Larry Norman - 1985 - Medley

Letter to the Church, Come Away, If the Bombs Fall
From VHS tape "Illegal Observations - The Best of Norman Bootlegs, Part 2 Vol 7"

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[KenaciousD]

this was from the "Larry Norman and the Young Lions" tour 1985. I was the drummer on that tour. As the tour went on, Charles and I started doing backing vocals and added more instruments to when the bombs fall. Thanks for posting this, it was great to see and hear after all these years.

[kilroy85]

@kilroy85 correction, make that website failedangle(dot)com

[kilroy85]

@kilroy85 If you want to know the truth about many of the rumors that David Di Sabatino presented as facts in his "documentary" check out Allen Flemming's website failedangel. He presents documented rebuttals to many of the lies expressed in the film.

[kilroy85]

@PWitness do not believe all that you see in film. For some reason David Di Sabatino has taken it upon himself to spread all sorts of baseless rumors and lies about Larry

[TristanandIsolt]

Larry like Jesus has always had some issues with organized religion. Larry did make some specific songs regarding his breakup with Randy Stonehill. Particularly "Don't you want to talk about it" which is a song of love and forgiveness and hope for reconciliation. Only Randy, Larry and Sarah know the truth about what happened. Since Larry is dead I think that is just not a useful situation for people to speculate about anymore. Lets just enjoy the music and his memory.

[NameCC8687]

Thanks for posting this. I haven't heard If The Bombs Fall since borrowing a tape of a vinyl lp from a friend when I was at college many years ago! I've spent years and years looking for his work, this song in particular, but cannot find it anywhere. I downloaded a dreadful remix from i-Tunes which was a major disappointment after so much time. So thanks for this, it's good to see.

[PWitness]

The lyrics certainly could be applicable to Norman's perception of Stonehill at the time (as the recent documentary about him points out, the reference to "speak[ing] of compassion" hearkens to Stonehill's work with Compassion International), but the title and the bulk of the lyrics seem to make it clear this is a criticism of the modern church in general rather than any individual.

Ironically (and sadly), the line "you don't practice what you preach" could be turned right back against Norman.

[12BarDave]

Thanks kilroy85,

Beautiful.

[reneedo]

I haven't been able to hear "If the bombs fall" for at least 15 years--thank you for posting this. It's so beautiful.