An ancient people abandoned their living God, and replaced Him with counterfeits (idols), referred to as broken cisterns, or pits dug into rock and covered with plaster, because they wouldn't hold water. If cracks developed the cisterns were useless. Therefore the idols were empty.

Personnel: Tom Richeson (trumpet, composer, arranger), Bill Scarlett (tenor saxophone), Jack Coker (piano), Rusty Holloway (double bass), Keith Brown (drum set). Live radio broadcast from WUOT Radio, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1983).