"Dear God..." by Xtc

I heard this songs years and years ago when I was a little girl still in Elementary School.  I don't remember where I was or who I was with when I listened to the words but even at that young age I was troubled by the lyrics; troubled and saddened.  I too as a young lady had experienced a lot of what this song has to say, but that was brought on through following in my mothers footsteps of beliefs and what she taught my older sister and I.  Funny though because now both my sisters and myself are fully sold out for the Lord in spite of our upbringing.  I suppose a lot of this was due to the seeds the Lord planted along the way that got me asking a bizillion questions about 'life', 'death', 'Heaven', God.  

After hearing this song for the first time I decided to get a copy of it for myself and memorized a lot of it.  Not because I wanted to sing and shout it out with a joyful noise, but because one day, years in my future I planned on writing a song 'back' to this song; kinda like a response letter if you will.  Well I'm getting close to my finish of the song I 'wrote back' to the words in this song but I continue to erase and re-write over and over again.  Soon, when it is complete and when the Lord wills I will share it with all of you. 



Dear God by Xtc

♫ "Dear God,

I 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!♫♪






♫I 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...." ♫♪