Man in the Sky

Blazing Reader,

From Tom MacDonald's folk music masterpiece (second only to his other gem, Ghost):

We'll be fine bae, if we don't make it through
There's a man, in a church, who I really hope told me the truth

Said there's a man in the sky, watching over me and you
It don't help if you can fly, He's way past the moon

And there's men here on the ground, that just wanna burn it down
They want money, they want power, don't want no one else allowed

We'll be fine bae, I'll be the man for you

While I cringe a little at the idea of an anthropomorphic divinity watching over us, I'll give Tom plenty of artistic license, as he was trying to contrast "the man in the sky" with "a man on TV," "a man at the bank," "a man in the courts," "a man in a white coat" and even...

There's a man in your phone, who hears everything you say
He knows everywhere you go, every joke you ever made

Big Brother must have collected an awful lot of jokes by now.

You can watch the music video for "Man in the Sky" on Tom MacDonald's YouTube channel.

John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.