Posted on 05/26/2024 7:54:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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I like the song but can’t unforget when I saw her in concert many, many years ago. She was a rude drunk saying she regretted writing and performing the song as that was all that anyone wanted to hear from her.
And correction, she didn’t write the song. Sorry.
I could never get past that stupid nose ring. Also the lyrics are blasphemous.
For some reason, the lyrics have always been stuck in my head, “What if God was Snagglepus.”
Rush Limbaugh plugged this song during one of his broadcasts. He was impressed that a song about God was getting such good airplay.
It might be a little earthy, but I like the way it brings God to Earth as a man in the modern era. God did it once before a few thousand years ago. Blasphemous - marginally?
The best “version” of this song is
Bob Rivers—What If God Smoked Cannabis
Reading the lyrics, I wouldn’t call it “marginally” myself.
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. Bazilian is a founding member of the rock band The Hooters. He wrote "One of Us", a song first recorded by Joan Osborne in 1995.
She’s trying to dumb down God into the form of man. “Just a slob like one of us”. I remember women at that time thinking this was very “spiritual” AKA new age. I had disdain for this before I formally became a born again Christian, but even then I knew this was not coming from a good place. Trying to make Good more secular. Sounds like the very thing Satan would want is to believe.
*Trying to make God more secular. Sounds like the very thing Satan would have us believe to deceive us.
Never was all that keen on the song, but liked the intro which was written by John Sutter:
One of these nights about twelve o’clock
The old world’s goin’ to reel and rock;
The sinners gonna tremble and cry for pain
And the Lord will come in His aeroplane
Ho, ye weary of ev’ry tribe
Get your ticket for an aeroplane ride
Jesus the Savior is coming to reign
And take you up to glory in His aeroplane
Talk about your joyrides in automobiles
Of lightning speed on your motor wheels;
We’ll break all records as up we’ll fly
On an aeroplane joyride thru the sky
Ho, ye weary of ev’ry tribe
Get your ticket for an aeroplane ride
Jesus the Savior is coming to reign
And take you up to glory in His aeroplane
You’ll have to get ready if you take this ride
Quit all your meanness and humble your pride;
You must furnish a light both bright and clean
And a vessel of oil to run the machine
Ho, ye weary of ev’ry tribe
Get your ticket for an aeroplane ride
Jesus the Savior is coming to reign
And take you up to glory in His aeroplane.
During the “Motown Special” featuring their studio band (Funk Brothers), Joan Osbourne does an extraordinary cover of “What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted”
Such an amazing arrangement delivered with incredible passion, it far surpasses Jimmy Ruffin’s great original version.
“Blasphemous - marginally?“
I’d say totally. “I AM”. God transcends Man. Reducing Him to a mere man destroys the equation it doesn’t create a new one. It’s an exercise in stupidity and self serving mental masturbation.
I seem to remember seeing her in a Motown documentary years ago doing those songs with what was left of the Funk Brothers. They were true to the original recording as you can get.
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