Epilogue
Sting Lyrics
Lay my head on the surgeon's table
Take my fingerprints if you are able
Pick my brains pick my pockets
Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets
Run every kind of test from A to Z
And you'll still know nothing 'bout me
Run my name though your computer
Mention me in passing to your college tutor
Check my records check my facts
Pore over everything in my C.V.
But you'll still know nothing 'bout me
You'll still know nothing 'bout me
You don't need to read no books on my history
I'm a simple man, it's no big mystery
In the cold weather, a hand needs a glove
At times like this, a lonely man like me needs love
Search my house with a fine tooth comb
Turn over everything 'cause I won't be at home
Set up your microscope and tell me what you see
You'll still know nothing 'bout me
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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951 in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist for the rock band The Police. Throughout his career, Sting has incorporated distinct elements of jazz, reggae, classical, New Age, and worldbeat into his music. Read Full BioGordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951 in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist for the rock band The Police. Throughout his career, Sting has incorporated distinct elements of jazz, reggae, classical, New Age, and worldbeat into his music. As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards; receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, three Brit Awards (including Best British Male in 1994), a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award, and several Oscar nominations for Best Original Song. He is a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Born Gordon Matthew Sumner, he is the eldest of four children. Sumner was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, due to the influence of his paternal grandmother, who was from an Irish family. He attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne, and then the University of Warwick, but did not graduate. During this time, he often sneaked into nightclubs like the Club-a-Go-Go. Here he saw acts like Jack Bruce and Jimi Hendrix, who would later influence his music. After jobs as a bus conductor, a construction labourer, and a tax officer, he attended Northern Counties Teachers' Training College, which later became part of Northumbria University, from 1971 to 1974. He then worked as a teacher at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years.
From an early age, Sumner knew that he wanted to be a musician. His first music gigs were wherever he could get a job, performing evenings, weekends, and during vacations from college and teaching. He played with local jazz bands such as the Phoenix Jazzmen, the Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit.
He gained his nickname while with the Phoenix Jazzmen. He once performed wearing a black and yellow jersey with hooped stripes that bandleader Gordon Solomon had noted made him look like a bumblebee; thus Sumner became "Sting".
In January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London, and soon thereafter he joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani (who was very soon replaced by Andy Summers) to form the new wave band The Police. The group had several chart-topping albums and won six Grammy Awards in the early 1980s.
Although they jumped on the punk bandwagon early in their career, The Police soon abandoned that sound in favor of reggae-tinged rock and minimalist pop. Their last album, Synchronicity, which included their most successful song, " Every Breath You Take", was released in 1983.
In September 1981 Sting made his first live solo appearance, performing on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis. He also led an all-star band (dubbed The Secret Police) on his own arrangement of Bob Dylan's, "I Shall Be Released". The band and chorus included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof, and Midge Ure, all of whom (except Beck) later worked together on Live Aid.
His performances were featured prominently in the album and film of the show and drew Sting major critical attention. Sting's participation in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball was the beginning of his growing involvement in raising money and consciousness for political and social causes.
In 1982 he released a solo single, "Spread a Little Happiness" from the Dennis Potter television play Brimstone and Treacle. The song was a re-interpretation of a song from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders by Vivian Ellis, and was a surprise top-twenty hit in the U.K.
Sting's first solo album, 1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, featured a cast of accomplished jazz musicians, including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim, and Branford Marsalis. It included the hit single "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". The album also contained the hits "Fortress around Your Heart", "Russians", and "Love Is the Seventh Wave". Within a year, it reached triple platinum. This album gained Sting a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. The film and video Bring On the Night documented the formation of the band and its first concert in France.
Also in 1985, he sang the introduction and chorus to "Money for Nothing", a song by Dire Straits. He later performed this song with Dire Straits at the Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium. Sting also provided a short guest vocal performance on the Miles Davis album You're Under Arrest. He also sang backing vocals on Arcadia's single "The Promise", and contributed a version of "Mack the Knife" to the Hal Willner-produced tribute album Lost in the Stars: the Music of Kurt Weill.
