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Hell's Laughter and Heaven's Ache

from Hell's Laughter and Heaven's Ache by John Ludi

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Spiritual Numbness can affect even the most ardent seeker when one is confronted with the daily assault on our senses and sensibilities that is life in our times. So I wrote a song about it.

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HELL’S LAUGHTER AND HEAVEN’S ACHE

Help me, I don’t know what you’re trying to tell me,
I hear your words but my mind is empty...empty.
My head is filled with the sound of one hand clapping
and I don’t like is and it makes no sense at all.

Tell me, are you someone that I should remember?
Should I greet you with suspicion or be tender...tender?

(c)I’d like to go out and talk with the world,
but I don’t think I’d have very much to say

Know me, you keep saying that you’ve already shown me
the lessons whose points have all disowned me...disowned me
(and left me floating skyward without a tether).
Emptiness is not all it’s cracked up to be.

(c2)And I don’t know if I’m asleep or awake
caught between hell’s laughter and heaven’s ache.
And I leave no footsteps where I walk, so I can’t find my way home,
a ghost in a featureless desert where eternally I roam.

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from Hell's Laughter and Heaven's Ache, released January 1, 2001

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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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