Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Do you know my Name?
I have really enjoyed listening to Rickie Lee Jones' album THE SERMON ON EXPOSITION BOULEVARD over the last year or so. Here is a blurb from a New York Times article about the album:
Whatever it is Christ said doesn’t get a fair shake,” Rickie Lee Jones said. On a rainy December day, she was sniffling and coughing, fighting a bad cold and losing. “There’s not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?”
Anyways her song "WHAT"S MY NAME" fits this week. It might be good just to have this music in the background before and after service--the same way that the church basement roadshow folks used bruce springsteen after and before their performance.
Here are the lyrics.
For a thousand years
I've lay upon the Lake Victoria
I was winged and many-colored
And nobody knew my name
For a thousand years
I fell out of the sand into the Guadeloupe
And I made many songs into the air
And nobody knew my name
I fell like water
In sweet gasps of hydrogen up
Into the sea over the Bikini Islands
And I dove into the liquid concrete of sweet silver lake
The liquid concrete of down by the river
And nobody knew my name
Now I walk among them and I sing to them
And I open up my wrists
And nobody knows my name
And I translate into many hours of history
But nobody knows my name
I stood in the four winds
I stood in the four winds
I stood in the four winds
And nobody knows my name
So I walk again
Yeah, I walk every night
So I walk again
I look at you
Sweet every face
Do you know my name
Do you, do you know my name
Do you know my name
Do you know my name
Say it
Do you know my name
Say it
Do you know my name
Do you know my name
Do you know my
Do you know my name
Do you know my
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