Sting released ...Nothing Like the Sun in 1987, including the hit songs "We'll Be Together", "Fragile", "Englishman in New York", and "Be Still My Beating Heart", dedicated to his recently-deceased mother. It eventually went double platinum. The song "The Secret Marriage" from this album was adapted from a melody by German composer Hans Eisler, and "Englishman in New York" was about the eccentric writer Quentin Crisp. The album's title is taken from William Shakespeare's Sonnet number 130.
In February 1988 he released ...Nada como el sol, a selection of five songs from Nothing Like the Sun which he sang in Spanish and Portuguese. Sting was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with noted jazz arranger Gil Evans who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs (the CD was not released in the U.S.), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way, on which Sting performs an unusual arrangement of "Murder by Numbers", set to the tune "Stolen Moments" by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and "dedicated" to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
Sting's 1991 album The Soul Cages was dedicated to his recently-deceased father and included the top-ten song "All This Time" and the Grammy-winning "Soul Cages". The album eventually went platinum. The following year he married Trudie Styler and was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Northumbria University. In 1993, he released the album Ten Summoner's Tales, which went triple platinum in just over a year. The title is wordplay on his surname, Sumner, and Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Canterbury Tales. Concurrent video albums were released to support Soul Cages (a live concert) and Ten Summoner's Tales (recorded during the recording sessions for the album).
In May 1993, Sting released a cover of his song from The Police's album Ghost in the Machine, "Demolition Man" for the film Demolition Man.
In 1994, Sting, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart performed the chart-topping song "All for Love" from the film The Three Musketeers. The song stayed at the top of the U.S. charts for five weeks and went platinum; it is to date Sting's only song from his post-Police career to top the U.S. charts. In February, he won two more Grammy Awards and was nominated for three more. The Berklee College of Music gave him his second honorary doctorate of music degree in May. In November, he released a greatest hits compilation called Fields of Gold: the Best of Sting 1984-1994, which was eventually certified double platinum.
In 1996 he released Mercury Falling. He reached the top forty with two singles in the same year: "You Still Touch Me" and "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying". During this period, Sting was also recording music for the Disney film Kingdom of the Sun, which went on to be reworked into The Emperor's New Groove. The film went through drastic overhauls and plot changes, and Sting's songs were not used in the final film. The story was put into a final product: The Sweatbox, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Disney currently holds the rights to the film and will not grant its release. That same year Sting also released a little-known CD-ROM called All This Time, which included music, commentary, and custom computer features describing Sting and his music from his perspective.
The Emperor's New Groove soundtrack was released, however, with complete songs from the previous version of the film. The final single used to promote the film was "My Funny Friend and Me".
Sting's1999 album Brand New Day included the top-forty hit "Brand New Day" and the top-ten hit "Desert Rose". The album went triple platinum by January 2001. In 2000, he won Grammy Awards for the album and for the song of the same name. At the awards ceremony, he performed "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami. For his performance, the Arab-American Institute Foundation gave him the Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award. However, Sting was criticised for appearing in a Jaguar advertisement using "Desert Rose" as its backing track, particularly as he was a notable environmentalist.
In February 2001, he won another Grammy. His song "After the Rain Has Fallen" made it into the top forty. His next project was to record a live album at his Tuscan villa, which was released as a CD and DVD, as well as being simulcast in its entirety on the internet. The resultant album and DVD ...All This Time was released in November and featured re-workings of Sting favourites such as "Roxanne" and "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". It was recorded on 11th September 2001 and is dedicated "to all those who lost their lives on that day".
In 2002 Sting won a Golden Globe Award and in June, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In the summer, Sting was awarded the honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 2003 he released Sacred Love, a studio album collaboration with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. He and Blige won a Grammy for their duet "Whenever I Say Your Name".
