Name: Oracle
Duration: P00H03M51S
Description: Like many of my songs (including "Turns Toward Dawn") "Oracle" sports a weird history of the A part and the B part having been written years apart from each other (and in two different towns) until the lyrics finally came to me much later, for use in an emerging musical. "Oracle" from EDEN IN BABYLON 2013-2021 by Andrew Michael Pope.

Oracle

from Eden in Babylon Demo by Andy Pope

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Like many of my songs (including "Turns Toward Dawn") "Oracle" sports a weird history of the A part and the B part having been written years apart from each other (and in two different towns) until the lyrics finally came to me much later, for use in an emerging musical. "Oracle" from EDEN IN BABYLON 2013-2021 by Andrew Michael Pope.

lyrics

JOHN JAMES:
Never mind all that -
Gimme a place to hang my hat -
Let me in and I'll do you fat -
Gimme till sunrise.
I got weed
And I got speed.
And I got a bunch of other things that you need;
So it's not about money or greed -
Let's have some fun, guys!

TIMOTHY, CYRUS & JOLIARRE:
Oh Johnny James you're bein' a creep!
You're gonna get inside and go to sleep,
And in the morning they'll be a sweep
And we'll be arrested!
You're nothing but a money-making machine,
Come on, man up and own up! Johnny come clean!
The cops'll find a place that's pretty obscene,
And crack-infested.

TAURA:
An Oracle from Beyond,
Concerning everything known to Man.
An era of Grace has dawned,
In keeping with the Plan.
In University halls,
And many venues throughout the land,
Wherever the herald's calls
Are heard by those who understand.

JOHN JAMES:
What's to understand?
Spirituality is bland.
If it ain't cash on demand,
Then you're just a loser!

TIMOTHY, CYRUS & JOLIARRE:
Come on, come on now Johnny James -
You better not be callin' people names -
'Cuz livin' life is more than just playin' games -
Let the man choose her!

WINSTON:
An Oracle of Appeal
Will be submitted to those who reign,
Confirming the common zeal
No ruler shall disdain -
And every official shrine
Will come to signal the common bond,
Emerging from those divine,
From deep within and far beyond -

WINSTON & TAURA:
An Oracle from Beyond,
Will be released from our common core!
The Universe will respond
Like never e'er before!
And shower across the glen
Where we have made our nomadic beds
The might of the poet's pen
Upon the ground the Seeker treads.

ALL:
An Oracle from Beyond
Expressing everything that we are,
Conveying the common bond
In earth and sky and star!
From University halls,
It will be echoed throughout the land,
Wherever the Herald's calls
Are heard by those who understand.
Understand!!
Understand!!
Understand!!
Understand!!!

© 2013-2021 by Andy Pope. All Rights Reserved.

credits

from Eden in Babylon Demo, released September 8, 2021
Sound design by Liam Robert Marchant. Vocals by Matt Perez, Cody Wendt, Ian Wendt, Keva Shull, Zazen Matossian & Cooper Knutson. Andy Pope at the piano, March 21, 2021.

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Andy Pope

I was born at 11:30 on a Friday night, when all across America, people were partying, and surely there was a standing ovation taking place at some Performing Arts venue, somewhere. With all those bizarre influences acting upon me at the moment of my birth, you'd think people would cut me some slack concerning my wild and oft-erratic personality. ... more