{"id":3301,"date":"2010-08-25T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2010-08-25T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T00:00:51","slug":"dj-jeffs-spintasms-alive-in-the-world-by-jackson-browne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/2010\/08\/25\/dj-jeffs-spintasms-alive-in-the-world-by-jackson-browne\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Jeff’s Spintasms: “Alive in the World” by Jackson Browne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I love it when Jeff \u2014 that\u2019s what I call my iTunes DJ \u2014 serves up something magnificent at precisely the moment my spirit needs to hear it.<\/p>\n

Jeff did that just a few minutes ago while I\u2019m in the midst of working on a piece about community and transformation and feeling deeply connected to so many people I love and who have loved me so well.<\/p>\n

The version of Jackson Browne<\/a>\u2018s grace-filled epic, \u201cAlive in the World,\u201d that Jeff played was off of the 2008 double-album, Songs for Tibet<\/em><\/a>. If you don\u2019t own it, you should. It\u2019s a keeper.<\/p>\n

Here is Mr. Browne performing it live a few years back \u2026<\/p>\n

Blessed be.<\/p>\n

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I want to live in the world, not inside my head\n\nI want to live in the world, I want to stand and\n\nbe counted\n\nWith the hopeful and the willing\n\nWith the open and the strong\n\nWith the voices in the darkness\n\nFashioning daylight out of song\n\nAnd the millions of lovers\n\nAlive in the world\n\nI want to live in the world, not behind some wall\n\nI want to live in the world, where I will hear if\n\nanother voice should call\n\nTo the prisoner inside me\n\nTo the captive of my doubt\n\nWho among his fantasies harbors the dream of\n\nbreaking out\n\nAnd taking his chances\n\nAlive in the world\n\nTo open my eyes and wake up alive in the world\n\nTo open my eyes and fully arrive in the world\n\nWith its beauty and its cruelty\n\nWith its heartbreak and its joy\n\nWith it constantly giving birth to life and to\n\nforces that destroy\n\nAnd the infinite power of change\n\nAlive in the world\n\nTo open my eyes and wake up alive in the world\n\nTo open my eyes and fully arrive in the world\n\nTo open my eyes and wake up alive in the world\n\nTo open my eyes and fully arrive in the world\n\n(c) 1996, Swallow Turn Music, ASCAP\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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