His autobiography Broken Music was published in October. Sting embarked on a Sacred Love tour in 2004 with performances by Annie Lennox. Sting went on the Broken Music tour, touring smaller venues, with a four piece band kicking off in Los Angeles on 28 March 2005 and ending this "College Tour" on 14 May 2005. Continuing with his involvement in Live Aid, he appeared at Live 8 in July 2005.
In October 2006, Sting released Songs from the Labyrinth featuring the music of John Dowland (an Elizabethan-era composer) and accompaniment from Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov. As a part of the promotion of this album, he appeared on the fifth episode of Studio 60, during which he performed a segment of Dowland's "Come Again" as well as his own "Fields of Gold" in an arrangement for voice and two archlutes.
In October 2009 Sting released If On a Winter's Night, a celebration of winter and rebirth. The album begins with traditional music of the British Isles, going on to carols, lullabies spanning centuries such as "The Snow It Melts the Soonest" (traditional Newcastle ballad), "Soul Cake" (traditional English "begging" song), "Gabriel's Message" (fourteenth-century carol), as well as two of Sting's own compositions: "Lullaby for an Anxious Child" and "The Hounds of Winter". Also featured on the album is "Hurdy Gurdy Man", a musical reworking and English translation (by Sting) of "Der Leiermann" from Franz Schubert's Winterreise. Guitarist Dominic Miller joins him as well as an ensemble of harpists, pipers, and fiddlers creating an acoustic meditation on winter.
BMI Award - 2016 On October 10, 2016, Sting was awarded the Icon Award at the BMI Awards in London, UK. In announcing the award, BMI CEO Mike O’Neill hailed Sting as “truly a creative force, a brilliant songwriter, an artist”.
Born Gordon Matthew Sumner, he is the eldest of four children. Sumner was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, due to the influence of his paternal grandmother, who was from an Irish family. He attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne, and then the University of Warwick, but did not graduate. During this time, he often sneaked into nightclubs like the Club-a-Go-Go. Here he saw acts like Jack Bruce and Jimi Hendrix, who would later influence his music. After jobs as a bus conductor, a construction labourer, and a tax officer, he attended Northern Counties Teachers' Training College, which later became part of Northumbria University, from 1971 to 1974. He then worked as a teacher at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years.
From an early age, Sumner knew that he wanted to be a musician. His first music gigs were wherever he could get a job, performing evenings, weekends, and during vacations from college and teaching. He played with local jazz bands such as the Phoenix Jazzmen, the Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit.
He gained his nickname while with the Phoenix Jazzmen. He once performed wearing a black and yellow jersey with hooped stripes that bandleader Gordon Solomon had noted made him look like a bumblebee; thus Sumner became "Sting".
In January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London, and soon thereafter he joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani (who was very soon replaced by Andy Summers) to form the new wave band The Police. The group had several chart-topping albums and won six Grammy Awards in the early 1980s.
Although they jumped on the punk bandwagon early in their career, The Police soon abandoned that sound in favor of reggae-tinged rock and minimalist pop. Their last album, Synchronicity, which included their most successful song, " Every Breath You Take", was released in 1983.
In September 1981 Sting made his first live solo appearance, performing on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis. He also led an all-star band (dubbed The Secret Police) on his own arrangement of Bob Dylan's, "I Shall Be Released". The band and chorus included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof, and Midge Ure, all of whom (except Beck) later worked together on Live Aid.
His performances were featured prominently in the album and film of the show and drew Sting major critical attention. Sting's participation in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball was the beginning of his growing involvement in raising money and consciousness for political and social causes.
In 1982 he released a solo single, "Spread a Little Happiness" from the Dennis Potter television play Brimstone and Treacle. The song was a re-interpretation of a song from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders by Vivian Ellis, and was a surprise top-twenty hit in the U.K.
Sting's first solo album, 1985's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, featured a cast of accomplished jazz musicians, including Kenny Kirkland, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim, and Branford Marsalis. It included the hit single "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". The album also contained the hits "Fortress around Your Heart", "Russians", and "Love Is the Seventh Wave". Within a year, it reached triple platinum. This album gained Sting a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. The film and video Bring On the Night documented the formation of the band and its first concert in France.
