File this song under faith/Christianity in the mainstream. Can you guess the artist without google?
You, me
Understand
Shake my hand
Last chance, little man
Ain't it grand
It's a bargain, it's a steal
30 pieces of silver
And a deal's a deal
Sign upon the dotted line
I'll be yours and you'll be mine
Nothing's free
Eventually
Nothing's free
From the rules and laws of morality
Free to take your fill
Free from your own free will
Nothing's free
My boy, it's getting late
I'll raise the stakes
So close
Control your fate, why hesitate
Seal the deal, close the sale
Take my hammer, drive the nail
Sign upon the bloody line
A drop of yours, a drop of mine
Nothing's free
Eternally
Nothing's free
From your conscience or
Free from the consequence
Free to sin and death
Free till your final breath
Nothing's free
Free from the claws and flaws of your family
Free from obedient life
You're cut like a double-edged knife
Nothing's free, nothing's free
Oh, you pay me
Free to ignore the bore of authority
Free to spit in the face
Be the winningest rat in the race till
Judgement Day
Then nothing's free
Bow to me if you wanna be free
Free from life, come die with me
And when we're dead it's for eternity
Come on little one and dance in the fire
The heat's getting close and the flame's getting higher
When the music's over there's a hush in the choir
Nothing's free
When the trumpets sound and his light is all around
And the saints all raise from the graves in the ground
We'll be going way downtown
Way downtown
Update (12/24/2007)
Wow, thanks for that bevy of guess submissions. I'll never be able to weed through them all, so I'll just give you the answer here.
It's "Nothing's Free" from Alice Cooper's 1994 album The Last Temptation. Of interest (to me) is that this album had a comic book included with it which was written by one of my favorite fantasy authors, Neil Gaiman.
Labels: music
I love YouTube. One of my favorite things to do is hunting down old 80's music videos (and downloading them locally using Firefox and the
Ook? Video Ook! plugin), and once in awhile I come across a real treasure.
Such as this music video of "
Six Six Six" by now retired Christian rock band
Degarmo & Key. I've heard it was the first video by a Christian rock band played on MTV, who subsequently pulled it after it a few plays labeling it as too violent. Amazing to think MTV had a morality filter at one point, and that they chose to aim it at a Christian rock band.
Note some of the great throwbacks in this video:
- Vintage Apple II computer, featuring 5.25" floppy drives/disks.
- The Miami Vice getups D&K are wearing.
- Sky-is-falling dispensational eschatology.
Labels: 80s, cheese, music
What I'm Really Digging Today
Degradation Trip by Jerry Cantrell, the former axe man from Alice in Chains. A nice blend of grunge, metal, with some progressive tendencies. He packages it with vocals which compliment his despondent song writing skills.
Perhaps he will put another album out one of these days. Perhaps.
Labels: music