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Letter To The God I Don't Believe In

from Voices From The Right Brain by Rob Siegel

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A hypothetical letter to the big guy (or girl).

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to the god I don’t believe in
let’s get something straight
I don’t believe in destiny
I don’t believe in fate
I don’t believe in holy wars
like chosen people do
so it will not surprise you
that I don’t believe in you

to the god I don’t believe in
you haven’t been here for a while
did you leave a valid imprint
is your credit card on file
are you just reticent by nature
in your robe and beard of white
or a hung over bystander
trying to avoid the light

to the god I don’t believe in
quit playing with the crowd
cut the tricks with weeping statues
healing waters and that shroud
I think you’re not behind the curtain
I think you’re impotent as well
I think Moses had some issues
and he torched that bush himself

to the god I don’t believe in
I give you a mixed grade
for giving us John Lennon
and then blowing him away
but thanks for Louis Armstrong
Jimi Hendrix and John Prine
you don’t need loaves and fishes
when your best work is divine

would you smite me down a sinner
would you sanctify my bluff
or maybe all of this
will have to be enough

to the god I don’t believe in
it just gets so complex
why do people scream your name
when throwing up and having sex
well all right we pray to porcelain
and to temples of the flesh
but you must have some sense of humor
to have made eggplant and John Tesh

to the god I don’t believe in
look me up if you’re in town
you know I’d make the time to see you
if you actually came round
you know I broke one of your window panes
when I was 23
I really thought I saw you
but I don’t think that you saw me

to the god I don’t believe in
are you too good to be true
do you see us in the mirror
maybe we created you
maybe we made that stone so big
that we can’t roll it in reverse
but at the end of every day
if you don’t obscure the way
when I look upward I can say
I clearly see
the universe

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from Voices From The Right Brain, released December 15, 2004

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Rob Siegel Boston, Massachusetts

Rob Siegel is well-known in Boston folk music circles as an innovative songwriter who draws from his idyllic yet stressed- out middle-class suburban existence and produces memorable, intelligent, well-crafted songs.

His first new CD in 14 years, "A Landscape of Ghosts," will be out in April, with a CD release show at Club Passim on Monday April 30th. ... more

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