Fuck yeah, I should be able to do these lyrics by memory. Maybe a friend learns to play the song on a guitar so we can sing it. I would have to do a light rewrite of the first stanza, since I have not, myself, seen what I would say fits my understanding of liturgical, mythological, and historical “Jesus” play with flames. But, I do hear tell. Y’all are loved.<\/p>\n
If you try the song and don’t like it immediately, give it another minute or two, actually listen to it and you might be impressed where it goes.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LWx6csgGkg4<\/a><\/p>\n I’ve seen Jesus play with flames Says my son, “It’s all been done There’s a gateway in our minds Every time I take a look So don’t waste your mind on nursery rhymes Fuck yeah, I should be able to do these lyrics by memory. Maybe a friend learns to play the song on a guitar so we can sing it. I would have to do a light rewrite of the first stanza, since I have not, myself, seen what I would say fits my understanding of liturgical, … Continue reading Sturgill Simpson’s Turtles All the Way Down Appreciation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,60,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-music","category-poetry-of-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn a lake of fire that I was standing in
\nMet the devil in Seattle
\nAnd spent 9 months inside the lions den
\nMet Buddha yet another time
\nAnd he showed me a glowing light within
\nBut I swear that God is there
\nEvery time I glare in the eyes of my best friend<\/p>\n
\nAnd someday you’re gonna wake up old and gray
\nSo go and try to have some fun
\nShowing warmth to everyone
\nYou meet and greet and cheat along the way”<\/p>\n
\nThat leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane
\nWhere reptile aliens made of light
\nCut you open and pull out all your pain
\nTell me how you make illegal
\nSomething that we all make in our brain
\nSome say you might go crazy
\nBut then again it might make you go sane<\/p>\n
\nInside that old and fabled book
\nI’m blinded and reminded of
\nThe pain caused by some old man in the sky
\nMarijuana, LSD
\nPsilocybin, and DMT
\nThey all changed the way I see
\nBut love’s the only thing that ever saved my life<\/p>\n
\nOr fairy tales of blood and wine
\nIt’s turtles all the way down the line
\nSo to each their own ’til we go home
\nTo other realms our souls must roam
\nTo and through the myth that we all call space and time<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"