Overheard at Booth Three

Lucky Moran, talking to Otis Redwing, playing a new game they created, called "Accidental Christians" which is to say, naming songs that could be interpreted as praise songs to Jesus Christ, but the rock-n-rollers who wrote them thought they were talking about some girl.

Lucky: Here goes -

Maybe I'm amazed at the way You love me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I love You
Maybe I'm amazed at the way You pulled me out of time
And hung me on a line
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need You.

CHORUS:Maybe I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand
Maybe I'm a man and maybe You're the only one
Who could ever help me
Hey, won't you help me understand

CHORUSMaybe I'm amazed at the way You're with me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave You
Maybe I'm amazed at the way You help me sing my song
You right me when I'm wrong
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need You.

Paul McCartney, probably thinking he was writing to Linda, but look - You "pulled me out of time - you Right me when I'm Wrong." It's so obviously about Jesus!

Otis Redwing takes a long draught of his coffee and says:

I got one even better than that.

And if you feel that you can't go on.
And your will's sinkin' low
Just believe and you can't go wrong.
In the light you will find the road. You will find the road
Oh, did you ever believe that I could leave you, standing out in the cold
I know how it feels 'cause I have slipped through to the very depths of my soul.
Baby, I just want to show you what a clear view it is from every bend in the road.
Now listen to me
Oh, whoa-whoa, as I was and really would be for you, too, honey
As you would for me, oh, I would share your load.
Let me share your load. Ooh, let me share, share your load

And if you feel that you can't go on
In the light you will find the road
Though the winds of change may blow around you, but that will always be so
When love is pain it can devour you, if you are never alone
I would share your load. I would share your load
Baby, let me, oh, let me
In the light
Everybody needs the light.
In the light, in the light, in the light
Light, light, light, in the light
Light, light, light, in the light, ooh, yeah
Light, light, light, in the light

See? Jesus is the Light and the Way . . . you see the Light and He will show you the Way. Plus, He knows what it's like, because He has "slipped through to the very depths of [His] soul" - remember, Jesus was tempted by Satan face-to-face, directly, and He even had to fall directly down INTO Hell. Top that, Lucky, my man!


Lucky, musing, finally says:

I dunno. The lyrics say "share your load" - to my interpretation Jesus is going to carry our load for us, and we can carry His load, which He says weighs almost nothing at all.

Otis: Now you're just splitting hairs!

Lucky: No, the name of the game is to find a song that MOST CLOSELY resembles an accidental praise song. My choice is closer.

Otis: Mine has better imagery. Plus, McCartney already had prior credit for referring to Mother Mary in "Let It Be" and to Gideon's Bible in "Rocky Raccoon."

Lucky: Big deal! Zep wrote "Stairway to Heaven"!

Otis: Which was widely believed to be satanic in nature! Still is, by the way. I think overcoming that puts me wide ahead of "Maybe I'm Amazed"

Lucky: How 'bout we call it a draw?



Otis: Only if you spring for kolaches.