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The rebuttal of God. [Note: As this play is based on the pre-biblical story of Job, it is important to note that the Devil is nowhere to be seen by this point in the tale. Spirituality has moved on from a system of manipulations, bets and violence to one of poetic realization, the awakening.]

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Where were you?
Where were you?

Where were you?
When I created all this for you.
Remember Mendel and Aristotle,
Tell me who was at the throttle?
Where were you? Where were you?
Kepler and Einstein, boy,
Lifted my beerstein, Oy! The universe is simply mind unraveled. You know the helix double but don’t see it’s a bubble baby!
Of all that I’ve created lately, still it goes, goes undated bated breath
All related...‘Till the end of time…
‘Till I lose my mind…Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!

Seeds and spores, sex galore. Exponentially divide, multiply…collide
Here’s a clue, here’s a clue I give to you: Where were you?
When hell and earth met for the great divide!
Were you inside? That’s where I abide!
Where sea snails glide and tides elide!
That’s where I abide! Sea of green, sky of blue,
wild blue Where were you? Stone and matrix,
Womb and pod. That’s God…
In my trillion days,
The only truth
Is itch when you’ve
Been scratched
You’ve met your
Match; more than
Your matchThe great
Unknown, eternity, The trumpet of theocracy,
The architect of leaf,
The carpenter of belief.

Or to put it a little more simply
While you grovel there limply,
The earth is a pebble I flicked from
My thumb, It’s chained to a star and
You’re indelibly dumb.
Na Na Na Na Na Na. And now
You come to rest and ask me “Why?”
And says I…Where were you?

Everybody’s asking me,
Where they come from.
Everybody’s asking me, what to do.
Think about me, think about you-hoo
Where were you? Where were you?

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from The Suffering of Joe Bean, released December 12, 2012
Lyrics by Bob McAllister, Music by Mark Nichols
Lead Vocal: EJ Harrid; Percussion: Jarrod Kaplan
Bass: Steve Newton; Guitar: Mark Nichols & Kevin Veatch; Piano: Mark Nichols; Vocals: Julie Lewis, Mark, Mari Finch, Chorus

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