{"id":366,"date":"2004-09-05T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-05T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/sunday-song-lyric\/"},"modified":"2004-09-05T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-05T14:12:00","slug":"sunday-song-lyric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/05\/sunday-song-lyric\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday song lyric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2004_09_00.shtml#1094392662\">Juan Non-Volokh<\/a>, it&#8217;s time for another Sunday song lyric.  This time from progressive-rock supergroup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000033P0\/lecturenotesonge\/104-0960674-1364703?dev-t=mason-wrapper%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2\">Emerson, Lake &#038; Palmer<\/a>, with bonus theological commentary!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Only Way (Hymn)<br \/>\n<br \/>Music by Emerson; Lyrics by Lake<\/p>\n<p>   People are stirred<br \/>\n<br \/>   Moved by the Word<br \/>\n<br \/>   Kneel at the shrine<br \/>\n<br \/>   Deceived by the wine<br \/>\n<br \/>   How was the Earth conceived?<br \/>\n<br \/>   Infinite space<br \/>\n<br \/>   Is there such a place?<br \/>\n<br \/>   You must believe in the human race<\/p>\n<p>   Can you believe<br \/>\n<br \/>   God makes you breathe<br \/>\n<br \/>   Why did he lose<br \/>\n<br \/>   Six million Jews?<\/p>\n<p>   Touched by the wings<br \/>\n<br \/>   Fear&#8217;s angel brings<br \/>\n<br \/>   Sad winter storm<br \/>\n<br \/>   Grey autumn dawn<br \/>\n<br \/>   Who looks on life itself<br \/>\n<br \/>   Who lights your way?<br \/>\n<br \/>   Only you can say<br \/>\n<br \/>   How can you just obey?<\/p>\n<p>   Don&#8217;t need the word<br \/>\n<br \/>   Now that you&#8217;ve heard<br \/>\n<br \/>   Don&#8217;t be afraid<br \/>\n<br \/>   Man is man-made<br \/>\n<br \/>   And when the hour comes<br \/>\n<br \/>   Don&#8217;t turn away<br \/>\n<br \/>   Face the light of day<br \/>\n<br \/>   And do it your way<br \/>\n<br \/>   It&#8217;s the only way<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, not the most sophisticated statement of the problem of evil (and Lake is trying to sing way outside his range).  But when I was younger, hearing this song was what made me realize it might actually be okay to not believe in God.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Juan Non-Volokh, it&#8217;s time for another Sunday song lyric. This time from progressive-rock supergroup Emerson, Lake &#038; Palmer, with bonus theological commentary! The Only Way (Hymn) Music by Emerson; Lyrics by Lake People are stirred Moved by the Word Kneel at the shrine Deceived by the wine How was the Earth conceived? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}