And When I Die... (page 2)

candidlynuts

i hope there is a god to face after death.. cuz i sure as heck want some answers from HIM/HER/IT, right after i kick his/her/it's ass for letting the watchtower take my family away in HIS name

as it is..i'm pretty sure we're just worm bait

prophecor

Thanks to you, sir, I have another tune to sit inside my head, without end.

.....don't wanna' go by the Devil, don't wanna' go by the demons

Don't wanna' go by Satan

Don't wanna' die un-easy

Just let me go, naturally........

I saw BST perform in a very small music theater in the 80s. There were empty seats everywhere. I was dissappointed at how fast they lost their popularity because I liked them very much. David Clayton Thomas was fabulous. This is one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y168CNQyO7g

Must obey!

Dude have you been on the wacky backy today?

JK666

I am pretty okay with death now. If there is a God, then I feel he will take care of me because I was a good person. And if there is not, then I will not know the difference. I am in no hurry to croak, but I am not morbidly afraid of it like when I was a JW.

JK

. . . and I preferred the song Lucretia McEvil by BST. must be that 666 thing.

nomoreguilt

I have come to terms with my own mortallity and I now have inner peace. No shame, no albatross around my throat, and no more guilt. I am who I am, nothing more nothing less. I no longer need anyone or anything to make me over into something that I am not, and will not be. When I pass on, I hope to leave behind me many memories for my family and friends to cherish of me. Not for the bad I did while in ther midst, but for the good that I accomplished for them while they had me here.

Serenity Now

NMG

hillary_step

Farkel,

Now you are singing my song. My wife tells me that I am obessed with death. I tell her, no, I am from The Mediterranean, to us death is a sort of hobby.

I cannot understand how people are not obsessed with death. I think they put all their efforts into living so that they do not have to think about dying. As you know, getting into your fifties tends to focus your mind in recognition of impending mortality and this becomes another subject that you can bore people at parties with. Its all good really.

As to BST, yes a great band. Actually Laura Nyro wrote "And When I Die", when she was just sixteen. Laura was for a while a dear friend and died far too early, but left behind her a mesmerizing legacy of songs and music which are second to none. Though tens of thousands have tried to copy her style, none have come close. They all lacked that strange musical genius which elevates above the norm, a genius that never came my way. :(

BST first album, "Child Is Father To The Man" under the leadership of Al Kooper is one of my favorites. It was an iconoclastic album for its day and led to the very polished second album 'BST'. Bobby Columby produced that one I think. Randy Brecker on trumpet and Steve Katz on songs. Brecker teamed up with his brother Michael to produce some superb jazz later on. Like many bands, after the third album they lost their vision and should have quit while the going was good.

Now, getting back to death......Is it as overrated as life?

HS

PS - BST had a UK equivalent, a band called "IF", made up of veterans of the UK club jazz scene. They were in every way the equal of BST and so much better than Chicago imo.

snowbird

Don't wanna' die un-easy

Just let me go, naturally........

This is from an old Spiritual once song by slaves. I remember my grandma singing it.

The thinking was that if you died uneasy, you had lived a sinful life.

Conversely, if you died easily or naturally, you had lived a Christian life and the angels were waiting to bear you safely over the Jordan.

Come to think of it, the overcoming theme of the Negro Spirituals was prominent in a lot of the great rock bands of the 60's.

Sylvia

144001

Enjoy what you have NOW, folks. The afterlife may not be all that is worth sacrificing for.

So true, and the willingness of so many to not enjoy what we have NOW for the remote chance to live in a world comprised only of Jehovah's Witnesses and vegetarians lions, tigers, and other beasts is rather astonishing.

nvrgnbk

Yep.

Thanks.

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