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From: "Maggie Council DiPietra" <mdipietra@earthlink.net> Subject: for Lisa Date: 1999/10/11 Message-ID: <3801fd82.0@news2.lightlink.com>#1/1 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
I had a gig this past weekend; it was the annual Taste of Florida
event, held in Curtis Hixon Park downtown Tampa. There were thousands
of people there for this 3-day event, to sample foods from Florida
restaurants and enjoy some sun and music. I played on Saturday, solo,
on the acoustic stage. It was under a huge canopy with tables that
were filled with people. Other people stood around the tent as I
played. They were a nice crowd, real polite, listening attentively, so
I took the opportunity to tell them a little about the songs I played.
One song (on my last CD) I usually send out to anyone who has ever
been in a cult or who has a loved one in a cult. I say it especially
goes out to Lisa McPherson, who died in the care of a cult in
Clearwater. Nobody (around here, anyway) ever needs to ask "which
cult" for some reason. And sometimes I mention the names of others who
have died in Scientology.
I was careful not to mention Scientology, as I don't want to cause
trouble for the sponsors. But like I say, I didn't have to.
The song is called "spirit hands" and it goes like this:
there's nothing harder than believing
nothing easier than falling down
the information is deceiving
from talking heads come bites of sound
and the more I try to analyze, the less I understand
there is something unseen, moving me like spirit hands
it is what wakes you in the morning
when suddenly, you're not asleep
it takes a shape without a warning
leaving you with promises to keep
and the more I try to organize, the less that I have planned
there is something unseen, moving me like spirit hands
and the more I try to compromise, the less I can demand,
there is something unseen, laughing behind spirit hands
the more I try to analyze, the less I understand...
it is what wakes you in the morning, when suddenly you're not
asleep.
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M.C.DiPietra <mdipietra@earthlink.net>
"Hell, if you understood everything I say,
you'd be me!" -Miles Davis
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