Best Song in History: The Melodians' "Rivers of Babylon"

"Rivers of Babylon," by the Melodians, gets my vote for being the best song in history (lyrics below). I wrote a little about it recently. The song means more to me, is more insightful, every time I listen to it. They sing 'He,' as God is we. The rivers of Babylon are God's--our--experiences in this sphere of death. We are Him born into ignorance, borne by ignorance, and find ourselves "sat down" in it. We are He, YHWH, the action (i.e., the imagination) of the Ineffable--God. In our experiences He remembers His divine estate, the Kingdom (powers) of God--salvation. That Kingdom is within us.

In this operation of God, we were carried away by the wicked--ignorance. Its imperception of what we are is our captivity. Proclamation of Truth is required for our salvation and ascension from this death, becoming even more like the Ineffable, but how can we sing the song of King Alpha--the Beginning of Genesis 1:1 (the Imagination/"Son" of God who created the universe)--in this strange land of ignorance?

Assumption of the Truth from what is revealed. Faith. Trust. We have to sing, proclaim, shout it--that the Truth is done! That we are free! That salvation is come!

King Far-I, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (1892-1975), so displayed the Anointing of YHWH that his people believed him to be the incarnation of God (what a wild idea, right?). The words of our mouth (imagination) and the meditation of our hearts (feelings and emotions) need to be acceptable to the Anointing of YHWH, symbolized by Far-I, which is upon and within us. We have to believe we receive and walk in this reality, to sing it! Live a song of freedom!! Show some enthusiasm.

I am rephrasing this is an updated post.

By the way, sometimes one singer sings one set of lyrics into one channel, while the other singer simultaneously sings another set of lyrics into the other channel. One singer says sisters while the other says brothers, and vice versa. One says "we gotto" one thing, the other says "we gunna" (going to) something else. It took me awhile to figure out that I could just remove one of my earphones, and with different ears hear different songs. Below I try to go with what I thought was the dominant voice.

By the rivers of Babylon, where He sat down,
and there He wept, when He remembered Zion;
for the wicked carried us away in captivity,
required from us a song.
How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land?

For the wicked carried us away in captivity,
required from us a song.
How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land?

Sing it out loud!
Sing a song of freedom, sisters!
Sing a song of freedom, brothers!

We gunna walk and shout it!
We gunna jump, and shout it! Yea! Yea! Yea!
Shout the song of freedom now.

So let the words of our mouth,
and the meditation our heart,
be acceptable in thy sight, O Far-I.

So let the words of our mouth,
and the meditation our heart,
be acceptable in thy sight, O Far-I.

Sing it out loud/ Sing it! Sing it! Sing it! Yea!
We got to sing it together.
Everyone of us shout it together.

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Sing it! Sing it! Sing it!
Sing a song of freedom, brothers!
Sing a song of freedom, sisters! Yea!