Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven...

"There is an eschatology to bluegrass music that holds both suffering and hope. Both are inherent and necessary items within it.

And so we begin with a premise: the "high lonesome sound" of bluegrass music was born from pain yet, despite such dismal roots, has hope at its core. We are not scientists; therefore, we are not scientific in the formation or conception of this premise or in the execution of proving it. But we will tell the story of bluegrass. And you can hear that it is truth. That it is, in fact, pain that birthed this high lonesome sound. 

In the living of life here on earth, there is most assuredly present a large amount of joy, but there is also a given amount of pain. Bluegrass is a shaking, shimmering echo of this - our reality."

"Sympathy is power. If you are able to offer it, you are in a position above the ones who are suffering. You are not feeling the same things banging brutally around your insides, or you'd be unable to offer your so thoughtfully extended hand."

"Santa started out as a pretty good idea, then it turned into something a little more vicious I think. All teenage rebellion comes from Santa. 

Parents lie. Great intentions. 

I'm sure they're just eager to provide some enjoyment for their children, you know, bestowing dreams of reindeer and candy canes upon them. Maybe hoping to provoke some small amounts of affection from them. 

I don't own any kids, so what do I know? 

But seriously a fib this grand can only bring injury in the end. I mean, how better to annihilate trust in a young impressionable child than to have the people they trust most tell them such a profound lie as the existence of this fat jovial man?"

From Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven But Nobody Wants To Die

by David Crowder and Mike Hogan.