Thursday, October 16, 2008

Adam

Has always been an intensely rich resource in obscure musical matters as well as more popular ones and between upstate NY boy and downstate NY boy (the intensely, richly musical Jay) I have been quite fortunate and count my blessings.

Adam showed me
this Roy Harper song quite some time ago and I will link to Adam but also reprint it in Adam's entirety because I believe it is very important


"I'm sick to the teeth of the news on the screen
of hisbullah scum and jihad the obscene
whose men plant the bombs and then live feeling free
to watch women and children be killed on T.V.
which satan delivers a child a death curse
in the name of a worn out collection of verse
I've not read the book so I cannot recite
but I'd bet Salman Rushdie is just about right
underneath The Black Cloud Of Islam
What kind of publicity needs so much blood
that's not for some sad diabolical god
selling himself as a two-bit Macbeth
as the expert in sentencing cousins to death
and what kind of god can this be anyway
that you gotta prostrate to him five times a day
with hate in your heart and a gun in your hand
is force the only thing to understand
underneath the black cloud of islam?
and the butchers who've got all this blood on their hands
are the ones who need god to be stood where he stands
blessing this kidnapping, murder and war
with books written hundreds of ages before
and women in veils walking paces behind
doesn't sit easy in my kind of mind
it speaks of oppression and no other choice
that rigid compliance with the loudest voice
underneath the black cloud of islam
You can put a lead bullet clean through this guitar
'cos I'm not overjoyed with the story so far
sharing a world with the nutters of god
is as good as being six feet under the sod
words that are written are all here to stay
and these are the latest there are anyway
and I am the prophet so don't believe me
I'm the same as the old ones except that I'm free
to give you a piece of my mind which is this
you're the worst of jehovas blind witlessnesses
with your feet in the door of the deepest abyss
which is underneath, which is underneath, which is underneath
the black cloud of Islam"

FWIW: What I could find from the sites...I never cleaned up the "Messes"

3 comments:

Ida said...

Wasn't he on that Pink Floyd album?

Unknown said...

This penned in 1989 I see, another visionary ahead of his time...

alfred said...

Are you guys talking about Adam? or Roy Harper?