Episode 42-Swimming In The Dark

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This weeks tune is a bit of a soul meef, real simple Banjo tune, 3 chords and some super basic lead stuff. I don't think it needs explaining too much. I've been up and down of late, when I wrote this I was down. But it's not all negatives, it's about honesty with God, (I feel wary using religious terms, I'm not religious, I have a faith, a belief in the "Christian" God I guess, but not in religious ridiculousness, and I don't want to cut anyone off, songs are songs whatever they're about), about telling God you feel a bit crap and you want to offload it on him, to blame him, which is not right, but I think he can take the honesty, we need to be honest, it's kind of important.

Episode 41-Cosmic Treason

 

https://ia601004.us.archive.org/21/items/CeskyLivesEpisode41-cosmicTreason/Clep41-cosmicTreason.mp3

This weeks tune is about humanity, imperfection, cosmic treason. If you believe what Genesis says, (literally or otherwise), then we're all made to be perfect; "in the image of God", but we screwed up pretty bad and now were perpetually bound to doing this over and over again. This song is about that, and about making excuses for ourselves when we screw up, (if you're religious, or have some kind of faith or not, we all do this I think), and how picking at each other over faults is fruitless. This song is kind of saying that the way we are around our flaws and mistakes should probably be taken more seriously, we need to admit our faults or we're playing with fire. Agree or disagree, either way, it's also just a song.

Episode 40-I Thought You'd Gone & Died

 

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This weeks tune is based on a book I read about "pleading the blood" of Jesus, which some people it would seem have historically used as a heretical bit of brain washing "God is a vending machine" kind of thing, but some have just used as something they add to their prayers to remind themselves that they believe Jesus died for them and that that matters and is powerful. I borrowed a book about it from a friend of mine that seemed fairly non-crazy and straight down the line for the most part, (the book I mean, not my friend).This song about it is just a super minimal absolutely simple two chord tune about how remembering what you believe in is a good thing, and not relying on yourself on your lonesome to carry all the garbage that you do is also good. I'm a little worried after learning the opposing view on this pleading the blood thing that I may have been led down some random unhelpful path, but I don't think I have, I certainly trust the source that lent me the book, but I don't trust repetitious meaningless verbalising of chanty stuff, which I can see people could easily fall into using this idea, i.e. say "x" enough times with feeling and "y" will happen, that's just dodgy.

Episode 39-Where The Monsters Are Angels

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This weeks tune is based on a Proverb I read a couple days ago, Proverbs 14:10, about how nobody can really know the joy or bitterness of a persons heart save for them. This is true I think, everybody has their own stuff going on and their own way of looking at things. The song is taking that idea and framing it in my own experience I guess, I feel kind of alien a lot of the time but I still think its incredibly important to try to understand people whether you can do so fully or not.