I-- Want-- To-- Be-- A --Clone

I Want To Be A Clone
written by Steve TaylorCopyright © 1982 Birdwing Music; Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co.; C.A. Music (ASCAP)

I'd gone through so much other stuff
That walking down the aisle was tough
But now I know it's not enough
I want to be a clone

I asked the Lord into my heart
They said that was the way to start
But now you've got to play the partI want to be a clone

CHORUS
Be a clone and kiss conviction goodnight
Cloneliness is next to Godliness, right?
I'm grateful that they show the way
'Cause I could never know the way
To serve him on my own
I want to be a clone
They told me that I'd fall away
Unless I followed what they say
Who needs the Bible anyway?
I want to be a clone
Their language it was new to me
But Christianese got through to me
Now I can speak it fluentlyI want to be a clone

(CHORUS)

Send in the clones
Ah, I kind of wanted to tell my friends and people about it, you know
What?You're still a babe
You have to grow
Give it twenty years or so
'Cause if you want to be one of his
Got to act like one of us

(CHORUS)

So now I see the whole design
My church is an assembly line
The parts are thereI'm feeling fine
I want to be a clone
I've learned enough to stay afloat
But not so much I rock the boat
I'm glad they shoved it down my throat
I want to be a clone
Everybody must get cloned

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Steve had it right back in 1982. I don't think a whole lot has changed.
As a matter of fact, the first time I ever heard this song I laughed and thought; Boy, all those churchy people are really messed up". It wasn't until about four years ago I realized I had be signing along to a song about myself. Yikes! I am a clone. I am always thinking about how I am on a path that is so different from all of my Christiann friends" and how they must think I am a freak. I had people tell me they are praying for me to find a place "I can land" and "get plugged in". Yikes again! I don't want to be plugged in. I don't want to land. I don't want to belong to the toothbrushing ministry, the drinking coffee before church ministry, the "I color my hair"support group, the ministry that ministers to the existing ministries. .

I want Jesus. Plain and simple. I want to love others in a real way. In a rough and fumbling way that represents me being who I really am.

What does this look like? I am working on that part. I *do* know that it's about the journey and no longer about *finally arriving*

Here are a few links to articles that I think get the ball rolling... Far from clones:

http://subversive1.blogspot.com/2006/01/living-stones.html

and

http://canopenerboy.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-is-church_17.html