From the band XTC -- seems appropriate for these times...

[driver8]

I posted this in GD, but thought I would post it in here as well.


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.
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 the father, son and holy ghost,
Is just somebody’s unholy hoax,
And if you’re up there you’ll perceive,
That my heart’s here upon my sleeve.
If there’s one thing I don’t believe in...

It’s you,
Dear God...

[yewberry]

1. I was actually in a "Yacht Dance" kind of mood

but then I saw the steak thread and the tofu thread so I decided on "No Thugs" instead.

[driver8]

3. "English Settlement" is my favorite XTC album.

[yewberry]

5. Mine, too.

Dang, I was thinking that I was the only one here old enough to remember English Settlement!

[enigmatic]

6. That's a great album

"Love On A Farmboy's Wages" is my favorite..

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. He's let me down too!! I'm very disappointed in him (sic)!!

[vajraroshana]

4. that's my favorite XTC song

I even learned how to play it on guitar once...can't remember how now; it was pretty difficult (for me at least).

It's an awesome song.

Thanks for reminding me about that great great song!

(p.s I also learned driver 8 by REM a long long time ago; I still know how to play that song though)

[vajraroshana]

7. fantastic video too (eom)

[yewberry]

8. I don't think I even knew that XTC ever made a video!

Ooof, I live in the past!

[driver8]

9. I remember a video for "Senses Working Overtime"...

and one for "The Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead"

[khashka]

10. I was gonna post those lyrics but you beat me to it

It's such a great song, it's such a great album, they are such a great band.

Every once in a while a perfect album comes along. Skylarking is one of them. Oddly, on my copy "Dear God" isn't listed as being on it anywhere.....

Khash.