Also in 1985, he sang the introduction and chorus to "Money for Nothing", a song by Dire Straits. He later performed this song with Dire Straits at the Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium. Sting also provided a short guest vocal performance on the Miles Davis album You're Under Arrest. He also sang backing vocals on Arcadia's single "The Promise", and contributed a version of "Mack the Knife" to the Hal Willner-produced tribute album Lost in the Stars: the Music of Kurt Weill.
Sting released ...Nothing Like the Sun in 1987, including the hit songs "We'll Be Together", "Fragile", "Englishman in New York", and "Be Still My Beating Heart", dedicated to his recently-deceased mother. It eventually went double platinum. The song "The Secret Marriage" from this album was adapted from a melody by German composer Hans Eisler, and "Englishman in New York" was about the eccentric writer Quentin Crisp. The album's title is taken from William Shakespeare's Sonnet number 130.
In February 1988 he released ...Nada como el sol, a selection of five songs from Nothing Like the Sun which he sang in Spanish and Portuguese. Sting was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with noted jazz arranger Gil Evans who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs (the CD was not released in the U.S.), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way, on which Sting performs an unusual arrangement of "Murder by Numbers", set to the tune "Stolen Moments" by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and "dedicated" to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
Sting's 1991 album The Soul Cages was dedicated to his recently-deceased father and included the top-ten song "All This Time" and the Grammy-winning "Soul Cages". The album eventually went platinum. The following year he married Trudie Styler and was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Northumbria University. In 1993, he released the album Ten Summoner's Tales, which went triple platinum in just over a year. The title is wordplay on his surname, Sumner, and Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Canterbury Tales. Concurrent video albums were released to support Soul Cages (a live concert) and Ten Summoner's Tales (recorded during the recording sessions for the album).
In May 1993, Sting released a cover of his song from The Police's album Ghost in the Machine, "Demolition Man" for the film Demolition Man.
In 1994, Sting, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart performed the chart-topping song "All for Love" from the film The Three Musketeers. The song stayed at the top of the U.S. charts for five weeks and went platinum; it is to date Sting's only song from his post-Police career to top the U.S. charts. In February, he won two more Grammy Awards and was nominated for three more. The Berklee College of Music gave him his second honorary doctorate of music degree in May. In November, he released a greatest hits compilation called Fields of Gold: the Best of Sting 1984-1994, which was eventually certified double platinum.
In 1996 he released Mercury Falling. He reached the top forty with two singles in the same year: "You Still Touch Me" and "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying". During this period, Sting was also recording music for the Disney film Kingdom of the Sun, which went on to be reworked into The Emperor's New Groove. The film went through drastic overhauls and plot changes, and Sting's songs were not used in the final film. The story was put into a final product: The Sweatbox, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Disney currently holds the rights to the film and will not grant its release. That same year Sting also released a little-known CD-ROM called All This Time, which included music, commentary, and custom computer features describing Sting and his music from his perspective.
The Emperor's New Groove soundtrack was released, however, with complete songs from the previous version of the film. The final single used to promote the film was "My Funny Friend and Me".
Sting's1999 album Brand New Day included the top-forty hit "Brand New Day" and the top-ten hit "Desert Rose". The album went triple platinum by January 2001. In 2000, he won Grammy Awards for the album and for the song of the same name. At the awards ceremony, he performed "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami. For his performance, the Arab-American Institute Foundation gave him the Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award. However, Sting was criticised for appearing in a Jaguar advertisement using "Desert Rose" as its backing track, particularly as he was a notable environmentalist.
In February 2001, he won another Grammy. His song "After the Rain Has Fallen" made it into the top forty. His next project was to record a live album at his Tuscan villa, which was released as a CD and DVD, as well as being simulcast in its entirety on the internet. The resultant album and DVD ...All This Time was released in November and featured re-workings of Sting favourites such as "Roxanne" and "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". It was recorded on 11th September 2001 and is dedicated "to all those who lost their lives on that day".
