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- From: thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance)
- Subject: Fishing For Religion
- Message-ID: <thaaang.725545363@cwis>
- Keywords: Arrested Development
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:22:43 GMT
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- Wow. Amazing stuff.
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- _Fishing_For_Religion_
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- I grab the hook, grab the line, grab the bait, grab the box and wait
- and tackle and shackle the topic the faculty has chosen
- Chosen by many, chosen by plenty, chosen by any man or woman who can
- understand the topic that's known
- and go by the dock, flock, and clock the topic
- as I drop my hook and get a bite.
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- The reason I'm fishing for a new religion is my church makes me fall
- to sleep
- They're praising a god that watches you weep
- and doesn't want you to do a damn thing about it
- When they want change, the preacher says 'Shout it!'
- does shouting bring about change? I doubt it.
- All shouting does is make you lose your voice.
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- So on the dock I sit in silence
- Staring at a sea that's full of violence
- Scared to put my line in that water 'cause it seems like no religion's
- in there.
- Naievely so, I give it another go,
- sitting in church hearing legitimate woes-
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- Pastor tells the lady it'll be all right,
- just pray so you can see the pearly gates so white.
- The lady prays and prays and prays and prays
- and prays and prays and prays and... prays and... it's everlasting!
- There's nothing wrong with praying; it's what she's *asking*.
- She's asking the lord to let her cope
- so one day she can see the golden ropes.
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- What you pray for god will give:
- to be able to *cope* in this world we live.
- The word cope and the word change
- is directly opposite and not the same.
- She should have been praying to *change* her woes,
- but pastor said, pray to *cope* with those.
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- The government is happy with most baptist churches
- 'cause they don't try to do a damn thing to try to nurture
- brothers and sisters on a revolution -
- baptist teaches dying is the only solution.
- Passiveness causes others to pass us by.
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- I throw my line until I've made my decision
- Until then I'm still fishing for religion!
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- By Arrested Development; hard and fast, spoken with anger and disgust
- and wit and humor. This band is incredible.
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- thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu * John Dorrance * Disco Diva y Flamenco Chico
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- You would be surprised at what resides in your insides.
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