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There's no need to literally mention "God". He's all in it:
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Excerpt from Dylan's "Slow Train"
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can't help but wonder what's happenin' to my companions
Are they lost or are they found?
Have they counted the cost it'll take to bring down
All their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend
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All that foreign oil controlling American soil
Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed
Sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings
Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend
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If one believes, as I do, that trafficking in illicit narcotics is an evil enterprise that preys on the least and lost, then it's not extreme to declare that "the pusher" who gets unfortunate souls hooked on heroin, et. al., is hell-bound. God has already pronounced His righteous sentence for such sinful behavior. Absent repentence, the drug dealer has condemned his soul to eternal damnation.Here is one that is sure to upset lots of people.
If one believes, as I do, that trafficking in illicit narcotics is an evil enterprise that preys on the least and lost, then it's not extreme to declare that "the pusher" who gets unfortunate souls hooked on heroin, et. al., is hell-bound. God has already pronounced His righteous sentence for such sinful behavior. Absent repentence, the drug dealer has condemned his soul to eternal damnation.
But it is always possible that a drug dealer may choose to clean up his act, repent of his/her evil ways, acknowlege that Christ died for his/her sins and was resurrected to life eternal to provide the pathway to salvation. But then he/she will still have the lost souls of his victims on his conscience.
Great song, for which props must b paid to songwriter Hamilton Camp. I'm more partial to the folky cover recorded by Tony Rice, although Gordon Lightfoot's version is fine, too.Or this one from the 60s...
Lyrics in part:
Each man's a country in his own right
Oh, everybody needs a friend
One friend, one God, one country
No man need defend, yeah
Indeed. And the song that brought my wife and I together.
I get the error message also. Apparently that video has been pulled. Oh well.What was the song? I'm getting an error message on the video so it's not revealing the title.