In 2002 Sting won a Golden Globe Award and in June, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In the summer, Sting was awarded the honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 2003 he released Sacred Love, a studio album collaboration with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. He and Blige won a Grammy for their duet "Whenever I Say Your Name".
His autobiography Broken Music was published in October. Sting embarked on a Sacred Love tour in 2004 with performances by Annie Lennox. Sting went on the Broken Music tour, touring smaller venues, with a four piece band kicking off in Los Angeles on 28 March 2005 and ending this "College Tour" on 14 May 2005. Continuing with his involvement in Live Aid, he appeared at Live 8 in July 2005.
In October 2006, Sting released Songs from the Labyrinth featuring the music of John Dowland (an Elizabethan-era composer) and accompaniment from Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov. As a part of the promotion of this album, he appeared on the fifth episode of Studio 60, during which he performed a segment of Dowland's "Come Again" as well as his own "Fields of Gold" in an arrangement for voice and two archlutes.
In October 2009 Sting released If On a Winter's Night, a celebration of winter and rebirth. The album begins with traditional music of the British Isles, going on to carols, lullabies spanning centuries such as "The Snow It Melts the Soonest" (traditional Newcastle ballad), "Soul Cake" (traditional English "begging" song), "Gabriel's Message" (fourteenth-century carol), as well as two of Sting's own compositions: "Lullaby for an Anxious Child" and "The Hounds of Winter". Also featured on the album is "Hurdy Gurdy Man", a musical reworking and English translation (by Sting) of "Der Leiermann" from Franz Schubert's Winterreise. Guitarist Dominic Miller joins him as well as an ensemble of harpists, pipers, and fiddlers creating an acoustic meditation on winter.
BMI Award - 2016 On October 10, 2016, Sting was awarded the Icon Award at the BMI Awards in London, UK. In announcing the award, BMI CEO Mike O’Neill hailed Sting as “truly a creative force, a brilliant songwriter, an artist”.
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Frank Stoeffler
An Apology from God
I opened a door
he walked through to a wonderful dawn
all was given in his hands
as all wanted him more than life
from his words to his hem
all ask if he took a wife
He was a rebel... much against my will
He healed any who came his way
Regardless of redemption, confession, or wealth
all wanted him to stay
Have no mercy on this God
or any adversary I create
Just love my son
who wanted to kill hate
As I watched him suffer stripes
in torture as all took a swing
A bloody mass was his body
as a piece of wood was given to a king
To a place called Golgatha now Gordon's calvary
As the high priest tried to pray and sing
while the veil was torn in a place holy
This world had their chance while he was here
Bacteria, virus, cancers are the result of human hands
or nature WE created in genes we hold dear
All death of young or old I stake no claim
My apology is that I gave him to you
to beat and torture with all his blood to stain
forever and a day...
I really don't like Hitler and shove a pineapple up his butt
every time I want..
Know now God may have created but doesn't rule..
least not here...
This writing is copyright 1/9/2017
signed Gordon of Gondor <wink>
Frank Stoeffler
Hello Sting, my name is Gordon Stoeffler.... time to share my novel..... so far.... now gotta pay for the rest in print... . This is the start of a novel .. not a poem... it starts under the Shoofly Tree in Bay St. Louis, MS... the inspiration was from J.R. Richards in 1996 who I met and Anne Rice as I read all of "Memnoch the Devil." under that tree... I grew weary of novels inspired by devils... what if a man talked to God... not Jesus.. creator...?
1st chapter
Asa had just finished strolling through the Bay St. Louis graveyard that had become a Saturday morning ritual for many months now, rain or shine. Most of his week was devoted to writing obituaries for the Times-Picayune but Saturday mornings belonged only to him so he could find a few hours of peace and read the best in fiction.
