From: Adrian Ogden
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: [R] Oh god, not another bl**dy FILK
Date: 29 Jun 2000 10:44:12 GMT


While I was working on "In Llamedos" the difficult rhyming
scheme made me think of another song, and so this started
to take shape at the same time.  For those who remember
Supertramp I present



THE THEOLOGICAL SONG



When I was young I thought that Om was so wonderful
Oh a miracle
He was beautiful, terrible
And all the tasks that they gave me, I would do them all joyfully
Unmindfully
Of the theocracy watching me

But then they took me away and I found out they were cynical
Fanatical
Oh hypocritical, criminal
They said my total recall was really something incredible
Really magical
It could be practical, tactical


    There are times when all the world is changed
    And it all becomes too strange
    For such a simple man
    And I need to find my way somehow
    If my God can hear me now
    Please tell me who I am


They took me into a world where people seemed so illogical
Philosophical
Intellectual, radical
And my God came to me, but he was stuck in a tortoise shell
It seemed unnatural
Quite impossible, laughable


    T'was a time when all my world was changed
    It all became too strange
    For such a simple man
    But my god was there to share my grief
    He grew strong through my belief
    And he showed me who I am




<< Adrian Ogden -- "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat" -- A.N.Ogden@reading.ac.uk >>

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