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Greetings From Mount Nebo

from Fat Drunk Sings Bible Songs by Gabe Schwartz

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A song from the perspective of Moses looking down on the promised land and unable to enter. After a lifetime of service, buried by the god you served just before fulfilling your purpose.

I'm not a believer, but I spent so much time with these stories for more than half of my life. They are lynchpins and reference points that inform so much of my worldview and the framework for processing thought and emotion.

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Greetings from mount nebo
Above the land promised to Abraham
Made mistakes and I won't go
God himself will bury me with his hands

High above the desert
I see a cloud
Andt night, it's as bright
As the morning

These people were starving
You'd bail them out
Enough to sustain
To the morning

Greetings from mount nebo
Above the land promised to Abraham
Won't walk through the fields tomorrow
My time here is at its end

I did what you asked me
I have led them
Across desert and sea
Out of bondage

I have laid out your law
I killed their idols
Showed them your ways
Out of bondage

Greetings from mount nebo
Above the land promised to Abraham
I'm older and I don't know
What things separate god from man

It wasn't the murder
No taking of life
It's the striking of rocks
For some water

It's the grievance of pride
And impatience
And the thinking
That I could do better

Greetings from mount nebo
Above the land promised to Abraham
Made mistakes and I won't go
God himself will bury me with his hands

Greetings from mount nebo
Above the land promised to Abraham
I'm older and I don't know
What things separate god from man

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from Fat Drunk Sings Bible Songs, released May 23, 2023
Gabe wrote, mixed, engineered, mastered, played guitar, bass, drums, synths, and sang

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Witness the sight of a middle-aged man trying hard to not seem like he's trying hard and spiraling in shame because of it. Drink in the self interest masquerading as self effacing in the midst of self serving self deprecation.
Gabe Schwartz is a nominal musician and songwriter. Possibly. He attempts these feats alone as testament to the great difficulty he has in interacting with others.
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