Slag: "....Ever notice how every metaphor for the spiritual is rooted in the physical world: can't put our finger on it? ..."

Slag: "...I would argue too, that the things that matter most to honest sincere humans are not tangible. There IS a spiritual side to things but not all see this..."

Hawk: "Yeah, there's a spiritual side. I think it's the side that imparts meaning and that gives consciousness..."

Slag: "In Judeo-Christian terms, The Fall!..."

However, IF you've made connection, are you still under ALL the bummers of the 'fall'? If we have 'access', then it would also logical, that if you 'felt' the separation, then the 're-union', your point of view about what life really is, and the compassion of what it is if YOU were trying to 'break through' to communicate, that life, wouldn't it teach you something from THAT point of view? Wouldn't that affect your playing?, Your expression?..and if you write, your lyrics?...and to reach a HIGHER common denominator in mankind, wouldn't your lyrics have more truth in them..especially if you perform it more believably, because its true, and you are IT, delivering IT...so when the listener hears the 'song', a part of him/her identifies with a more personal depth, and their ears perk up?..possibly to add info to that part of them???...I mean, people are thirsty for it, aren't they...especially in the 'folk' circles.

This rises above your typical 'protest' song...especially if they are feeling LIFE in a way, that the comparison between what they begin to think and feel, and 'an issue' normally addressed, is 'taken care of' automatically...you think??

(You may have to read that again, slowly..not sure if I articulated it well enough).

Your music, at that point, makes a quantum leap...because music IS A LANGUAGE!!..and they can't explain why it works!!!..but it does!!...and if you can make it resonate in the listener, within the deeper truths, via emotion, and intelligence, speak to the soul....you've blown them away!!...and its NOT to have the listener 'admire' you, but to admire that part, within themselves, and you spoke to it!!
That is AWESOME...especially if it keeps resonating within them!

Dang...I gotta get some to you...some of this stuff just takes you AWAYYYY....and on the vocal stuff, instead of laying out another 'want' or 'demand', you just lay it out, and be vulnerable...the listener KNOWS what to feel or do, INSTINCTIVELY!..with out 'putting the 'suggestion' in words!

The only deal, is you have to be consummately, honest, with all of it. You can't help dialing it in, with your finger on the pulse.

Yes folks, there IS a common thread through mankind....and we get to link people to it, in a more tangible way..something to be humbly valued for!!

OKAY, enough on this for now....But in closing, the whole of the body politic, whether for or against it, is a big spiritual sink hole!
Higher is better!!

Regards, GfS