album "Returning".
--"Blow, Gabriel, Blow", by Cole Porter. Used in a great scene in the Porter bio-pic, "De-Lovely".
--"All Creatures Of Our God And King", a hymn based on a prayer of St. Francis.
--"Fly Away With Me". That site is for Jamie Owens-Collins' version of it. I think what I heard, way back in the day, may have been sung by Honeytree, but I can't find it and I don't know who wrote it. But the lyrics are the ones I know.
--"Let It Be", by the Beatles.
and, on days when I'm sick of religious wrangling
--"Imagine", by John Lennon.
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--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Golden Key
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Re "One Of Us":
This was used as the theme for the TV show, "Joan Of Arcadia", and--there--it was most definitely about God being real.
The show followed Joan, a high schooler, as she started getting visits from God, in all sorts of guises: IIRC, some were a child, a cafeteria worker, homeless person. She'd just come across them in the course of her life, and God would talk to her via them. I don't remember for sure whether God simply took those forms, or spoke through actual people. Really, really good. Unfortunately, it was canceled just as it took an intriguing turn: she met her opposite number, a teenage boy who was being visited by the other side.
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--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Karl posted something that encapsulated an aspect of the C of E he didn't like.
Funnily enough, (karl and I not having that much in common) I'd sort of agree with him, but the poem that encapsulates everything I'm suspicious of in MOTR establishment C of E (and the two thing go together however much Ken, rest his soul, denied it) is John Betjeman's In Westminster Abbey
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8493441-In-Westminster-Abbey-by-Sir-John-Betjeman
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Congratulations on a fab thread. There are tons of songs that have been theologically significant to me whether they were intended to or not and in more or less significant ways. (Enough of a caveat?!) The first that sprung to mind after Brother Sister Let Me Serve You was Move Any Mountain by The Shamen.
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Oh and when in that happy place of utter despair over mans's inhumanity to man (and unusually desiring the existence of a bad-ass God) the Man in Black aka Johnny Cash says it for me in Run On For a Long Time.....
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I fear my choice may be thought rather frivolous but I get great comfort from this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZCv98XKFs) when life gets more than usually trying.
There are bad times just around the corner
(Edited for link)
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'I've seen this happen in other people's lives and now it's happening in mine'.
(The Smiths - That joke isn't funny anymore).
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Originally posted by L'organist:
I fear my choice may be thought rather frivolous but I get great comfort from this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZCv98XKFs) when life gets more than usually trying.
There are bad times just around the corner
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Me too: and from Sail Away, especially in this arrangement. Used to laugh at that Harry Williams line about finding God in Noel Coward's songs but I now increasingly see what he meant- although actually I think that the ethic there is a noble classical pagan one rather than a Christian one. Still, there's an understanding and a fortitude and underneath it all very often a kindness there.
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L'organist
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I used to see Harry often as I was growing up, and I well remember him singing The Stately Homes of England.
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Friday Morning by Sidney Carter.
Julian of Norwich by Sidney Carter (on a good day).
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Alan Bell's Bread and fishes...
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Another song that is one of my long-time favorites is Soul Asylum Runaway Train. The fact that it is a favorite suggests that the lyrics probably speak to me deeply, and so have a faith involvement.
I think this song reflects how I feel most of the time. I am running the wrong way down a one-way track, because the world, the church, everything is going the other way. But - unlike in the song - this is because I see things differently*.
The song is simple and yet brilliant. I never get tired of it.
*Not necessarily rightly, just that I so often see things in ways that are different to others. Sometimes, this is because I have a different grasp on the truth, sometimes it is because I'm an idiot.
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Albertus
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quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
I used to see Harry often as I was growing up, and I well remember him singing The Stately Homes of England.
Wow. That's a real conversation stopper, in the best possible way.
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Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf, Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult.
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Yesterday I heard on the radio this track from Sufjan Stevens, which is due for release this month. The lyrics are typically enigmatic, as aficionados of Sufjan would expect, with the pervading sense of loss and lost which makes him (to me) so interesting. There's no shade in the shadow of the cross.
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From This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) by the Talking heads, this single line:
"Never for money, always for love"
Those are the words I want engraved on my tombstone, if I should end up with one.
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Nice choice! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Anyone remember James Taylor? " shower the people you love with love..."
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U2 - She moves in mysterious ways.
A great way of describing the Holy Spirit.
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Redemption Song - Bob Marley
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all your children here in their rags of light - LC
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Here Beneath the Cross:
Here beneath the cross; what love is this I see
How beautiful the sacrifice of Christ for me
How deep the healing wounds that pierced Your heart for mine
The blood that flows through history the sinner finds
Amazing love how can it be
That You my God would die for me...
...Here beneath the cross my glory I lay down
For I will sing of Jesus Christ and His renown
He has conquered death, the stone was rolled away
My God arose in victory and He reigns today
Here beneath the cross I'll rest for all my days
Buried with my Saviour then forever raised
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Originally posted by balaam:
U2 - She moves in mysterious ways.
A great way of describing the Holy Spirit.
Yep! Completely! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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The Hymnal 1982
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Golden Key
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"Rocky Mountain High":
"Talk to God, and listen to the casual replyyyy..."
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
Sometimes it's Kansas' "Carry on my Wayward Son."
YES!
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Belle Ringer
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When I first heard this song it stunned me. So much my own jumbled experience and confusion at the time. "Sunday morning very bright I read your book by colored light" It still goes deep in identification for back then.
Today? The songs I write some of which are a bit subversive as to church like my "I'm running off to church but never having any time for praying blues" (about church busyness and needing to stay home to connect with God and get life back on track).
Commercially known songs, I would need not one song but a collection, including "What a Wonderful World".
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Teilhard
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"Now the Green Blade Rises"
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