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jeopardizing
and ruining our world
with music.

"and when the angels come,
they’ll cut you down the middle.
to see if you’re still there.
to see if you’re still there.

and underneath your ribs,
they’ll find a heart shaped locket.
an old photograph.
of you in Daddy’s arms.

and then they’ll sew you closed,
and give you back to the water,
from where we’re all born,
from where we’re all born.

and then you’ll feed the ghosts,
and then you’ll feed the living,
you’ll be a stranger,
and you’ll be a friend.
you’ll be the leper
you’ll be the healer
you’ll be the hero
and the tragedy

and when they burn your body
all that’s left is sand crystals,
two tiny handfuls,
all the rest is water, water, water.

all you need to know is you were born of water
you were made of water
you will live in water, water, water"

i was instantly hooked on this song when i discovered it years ago not knowing how blatantly inaccurate the words are, but loving the music for years.
i was drawn to the beginning intro of a direct hit of sweet impact to the symphony for the first two minutes of the song.
it's mind boggling and erupts within your senses, stirring up that excitement like finding that oh-so special book at the book sale for a sheer twenty five cents.
i would then always change the song after the symphony was complete and the words would segue in, as the voice was not as captivating or alluring as the music is for the first couple of minutes.
but then for some strange reason, last year i decided to listen to the complete song. i listened to the words and fell in love and was also oddly confused and saddened at the same time. the words are completely poetic and beautifully made up, but totally wrong. who's theory is this? I wonder. did they write this because they think this is true? do they think that this actually happens?
oh how sad this is to think so.
i remember listening intently and wondering to myself in utter disbelief and amazement that there are actual people out there, in this world in which we live, that seriously feel this way.
they seriously think that we came from water and will always be made of water.
and that angels actually do such things.
cut us down the middle to see if we are still alive?
and then somehow they find a heart shaped locket underneath our ribs of something so (beautiful?) to us at some point.
hence, "you in daddy's arms."
and then they sew us back up, to give us back to the water.
where we were born.
and then burn our bodies.
and then we are of sand crystals.
but all the rest is water.
whoa!
such beautiful words.
but how completely off and lost are these people...
and then to imagine angels sewing us up and throwing us to the water.
angels do not heal.
God only heals.
and He does not sew us up to then throw us in the water.
i am spewing woeful tones and in complete heavy heartedness in such a cold and tangible reality.
in which we live.
i pray and hope that "cloud cult," this group name, does not believe what they sing.
however, by the name of the group--i could easily say that they do.
i also pray that that the listeners (young?) that listen to this song in a vulnerable mistake-driven being, does not become swayed by these words and start to believe it themselves.
as they say in the end,
"all you need to know. is you were born of water."
oh my. this is not all that we need to know, or anything that we need to know.
music has such a strong impact to millions of listeners alone.
for someone so passionate about music, to realize that such is going on, makes me uneasy.
we get so lost and wrapped up in what can be so amusingly gorgeous that we lose side of all that is important and we become fixated on things that are not.

somewhat like john lennon's "imagine."
such a lovely song but the words are frightening.
"imagine there's no heaven,
it's easy if you'll try.
no hell below us.
above us is only sky.
imagine all the people.
living for today."
these words are morbid.
dreadful.
sheer terror.
a jolting panic.
unpleasantly alarming.
horribly shocking.
icily unpleasant.
hesitatingly disagreeable.
can you seriously "imagine" if that actually were true?
it is easy if you try, but again, it is completely inaccurate.
i thank God that this is not so.
God wouldn't let this happen.
that's the beauty in His plan.
that's the beauty that this is not and has never been in His plan.
if this was so, there would be no God.
i do not want others to "imagine" this, nor do i want them to believe this.
cloud cult and john lennon---what are yall doing?
they are trying to tear and cut and worsen an even deeper open wound that will never heal so blazoned called "this world."
until He comes back, that is.
and then this, i can imagine.