If I Believed in God - Latin Quarter

A bomb drops on some wedding party

But these aren’t people we count worthy

Un-named, unimportant, in some non-place

Brown skins usually.

More settlements on the West Bank

And evictions in Jerusalem

Such righteous men with their righteous wars

And their righteous talks of peace.

If I believed in God I would ask him

Could we start all over again

That’s what I would ask him

If I believed in God I would ask him

Could we start all over again

That’s what I would ask him…

Do without the kings and those who strive

To live above the rest

And can ‘truth' mean what it says

And not what power thinks is best.

No serpent please nor all the fear

Of women, sex and love

And not worship men

Who once would sacrifice their only son.

More and more I turn away from so much I know is true

Turn right to the back page

And bury myself in transfer news

Don’t want to hear about some woman stoned

Or blasphemer running for his life

Many now they do fight back

But I deny is how I survive.