God – Lyrics
So each day would be new I build you to sleep
That’s the idea of dying but you’ll just have to see
You can do what you want or so you think
But till you stop all your thoughts
You are tied to your surroundings
When the fog spreads out in the rainy season
It comes from my insides
When the thunderous lighting strikes down
You’re seeing your real I
People
You blaspheme my name
But still I love you
Still I love you
I love you just the same
I hear all your prayers because I’m each one of you
Creation’s not something I did
It’s something that I do
The reason for the bad is so the there’d be such things as good
Oh I’d do anything for you
You all know I would
Be for me
Be for me
Be for me
Before me
Before me
Before me
You know that I try to repair and repay
As life goes by a thousand times
It gets a little better
All is belief, All is belief,
All is belief, All is belief.
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I love the main message of this song. One thing I feel is a bit off is the idea of good being reliant on there being bad.
We like to feel there’s a reason for the creation of bad things, the suffering we and others experience etc. But that creation is attributed to something external from us, not us. Often we opt to defer personal responsibility for what we create, individually and collectively, because we feel overwhelmed, that it’s all too much, it’s all too painful. But it’s just that that creates and ensures the endurance of pain.
But as John says, we don’t have to do it own our own. If we did it would be just what we feel – impossible.
“I love you just the same… I hear all your prayers… You know that I try to repair”
So it’s only up to each of us individually to open ourselves up to God, as God can never force Her love – we have to want it first.