{"id":1182,"date":"2017-01-08T02:55:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T06:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/thezenpagan\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2017-01-28T01:23:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T05:23:14","slug":"this-present-moment-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thezenpagan\/2017\/01\/this-present-moment-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"“This Present Moment Sucks” (A Song – Week 1 of “52 Makeup”)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For 2017, I\u2019m challenging myself to create one piece of art a week<\/a>: a poem, a song, a story, a drawing, a photo, a bit of digital art. This endeavor needed a name so I\u2019m calling it \u201c52 Makeup\u201d (a pun on \u201c 52 Pickup<\/a>\u201c). For this first week, a song.<\/i><\/p>\n

This Present Moment Sucks<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nYou went to the guru and you asked him how \nAnd he told you \u201cIt\u2019s easy! Just live in the now.\u201d \nAnd that sounded pretty good when you meditated \nBut when you\u2019re blissing out, you never anticipated \nWhat it\u2019d be like to be so down on your luck\u2026 \nThis present moment sucks<\/p>\nThis present moment sucks \nThis present moment sucks \nWhen you know that you\u2019re down on your luck \nThis present moment sucks<\/p>\nWell your car broke down and the rent\u2019s come due \nAnd your girlfriend left, she took your money too \nTurn on the TV to distract your mind \nBut bad bad news is all that you can find \nYeah it seems like the world\u2019s gone amok \nThis present moment sucks<\/p>\nThis present moment sucks \nThis present moment sucks \nWhen it seems like the world\u2019s gone amok\u2026 \nThis present moment sucks<\/p>\nThere\u2019s always somebody sick, and somebody dying \nIf someone says they love you, they might be lying \nThe world that we live in is all out of joint \nSometimes you feel, hey, what\u2019s the point \nSometimes you just want to say, \u201cFuck! \nThis present moment sucks!\u201d<\/p>\nThis present moment sucks \nThis present moment sucks \nSometimes you just want to say, \u201cFuck! \nThis present moment sucks<\/p>\nBut you have to begin from where you are \nIf you lie to yourself, you won\u2019t get very far \nJust sit with that feeling for a little while \nYou might be surprised when you start to smile \nThe lotus blooms out of the muck \nBeauty rooted in suck<\/p>\nThis present moment sucks \nThis present moment sucks \nThe lotus blooms out of the muck \nBeauty rooted in suck<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And that sounded pretty good when you meditated \nBut when you’re blissing out, you never anticipated \nWhat it’d be like to be so down on your luck… \nThis present moment sucks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1860,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[759,93,5],"tags":[762,761,760,45],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2017-52-creations","category-art","category-philosophy","tag-52-makeup-2017","tag-dukkha","tag-lotus","tag-music"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>"This Present Moment Sucks" (A Song - Week 1 of "52 Makeup")<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And that sounded pretty good when you meditated But when you're blissing out, you never anticipated What it'd be like to be so down on your luck... 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