When Nothing's Sacred

A few weeks ago I saw this song by Billy Sprague on Spotify and was touched by how relevant it still is.  

 Most of the lines of the song start with People need or But. So in the notebook my daughter gave me for Christmas, I made two columns.  On one I wrote "People need ...  " and the other I wrote "but..." I have reprinted it without permission below.  But, I will add that the song was written by Billy Sprague and appears on his 1993 album The Wind and The Wave.  I just like how when laid out like this it looks like a list poem.  Even when you add the music it really is.

Note: There is a chorus in the middle of the song which also repeats at the end.  I will write the chorus at the end and put an * each time the chorus appears in the song.

When Nothing's Sacred

by Billy Sprague

People Need...                                                       But...

True love                                                              Chase infatuation

A hope                                                                  Live on short supply

Wisdom                                                                Get more education

Forgiveness                                                          Settle  things eye for eye

Identity                                                                 Satisfied with titles

A living God                                                         Seem content with idols

Destiny                                                                  Settle for careers*

Faith                                                                       Place their bets on science

A refuge                                                                  Stay out in the rain

Each other                                                              Rely on self reliance

Christmas                                                               Settle for a holiday

Dignity                                                                   Survive on ego

Truth                                                                       Will take an alibi

A savior                                                                   Much prefer a hero

(Most) long for heaven                                           Have settled for the sky*

And the soul remains unsettled and the world a wilderness.

In a time when nothings sacred and souls settle for less.

I really wanted to share a live performance of this song and could not find one of Billy Sprague performing it but did find this video of Gary Hall Peck covering it. I think this is a very good rendition of it.

 

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Here is some analysis as to whether Mark Buehrle should be enshrined in Cooperstown.  I'll be back later this month to share my feelings on Buerhle and the others who are appearing  the BBWAA ballot.

A Comment About Comments

 If uoi are a fellow blogger and you have been listed recently in one of the various blog rolls that appear here on Leap of Dave, you may have seen or be seeina in the future a comment on one of your posts that looks like thei:

Happy New Year! Each year at this time, I clean up my blog to prepare for the upcoming year.  I consolidate all of my blog rolls to one entitled something like These blogs are so last year. Then at the beginning of the year when people post on their blogs for the first time.  I read that post in it's entirety and usually read or reread the last post of the previous year.  This year I decided to then write a comment on the first post which is why you are reading this. 

The comment then will say specific things about their blog and post.  In a few days I'll stop adding a comment after the first post, but for the rest of the year I'll continue to prune the last year blog list and transfer most of them to the current blogroll.

I follow this procedure for multiple reasons: 1) It's a quick glance for me to keep up with  which blogs may have stopped posting over the previous year.  2)I helps me evaluate whether I want to keep blogs on my blog roll that I'm no longer reading or interested in.  3) In a bizarre way this process id fun and comforting me. 

 My blogging has evolved since 2008 when this blog began as Home School Dad.  Other blogs like Dave Out Loud, and Crazy Uncle Dave's Sports blog soon followed.  Eventually this blog changed names and incorporated some of the other blogs in a one stop shop/ multiplex of my many and varied interests.  

As my blog has changed so have my blogrolls, this yearly changing of the blog guard helps facilitate that change.