{"id":621,"date":"2016-10-10T11:42:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/?p=621"},"modified":"2016-10-10T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T22:46:41","slug":"i-never-promised-you-a-rose-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/2016\/10\/10\/i-never-promised-you-a-rose-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"I Never promised you a Rose Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are interested , last Sunday we played a rap song by Shad called Rose Garden. \u00a0It came from musing on why Mark sandwiches the story of the death of John the Baptist into the middle of the sending out of the disciple&#8217;s story in Mark 6. There was a sense that Mark wants us to eat a &#8216;reality sandwich, toR know that things don&#8217;t always go easy or the way we want. \u00a0 He wasn&#8217;t promising us a Rose Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the song, and let the lyrics wash over you, and you&#8217;ll see what sticks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q-mAMH5S6VA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And for those who want to know what he said here are the lyrics :<\/p>\n<p><em>I didn&#8217;t promise you a rose garden<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Along with the sunshine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s gotta be some rain sometimes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Watch out<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I didn&#8217;t promise you a rose garden (Yeah)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Along with the sunshine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s gotta be some rain sometimes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen, ok<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[Verse 1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When Abraham went to slash Issac<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a sense he baptized him<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rabbi said don&#8217;t trust in cash prizes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Same things that float your boat can capsize it<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tell the snakes they can take a hike like gas prices<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No such things as half-way crooks or half righteous (Yeah)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Those who have eyes should act like it<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To help the sightless seeking the light switch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To see in the night with, we leading the lifeless<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes I just wanna play some shows, make some dough<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Take it home, lay in my bed, and stay in my safety zone<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But Cee-Lo said it best<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I know too much and I owe too much to let it rest<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Heard a voice say hey,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You never question when you get the blessings<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So don&#8217;t get vexed when your life is stressed<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I promised I&#8217;ll be with you no matter what the issue<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But there will be some issues to address<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to the lady in the dress<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I didn&#8217;t promise you a rose garden<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Along with the sunshine (Uh huh)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s gotta be some rain sometimes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I beg your pardon, I didn&#8217;t promise you a rose garden<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Along with the sunshine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s gotta be a little rain sometimes (Rain feels like this, check it)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[Verse 2]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m not in the zone, there&#8217;s too much in the way<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I weigh two bucks and if I had two slugs to spray<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Like <\/em>raa raa<em>, Glenn Beck better duck like foie gras<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Make shots poke his face like Gaga<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But mama says forgive, so I give him that bar like a Mars then let him live<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The missing saga continues, ranting<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While my DJ&#8217;s lamping like Green Lantern, sampling<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mansions? Nah, I ain&#8217;t rich as Richard Branson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m King Kong meets Vince Vaughn and I play like a champion<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m a Monday ball-e? Nah B, all week<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Seven days of black power naps every <\/em>forty eight<em> half hours<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s <\/em>twenty four<em> starring Jack Bauer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Can&#8217;t <\/em>cower<em> when the rain falls<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And it falls whether you&#8217;re Gandhi or you&#8217;re Adolf<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fall weather vendors always are way off<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Make the call no rain delay<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Play ball<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are interested , last Sunday we played a rap song by Shad called Rose Garden. \u00a0It came from musing on why Mark sandwiches the story of the death of John the Baptist into the middle of the sending out of the disciple&#8217;s story in Mark 6. There was a sense that Mark wants us to eat a &#8216;reality sandwich, toR know that things don&#8217;t always go easy or the way we want. \u00a0 He wasn&#8217;t promising us a Rose Garden. Listen to the song, and let the lyrics wash over you, and you&#8217;ll see what sticks. And for those who want to know what he said here are the lyrics : I didn&#8217;t promise you a rose&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}