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Rapture Index = 0

from Where The Fireworks Are by Julie Christensen

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Bill Moyers started talking about the Religious Right's fervor regarding the Rapture in about 2004 or 2005, and about this unreal site called the Rapture Index... whew.

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Rapture Index = 0


I know where you come from
And it ain't no ranch in Texas
There's a multicultured someone
Always cleaning up your messes
Got your 'nukular' BEHEMOTH
Versus tiny evil axes,
And the Skulls and Bones you play with--
They had names and eyes and sexes

But you WRAPPED YER INDEX
FINGER ON THE TRIGGER
And you aimed your endless
Anger at the beauty of the world.

What if the plane was flown by Jesus
When the country blew to pieces?
I don't think that it was Moses
When they bullied kids with dozers
Christian soldiers drive the hummers
From the suicidal bombers
And the body count is risin' now
And there's coffins on their shoulders

But you WRAPPED YER INDEX
FINGER ON THE TRIGGER
And you aimed your endless
Anger at the beauty of the world.

Come outside and listen
To all the stories you've been missin'
There is other music
Than the song your choir is singin'.

There ain't no "Rapture" comin'.
Every story has an ending;
When your death rattle starts drummin',
That is when you'll be ascending.
So just mind your own damn business
And don't preach me your religion
I got something of my own
To give me faith to go on livin'

But you WRAPPED YER INDEX
FINGER ON THE TRIGGER
And you aimed your endless Anger at the beauty of the world

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from Where The Fireworks Are, released March 18, 2008
2007 Julie Christensen & Karen Hammack Stone Cupid Music BMI,
Karen Hammack Music BMI

Joe Woodard, guitars
Karen Hammack, piano
Steve Nelson, bass
Tom Lackner drums, recording, audio collage
Greg Leisz, pedal steel
Tom Buckner, saxophone
The Rapture Choir:
Sopranos: Delaney Gibson, Elizabeth Bowman, Darienne Gross,
Julie C,Mary Z. Wilson, Daina Santoyo, and Rain Perry
Altos: Donna Gross, Leone Webster, and J.B. White
Tenors: J.B. White, John Diehl, Leone Webster, Peter Bellwood, and Chris Foley
Bass: Raymond Powers, John Slade, Charlie Bosson

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Julie Christensen Albuquerque, New Mexico

Julie Christensen’s story is woven into decades of Roots Music. A veteran of Leonard Cohen’s bands, she co-fronts post- punk rockers Divine Horsemen, which rebooted to release new work in 2021. While the pandemic was still going on, Julie moved from Nashville to NM and began the 2+ year process of recording "The Price We Pay for Love," out 4/14/2023 on WireBird Records. ... more

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