Tre udlændinge har for nylig indspillet nedenstående sang, der uden videre kunne handle om et fremtrædende medlem af regeringens støtteparti, en ikke-kollega til mig og nok den danske statsborger, jeg er allermest træt af.
John the Revelator
Put him in a elevator
Take him up to the highest high
Take him up to the top where the mountains stop
Let him tell his book of lies
John the Revelator
He’s a smooth operator
It’s time we cut him down to size
Take him by the hand
And put him on the stand
Let us hear his alibis
By claiming God as his holy right
He’s stealing a God from the Israelite
Stealing a God from the Muslim, too
There is only one God
Through and through
Seven lies, multiplied by seven, multiplied by seven again
Seven angels with seven trumpets
Send them home on the morning train
Well who’s that shouting?
John the Revelator!
All he ever gives us is pain
Well who’s that shouting?
John the Revelator!
He should bow his head in shame
By and by
By and by
By and by
By and by
Seven lies, multiplied by seven, multiplied by seven again
Seven angels with seven trumpets
Send them home on the morning train
Well who’s that shouting?
John the Revelator!
All he ever gives us is pain
Well who’s that shouting?
John the Revelator!
He should bow his head in shame
By and by
By and by
By and by
By and by
Nemlig – usselt patent han har taget paa religion – desvaerre passer den ogsaa godt paa verdens mest magtfulde mand. Stakkels vores verden. Men heldigvis kan religion ogsaa vaere godt stadig – blandt andet vaerdsaetter jeg den Gud der tilsyneladende staar bag dette pragtvaerk – for det er aabenbart ikke kun ham vi tror det er, jvf. Gahan (1994): “It was very late and we’d been drinking a lot. Whether Martin was drunk, I don’t know if he can even remember it but it stuck in my mind anyway. He said to me that he feels like he gets his songs…like something from God…For some reason he thought he had to channel that work through me, and I was his voice, kind of thing, which I thought was the most beautiful thing he had ever said to me…it really sticks in my mind like maybe I really am supposed to deliver some kind of message…” INDEED YOU ARE!