This is what we've been headed for the whole time... one big production number celebrating exactly what St. Gabriel, the Archangel told Holy Mary in the first place... Rejoice in Your Victory O Queen of Grace, because the battle has already been fought & won... all you have to do is go out, and gather up the spoils... simply by doing what Jesus told you to do in Matthew 25 (I turned on prophetic voice here, because St. Gabriel's words were just as prophetic, and world-changing as they are now. So go out there, knowing you are already the victor when you HELP MERCY ABOUND, because The Day Belongs to the Merciful (and that is the only day that matters, because that is the one that dawns right after time passess away... 4EVER!
Kecharitomene's gonna lead us through this one, just like she did... Can You Catch Eternity in a Raindrop?... because the Grand Prayer Cycle we've just been sung and danced our way through is the answer, and this is the capstone... take your little light of Mercy out there, and let it shine, shine, shine. And let us each be the ME that PEACE begins with... each & every day... Just like Pope Francis implored us to do right after he heard this same mash up performed for a bevvy of faith tradition leaders, among whom he was just one.
It's my dream, and my sincere hope that the continual reprise of 4EVER! The Prayer of the Holy Queen of Grace will result in the replacing of The Star Spangled banner with this theme as we go forth to Make America More Merciful Always... and in doing so... may we overcome this Earth by Grace... and may God bless us all by enabling us all to LIVE @ PEACE... 4EVER!
And yes... you are only getting ONE encore... because we've got to let our singers and dancers rest some time. The main refrain of this tale of Hope was written on the wall by a Jewish asylum seeker deep within the basement of the Cathedral at Köln (Cologne)... where the media monster that Hitler created was at it's strongest, and the Nazi Zeal of "Alaf" was at its zenith. May we never again get to this point of menace on our treatment of one another... and if we do... may we let this be our encore in the face of any future Authoritarian Anschluß as well... even as we SMILE along with Charlie as we did int the Second Sorrowful Mystery (S2) earlier on.
AMAZING GRACE... of course.
FOREVER AND EVER AMEN... because we all need a little country as we go.
MUSIC FROM RODEO... Holy Dancing Cowboys, Bat Man!
This is intended to queue everyone that "it's truly time for YOU to get going... not home per se... but YOU can't stay here."
(perhaps you can even go on to another Steak Dinner to help the Beef Industry out of the hole they are currently in... after you rest off this hours long feast, of course)
5TH REGIMENT NATIONAL GUARD & LIBERTY BELL MARCHES
(from the pen of John Phillip Sousa, the GOAT of March Makers)
Yes... get marching folks... and don't let the Monty Python bite you on the bum on the way out... right Mrs. Robinson? Yes, Mrs. Non-Robinson!
BLACK TROMBONE which is my personal homage to my once-upon-a-time tour guide to life who encouraged me to walk the world from where I grew up as I made my way back to Las Vegas, where I should have been in residence all along.
A... you'll always be my all-too-beautiful little cup of poison, and that soft, little voice of insanity making me me ever-ready to be one of those who are happy to sing Fools Rush In... with, or without my circuit breakers of shame firmly in place.
REMEMBRANCE... because its a George Winston thing.. and because It's All About The Eucharist, Dude! (Watch out for that Terry Gilliam Sledge Hammer... cause here it comes again... only in an unexpectedly velvety form.)
GRACE by Quincy Jones... of course.
and
GOODNIGHT MY SOMEONE... because this one we sing for us, and every other "Music Man" of whatever gender they may be out there who is trying to make silk purses out of sow's ears by making marching bands of Mercy out of the all-too-often tone deaf gaggle of geese, and awkward, fearful flock of clucking chickens we sadly, consistently, and otherwise prove ourselves to be.
We hope this numbers plays every night when nobody is left in the seats... because by the end of this one... we're out of bits.
GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY... really... GET ON YOUR WAY... NOW!
GOODNIGHT!
AND
GOD BLESS US, EVERYONE!!!
(OK... one last reprieve... GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN is absolutely the last piece we have before silence and darkeness ensue... because i just can't resist one, final reference in our exit tape to this Dickens of a Christmas Carol)
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