Share the Heaven Sent

If you take a proper butchers at the world around, it’s very clear it isn’t built on something sound 

But it can easy look like that’s the way it is, and it can easy seem the way they say it is 

To pull back from this brink of despair 

To navigate it out of this nightmare 

The way to go has to be to share, the heaven sent 

You told me that you glimpsed it as if through the trees, look, it’s always in full view very obviously 

Got to simply say how it’s all going wrong, for sure simple enough to fit into a song 

It’s simple justice that you pay your fare 

To hold this wondrous jewel of which we all are heir 

The answer’s always been that we should share, the heaven sent 

For sure a special secret has been cloaked and caged, and be called a curious relic from another age 

But evermore it hovers with timeless intent, and ever its meaning grows more insistent 

We must bang on until the world’s aware, for all to understand what’s really fair 

Bring about the day when we can share, the heaven sent 

What it always meant, when it was how it went 

Share, the heaven sent 

Music by Paul Greening, Roger Sampson, Stewart Paul Bickel, Kennedy Humphreys; Lyrics and Melody by John Harris

John Harris – Vocals, Bass; Paul Greening – Guitar; Roger Sampson – Guitar; Stewart Bickel – Drums

Recorded at Inter-Galactic Arts and at SLW; Produced by John Harris; Engineered by Matt Hall at SLW Studio

It’s an odd anomaly that ‘heaven sent’ didn’t become London rhyming slang for ‘rent,’ in any sense of the word.  In classical political economy rent meant what came from nature, literally heaven sent.  For a century or so, the word ‘rent’ has been twisted around to mean what a landlord received from a tenant as payment, a payment which the landlord puts nothing into earning, so, in this sense, too, rent could be said to be heaven sent.  Thus ‘heaven sent’ surely should be the slang term for ‘rent.’  The heaven sent being referred to in this song is the classical kind, that which comes from nature, and that Adam Smith identified as the natural source of public finance, which could be collected without affecting trade and the wealth of the people at large.