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A punk rock song about God. It's only rap and roll but I like it.

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This is God. On the highest of highs through the gulf of a tomb,
(This is God.) I’m on top of the worlds born of mind, spirit, womb.

I am not. Now the bubble has burst, there is nothing but sea:
This is God. I’m as drowned in His kiss as the bud in her bloom.

I’m in Love. All the pain in my heart’s disappeared like a dream:
This is God. I am dead to the worlds and awake to my swoon.

I am Him. Now the primal beloved and lover are one:
This is God. I’ve become Who I journeyed towards and from Whom.

Oh my love! He’s embraced me and brought me at last to himself:
This is God. Now I see there is only my Self in his room.

I’m the soul. “There’s no dark where there’s light, no unknown where one knows.”
This is God. Little mind has been razed with its search and its gloom.

O my God! You’re beyond the beyond but you’re found on the Earth.
This is Me, All in All, in the flesh: this perfection, this Home.

© Gareth Calway 1991, 2015. Re-published in the Sheriar volume "http://garethcalway.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/6-degrees-of-separation-7-degrees-of.html 2015.

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from Bad King John & The Word on the Street (album), released July 23, 2017
Single voice, fast funk beatbox.
Alternative versions of this track as fully realised songs.
thebabalovers.bandcamp.com/track/the-seventh-heaven-heaven-007 (Gaz and Gabriella)
soundcloud.com/gaz29-1/this-is-god-calway-tal (Gabriella solo)

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Bardonthewire England, UK

Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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