460. "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" The Pogues

"If I Should Fall From Grace With God"
The Pogues
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
1988

Well goddammit I had everything set up so I would be posting this one on St. Patrick's Day, and I missed it by a half an hour.
I guess I nailed it in other time zones though. Slainte, other time zones.
So I was having an invigorating conversation with one of my favorite people tonight, about things happening for a reason, and why I hate that idea.
Not just for the bad things - i.e. that every rape and child murder and the Holocaust happened "for a reason", but the good things, too.
I don't want to think that I met my wife and we had our twinnies for a reason. I love the idea that it was a random occurrence. I love the idea that if my brother doesn't ask out his co-worker as a teenager, my daughters are never born.
I love that human existence is a one-in-a-500-trillion chance happy accident, to me that is so much more breathtaking than the idea that a man with a beard molded us from clay.
I'm in the minority here, but so are we. In the minority among billions and billions of stars, lucky enough to live on the one rock close enough to one so that we can exist.
Erin Go Bragh. An Phoblacht Abu. Tiocfaidh Ar La.