Surely as you put it on this earth, my friends, it's gonna fall

For the past several weeks, I've been listening to the 1967 Grass Roots song "Let's Live For Today" -- moved, I guess, by the same counterintuitive "nostalgia for a more wholesome time" that had me listening to "The Bad Touch" on repeat about a year ago (as described here). A message of vapid nihilism, yes, but still a healthier sort of vapid nihilism than the 2020s variety.

I've also recently taken an interest in the astronomical and mythological theories of David Talbott -- an interest which developed out of my recent posts about the Tower card of the Tarot de Marseille. Having watched the three episodes of "Symbols of an Alien Sky" on YouTube, I checked the Thunderbolts Project channel for more in the same vein and found "Remembering the End of the World." As I was watching, I scrolled down in the comments a bit and found -- bizarrely! -- that someone had left a comment with an extensive quote from the lyrics of "Let's Live For Today."

It's a completely incongruous thing to post on this sort of video, and it coincided with my own recent interest in the song -- an interest that started before, and had absolutely nothing to do with, my interest in David Talbott. Intrigued by the coincidence, I searched the Web for more information about the song, and what came up was a list of tracks on the album "Let's Live For Today." I know nothing of the Grass Roots except that one song, so this was all new to me. The last song on the album caught my eye: "House of Stone." I looked up the lyrics.

You can build your house of brick

You can build your house of stone

But surely as you put it on

This earth my friend

Just as likely it'll fall on down

And you can build it high as a mountain

Oh, you can build it thick as a wall

But surely as you put it on

This earth my friends it's gonna fall

Did I mention that I first started watching David Talbott videos because of a comment someone left on one my posts about this image?