Join us this Sunday, September 3, 2027

A World that Makes it Up as It Goes Along

Life tinkers; life is playful and creative; life is exploratory and messy. Why do we expect human systems to be any different?

By Rev. Sarah Prickett

With music by Molli McMills, Willie B, and Friends
The Friends:
Craig Boeker
Trevor Stout
Frank Imburgio
Rusty Rhoad

Order of Service: A World that Make It Up as It Goes Along

Lyrics

SO FAR OUT (I FIT IN) Molli McMills & Willie B

I was big when I was little, but I grew up to be short

I’m oddly normal for a weirdo, and pretty cool, for a dork

I sing high when I am low, til my down is up again

I’m with me everywhere I go, I’m so far out that I fit in.

I get busy being lazy, and I’m quick to be slow

In the past I feared the future, I had to stop and let it go

I’m over feeling under, this is now and that was then

Like a rainbow with the thunder, I’m so far out that I fit in.

I’m me, I’m a paradox I’m free when I’m outside the box

An introverted extrovert, alone in a crowd

I’m polite if you’re rude, but my silence is loud

Like a horse with all the zebras I was missing my stripes

Then I found my kind of creatures, far enough left to be right

Now we’re far apart together, here alone with all my friends

Strange birds, familiar feathers, 

I’m so far out, I’m so far out,

I’m so far out that I fit in.

LIFE IN EVERY BREATH Willie B and Molli McMills 

I feel stressed, Isolated loneliness, an emptiness, all alone in the wilderness

Planted some seeds, thinking about my growing needs

Thought a garden might be the thing to help me breathe

Times stalling been crawling, too long in this house

Like a freak, an antique, an old creep, fresh air is what I need in depth

Let it out, pull it in, pull it in to my chest

Searching for life, Searching for life, Searching for life in every breath

Without family and friends this narrow path ends—it spinsI I feel like ragged fringe

Cut off from the world with the fake news blues but I paid my dues and I want my life

I work to hard for just a taste, such a waste, a boring Facebook version of a copy and paste

I confess right now I feel compressed distressed 

Let it out, Pull it in, Pull it into my chest

Searching for Life, Searching for Life, Searching for Life in Every Breath

 

Bare feet on the grass as my skin feels and I begin to heal

Legs crossed right over left I lift my hands way up on over my head

Stay so still as the world fly’s past, at last

There is Life, There is Life, There is Life in Every Breath.

Let it out, pull it in, so simple, do it again

Let it out, pull it in over and over again, again

There is Life. There is Life. There is Life in Every Breath,

Life In Every Breath, Life In Every Breath, Life In Every Breath.

HALLELUJAH, Leonard Cohen

Now I heard there was a secret chord 

that David played and it pleased the Lord

But you don’t really care for music do ya

It goes like this the fourth the fifth; the minor fall and the major lift

The baffled king composing hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof, 

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya

She tied you to a kitchen chair; 

She broke your throne, and she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Instrumental

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn’t much; I couldn’t feel, so I learned to touch

I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come all this way to fool you

Yeah and even though it all went wrong

I’ll stand right here before the Lord of Song

With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE, Steelers Wheel

Well I don’t know why I came here tonight,

I got the feeling that something ain’t right,

I’m so scared in case I fall off my chair,

And I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs,

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Yes I’m stuck in the middle with you,

And I’m wondering what it is I should do,

It’s so hard to keep this smile from my face,

Losing control, yeah, I’m all over the place,

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Well you started out with nothing,

And you’re proud that you’re a self-made man,

And your friends, they all come crawlin, Slap you on the back and say,

Please…. Please…..

Trying to make some sense of it all,

But I can see that it makes no sense at all,

Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor,

‘Cause I don’t think that I can take anymore

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Interlude 

Well you started out with nothing,

And you’re proud that you’re a self-made man,

And your friends, they all come crawlin, Slap you on the back and say,

Please…. Please…..

Well I don’t know why I came here tonight,

I got the feeling that something ain’t right,

I’m so scared in case I fall off my chair,

And I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs,

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Yes I’m stuck in the middle with you,

Stuck in the middle with you,

Here I am, Stuck in the middle with you.