Never been one to let the carrier drop

What with one thing and another I haven’t gotten any recording that wasn’t either my album or someone else’s done this year – until now. Here is me covering VNV Nation’s “Kingdom” – another song done especially for Chris Mish 😉 But I hope you’ll all enjoy it anyway.

Sheer Covers VNV Nation-Kingdom

This is a cover, so presumably the original is copyright VNV Nation. Here’s the lyrics (and chord chart) anyway:

Verse 1:

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    G#m

Our domain, this kingdom come,

now godless lands whose ways are lost

Without the strength to carry on.

All values lost, all virtue none.
Part II:

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         G#m                  D#m

Did you think that you’d be saved

            C#

by burning flags to cleanse yourselves of shame?

             G#m             C#          D#m

Or are you afraid, as you stare back at your face?

            G#m             F#          C#               D#m

Or are you ashamed, are you afraid, by destroying what the gods once gave?
G# F# E C#
G#m

————-  Do you think that you’ll be saved?
         B                  F#

And I believe that we’ll conceive

            C#m          G#m

to make in hell for us a heaven.

             B                 F#

A brave new world, a promised land.

        C#m                G#m

A fortitude of hearts and minds.

         E                  B

Until I see this kingdom’s mine

               F#            C#m

I’ll turn the darkness into light.

                E                 B

I’ll guide the blind. My will be done

            F#           C#m             G#m

until the day I say our kingdom has been won.

G#m

  No more the servants of the weak

devoid of thought or light to seek.

I’ll leave no walls, no stone unturned.

Every tower must be razed …
Part III:

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              D#m

  … to the dust from which it came.

              C#

None will be spared, no remnant saved.

              G#m             F#          C#                 D#min

And are you ashamed, are you afraid of the gods and idols that you have made?

G#m                        F#          C#                 D#min

   Do you think you’ll be saved by the gods and idols that you have made?
G#m      F#m  E              C#

 ———————-   None will be saved.

G#m

   None will be saved.   
(Chorus)

(Solo)

(Chorus)

The current pope is almost certainly aware that Earth is above carrying capacity and that post peak oil it’s very likely a lot of people – many of them Catholics – are going to starve. He’s still egging on the fork bomb that is religious humanity by not encouraging birth control. Why? Market share.

That’s also what this abortion thing is really about. A bunch of scared old white dudes afraid that whiteness might lose market share. (God I Hope so. We are quite often a plague on the world)

It’s true that if you don’t care about misery – and obviously abrahamic religions like to *cause* misery whenever they can get away with it – probably gives the priests a feeling of power but certainly boosts their pocketbooks – pushing people to have Babies Ever After is a good way to boost your market share.

And, lately, we’ve observed another interesting problem – if the minority is willing enough to cheat – and majority is not willing to call them on it and do whatever it takes to undo their cheating – then the minority gets to have tyrannical power over the majority. I get the feeling this was predicted in the federalist papers.

I guess it’s not a surprise that religious folks are authoritarian. It is kind of a surprise how many people believe the blatant and easily proven false lies of the right. One of my favorites is about how we can’t switch to electric vehicles because the power grid can’t take it. Get this – a gas car uses more electricity (by the time the oil is pumped and refined) than a electric one. And if we count *total* watts – well, let’s just say moving oil around has a lot more line loss, so to speak, than moving electricity around.

But, the conservatives never stop the lying. They’ll claim that solar panels and wind turbines use more power to make than they generate – when the amount of power either generates in a week would turn it into incandescent gas several times over.

I was all absorbed in working on a cover I’m doing of Kingdom and so I didn’t actually catch 700 even, but here’s 700.4