It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright

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It's All Crazy! It’s All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright
Studio album by
MewithoutYou
ReleasedMay 19, 2009
StudioMiner Street Recordings, Philadelphia
Genre
Length44:57
LabelTooth & Nail
ProducerDaniel Smith and Brian McTear
MewithoutYou chronology
Brother, Sister
(2006) 		It's All Crazy! It’s All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright
(2009) 		Ten Stories
(2012)
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It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright is the fourth studio album by American

Sufi mystic Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
.

Track listing

Music by mewithoutYou, lyrics by Aaron Weiss.

No.TitleLength
1."Every Thought a Thought of You"3:31
2."The Fox, the Crow and the Cookie"3:31
3."The Angel of Death Came to David's Room"3:54
4."Goodbye, I!"3:50
5."A Stick, a Carrot & String"3:06
6."Bullet to Binary (Pt. Two)"5:12
7."Timothy Hay"3:37
8."Fig with a Bellyache"3:31
9."Cattail Down"3:47
10."The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate"6:01
11."Allah, Allah, Allah"4:55

Lyrical themes

It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright explores many of the teachings of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. The Sufi teacher's story of "The Fox, the Crow, and the Cookie" from My Love You My Children: 101 Stories for Children[2] is told as well as his story about the "King Beetle" from The Divine Luminous Wisdom that Dispels Darkness.[3] Other concepts from the teacher are explored in "Allah, Allah, Allah," about seeing God in every blade of grass and in "Fig with a Bellyache" dealing with sexual temptation from The Divine Luminous Wisdom... and The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh.[4]

The album's mixture of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim themes has been the subject of much critical attention, with the band exploring Islamic concepts such as the oneness and universality of God.[5][6][7]

Awards

In 2010, the album was nominated for a

Dove Award for Recorded Music Packaging of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards.[8]

References

  1. ^ "mewithoutYou | it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright". Tooth & Nail. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  2. ^ "Children's Stories : Sufi Books, Audio and Videos by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen". Bmfstore.com. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  3. ISBN 9780914390114
    . Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  4. ^ "Q&A With mewithoutYou". Magnetmagazine.com. May 1, 2009. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  5. ^ "Now Hear This!: mewithoutYou [Philadelphia, PA], PopMatters". PopMatters. May 18, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
  6. ^ Morehead, Jason (June 2, 2009). "Josh Hurst Reviews mewithoutYou's It's all crazy! It's all false! It's all a dream! It's alright!". Opus. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
  7. ^ "mewithoutYou, "It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright" Review". www.jesusfreakhideout.com. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
  8. ^ "41st Annual GMA Dove Awards nominees announced", The Tennessean (February 18, 2010)[dead link]
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