First, I have a confidential prayer request. So if you could please pray for me today. It's a one-day only thing. I would share but it involves something that needs to remain personal for reasons outside of me. I'm sure I will share some day in the future. (I hate unspoken prayer requests.)
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Michael Stipe of REM wrote the following song. It's not as bitter as Trent Reznor's yesterday, but it is still sad. One thing I notice that the things that infuriate artists are things that should also infuriate Christians. I couldn't find out what specific show, if there was one, he was writing about.
New Test Leper by REM
"I can't say that i love jesus
That would be a hollow claim.
He did make some observations
And i'm quoting them today.
"judge not lest ye be judged."
What a beautiful refrain.
The studio audience disagrees.
Have his lambs all gone astray?
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
"you are lost and disillusioned!"
What an awful thing to say.
I know this show doesn't matter.
It means nothing to me.
I thought i might help them understand
But what an ugly thing to see.
"i am not an animal"
Subtitled under the screen.
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
When i tried to tell my story
They cut me off to take a break.
I sat silent 5 commercuials
I had nothing left to say
The talk show host was index-carded
All organized and blank
The other guests were scared and hardened
What a sad parade.
What a sad parade
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Watch out for the potholes. My wife use to be a Lepper. Then she married me. I have cured her.
