Wonderful Remark

Here's Van Morrison's take on bad preaching in his song "Wonderful Remark":

How can you stand the silence
That pervades when we all cry?
How can you watch the violence
That erupts before your eyes?

You can't even grab a hold on
When we're hanging oh so loose.
You don't even listen to us
When we talk, it ain't no use.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you,
Then you may begin to understand.
Clear the emptiness around you
With the waving of your hand

Chorus:
That was a wonderful remark.
I had my eyes closed in the dark.
I sighed a million sighs.
I told a million lies to myself.

Now, how can we listen to you
When we know that your talk is cheap?
How can we never question
Why we give more and you keep?

How can your empty laughter
Fill a room like ours with joy,
When you're only playing with us
Like a child does with a toy?

How can we ever feel the freedom
Or the flame lit by the spark?
How can we ever come out even
When reality is stark?

Chorus

Listen, how can you tell us something
Just to keep us hanging on
Something that just don't mean nothin'?
When we see you, you are gone.

Clinging to some other rainbow
While we're standing waiting outside in the cold
Telling us the same sad story
Knowing time is growing old

Touch your world up with some colour.
Dream you're swinging on a star.
Taste it first then add some flavour.
Now you know just who you are.

Chorus