Post by Julie on Mar 30, 2005 21:54:04 GMT -5
Muhammad my Friend
Muhammad my friend
it's time to tell the world
we both know it was a girl back in Bethlehem
and on that fateful day
when she was crucified
she wore Shiseido Red and we drank tea
by her side
sweet sweet
used to be so sweet to me
Muhammad my friend
I'm getting very scared
teach me how to love my brothers
who don't know the law
and waht about the deal on the flying
trapeze got a peanut butter hand
but honey do drop in at the
Dew Drop Inn
sweet sweet
between the boys and the bees
and Moses I know
I know you've seen fire
but you've never seen fire
until you've seen Pele blow
and I've never seen light
but I sure have seen gold
and Gladys saved a place for me
on your grapevine
till I get my on TV show
ashre ashre ashre ashre
and if I lose my Cracker Jacks at the
tidal wave I got a place
in the Pope's rubber robe
Muhammad my friend
It's time to tell the world
we both know it was a girl
back in Bethlehem
Here's Tori's description of it:
"I'm having a cup of tea with Muhammad and saying that there are as many belief systems as there are people; to not acknowledge that means chaos, really. Of course, I had to bring Gladys Knight into it. She's a bit of a goddess."
"I was singing in Christmas services (in '94); I was with my parents. I was watching the nativity, and after a while I said to myself, 'Wait a minute. There's something wrong here.' We were singing 'Away in a manger.'" (Amos sings the first two bars of "Away In A Manger," then sings the opening line to "Muhammad My Friend," with the identical first three notes.) "I kept getting more and more into the perfect little love with the lullaby of Away In A Manger. I started to get husky in the throat. I started to wonder who, with everybody speaking of the baby Jesus, should come up to the cradle. And I found that, of all people, I wanted to have a chat about it with Muhammad, because the prophet is the one who supposedly knows the law. So I decided that they needed to talk about the law - the law of the feminine that had been castrated with the birth of Christ."
"I wanted to know why the blueprint of the [Mary] Magdalene was not passed down..what was passed down was the whore that wiped Jesus' feet. We skipped the whole phase of the woman - having sexual desire, wisdom, passion. Being an equal to Jesus..."
“And then when you are so sure it’s with the boys, we both know ‘it was a girl back in Bethlehem...’ what am I doing? You are beginning to remember the blueprint, you are beginning to remember that this is not just because boys laughed at you when you were 13, this is a program that is going back very far.” [B-Side – May/June 1996]
“I sat there and started to think, ‘Alright, I’ve heard all this backwards and forwards from every angle, and fine, I’m into this love your neighbor as yourself, that’s great, but where does all this fear come from about dancing the primitive dance, the concept of woman, their sensuality, their connection with all aspects of the self? I read a bit of mythology, with Isis, etcetera, and said, OK, where did all of this go? Where’s the balance? Where’s the female aspect of God? The fragmentation of the feminine is something that really started to perk my interest. That’s what ‘Muhammad My Friend’ is about, trying to find the female part of God that’s been circumcised.” [The Shepherd Express – June 6, 1996]
SONG CANVAS: "Muhammad, My Friend"
I was working with the dark goddesses during and after making Boys for Pele. Pele herself, and the Sumerian goddess Inanna (also known as Isthar/Astarte), whose name I cry out singing on the song "Caught a LIte Sneeze." Then, naturally, Lilith, niece of Inanna, as well as Demeter, because of the loss of a child with my frist miscarriage. I had gone to the underworld to try to claim my daughter back. I went to the edges, the parameters of what I know about consciousness on this plane, to try to make deals with the Christian God, with the Islamic God--a relationship I explore in "Muhammad, My Friend." I was willing to do whatever it took to bring her back, anything, anywhere. I was negotiating. Just saying, If you will, give me my daughter, thinking I would get pregnant again and her spirit would come back. Not accepting that she'd moved onand picked another mommy, which is very hard to come to terms with.
