{"id":33140,"date":"2013-07-25T15:53:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=33140"},"modified":"2014-03-03T23:59:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T23:59:01","slug":"artlines2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33140","title":{"rendered":"Father Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending weeks with the \u201cdeath tape\u201d during the writing\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33139\"> I\u2019ll Be Your God: The Psychobiography of Jim Jones<\/a>, Scott Lines composed this\u00a0song. Although he fronts for a Bay Area alt-country band \u2013 which\u00a0he says is \u201cappropriately\u201d called The Dirges \u2013 the\u00a0song has never been publicly performed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Father said to lay the children down upon the ground<br \/>\nClose their eyes and make them go to sleep<br \/>\nPoint their heels up to the sky<br \/>\nAnswer not their questions why<br \/>\nJust tell them pray to me their souls to keep<\/p>\n<p>Father said I wouldn\u2019t lie<br \/>\nI can look you in the eye<br \/>\nHeal the sick and I can raise the dead<br \/>\nAnd if they die before they wake<br \/>\nPray to me, their soul I\u2019ll take<br \/>\nIt\u2019s either that or they will rot instead<br \/>\nRevolutionary suicide<\/p>\n<p>Father said as children cried<br \/>\nIt\u2019s gonna be one hell of a show<br \/>\nWe must go and leave no trace<br \/>\nWe\u2019re going to a better place<br \/>\nWe leave this earth tonight, that\u2019s all I know<br \/>\nNow take yourself the bitter drink<br \/>\nHurry now, no time to think<br \/>\nThe mercenaries hiding in the trees<br \/>\nThe heavens fall, the blood runs cold<br \/>\nNine hundred now who won\u2019t grow old<br \/>\nNo longer will they feel the world\u2019s disease<br \/>\nRevolutionary suicide<\/p>\n<p>Father said as children cried<br \/>\nThey won\u2019t ignore me now, this I know<br \/>\nWe must go and leave no trace<br \/>\nWe\u2019re going to a better place<br \/>\nWe leave this earth tonight, that\u2019s all I know<br \/>\nOne by one, they took their place<br \/>\nA strange light fell on every face<br \/>\nThe birds above them, sitting on a wire<br \/>\nStepping up the final rung<br \/>\nThe cause of death: frozen tongue<br \/>\nThe congregation now funeral pyre<\/p>\n<p>Father said it\u2019s almost over<br \/>\nDrink it down, we\u2019ll be in clover<br \/>\nLeave this bitter world far behind<br \/>\nCan\u2019t you see I\u2019m growing tired?<br \/>\nFind another God for hire<br \/>\nWhat better God you think you\u2019re gonna find?<br \/>\nRevolutionary suicide<\/p>\n<p>Father said as children cried<br \/>\nIt\u2019s gonna be one hell of a show<br \/>\nWe must go and leave no trace<br \/>\nWe\u2019re going to a better place<br \/>\nWe leave this earth tonight, that\u2019s all I know<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Scott Lines<br \/>\n8-5-07<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending weeks with the \u201cdeath tape\u201d during the writing\u00a0of I\u2019ll Be Your God: The Psychobiography of Jim Jones, Scott Lines composed this\u00a0song. Although he fronts for a Bay Area alt-country band \u2013 which\u00a0he says is \u201cappropriately\u201d called The Dirges \u2013 the\u00a0song has never been publicly performed. Father said to lay the children down upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":33247,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33140"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56995,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33140\/revisions\/56995"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}