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| So tell your friends and relatives who live in Huntsville Alabama. Alright?
I had a bit of a revelation at work the other day.
Our regional manager said she would be paying a visit in two days, and all the managers at the store were freaking out 'cause of it. They finally did some of the things they had been putting off for like two weeks, and one of them was in the cafe' freaking out, and I'm like.. "What is this lady satan?" And she was like.. "the thing is, we don't want David (our store manager) to get a call from the regional manager and hear that we're not doing a good job, 'cause he thinks so highly of us"
And so we were all required to do things to cover up issues in the store, like our door buzzer goes off all the time even if they aren't stealing books, so we don't check it, So for that day we had to just check everybody, you know, as if it doesn't happen much. And I'm thinking.. Why do we cover this. Why don't we say, "Hey, we've got a problem in this part of the store. Can you help us fix it?"
But no, we have to hide it while the regional manager is there and make everything seem ok so she won't mark us down and tell our manager we're not as good as he thinks we are.
It just reminds me so much of how we deal with God in our life. It's like. We go to church and put on this front, we talk to people about God and we put on this front. "I'm good, I don't have issues here and there, I know God, all is great"
It's like we hide our problems so we look more holy, but for what?! We'll never be over these things, we'll never get these things fixed if we keep hiding them. Some people cut their arms, for whatever reason, then they wear long sleeved shirts to cover it up. But does wearing long sleeved shirts help them to stop from cutting? No.
Most of us have issues in one area or another in our lives but instead of letting our friends or family see them, we hide them, so we can get by with being "ok" and not have to deal with the problems.
This is what came to me the other day.
Peace.
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Colors
By Between the Buried and Me
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Ok, so here are some lyrics from another song on the new album.
"Beneath the trees I wait for you, where the moonlight can't reach, we must speak, we must converse, I'll sing you that song with your favorite verse,
So much to say in just one night, the clouds pass away the birds take flight, listen to me now, before the sun comes up,
You've yet to arrive and my patience is thin, my feet are cold and the soles of my shoes have worn in,
I pace and pace neglecting this broken lace, if I trip and fall can I awaken to your face, the dawn is near and regret leads his party,
I gather my things and I turn to go, if you truly desire to find me, follow my tracks in the snow."
I like it, I should post that one online soon. It's rather calm all the way through.
Thanks for reading.
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| It came to me one night. This would be the name of my new album.
Some night, a person has just had enough with deciding if God is real or not, and so they write him a final letter, as you would to a lover, and they tell him how the pain he's feels for us can't be real because he isn't real.
"well, this will be my last letter to you, for I'm sure you won't reply, I say this without hope, or sparkle in my eye, but another letter I did receive, I cannot understand or comprehend or conceive, your thoughts of me have been many, or so you say, that you want to meet me, not tomorrow but today, but at this point, what haven't I done, to make you turn around, go back, or just run? Still you want to meet me, down by the bay, where I'll play in the sand, and we'll say what we say. 'I'm sorry I hurt you' will be my first words, and I hope that forgiveness will be on your tongue, will you make my failures fly away, so we can regain the love we had when I was young?"
That's what I've been doing.
I hope it will connect with people, on some of their own feelings, and thoughts. And make it less about church and hypocrites and more about God and you.
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| Then the leaves turned and the carpets faded, mother became grandmother and then left us altogether, grape juice became fine wine, and life passed us by.
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| Alright, I'll post.
So today I went on a four mile hike down the mountain and back up. It was joyous and fun and all.
Last night I met with a guy to practice some songs and possibly start a band together with two other guys. That's would be cool.
July 10 I'm playing a show with Mike Burns http://www.myspace.com/mikeburns
at a church here. Yay for that, he says he's excited to hear me play... go figure.
I also got asked to open for this rock n roll band from Nashville who is coming in July but I don't have a full band so I kinda turned them down.
I also got asked to play at this place called "More pleasures" for two hours and $75. That seemed like a good idea until I found out it was an Adult Novelty store. So then I turned them down too.
Anyway, All I can say is I've been praying about music and a few things are happening here and there. Yay for that.
I just finished a heavy album called "The Seven Cities" you can listen to a knew song from it here.. http://myspace.com/elcarometal
Love and peace hippies!
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