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Moby Grape guitarist and Jefferson Airplane drummer Skip Spence recorded “Books of Moses” in Nashville after a six-month confinement in New York City’s Bellevue Hospital. Spence – described as “one of psychedelia’s brightest lights” – included this un-self-conscious song on his solo project, “Oar,” in 1969. Spence’s work is anguished and honest; some of it is painful to hear. My arrangement also samples from Jamaican dub reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry’s unrelated song of the same title, with Melo Tripp contributing my original rap lyrics.
lyrics
Books of Moses, bringing stone news
Wet in the water, weeping in the sun
Books of Moses, got some splinters didn't you
Books of Moses, brought me right here back to you
Flaming heart, ain't it sweet
Lighting the world at your feet
Books of Moses, myth and truth
Books of Moses, bring me back to you
Hero's welcome, there stands your king
Where the serpent shudders and the angels sing
Books of Moses, happening again
Yes he knows us, welcome him, your friend
Israel, the real deal, the red pill, God’s children in the hot sand waiting for commands, Moses comes with commandments on tablets, Hebrews wandering about with their hands out their tongues shout, “How can we live on stone commands? Give us food and drink for our men.” Your fathers ate manna in the wilds, child, but I’m the Living Bread, you’ll never be dead, never thirst, I quench thirst first, build temple and nation, prep for salvation, smack dab in propitiation, get up mister, stand for your sister, your father, your mother, brother, don’t serve another, you take another lover, your God is jealous, his love will cover, he made a plan, the Son of Man, the Law, Christ didn’t come to kill it or spill it, he came to fulfill it, and give us the overflowingness mindblowingness, so all of it lead right back to Books of Moses
Moses, Moses, take off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place whereupon thou standest is...
Holy ground, holy ground
Holy ground brings me right here back to you
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