Nov 23, 2010
A skeptic’s take on the love of God
Randy Newman shares his thoughts on divine love in “God’s Song”…
Here’s a cover by Etta James if that’s more your style…
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Nov 23, 2010
Randy Newman shares his thoughts on divine love in “God’s Song”…
Here’s a cover by Etta James if that’s more your style…
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How come I kept hearing a old black guy in sunglasses singing, but every time I looked up I saw an white dude with nerd glasses?
Wow. Someone, perhaps multiple someones, must have hurt him horribly in his lifetime.
A fair point, but only because almost all of us are hurt by others at some point. :)
Because the only way somebody could be skeptical about whether God exists and loves humanity if if they have had a traumatic experience (or two or three)??
This was first on an album in 1972, barely six years after the “Death of God” movement in America. Could explain some things.
Beautiful and haunting and so sad.
I think one needs to be familiar with Randy Newman’s style to understand this song. Newman is mocking those who have faith in God. Newman tends to write from the point of view of characters for the purposes of satire. His songwriting is rarely personal. For instance, in this song he is assuming the character of God in order to bring to light what he believes to be the “stupidity” of faith and the concept of a loving God.
This song is taken from his 1972 album Sail Away. For the same album, he wrote a song entitled He Gives Us All His Love, which is told from the point of view of a believer.