Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind), artist - Etta James. Album song Heart & Soul: A Retrospective, in the genre
Date of issue: 17.10.2011
Record label: A Geffen Records Release;
Song language: English
God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) |
Cain slew Abel, Seth knew not why |
For if the children of Israel were to multiply |
Why must any of the children, why must they die? |
So he asked and the Lord and the Lord said: |
Man means nothing, he means less to me |
Than the lowliest cactus flower or the humblest yucca tree |
Chases 'round this desert |
'Cause he thinks that’s where I’ll be, that’s why I love mankind |
I recoil in horror from the foulness of Thee |
From the squalor and the filth and the misery |
How we laugh up here in heaven |
At the prayers you offer me, that’s why I love mankind |
The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree |
The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV |
Picked their four greatest priests |
And they began to speak |
And they said: «Lord, a plague is on the world |
Lord, no man is free |
The temples that we built to you |
Have tumbled down, fell into the sea» |
Lord, if you won’t take care of us |
Please, please let us be? |
And the Lord said, and the Lord said: |
I burn down your cities, how blind you must be |
I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we |
You must all be crazy to put your faith in me |
That’s why I love mankind, you really need me |
That’s why I love mankind |