Everyone Deserves Music

[sisabet]

Bleh. I was actually early to work today. Yay Team me.

Actually, while I am not at my best in the mornings, I'm no longer in a bad mood. Bad moods are really difficult for me to sustain. Bad moods and anger - I think it is the slacker in me. Depression, malaise, guilt? I can keep those bad boys going indefinitely. Give me an emotional state that requires constant supplies of energy and I fold.

I was thinking about guilt this morning actually. I was driving to work and listening to "Everyone Deserves Music" and I know I am constantly pimping Michael Franti and Spearhead and this album - but there is a reason, my friend.

Go here - you can download the song "Everyone Deserves Music" from the album "Everyone Deserves Music" and getting up early is causing my sense of humor to be off cause I think that this sentence is just hilarious. But anyway Amazon has the song as a free MP3 Download here.

This weekend I made just_eunice download this song and then we kept hollering back and forth "Everyone deserves music" and then we'd bitch about something or other and then come back with "But they deserve music. Everyone deserves music.Even our worst enemies, they deserve music"

And so this morning, I am thinking about guilt and religion (to be fair I am *always* thinking about guilt and religion) because I am making a gospel CD for some relatives' Christmas gifts and so many songs talk about how unworthy we are. How we are granted salvation we don't deserve and the essential dispicableness of man/woman. This is one of the reasons that the salvation is such a gift - it is because it is totally undeserved. So, I am thinking these thoughts but I am listening to "Everyone Deserves Music" and I think that song perfectly encompasses my faith and beliefs and my worldview (and does it all in under 5 minutes - GO Michael Franti and Spearhead! You rock on!) but it is causing a wee bit of cognitive dissonance.

Because I truly believe that everyone does deserve something - some kind of peace or happiness or joy. But that is not a tenant of any Christian-Based religion - not that I can find and I have looked. I know that humans are very, incredibly, falliable, but we still deserve music/whatever music represents for you. Even the quiet ones, the lonely ones, the happy ones ain't the only ones, y'all and yeah -- and then I feel guilt for thinking that I deserve music because I was raised to believe that essentially I deserve nothing - no one can lay true claim to anything in a spiritual, permanent sense (of course I was easily able to reconcile the fact that while I deserved nothing I did have an essential right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Because Jesus was Amurican. Or something). Huh.

I wonder how much of my guilt is just a hold-over from that; because I don't buy it anymore (does a comma go here instead of a semicolon? Should there be punctuation after the the "that"? - I am sooo sleepy). I still believe in some essential elements - but what kind of God wants people he supposedly loves to walk around in agony over things that essentially they can't control? Not mine. Not unless he really hates us and there is some merit to that theory but then I listen to "Everyone Deserves Music" and I reject that line of reasoning. Because everyone deserves music.

They really really do. I believe that.

Comments

[piper47.livejournal.com]

That was such a deep thought for so early in the morning that I don't actually have words. But if that song, spawned all of them, well you sold me. I'd buy the CD right now if I had money. I'll just hold off in hopes that you'll just jump me sometime online and send it to me. ;)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Hey! I've already sent you 2 songs from that CD - go to Amazon and DL the other 2 songs they are offering and you are halfway there.

[vagabondage.livejournal.com]

Many blessings on your head! I'm fighting huge depression and shit, and this song is downright soul cleansing for me at the moment. Music has always been the closest thing to religion I've ever had. Everyone DOES deserve music!

Thanks for this, because I really, really needed it. MWAH!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Then you also need "What I Be" and "We Don't Stop" from this album so - aim me tonight (or whenever) at sidabet or sidthedogfaceboy and I'll get them to you.

Or I could yousendit!