As he crossed the railroad tracks, he looked up and could tell it would be a good day and free of foul weather. The sky was neon azure with high fluffy cotton candy clouds enlightened by the gold and orange rays of a rising Sun. The giant oak tree was only a hundred feet from the railroad tracks and surrounded by a huge circular deck with benches along every border. Asa approached the steps that ascended to the deck with a hard back novel under his arm. He like to read here because of peacefulness with the exception of an occasional passing train but learned to filter out the noise while reading and sometimes enjoyed watching them pass by while daydreaming. Asa sat with a view of the tracks and graveyard to his left, the huge gnarled trunk of the tree to his right, and could see to top of the swings in the church playground across the street.
He heard the horn a few moments before feeling the rumble and knew a train was coming then seeing it round a curve in the distance. As the train passed, Asa stood up and watched, he wondered what was the story behind every car since its creation. He was curious as to what it had tranported in the past, where it had been, where will it go, and the story behind every word of graffiti painted on her sides.
When the last car passed, he turned to his right and that was when he first saw her sitting on a bench near the steps. Her hair was the color of a raven and it fell way past her shoulders on her upper arms in curls. She was bent over with her elbows on her knees, hands interlaced under her chin supporting a slim childish face with a wide inviting smile that hinted of mischief, and brown milk chocolate eyes that could disarm any dog of war.
Her clothes were casual and spoke of a not so distant time; faded bell bottom jeans, a white shirt with oversized sleeves like a pirate would wear, and leather sandals that had seen better days...the leather was cracked and faded seeing to much Sunlight.
The fact that she was sitting there didn't disturb Asa but the fact that he felt so subdued and calm as they looked at each other was unnerving and seemed like a moment yet a lifetime.
Everything seemed to stand still; no breeze, no hum of insects, no elated cries of the children across the street, with the only sound being the fading rumble of the train in the distance. Asa slowly sat down...
Then she spoke.
"You grow weary of writing about the dead."
Her words felt like ice cold water thrown on his face as if he woke from slumber and her voice was a melody of struck bells or piano keys.
'Hello, my name is Asa... what's your name?' he managed
to say in the shock and numbness of the moment.
Warm laughter spilled from her mouth as she sat upright and put her hands on her knees. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you ... I am... hmmm, you can call me Emma."
'hmmm, that's a beautiful name. Is it short for another name?"
"Yes, but I'll tell you later. I want to tell you many things... call it an interview. I'll answer any question you have and give you something to write about that is better than gold."
Asa chuckled 'Hope I don't have to sell my soul for your story.'
She looked at Asa... it was a moment inside a moment and Asa knew that Emma was/is something bigger than himself. Something better than human....
"No, you don't have to sell anything except your time in our conversation and all I'll tell you is between us but I'd like some of it to reach eyes in print and that is why I've chosen you. "
'Me? I write about dead people in a newspaper with ever decreasing readers with every week that passes. Why would you want me ? '
"You're better than Moses in this age... you write truth and honesty without authority. What you write is objective and only open to eyes who can see. I want you to tell my story without pre-judgement or prejudice. I want people to know that I have little control with anything in this world you call your own."
"Asa, would you like to know what I know?" she said.
Asa thought huge... grand things in written word but also thought to run like he never ran ever....that was when he noticed all was still... no crickets chirping.... no breeze... the Sun was set in the sky and unmoving.
He tried to swallow with no spit and said, 'Yes... YES... I'm your Man.. ummm author.'
Her smile disarmed him and made him more at ease with the overall weirdness since she appeared. Asa was shaken with the sudden return of warmth from the Sun, the children's voices, and the chirp of crickets again. The breeze once again flowed through the leaves and branches of the mighty oak they sat under and it seemed if he had sat here a lifetime in that awkward moment when the world stood still.
Asa knew Emma wasn't of our world yet part of her bones in the most subtile yet most profound ways were more human than human. Something older....
'I've always wanted something larger to my reality... something greater than my imagination to prove what little faith I have outside my... our reality.' He said as he sat there with a weary, relieved, but slightly fearful expression on his face.
With a sigh and posture of surrender he asked....
'Please tell me everything.'
"Well, call it a sign.. call it whatever you will but you want everything?" Emma said with a chuckle. "I'd like to keep a few secrets to myself if you don't mind for not even Satan or Lucifer know all I contain."
