Gershon had never displayed any songwriting talent before and only covered the songs of others. Suddenly out of nowhere he had a play list of dozens of songs hinting at the meaning of life, inspiring spirituality, faith, worship, and inner healing. None of the staff at the hospital recalled ever seeing him jot down any notes. So when did he create these songs. And how? It was a strange phenomenon indeed. And the audience went wild. Reprinted below are the lyrics to the first song he played on his return to the stage. You will immediately see what made everyone stop and listen - and beg for more:
DEEPEST OF THE DEEP
For the path back to the start
Draw forth from wellsprings of love
And let it penetrate every incarnation
That you may be reborn
In the Moondwabi generation
The many are as one
We know where we are going
'Cause we know where we've come from
In the garden of His love
Watered with loving kindness
From the heavens far above
Wider than your rectum
Brighter than a sunbeam
Mightier than a ski team
Newer than fresh bread rolls
Wiser than an owl
Drier than a towel
The reason we are here
It's to worship and adore him
And to always draw him near
From the depths of our despair
There's new reason to keep living
It's that Moondwabi is now here
Wider than your rectum
Brighter than a sunbeam
Mightier than a ski team
Newer than fresh bread rolls
Wiser than an owl
Drier than a towel
His morals liberate us
The light of his salvation
Is a cause for fornication
Fans loved the existential riddles he posed in each song and his following grew. His next song, "Reincarnation" was his break-through hit, topping all the regional charts, from Toronto to Barrie to Collingwood.
REINCARNATION
Givin' us a second chance
That good ol' reincarnation
Another life to sing and dance
Is this thing your talkin' 'bout?
It's good ol' reincarnation
Clap your hands and jump and shout
It's not my imagination
I saw it all
Under hypnotization
I've been all things that I can be,
From mighty king to bumble-bee
But through it all, I've always been ME!
You only live 999 times
So get it right
If you need the motivation
Then think of...
Here we go!
Deja-vu it's
Reincarnation
Round we go, it's
Reincarnation
I repeat, it's
Reincarnation
Been there, done that, it's
Reincarnation
Wear a carnation, beware of castration,
Inform the whole nation, 'cause it's
Reincarnation
Round and round and round we go
Dizzy, slow down, stop!
Get me out of this
Reincarnation
Somewhere in the audience a head started to bob. Then another. In the back of the room a girl screamed from ecstasy and started gyrating. Like some kind of invisible virus, everyone in the room got infected. "I'd never seen a wilder crowd in all my years in the business", says Alfonso, owner of the Space Cake Confectionery. "Dancing like animals, writhing on the floor - yet in all total silence."
"It was like the other 90% of my brain - the part that we don't use - opened up. Everything became, like so...clear", says Paul who now goes by his cult name, Aphelion.
"The only way to describe it...you'd have to invent a whole new alphabet to find the words." says Cindy, now named Spectrum.
The second CD Moondwabi released succeeded in turning almost everyone who listened to it into a dedicated convert. It sold in the thousands in Toronto alone. The money from sales allowed Moondwabi to establish his first temple. His cult quickly grew to include 15 core members and 1368 casual followers.
What songs were on this CD that made it so great? The back cover lists only "The cosmic melody". The disk was blank. "Not blank - silent" is Moondwabi's terse response to his critics. "The problem with my detractors is that they turn up the volume of their players and complain that there's nothing there. First they need to turn up the volume of their souls."
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