Thursday, February 23, 2006
Gap Shots
I'm trying to understand what must be missing from people's lives to be so needy they will adapt extremest positions on life, religion and politics. This article about former All-Star baseball catcher Darren Daulton got me thinking about that. Yet AGAIN. Seems like this dude and some others believe the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012, at 11:11 a.m. Hmm, one of those new 50 year mortgages might leave you some extra cash to really live it up with the time we have left. I'm trying to remember if and when I ever felt that fired up by something. Or so desperate, that I needed to believe that if I committed myself to some extremest position, I'd be "saved" in some way. Pick your form of salvation.I never want to offend anybody's beliefs. If you need it, you need it. It's okay. I need LOTS of coffee. And I need music. And I need the love of my family and friends. Most especially, I need Cathy. And of course that list is in reverse order. Although I do everything better with LOTS of coffee. Those are my needs but I don't force them on people or make value judgements about people if their needs aren't my needs. People who spurn coffee are perfectly fine with me. Leaves more for me. If you don't care for my music, that's fine too. I'm just a channel through which it is funnelled to who ever wants to listen. We can't all have the same friends and family so you'll have to love your own. And you can't have my wife. But I'm delighted to share her. Up to a point, of course. She IS a treasure. But she sleeps with ME.
So that's my operative theory. People attach themselves to holy causes in many different forms to fill a gap. If I lost Cathy and became tone deaf and we elected a Mormon president who declared that in the new theocracy, as opposed to the present one, there would be no more caffeine, well who knows what ology I'd cling to.
So this just popped into me and out my fingers. If you knew Cathy, you'd understand why she's Gracie, here. That is if you knew who Gracie was. But you may be too young. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Full of Grace
(First Draft Copyright Bud Buckley 2006)
Gracie wakes me with a smile even though I've been up for hours
Makes me forget, for a while, mass hatred and crumbling towers
Can't even remember how I filled my life, pre-Grace
That was such a different time, a different place
It's a damn good thing I'm full of Grace
'Cause otherwise the human race
Would be unsafe from how I fill that gap
Emptiness is surely what makes us snap
Yeah, I'm full of Grace, full of Grace, full of Grace for now.
Billboards, bumper stickers, church signs try to molest me
I refuse to let fundamentalist wingers get the best of me
I just turn up the music, look the other way
Don't even worry about if they have their way
It's a damn good thing I'm full of Grace
'Cause otherwise the human race
Would be unsafe from how I fill that gap
Emptiness is surely what makes us snap
Yeah, I'm full of Grace, full of Grace, full of Grace for now.
When Gracie says Goodnight, I know the day's not over
She'll make me laugh at the world's sometimes dangerous odor
When Gracie says Goodnight again and spoons me back to sleep
I'm eternally grateful she has my soul to keep
It's a damn good thing I'm full of Grace
'Cause otherwise the human race
Would be unsafe from how I fill that gap
Emptiness is surely what makes us snap
Yeah, I'm full of Grace, full of Grace, full of Grace for now.
The music for this will have to wait. Have a terrific weekend, Everybody!
posted by Bud @ 11:25 AM
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