We are continuing our look at the songs written by Bill Mallonee. As I mentioned last week, all of the Vigilantes of Love & Bill Mallonee albums are available via the Bill Mallonee Mp3 Store. All songs sold in the Mp3 store are DRM free Mp3 files so you can play them on any computer or player that supports the Mp3 format.
This week’s song is “Bolt Action” from the album Blister Soul. The album Blister Soul is considered one of Vigilantes of Love’s best albums and contains some of their best material. The song “Bolt Action” is a great tune and while it might not lyrically be one of the best songs ever written it is a great song none the less. What makes “Bolt Action” so good is the mix of lyrics and music. The lyrics and music backing them compliment each other so well that it really makes the lyrics seem better than they are. Songwriting is a two part system, you can have the best lyrics in the world but without the proper music, they can fall flat. The reverse is true as well. But when you have music and lyrics that compliment each other to their fullest, you end up with a magic that is very hard to reproduce.
The song itself is loosely based on the Charles Whitman, the guy who, in 1966 went to the top floor of the University Bell Tower in Austin, Texas and shot 44 people, killing 13 of those individuals.
For the first song, we will look at the song “Love Cocoon.” This song is of particular interest because it single handily got the album it was on (Slow Dark Train) banned from Christian bookstores for being “overly sexual.” The funny thing is, it was a love song to his wife. But the Christian sub-culture views sex as something evil rather than something beautiful that happens between a husband and wife. Bill Mallonee himself described the song as a “…a biblical Song of Solomon set to a Rolling Stones sort of groove” and it accomplishes that well. The two lyrics of note that really made me fall for the song were, “well the world keeps on banging and they come and go/it’s just a part of their scenery a part of their show/but i’ve got this wedding band wrapped around my finger/honey I’ll be your poet, your gunslinger” and “Some call it freedom/some call it shackles/honey lets get together and build a tabernacle.”
Michael Koby 
Creation Versus Evolution
A couple of weeks ago a “Creation Museum” opened up containing artifacts that help prove several Creationist ideas, including (but certainly not limited to) the idea that man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. And just so there is full disclosure here, I want to point out that I’m a Creationist, I believe that God created the world in seven days. However, I am not going to debate facts here today, instead I want to look at some issues that concern me. Continue reading →