Muhammad my friend
it's time to tell the world
we both know it was a girl back in Bethlehem
and on that fateful day
when she was crucified
she wore Shiseido Red and we drank tea
by her side
sweet sweet
used to be so sweet to me
Muhammad my friend
I'm getting very scared
teach me how to love my brothers
who don't know the law
and waht about the deal on the flying
trapeze got a peanut butter hand
but honey do drop in at the
Dew Drop Inn
sweet sweet
between the boys and the bees
and Moses I know
I know you've seen fire
but you've never seen fire
until you've seen Pele blow
and I've never seen light
but I sure have seen gold
and Gladys saved a place for me
on your grapevine
till I get my on TV show
ashre ashre ashre ashre
and if I lose my Cracker Jacks at the
tidal wave I got a place
in the Pope's rubber robe
Muhammad my friend
It's time to tell the world
we both know it was a girl
back in Bethlehem
Here's Tori's description of it:
"I'm having a cup of tea with Muhammad and saying that there are as many belief systems as there are people; to not acknowledge that means chaos, really. Of course, I had to bring Gladys Knight into it. She's a bit of a goddess."
"I was singing in Christmas services (in '94); I was with my parents. I was watching the nativity, and after a while I said to myself, 'Wait a minute. There's something wrong here.' We were singing 'Away in a manger.'" (Amos sings the first two bars of "Away In A Manger," then sings the opening line to "Muhammad My Friend," with the identical first three notes.) "I kept getting more and more into the perfect little love with the lullaby of Away In A Manger. I started to get husky in the throat. I started to wonder who, with everybody speaking of the baby Jesus, should come up to the cradle. And I found that, of all people, I wanted to have a chat about it with Muhammad, because the prophet is the one who supposedly knows the law. So I decided that they needed to talk about the law - the law of the feminine that had been castrated with the birth of Christ."
"I wanted to know why the blueprint of the [Mary] Magdalene was not passed down..what was passed down was the whore that wiped Jesus' feet. We skipped the whole phase of the woman - having sexual desire, wisdom, passion. Being an equal to Jesus..."
“And then when you are so sure it’s with the boys, we both know ‘it was a girl back in Bethlehem...’ what am I doing? You are beginning to remember the blueprint, you are beginning to remember that this is not just because boys laughed at you when you were 13, this is a program that is going back very far.” [B-Side – May/June 1996]
“I sat there and started to think, ‘Alright, I’ve heard all this backwards and forwards from every angle, and fine, I’m into this love your neighbor as yourself, that’s great, but where does all this fear come from about dancing the primitive dance, the concept of woman, their sensuality, their connection with all aspects of the self? I read a bit of mythology, with Isis, etcetera, and said, OK, where did all of this go? Where’s the balance? Where’s the female aspect of God? The fragmentation of the feminine is something that really started to perk my interest. That’s what ‘Muhammad My Friend’ is about, trying to find the female part of God that’s been circumcised.” [The Shepherd Express – June 6, 1996]
SONG CANVAS: "Muhammad, My Friend"
I was working with the dark goddesses during and after making Boys for Pele. Pele herself, and the Sumerian goddess Inanna (also known as Isthar/Astarte), whose name I cry out singing on the song "Caught a LIte Sneeze." Then, naturally, Lilith, niece of Inanna, as well as Demeter, because of the loss of a child with my frist miscarriage. I had gone to the underworld to try to claim my daughter back. I went to the edges, the parameters of what I know about consciousness on this plane, to try to make deals with the Christian God, with the Islamic God--a relationship I explore in "Muhammad, My Friend." I was willing to do whatever it took to bring her back, anything, anywhere. I was negotiating. Just saying, If you will, give me my daughter, thinking I would get pregnant again and her spirit would come back. Not accepting that she'd moved onand picked another mommy, which is very hard to come to terms with.
