Saturday, September 9, 2006

Rabbit's Advice

About a year ago, Steve Coan told me to check out these lyrics. 'Bout time I shared them here.

These two songs from the movie "Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin" provide a nice commentary on this mythic walk with Jesus. I leave the interpretation to you.

The first is sung by Rabbit to Pooh.

If It Says So

A map is not a guess
An estimation or a hunch
A feeling or a foolish intuition

A map is a dependable
Unwavering, inarguably accurate
Portrayer, of your position

Never trust your ears
Your nose, your eyes
Putting faith in them
Is most unwise
Here's a phrase you all
Must memorise
In the printed word
Is where truth lies

Never trust your tummies
Tails, or toes
You can't learn a thing
From any of those
Here's another fact
I must disclose
From the mighty pen
True wisdom flows

If it says so
Then it is so
If it is so
Well so it is
A thought's not fit to think
'Til it's printed in ink
Then it says so
So it is

Never trust that thing
Between your ears
Brains will get you nowhere fast
My dears
Haven't had a need
For mine in years
On the page is where
The truth appears

If it says so
Then it is so
If it is so
So it is
A thought's not fit to think
'Til it's printed in ink
Never differ from or doubt it
Or go anywhere without it

Thank goodness we've got this.

2 comments:

  1. My friend Clayton takes pictures of church marquees that have nonsensical or cliche or confusing messages.

    The one he snapped the other day said, "THE BEST IS YET TO BE" which is an odd way of saying, "THE BEST IS YET TO COME". But maybe, I started thinking, some letters fell off the bottom row, which was empty. So I started wondering what the missing word was.

      THE BEST
    IS YET TO BE
      _______

    I suppose it would be a rabbitical heresy to suggest:

      THE BEST
    IS YET TO BE
      WRITTEN

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure it would.

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