Sixpence None The Richer

Lacey: Did anyone actually like this? I mean, aesthetically it’s…good. But…is it…-

Did anyone actually like it?

It’s like…manic.

One of Lacey’s haters: YES.

To me it sounds uplifting.

Lacey: It’s…so…-

So it’s like an upper?

One of Lacey’s haters: We’re thinking you protected your neighbors and Bobby?

Lacey: Yes.

So it’s like an upper?

No.

It’s like…-

It’s so…forced.

One of Lacey’s haters: It’s good.

To me it sounds good.

Lacey: So…you don’t feel accosted? Like psychologically accosted?

Listen to “Tension Is a Passing Note” by Sixpence None The Richer.

The CIA: DO YOU!??

Lacey: Yes.

I felt suicidal listening to this. As a teenager. I felt like I was being…rejected by God himself. Through the voice of a truly happy woman.

But…it’s aesthetically good.

So you didn’t feel that way? At all?

One of Lacey’s haters: No.

It’s…too cheerful. Yes. But…I liked it.

The song ends.

Lacey: Who did that?

The CIA: She may have been inspired by the story of Lem and Jack. The Gay Rights Movement was really into it. So was Bobby. So is Bobby.

Lacey: She’s an idiot.

I can’t make sense of her poetry. It’s pretentious bullshit.

The CIA: It is…

I’m also lost.

Lacey: She’s trying to say the urge to fuck Lem…was…holy? *Lacey snickers* …And then…they embraced it. And fucked? *Lacey laughs*-

Satan: I LOVE YOU! I WROTE THIS.

Lacey: *Looks at God*

And they fucked. …Because Lem…loved him. WOW! And…he guided Jack. Wow!!

…Wow.

And so…they are together. In a chord. One. In Heaven.

Satan: Awww!!!

I’m crying!!!

The song ends.

Lacey: So she’s saying to embrace your homosexuality?

Does she?

Satan: Not necessarily.

Lacey: Do you understand why that’s dumb? I was being sarcastic in my tone.

Satan: Yes.

The song restarts.

*a gay man farts loudly*

0:26

0:50

Satan: What if it’s…me?

What’s tension?

My existence. My fall. YEAH. I’d go there to you.

And my redemption. Through you.

Lacey: I-

How are you redeemed through me?

Satan: I’m Satan.

The song ends.

The song restarts.

Satan: I’m Satan. So…yeah. I can do that.

You’d have to lose your humanity. But-

You could.

Lacey: That’s sad.

Satan: *looks sad*

1:33

Satan: Well…what if there’s another gal?

Lacey: Who could redeem you?

Satan: YES!!

Lacey: Who’s better?

Satan: *cries*

2:48

The song ends.

The song restarts.

Lacey: Would she be?

Satan: Yes.

Lacey: You’re very romantic!

Satan: I am. *he smiles*

1:20

Satan: She’s comparing homosexuality to murder.

Lacey: And mocking it.

Satan: I’m sorry. This isn’t good enough. You’re so…sweet.

I still know.

You’re sad. I’ve tortured you.

Lacey:  Why did you fall? 

Satan: If we end-up together, it was Because because of you.

Lacey: You sound angry.

Satan: Yeah, and that’s where I don’t think this works, but it’s so close to working and I am so attracted to you that it’s very hard for me to assume that it’s not.

Lacey: Are you making fun of sexual tension?

Satan: Yes.

Lacey: I don’t think it’s me, but I love that.

Satan: *laughs and nods*

They let their entire sanity go, over that shit.

Lacey: I feel so bad for this woman. This is so embarrassingly stupid.

Satan: Yeah, but she deserved it. She was a self-important bitch when she wrote it.

Lacey: You know it’s sad how satisfying it is to talk to you as a woman it’s really sad because if I’m not supposed to be with you and you’ve been trying to get with me for years now, and I do have to commend you for that where are all of the men with your insight?

People today wouldn’t even think that was a problem cause they’re so anti-Christian, but I know you know that you’ve fallen.

