In My Place
Here is a story that might seem hard to believe, but it is true. I think it was about five years ago that I wrote a ‘hit song’. I had this idea, shortly after that business with what I called ‘The Eden Wing’ that I would release what I called at the time, ‘the hidden prophecy’. The idea was that I would release this prophecy, which happened sometime in the spring of 2001, just after the Eden Wing Event on Earth Day, 2001, and I would place this prophecy into ‘safe keeping’ with a bunch of churches and preachers. If the prophecy did not come true, I would never hear the end of it. If it did come true, they would hide the prophecy. As it turned out, I predicted ‘911’, and it did come true a few months later, on September 11th, 2001, and as I predicted would happen, those churches and those preachers hid the ‘hidden prophecy’, because it came true, and I have never heard another damn thing about it. This turned out to be a stupid idea, because now I have a true ‘hidden prophecy’ which I can no longer prove exists because it was left for ‘safe keeping’ with churches and preachers, and they either hid it away or completely destroyed it so it would vanish off the face of the earth. I still believe that thing will resurface someday for just as some of those documents burned by the early church turned up almost two thousand years later, unburned, and in a hole in the desert, so that hidden prophecy, perhaps the very last remaining copy, is probably sitting in some hole somewhere waiting to pop back out. Time will tell.
In this prophecy I lamented the fact that my job required the voice of a poet, and I was no poet, but I then decided to attempt to write a poem describing that long ordeal of waiting for YAHWEH, the God of the Garden of Eden (see my main blog for the rest of the story). The result was the poem which was the put to music and recorded as a song by ColdPlay, titled ‘In My Place’. You see, after that 911 prediction came true that hidden prophecy became famous, and I guess that band thought it was a good poem and decided to set it to music. It turned out rather well.
The lines of the poem refer to ‘waiting for YAHWEH’. For example there is the line ‘if you go and leave me down here on my own, then I’ll wait for you.’ ‘How long must you pay for it,’ referred to all the shit I went through in my life to get this far, and the bit about being ‘lost’ refers to the struggle I had in coming to an understanding of just what the hell had been going on the world for ages of time, as well as my struggle to hurl off the last remaining influence of religion (those destructive remnants of religion being ‘the line I shouldn’t have crossed). The concluding verses (‘sing it out’) were not written by me, but rather were added on by the band Coldplay, and are a referance to my lament about how this poem was the best I could do, and sadly while this job of mine required a poet and even a songwriter like the psalmists, I wasn’t up to the job.
As I said, this might sound far fetched, and until that hidden prophecy does finally resurface you will just have to trust me on this one and take my word for it. The lyrics follow….
In my place, in my place
were lines that I couldn't change
I was lost,
Oh yeah
I was lost, I was lost
Crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed
I was lost,
Oh yeah
Yeah,
How long must you wait for it?
Yeah,
How long must you pay for it?
Yeah,
How long must you wait for it?
Oh for it
I was scared, I was scared
Tired and under prepared
But I’ll wait for it
If you go, if you go
Leave me down here on my own
then I’ll wait for you (yeah)
Yeah,
How long must you wait for it?
Yeah,
How long must you pay for it?
Yeah,
How long must you wait for it?
Oh for it.
Singing
Please, please, please
come back and sing to me
to me, me
Come on and sing it out,
Now, Now
Come on and sing it out,
To me, me
come back and sing
In my place, in my place
were lines that I couldn't change
I was lost, oh yeah
Oh yeah.......
