Ok...let's weigh the evidence:
First, from an above embedded page...some hearsay:
A couple years ago Tommy James website had a question and answer section moderated by his Manager. One of the questions was regarding where he got the idea for his song Crystal Blue Persuasion and whether he got the idea from reading a blue book. His manager explained (I read it myself on his official website) that in the late sixties Tommy became a Born-Again Christian and that he did a lot of Bible reading. He was inspired by his reading of the book of Ezekiel where it speaks of the Blue Shekinah Light which represented the presence of the Almighty God and the Books of Isaiah and Revelation where it speaks of a bright future of a brotherhood of mankind living in peace and harmony. This is where he got his idea from. Not from a book, not from a church. This is the fact. The SongFact.
Second, from an overly adamant know-it-all book study overseer who is full of himself. He insisted and kept telling people over and over...even at our book study while conducting it and also out in field service, that it was a FACT that James wrote the song based on the blue-covered "Truth" book.
Ok...evidence is in...let's do the analysis.
I'm gonna have to go with the book study overseer. His repetition for emphasis really proves the point. The more it is said, the more it must be true, right? Also, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, he must know what he's talking about because he came into the "truth" from that book...and it did have the blue cover. And it was persuasive. So persuasive that he has said on repeated occasions: "I'm gonna give this truth business all I've got because if it isn't the truth, then what else is there? Where else will I go?" He became a witness because it was his last resort? He settled for this? Wow...now that's the kind of elder we want shepherding the flock. And remember the b.s. (that doesn't stand for bible study, kids) from the Reasoning book, if you want to know the "truth" about all-things-witness, you should go right to the source and ask a witness...don't trust worldly or apostate sources that don't know firsthand.
