Amen
Simply Amazing... And Ahead Of Her Time.
I've been a huge fan of Paula's since high school when "This Fire" was
released. Now I own all her albums and am anxiously awaiting her n ew
2007 release of "Courage".
The album cover is reminiscent of Renaissance angels with halos.
However, the insides are open, honest, and real and really have nothing to
do with Christianity as the title suggests. The album leaf opens with a
quote from The Dhammapada: "The way is not in the sky. The way is in
the heart." That's exactly where is album comes from. It's un like her
previous albums "Harbinger" and "This Fire". While those were more
worldly and carried more angst, "Amen" is a clear view to the heart and
soul of Paula Cole.
Track Listing and pieces of verse:
1) I Believe In Love: "And I believe in love/to be the center of all things/and
I believe in love to be the way"
2) Amen: "My life is but a short and precious seed/Like three seasons of
life in a leaf on a tree/And when I cascade to the ground I will not be done"
3) La Tonya: "The girls all whisper 'hi nd my back/My baby brother's
smoking crack/The boys they want only one thing/And so I give it, don't
complain"
4) Pearl (my personal fave on the album): "Hang in there baby, I'm the
grain of sand/Becoming a pearl"
5) Be Somebody: "Ignire This Fire inside, this light that is the Truth/Shake
off the system's chains, no longer be their foot"
6) Rhythm of Life (like a jazzy, hip-hop song): "Looking within I can see
beyond my sight/The cities, the sky, the planets roll by/I awake and die, I
awake and die, yeah/That is the rhythm of life"
7) Free: "Oh, the way I'm shut out by your silence/It's the loudest thing I've
ever known/You leave me, you leave me hanging"
8) Suwannee Jo: "But Suwannee Jo, you're dark and slow/You dance with
a broom and you're filled with ghosts/You smell like liquor and you're high
as a hawk/You laugh to yourself"
9) God Is Watching: "Whether it be across the sea/Kosovo, Baghdad,
Korea/Or here at home, right under our fingertips/in new slavey
systems...God is watching us play our ghetto ways"
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