{"id":940,"date":"2013-01-07T09:42:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=940"},"modified":"2013-01-07T21:49:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T03:49:26","slug":"monday-morning-musical-meme-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/01\/07\/monday-morning-musical-meme-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Musical Meme!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cursive - Rise Up! Rise Up!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K0mEAxI0GxQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K0mEAxI0GxQ\" target=\"_blank\">Rise Up Rise Up! \u2013 Cursive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the best possible recording, and the album version is a fair bit tighter, but check out the lyric sheet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear preacher, thanks making time for me today<br \/>\nI hope you dont mind if I hide behind the curtain<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been fifteen years since my last confession<br \/>\nBy your good book&#8217;s standards, I sin like a champion<br \/>\nBut that book seems a tad bit outdated<\/p>\n<p>Please forgive me for questioning divinity<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a ugly job but I think I&#8217;m up for it<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not saying who&#8217;s right<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just saying there&#8217;s more than one way to skin a religion<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s more than one way to explain our existence<\/p>\n<p>Reverend, sir, I dont want to seem irreverent<br \/>\nMy teenage angst is far behind me<br \/>\nBut, Father, certainly it&#8217;s troubling to see<br \/>\nAll these people kneeling instead of dealing with the fact<br \/>\nThat we&#8217;re all that we have<\/p>\n<p>So rise up, rise up!<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no one to worship<br \/>\nBut plenty of life to lose<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not saying let&#8217;s burn down the church<br \/>\nBut do you want to hear my confession?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s my greatest sin<br \/>\nOk, here it is:<br \/>\nI wasted half of my life on thought that I&#8217;d live forever<br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t raised to seize the day<br \/>\nBut to work and worship<br \/>\nBecause he that liveth and believeth<br \/>\nSupposedly never dies<\/p>\n<p>Rise up, rise up!<br \/>\nLive a full life<br \/>\nBecause when it&#8217;s over, it&#8217;s done!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that pretty much covers it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise Up Rise Up! \u2013 Cursive It&#8217;s not the best possible recording, and the album version is a fair bit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freethought-in-popular-culture","category-musical-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}