Sinead O'Connor and Heaven
Yesterday, the Washington Post ran their weekly Religion in Life article. It was a montage of paragraphs from famous people's thoughts on their ideas of heaven. Much of it was the usual drivel: perfection, happiness, right hand of God. There was a thoughtful paragraph from a representative of atheism about how one had to live fully and ethically here and now because there was no counting on justice later. But the BEST piece was by Sinead O'Connor, and I have copied it here.
God's gig in the sky: I love to think my mother will come to meet me, bringing my granny and Bob Marley! And Curtis Mayfield. And Ray Charles. And there'll be a great gig in the sky. And I reckon there'd be great gigs every heavenly hour. Nina Simone, Ella, Maria Callas, Tupac, John Lennon, Count Basie. And I'd be on backing vocals at all of them. . . . And I would ask God does he have a girlfriend, and if he said no I would ask does he want a little crazy Irish one!
Sinead O'Connor, musician
PS Much to my great disappointment, my son-in-law is correct (no, that's not the disappointment): the Post seems to be increasingly conservative with subtly slanted language. *grrr* *sigh*
God's gig in the sky: I love to think my mother will come to meet me, bringing my granny and Bob Marley! And Curtis Mayfield. And Ray Charles. And there'll be a great gig in the sky. And I reckon there'd be great gigs every heavenly hour. Nina Simone, Ella, Maria Callas, Tupac, John Lennon, Count Basie. And I'd be on backing vocals at all of them. . . . And I would ask God does he have a girlfriend, and if he said no I would ask does he want a little crazy Irish one!
Sinead O'Connor, musician
PS Much to my great disappointment, my son-in-law is correct (no, that's not the disappointment): the Post seems to be increasingly conservative with subtly slanted language. *grrr* *sigh*