(OK, so I fell behind on my posting and have not adhered to the schedule of posting a new video every week. I'm going to make it up with three new ones in rapid succession!)
I've been doodling around with this PALMS & CROSSES song for awhile now, a few years.
I saw a movie about the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a terrorist organization, kind of like the Weather Underground. As a former Maoist who was fortunate not to have done anything stupid, I felt sorry for the well-meaning activists who embraced a bad idea, put it into action, hurt innocent people, and faced the consequences by taking their own lives in their prison cells. Glad it wasn't me.
I don't know why I made the connection, but I thought about all the followers of Jesus who probably went into hiding after the crucifixion, how they probably assumed they'd been mistaken and spent a few days wrapping their heads around the magnitude of their foolishness. I wonder how many of them doubted the resurrection when they got the news.
Anyhow, I've posted a version of the song on youtube and have added it to the website.
Let me know if you like it.
PALMS & CROSSES (Holy Saturday)
This week palms,
Joy and praise
Hearts are lifted
Voices raised
Next week nails and
Crowns of thorns
The mother of God
Herself will mourn
A handful of stragglers
Waits at the scene
Asking themselves what it is that they’ve seen
Best go home
Assess our losses
One week palms,
Next week crosses
One week palms
Next week crosses
Mostly life goes on unseen
All I can say is
Tomorrow will decide
What yesterday means
All I can say is tomorrow will decide what yesterday means
Single mom with three small kids
Picnic lunch under the bridge
Cast a line, catch a few fish
Eat spaghetti off a styrofoam dish
Throw your ball, ride your bike
There you go, Just play nice
Look, mom, look! You got a bite
He stole your bait. Story of my life.
One week palms next week crosses
Mostly life goes on unseen
All I can say is tomorrow will decide what yesterday means
All I can say is tomorrow will decide what yesterday means
A mother with her children
on the Fourth of July
Waving sparklers on a
Cordoned off street
I told you
Keep your shoes on,
Don’t blame me
When you wind up with
Glass in your feet
Birthday parties,
Wedding gifts
Gotta run to the store
Can you give me a lift
ooh This looks cool
What’s it do?
It catches dreams,
Ah that isn’t true
How do you know?
You gotta believe
Alright, ask,
Ye shall receive
Give me back
the friends I lost
Yeah that’s right,
just like I thought
One week palms
Next week crosses
Mostly life goes on
Unseen
All I can say is tomorrow will decide what yesterday means
All I can say is tomorrow will decide what yesterday means
All I can say is tomorrow will decide what yesterday means