When pop and rock artists are blunt about spirituality, the music makes a transformation, and it is not always for the better. Consider Dan Peek, who left the group America to join the Christian music mafia -- an applicable sentiment in his case is that the Lord made rock & rollers to write and perform rock roll. Like all great rock roll, the message is better served when it is -- as Peter, Paul Mary admonished -- laid "between the lines." Andy Pratt's Heaven Earth is a compilation of Pratt's music made over the years with lyrics and a message decidedly different from the '70s work that brought him an audience. Organized and designed by It's About Music executive Dean Sciarra, the material is culled from Pratt's Another World, Fire of Love, Runaway Heart, and Perfect Therapy albums, along with the track Saviour from the Arif Mardin-produced classic Resolution disc. The paradox here is that Pratt is a very unique and valuable artist, with material that is consistent and of a high grade. Take I'm Special, a stunning song between a father and a son. In a context where the general public can relate to it, say, on the soundtrack of the Spielberg film #AI, with the alienated robot yearning for the love of his human parents, it could have reached a huge audience and got the message out. Where Is the Comfort is everything Gino Vannelli and Terence Trent D'Arby ever aspired to be, and desperately needed to reactivate their careers. Unfortunately, sometimes the search for meaning gets bogged down in self-indulgence and an artist can do great disrespect to the Lord and his/her career by straying from the original mission -- the reason God almighty put that artist here. For the most part, singing about Jesus has kept Top 40 radio at arm's length from many an artist, with the exception of a gospel gem like the Edwin Hawkins Singers' Oh Happy Day or the outright sacrilege that is +Jesus Christ, Superstar.

1		Gonna Wait a Lifetime
2		I Will Buy Your Broken Heart
3		Walkin' Down the Road
4		Saviour
5		All My Days
6		Grey, Chick, And Malda
7		Another World
8		Runaway Heart
9		I'm Special
10		Where Is the Comfort
11		Unaware
12		Wash My Hands
13		Cry