'Okay Emma, to start, tell me about those two names and all you know about them.'
Emma sat there and turned her gaze to the railrod tracks then sighed with a huge exhale while shaking her head and whispered "How predictable."
To Asa, she seemed slightly wilted in her posture as a tear formed and flowed down her cheek. "This world seems to want to know more about them than me... yes, Asa, call me jealous. Forgive this weakness in me."
"No, No, No... I'm sorry but you said their names first and I'm curious... just wanted to keep our conversation flowing.' Asa said with an honest dejected demeaner.
"You're right, Asa, and now you know I'm as human as you are in some ways. Okay... Satan isn't a paticuliar individual... more like an office held for a time by any I place in that office. Satan reports to me and like one of the great presidents said, The Buck Stops Here."
Emma looked back at Asa and seemed to surrender as Asa had earlier like a child caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
"The proof of what I just told you is in the book of JOB. Satan walks the earth and the heavens with freewill... Satan talks with me and even made a bet with me on Job's faith."
`Whoa... Whoa... Satan is supposed to be evil and against us mortals... I'm now confused.' Asa said with a defeated look as he spit on the deck of the gazebo...
"Asa, so few today read what is called the Bible... oh' they may read a few lines or piecemeal chapters together but FEW read it cover to cover and understand... why? One key... pray to me and ask for understanding."
Emma stood and Asa was in awe... she stood over 6 feet and the world stood still once more...
"Asa, so many sign contracts without reading the fine print and even though I don't ask any to sign a contract with me, I do expect them to read all in regard to me... we have a lot to talk about in regard to the word Satan but know this one fact....
Emma spoke these words... (Is 45:7)
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
"I'm here talking with you trying to clear up the confusion. Yes, Asa... the buck stops here."
Asa looked away for the first time from Emma and looked on the graveyard... stones on top of stones as he tried to drink in all said so far.
'Emma, we'll come back to those names... put them aside... I have no wisdom to deal with... absorb.... all you tell me.' Asa said with eyes of full of hope and a mouth full of doubt.
"Wisdom?"
"Here is where all men will start to hate you and me.... read the old testament, wisdom is always called she or her... never he or him.... and while on the subject.... God is us, we, and our... not he or she..... read the first chapter. From Gen. 1:1-25 God has no gender... then there is this....
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Now we start talking about many things few and none have ever known."
Chapter 2
Emma sat back down with a sigh with her hands on her face sliding down to clasped hands under her chin like a parent about to explain something very important to their child as she asked Asa, do you know what the word Satan means?"
'No, I just thought it was the name of a devil... something evil."
"Satan in Hebrew means the adversary." And for the first time, Emma seemed more distressed than Asa. "Asa, I created my own Satan and that is how I'll explain Satan to you... just know again... the buck stops here."
Emma looked at the sky and saw that it was noon and laughed... "you must be hungry and I
Juan Jose Rodriguez
The most underrated album in music history... period.
Andrew Isip
I agree
Rondo2ooo
@Juan Jose Rodriguez Dr. Dre? What are you talking about? Facts speak for themself: 5 Grammy nominations with 3 won, 1 Brit Award, all high professional magazine ratings... Just accept you were wrong here.
Juan Jose Rodriguez
Rondo2ooo by who? By the ones that said that dr Dre, and notorius BIg álbums where better? Your answer is more stupid.
Rondo2ooo
Stupid comment, Juan José. It was highly rated.
Rafel Rosell Sagrera
Best Sting album
Tou Fik
Elegance, class, humor. So British, so Sting.
Takayuki Ishiguro
The dog still knows nothing 'bout Sting.
U2 HYPE / U2 TRIBUTE
Its anything but light hearted!!! Listen to the lyrics..."1984" orwell
FunkinItUpaBit
Love this song and what a great video. I like the dog wandering around the room while they're playing. He looks at everyone as if he's saying, "Hey, isn't anyone going to pet me or give me some attention?" Lol!