Album: Waiting For The Punchline (1995)

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• So you're a self proclaimed messiah
  Or maybe a blasphemes liar
  A clever hypnotic hoax
  A hallowed heretic coax
  Who tells these stories so old
  No, never the same twice told
  Speaking in distorted truths
  I see that Thomas wants some proof
  Did you come to heal the sick
  With one more magician's trick
  Ye generation seeks a sign
  While blind keeps leading the blind
  
  So you say there is no god
  Just a clever man's charade
  A once upon a fairy tales fraud
  Has god made man or man made god
  
  There is no god
  Confused thy talk in parables
  Accused thou walk in parallels
  A simple game of Simon says
  This month's flavor sciences
  Today's fact, tomorrow's fiction
  Leave the rest to superstition
  If knowledge comes from learning books
  Wisdom comes from discerning looks
  A fool that says there is no god
  Don't feel for that sorry sod
  Who needs proof then he'll believe
  I wonder if he's been deceived
  
  There is no god Writer/s: GARY F. CHERONE, NUNO BETTENCOURT, PATRICK BADGER
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Mike from GermanyTo quote the song: There is no god! :) Did god make man or man made god? Probably the latter. ;)
• Seventh Mist from 7th HeavenAycan, I bet you’re a hoot at parties. Can’t help being amused at your disappointment that this song isn’t another atheistic anthem.
• Aycan Adal from Istanbulif you let a musician reason about religion and science, only bulls--t will come out like this.
  believing you're made by god and are special, and he whole universe is spinning around you is the naïve, optimistic, egoistic and self centric approach.
  it is great music though. so disappointing :(
• V. from BaltimorePsalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
  
• Rocco from Tucson, AzComing from the same person who is credited for writing this:
  
  “Little girl come out and play
  I got some candy for my baby
  It's your sweet sixteenth birthday celebration
  Thank heaven for little girls who
  Grow up in a most peculiar way
  You might think she's too young for me
  (Little girls)
  You know I always say you're as young as you feel
  (As you feel)
  Yeah, I might be crazy 'cause I like them so young
  (Little girls)
  But with little girls the best is yet to come come
  (Yet to come)
  Some they say I'm too old for her
  Old enough to be her father
  Incestual blood is thicker than water
  Do what's right not morally wrong
  Flesh and blood can only be so strong
  And it's my god not yours I'll have to answer
  Thank heaven for little girls who
  Grow up in a most peculiar way”
  
  
• Ron Baloga from Pittston, PaI Love the music to this song, and I understand that the lead singer Gary Cherone says it's not an "anti-God" song. Unfortunately, to most radio listeners, that does not come across. Many songs including this one don't have enough overt references to the true meaning of the lyrics. The most prevalent part of most songs is in the Chorus. Sadly because the singer rants "There Is No God" so much, during the chorus, that this is the message most will hear. Most people just won't pick apart all of the lyrics. It's a shame because the music is so good.
• Keefe from SingaporeBelief based on lack of evidence is a LIE!
• Rocio from Canberra , Australiaagreed... the man has a point! and he says it brilliantly!
• Trogbob from San Diego, Cainteresting stuff...

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