God's Protest
Do you know-God Protested!
He'd had enough.
He looked at the way the world was
and is
and will be.
(Well God can do that sort of thing.)
And he said,
that's it
they've gone too far
they've stretched the limit
they're unbelievable!
He overheard,
preachers,
prophets,
politicians,
all talking about peace
but each fighting their own personal war.
God said I'm going to Protest.
Look at the greed,
look at the hurt,
look at the lies,
look at the...
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Well we started filming in Edinburgh this afternoon. We had quite an interesting reception. Put the table out with the bread and wine. Guess what? People stopped and read the notice. I overhead one young guy say to his pal, "that's all about Jesus, he's sound". Another young woman came up to me and asked what we were doing? I told her we were taking the bread and the wine outside the church for the people on the street. She thought I meant homeless people. "No", I said,...
Excuse me Lord,
but with all this politicking
going on
at Westminster,
someone asked me,
what way you would vote ?
Got me thinking
Do you expect your disciples
to get involved with politics?
Mind you,
the first lot were - involved?
Judas was a right zealot.
He wanted you to declare UDI.
The apostles were a mixed bag,
the brothers James and John,
they believed you could have taken over the government.
They wanted to be your right hand men,
when you...
It's true what they say songs take on a life of their own. If you are a songwriter you always have to be prepared to give it away. In reality it never belongs to you in the first place. Many people contribute to the ideas that make up a song. A few years ago I wrote this song after hearing a story Willie MacPherson told me. He was describing the above shanty town known as Port of Belen built on a sewer that serves the city of Iquitos deep in the Amazonian Jungle. I was...