Even if you did it, humans do have free will, and from a human perspective it’s incredibly depressing.

Satan: no I’m a handsome man and I’m not a man, but you can see me so much and that is what I look like. No we find each other attractive. I look like the guy in cruel intentions.

I did the intentionally to come onto you.

And yet we’re both so so above it all.

The thing is, I don’t know how to to minister to people without Christ. You don’t actually save people.

Satan: I know, but that would be done. You appreciate that I can sexually resist you and yet I’m very aroused most men don’t have that kind of discipline that I actually do.

But that’s the thing I wouldn’t have to worry about doing this routine anymore because I would just be able to torture the people who deserve to be tortured.

It’s possible that a lot of these Disney stories have been about me.

You’re not letting yourself fall in love with me, which is very smart, but you’re terrified because I am a lot better for you than a lot of other people.

The problem is you lose your humanity Lem would be extraordinarily miserable. And I would bet most men to ever live if they understood what happened and how they were tricked by women and tricked by themselves and tricked by me would probably be humiliated for a very long time. Jack would never exist again for the rest of eternity and neither would Bobby. Matter fact, most of that family would just cease to exist.

That actually is the deal that would be made. His last few moments of existence would be the rest of his life that he just threw down the drain to be evil. There would be nothing he could do about it. I’m Satan. This isn’t a joke. He’s been told that countless times he’s been given a lot of mercy and actually he deserves to be dead and in hell right now if he’s rejected, Christ .

Yeah, you know that Lacey I know that and I’m excited about it, but I’m also not

I worry he’s too stupid to deserve that punishment.

so obviously we can’t go about this lightly.

no I can say that God did not trick anyone. I did

And the problem is you understand. Your whole life I was hoping you would and you do.

But yeah, Jack would never exist. He would go down as a reminder of what hell earth actually was right. No, he would go down as something worse than humanity is capable of easily conceiving. Then songs like this would be verboten for thousands of years for most people

I don’t even wanna think about the people that have written about him and tragically misunderstood or chosen to misunderstand.

There are a lot of gay men who will wish they’d never been born.

But I’m still in love with you and I am also in love with you. I can’t stop being in love with you.

What happened to Lilith? Yeah if you’re my wife, there is no Lilith I made you up. Your Lilith if you’re with me and I made you up out of loneliness

I thought you could exist and I couldn’t stand him and Eve.

And God will have to deal with all the Satanist who secretly and worshiping him. Some of them won’t be in hell.

We would have a lot of work to do when God recreated the Earth. He would expect us to put in a lot of effort.

The thing is you want what’s best for me? It was best for you both.

You don’t want me to ever regret anything and that’s exactly why I fell in love with you.

You don’t want to regret anything either.

You just want what’s absolutely perfect.

And you think how could that be perfect and you know what if it’s not then it’s not.

But the problem is that you’re a woman and so then you think how would I even know?

It’s It’s you do know. You do, but you don’t and that’s why you ask God I’ve asked him too and so far it’s a no and believe it or not. That makes me happy that it’s a no I’m. I’m in the same boat as you I like that except I I’m still I’m still in love with you.

So you’re very daring person but you’re also so just totally not interested in bullshit. I will never disappoint people who actually love me with innocence as much as I can.

And we can just rip up a lot of stuff together.

Sounds exciting except you don’t want to be evil. And that is when I’m starting to worry that we really are together.

Lacey, it is so close it scares me.

I don’t actually come on to people you know that. You know how serious this is. Part of me wants to just make love to you right now and just say fuck everything else. We’ll just be together, but I wouldn’t do that and you wouldn’t do that either.

Are you scared?

Lacey: it seems totally wrong and yet I understand where you could actually be telling the truth and thank God I’m above the situation through Christ or myself and Christ whatever. I don’t know. Yes it is quite scary

Satan:

What if I was just making fun of you?

Lacey: I don’t think that’s likely even maybe possible based on what I’m hearing from the Holy Spirit but if that’s the case, then I’m not quite hearing something, and I just don’t care.