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Mornin’ y’all —
So I was slumming around the internet, as I am wont to do, on a lazy Saturday afternoon and came across this little bit o’ click bait that of course drew me right in. Much to my surprise, the subject of the article is one of my all-time favorite people. Anybody who’s read any of my comments knows I sincerely love this man — his passion, his energy, his strive for some sort of peace… or something resembling redemption after a few decades of debauchery. Given the horrible details of a recent disaster that visited him, it’s all the more impressive in my eyes that he can approach life with this sense of clarity while still seeking his own purpose.
I’ll let his own words do the rest of the talking for him.
Be good humans today, okay?
What God's voice sounds like
Last month, a fan named Rute from Portugal asked Cave what the voice of God sounds like. Does God even have a voice, or does divinity make itself heard in other ways? Perhaps God might sound a bit like Nick Cave, Rute suggested.
"I hope the voice of God would be something other than booming, authoritarian and male," Cave answered. "Wouldn't that be a pleasant surprise."
The musician offered his own take on God's voice. In the recording studio, he said, sometimes the most pure and beautiful choruses can emerge from a cacophony of varied vocals. Maybe God's voice sounds something like that, Cave offered.
"Perhaps, God would have the combined voice of all the untold billions of collected souls, an assembly of the departed speaking as one -- without rancour, domination or division, a great, many-layered calling forth that rings from the heavens in the small, determined voice of a child, maybe; sexless, pure and uncomplicated -- that says 'Look for me. I am here.'"