They Paved Paradise
Posted by: tony on 08/06/2007 08:42 PM
Updated by: tony on 08/07/2007 12:28 AM
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Expires: 09/06/2007 12:00 AM
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 Did you ever have someone say something that just hit you? All of a sudden your wheels start turning, the creative juices start flowing, and you just have to produce something?
On What Does The Prayer Really Say, Father Z quoted the following and added his own commentary (in boldface):
"It will rise again, ... the Mass will rise again … because it is the sun, and God thus established it for our life and comfort." When it happens, he said, our eyes will be found "guilty of not having esteemed it worthily before the eclipse; our hearts guilty for not having loved it enough." [Sorta like Joni Mitchell’s song, right?]
Joni Mitchell... Big Yellow Taxi... Paved paradise and put up a... what... [DING!]
And now for your reading and listening pleasure.
They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Worship Space
(To the tune of Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell)
They paved paradise
And put up a worship space
With a big marble table, some banners
And a priest in clown face.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a worship space.
They took out the rails
Got rid of the smells and bells.
They got into the basket
And headed their way down to... heck.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a worship space.
With the dancing girls
The mimes and the bongo drums.
and some tambourines with
a folk guitar just to strum
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a worship space.
Late last night
I heard some hippies scream.
Our Holy Father
Restored our Latin dream. Keen!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved worship space
And put up a Catholic Church.
It was produced with Audacity and a mic. No professional equipment, soundproofed booth or anything. Be gentle. :)
(Thanks to Joni Mitchell for the song. You can buy her CD with the original lyrics here.)
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