[lit-ideas] Re: T'AINT FUNNY, MCGEE

From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:55:57 EST

 
<<That's me.  God is  the serious Other.  Seriously zapping those little
humans left and right  and they love him for it.>>
"God's  Song"
Randy Newman
 
Cain slew  Abel Seth knew not why
For if the children of Israel were to multiply
Why  must any of the children die?
So he asked the Lord
And the Lord  said:

"Man means nothing he means less to me
than the lowliest cactus  flower
or the humblest yucca tree
he chases round this desert
cause he  thinks that's where i'll be
that's why i love mankind

I recoil in  horror from the foulness of thee
from the squalor and the filth and the  misery
How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me
That's  why i love mankind"
 
The Christians and the Jews  were having a jamboree
The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite  TV
They picked their four greatest priests
And they began to speak
They  said "Lord the plague is on the world
Lord no man is free
The temples that  we built to you
Have tumbled into the sea
Lord, if you won't take care of  us
Won't you please please let us be?"

And the Lord said
And the  Lord said

"I burn down your cities--how blind you must be
I take from  you your children and you say how blessed are we
You must all be crazy to put  your faith in me
That's why i love mankind
You really need me
That's  why i love mankind" 


Julie Krueger

[lit-ideas] Re: T'AINT FUNNY, MCGEE

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