Sunday Samples 11
Today is Easter Sunday, and this year we find world leaders squaring off, invoking their respective religions, and speaking more or less explicitly in eschatological terms. This is sure to end well.
But it’s not completely unforeseen. Today’s selection was released all the way back in 1989, despite how directly on-point it is for current geopolitics. Prescience, or just another case of everything old is new again?
From 1989’s Mind Bomb, The The — “Armageddon Days are Here (Again)”. The track is available for download from Matt Johnson’s MySpace page. I highly recommend it, both musically and thematically.
Are you ready, Jesus? (uh-huh…)
Buddha? (yeah…)
Muhammad? (okay…)
Well all right fellas
Let’s GO!They’re 5 miles high as the crow flies
Leavin’ vapour trails against a blood red sky
Movin’ in from the East towards the West
With Balaclava helmets over their heads, yes!But if you think that Jesus Christ is coming
Honey you’ve got another thing coming
If he ever finds out who’s hi-jacked his name
He’ll cut out his heart and turn in his graveIslam is rising
The Christians mobilizing
The world is on its elbows and knees
It’s forgotten the message and worships the creeds“It’s war,” she cried, “It’s war,” she cried, “this is war”
Drop your possessions, all you simple folk
You will fight them on the beaches in your underclothes
You will thank the good lord for raising the Union Jack
You’ll watch the ships sail out of the harbour
And the bodies come floating back
Watch the ships sail out of the harbour
And the bodies come floating backBut if you think that Jesus Christ is coming
Honey you’ve got another thing coming
If he ever finds out who’s hi-jacked his name
He’ll cut out his heart and turn in his graveIslam is rising
The Christians mobilizing
The world is on its elbows and knees
It’s forgotten the message and worships the creedsIf the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today
He’d be gunned down cold by the C.I.A.
Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass
Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart
But God didn’t build himself that throne
God doesn’t live in Israel or Rome
God doesn’t belong to the yankee dollar
God doesn’t plant the bombs for Hezbollah
God doesn’t even go to church
And God won’t send us down to Allah to burn
God will remind us what we already know
That the human race is about to reap what it’s sownIslam is rising
The Christians mobilizing
The world is on its elbows and knees
It’s forgotten the message and worships the creedsThe world is on its elbows and knees
It’s forgotten the message and worships the creedsThe world is on its elbows and knees
It’s forgotten the message and worships the creedsArmageddon days are here again
Armageddon days are here again
Armageddon days are here again
Armageddon days are here!
