How Rickie Lee Jones' The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard came about

Love, love, love

Inspired, in a rather roundabout way, by Rickie Lee Jones' song Running from Mercy from "Traffic From Paradise" (1993):

Oh sacred place that sets my soul alive
There's a rainbow above me that the storm clouds hide
And kind works will never die
Cuz the magic in kindness springs from the love, love, love

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– Leon Blumfeld (Copyright 2007)