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I was sitting at the Bar in Paxton's Grill (Loveland) having lunch with J.R. and overheard a country song playing in the background. "What a great song", I said to J.R. as we sat there. Luckily, I have enabled the "Now Playing" feature of my Pixel 6a Android Phone and saw "Turtles all the way Down" by Sturgill Simpson.
There must have been 3-5 God winks going on. Enough to make this Heaven Board #18!
#1 "But I swear that God is there every time I glare into the eyes of my best friend"
#2 "Love's the only thing that every saved my life".
#3 "Turtles all the way Down" with infinite regress of the mythology of a World Turtle.
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#5 The second nudge phone call from S.F. for joining the Men's Walk to Emmaus #112 while I was constructing this blog
#6 Re-Reading from 2010 "The Six Secrets you must Discover before you Die" by John Izzo "Be Love"!
I enjoy going down the research "rabbit hole" (as R.M. described it) and found the 10 year anniversary commentary by Simpson and Uhelski about the song and video from 2014.
"To appease lazy music journalists, I've always said this song was about drugs. It actually came from recreational reading "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" by Rick Strassman and the Omega Point Theory by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The video has absolutely nothing to do with the song, which doesn't matter since nobody really ever knew what the song was about. It's just four guys pretending to play with Electric Sheep Screensaver graphics overlaid on the performance" Sturgill Simpson
Here are the complete lyrics:
Introducing "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music"
I've seen Jesus play with flames in a lake of fire that I was standing in
Met the devil in Seattle and spent 9 months inside the lions' den
Met Buddha yet another time
He showed me a glowing light within
But I swear that God is there
Every time I glare into the eyes of my best friend
Met the devil in Seattle and spent 9 months inside the lions' den
Met Buddha yet another time
He showed me a glowing light within
But I swear that God is there
Every time I glare into the eyes of my best friend
Says my son, it's all been done
Someday you're gonna wake up old and gray
So go and try to have some fun showing warmth to everyone
You meet and greet and cheat along the way
Someday you're gonna wake up old and gray
So go and try to have some fun showing warmth to everyone
You meet and greet and cheat along the way
There's a gateway in our minds
That leads somewhere out there far beyond this plane
Where reptile aliens made of light cut you open and pull out all your pain
Tell me how you make illegal something that we all make in our brain
Some say you might go crazy
Then again, it might make you go sane
That leads somewhere out there far beyond this plane
Where reptile aliens made of light cut you open and pull out all your pain
Tell me how you make illegal something that we all make in our brain
Some say you might go crazy
Then again, it might make you go sane
Every time I take a look inside inside that old and fabled book
I'm blinded and reminded of the pain caused by some old man in the sky
Marijuana, LSD, psilocybin, and DMT, they all changed the way I see
Love's the only thing that ever saved my life
I'm blinded and reminded of the pain caused by some old man in the sky
Marijuana, LSD, psilocybin, and DMT, they all changed the way I see
Love's the only thing that ever saved my life
So don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes
And fairy tales of blood and wine
It's turtles all the way down the line
So to each their own 'til we go home
To other realms our souls must roam
To and through the myth that we all call space and time
And fairy tales of blood and wine
It's turtles all the way down the line
So to each their own 'til we go home
To other realms our souls must roam
To and through the myth that we all call space and time
