Church of Stevie

When I get mentally stagnant, all I have to do is listen to "Inner Visions" and "Songs in the Key of Life" and jump around and up and down to the music and sing the words loudly until tears roll from my eyes, and I think that must be the same kind of feeling that people have at church. I wouldn't know because church freaked me out when I was a kid--- Joycean hell sermon kind of thing.

This is such old news but if you never have, listen to these songs and ponder:
Stevie & Tupac & Coolio

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most their lives
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me

Dissipation
Race relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation... ...to the evils of the world

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrow's gone from time
They keep telling of the day
When the Savior of love will come to stay
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me

Proclamation of race relations
Consolation
Integration
Verification of revelations
Acclamation
World salvation
Vibrations
Simulation
Confirmation.......to the peace of the world

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
We've been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise

Let's start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyones' lives
Living in a pastime paradise