We’re talking about transcendence this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and it’s coming from every direction: religion, drugs, death, and all the rest. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, “Room at the Top” (Echo, 1999)
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6:35
Steve Miller Band, “Fly Like an Eagle” (Fly Like an Eagle, 1976)
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9:29
Galactic Cowboys, “Ants” (At the End of the Day, 1999)
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15:06
Reading: Alexander Pope, “Essay on Man”
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17:32
Merle Haggard, “If I Could Only Fly” (If I Could Only Fly, 2000)
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22:26
Lee Hazlewood, “I’m Gonna Fly” (The NSVIPs, 1965)
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27:20
Reading: Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
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30:03
Low, “Holy Ghost” (The Invisible Way, 2013)
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33:05
The Civil Wars, “From This Valley” (Mercyland, 2012)
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36:57
Reading: Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos
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38:42
The Byrds, “Eight Miles High” (Fifth Dimension, 1966)
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42:15
Marvin Gaye, “Flyin’ High (In the Friendly Sky)” (What’s Going On, 1971)
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46:02
John Legend, “Let’s Get Lifted” (Get Lifted, 2004)
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51:05
The Prayer Chain, “Sky High” (Mercury, 1995)
