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Walkin’ in the Desert (Satire for the Book of Numbers)

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Black Sabbath wrote a song, After Forever, asking if one ever stops to consider death without Christ. Metallica explored themes from Exodus in Creeping Death.

Inspired by an exchange on the X platform, we consider what a song based on the events in Numbers might look like in the hands of Guns N’ Roses. This is meant to be sung to the tune of Welcome to the Jungle.

Slash performing at the Nokia Theater in New York in 2008

Walkin’ in the desert, is not fun and games
We left everything behind
Moses, counted the names

We are the people God did find
enslaved by Pharoah’s greed
We took all his money, honey,
and crossed thru the seas

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If I only had free will (parody)

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I could make a decision
not bound by decreed precision
I’m certain to fulfill.
piperfullgospelNor would I be a puppet,
strings pulled like Jim Henson’s muppet
if I only had free will

I’d unravel just whose to blame,
when life goes down in a flame
And people rape n’ kill

No evil ordained in Dort,
means not taking God to court
If we only had free will

Oh, I would tell you why,
The future still is sure
Or why God is light and still remains pure
For no evil he can endure

Permit would not mean nuthin’
An arg’ment full of stuffin’
Goin’ to a land fill
Cuz choices I’d be makin’
‘sponsibility be takin’
If I only had free will

I am Thesis Man (Reform a Song)

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What would it look like if Black Sabbath’s hit song Iron Man was written as a tribute to Martin Luther and the Reformation? I’m glad you asked.

It might go something like this:

Has he lost his mind
Luther is now in a bind
In the sight of all
95 thesis on the wall

People being led
By wrong things the Pope has said
You must pay the fare
To ascend heavenly stair

That is works based zeal
And a faith that is not real
Reform so sublime
Faces quite an uphill climb

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Martin Luther

Pope Leo wants him
Papal Bull is unfurled

Planning his vengeance
Kick him out of the fold

He stands without fear
Diet of Worms is now here
Writings he won’t waive
Why can’t Luther just behave

Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads

Nobody stops him
So Rome can’t get it’s revenge

Thesis has been read
Reform fever now has spread
Telling all the men they can
By faith alone we live again