Playlist addition: Dear God

[joeallonby]

One of my favorites, too.

on 4/1/04 4:23 AM, Otto at ottosell at yahoo.de wrote:

> XTC - Dear God
> Lyric by: Andy Partridge
> 
> Dear God,
> hope you got the letter, and...
> I pray you can make it better down here.
> I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
> but all the people that you made in your image, see
> them starving on their feet 'cause they don't get
> enough to eat from God, I can't believe in you
> 
> Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard
> loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
> and all the people that you made in your image, see them fighting
> in the street 'cause they can't make opinions meet about God,
> I can't believe in you
> 
> Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make
> mankind after we made you? And the devil too!
> 
> Dear God, don't know if you noticed, but... your name is on
> a lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it, you
> should take a look, and all the people that you made in your
> image still believing that junk is true. Well I know it ain't, and
> so do you, dear God, I can't believe in I don't believe in
> 
> I won't believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no
> devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You're always
> letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you
> drown. Those lost at sea and never found, and it's the same the
> whole world 'round. The hurt I see helps to compound that
> Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody's unholy hoax,
> and if you're up there you'd perceive that my heart's here upon
> my sleeve. If there's one thing I don't believe in
> it's you... Dear God.
> http://www.xtcidearecords.co.uk/lyrics/lyrics_1.htm
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