Name: Consolation of Philosophy
Duration: P00H02M34S
Description: If there was any philosopher who knew the blues, it was Boethius. What better discourse then the Consolation of Philosophy for a blues pharmakon. All the elements of the blues are here thought crimes, a jail cell, a death sentence and Boethius's only consolation is a woman, personified philosophy, a feminine angel.

Consolation of Philosophy

from Blues Spake Zarathustra by Richard Carlson

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If there was any philosopher who knew the blues, it was Boethius. What better discourse then the Consolation of Philosophy for a blues pharmakon. All the elements of the blues are here thought crimes, a jail cell, a death sentence and Boethius's only consolation is a woman, personified philosophy, a feminine angel.

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Laid out in Prison
betrayed by a Visigoth king
my mind began to wonder,
my thoughts started fashioning
in a cell locked away, a pondering Aristolean

Plato from Socrates
and the footnotes of philosophy,
are all chasing dialectic round
while Fortuna spins us on a wheel of history
“a sorrows crown of sorrows”
if you cling to the transitory

Lead us not into temptation
but, deliver us from evil and misdeed
from Rome to Constantinople
reconcile us in belief

But, prepare yourself to deal with a miracle
for a glimpse beyond the empirical

Lord have Mercy, have mercy and redeem
lord have mercy, have mercy if you please
send me down thy angel
the consolation of philosophy.

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from Blues Spake Zarathustra, track released November 24, 2010
Music/Lyrics by Richard Carlson

Vocals: Richard Carlson
Guitar/Bass: Buddy Mohmed
Drums: Andrew Griffith

Solos:
Buddy - Guitar

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