Thus Spoke The Jester (Prog-Rock)
Ron Gragg
– Christian Rock Artist
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This is a progressive acoustic rock song using (at times) aggressive and passive, percussive acoustic guitar playing style with a non-standard tuning. It's another poem I wrote back around 2005
Praise and worship of Jesus Christ in an Eclectic blend of acoustic and electric guitars. The words are from The Word and my Christian testimony of the struggle
Why do we do what we do, or believe what we believe? Some judge the materialistic as all there is. But, where does the beautiful painting of artistic expression in canvas, word, music and thought come from? From where do we derive altruistic love and feeling for one another? The materialistic explanations fall short of elucidation, let alone understanding of the incorporeal and/or supernatural aspects of our lives. So much so that the inadequate reasoning of the materialists become illogical and incomprehensible.
So, why the opposing worldviews? If you believe the material world is the only answer, I would ask that you open your mind to the possibility of your own self imposed limitations. Does the well rounded mind limit itself? Where then does growth come from?
In my personal life, I have found music can be a healing balm, a positive motivator and a conduit to profound worship. The music my Lord has given me to play and minister with, are in conjunction with my testimony, my life’s story, and the gifts He has given me.
Along with studies for a Masters Degree in Christian Apologetics and Polemics, I am also completing studies for a Masters degree in Theology as well. Again, I feel that you never quit learning, nor are we supposed to. You become stagnant if you remain static!
Thanks and God Bless
Ron
"Thus Spoke The Jester (Prog-Rock)" is a low-key Progressive Rock track by Ron Gragg, released on SoundClick. Rooted in Christian Rock, Progrock and Progressive Rock, the song brings a raw energy to the Progressive Rock space. AI assisted in the production of this track, and the producer kept it sample-free.
With its body-moving rhythm, the song draws the listener in with ease. With a peak of #1 on the main SoundClick Rock chart, this is one of the strongest-performing Progressive Rock releases on the platform. SoundClick gives artists like Ron Gragg a platform to share original Progressive Rock music with listeners around the world.
Story behind the song
This is an adaptation from a poem of mine written in 2009. The music is derivative of, and draws its inspiration from, many sources; My Scottish roots, American Folk, Progressive Rock, my love of percussive acoustic style guitar, and the lyrics pull from divergent philosophical disciplines, and life observation.
The Jester is the arch-nemesis in your life that attempts, by hook-or-crook (any means possible) to cause confusion, via faux-confutation to destroy what you know to be true. He is relentless and tireless, and will return time-after time to cause confusion in your life. But you can, by being relentless yourself, in the truth you know, defeat this joker by standing on the rock of facts and truth. Eventually his lies die away, or he simply seeks some weaker mind to work on. But, even if he sticks around, you have the means to expose his shenanigans.
The bottom line is this: Does the vague innuendoes and lies of the Jester control your life, simply because he tells it loud enough and long enough so that perception becomes reality? Or do you stand on what you know to be true, and defy this clown to either put up or shut up.
The choice is yours.
Words: 2005 Ronald E. Gragg
Music: 2026 Ronald E. Gragg
Lyrics
Thus Spoke the Jester
The jester thrust public his podium
His joke for the masses to please
He spoke long enough
And spoke loud enough
As it spread wide circuitously
And it spread wide circuitously
Thus spoke the jester quizzically
Thus spoke the jester equivocally
Did He really say?
Is this His only way?
This joker speaks open once closeted
Hushed whispers now shouts to proclaim
He twists lyrically his posited fallacies
Mind’s eyes photos forced frame by frame
Mind’s eyes photos forced frame by frame
Thus spoke the jester quizzically
Thus spoke the jester perniciously
Did It really say?
Is this His only way?
The jester danced all around the crowd
Spreading his whimsical words
The jester danced, and no one could deny
Because no one, NO, no one, would avert their eyes
Repeatedly shouting he forces emphatically
Volume and frequency his only facts
Within his relativistic hubris
No absolutes it seems left intact
No absolutes left intact
Thus spoke the jester quizzically
Thus spoke the jester evasively
Does He really say?
Is there any other way?
The jester danced all around the crowd
Spreading his whimsical words
The jester danced, and no one could deny
Because no one, NO, no one, would avert their eyes
The Crown Prince stands quietly steadfast
For His task painstakingly done
And tenderly He watches and waits
Doors wide for all who would come
Doors wide for all who would come
Thus silencing the jester painfully
Thus silencing the jester magnificently
YES, He really said
That’s His only way
Words: 2010 Ronald E. Gragg
Music: 2026 Ronald E. Gragg
*Note: "Some" AI was used in the production of this recording. MY sheet music is kept on file.
