Where Is God?  

words by Marie Cain & Steve Schalchlin
music by Steve Schalchlin
as heard on THE BONUS ROUND SESSIONS
a benefit album for Youth Guardian Services

Sometimes when I pray it feels like all my words
Are bouncing up and down the walls
And wandering down the halls

Sometimes when I pray it feels like God is laughing
If He's even there at all
To listen for my calls

Sometimes when I pray it feels everything is pouring
From my soul but I can Never seem to cry
And sometimes when I pray
It feels like I'm barely getting by

Sometimes I look up at nothing and the nothing
Looks at me and tells me
I'm a weakling and a fool

Sometimes I look up at nothing and the nothing
Looks at me and asks me
If I think I'm being cool

But sometimes when I look at nothing I believe
My heart is praying
Even if there's nothing on my mind
But sometimes when I pray
It feels like I'm only wasting time

    Did you see Sally Struthers on TV the other night?
    All concerned and bothered by the starving children's plight?
    It seems to me like Sally could have spared them all a bite
But she didn't. She stood there asking Where Is God

    The Channel Seven newsteam did a special live report
    'Bout how cold the homeless man was in his corrugated fort
    I bet that cozy newsroom would have seemed like a resort
They didn't take him there. They asked him Where Is God

If he can send the earthquake and the hurricane
If he can send down forty days and nights of rain
If he can have the power to send us all this pain
    Why doesn't he just not do it?
    Why does he put us through it?

    I'm driving down the city and at every traffic light
    Someone's got his hand out, it's a most disturbing sight
    I have to lock my doors and keep my windows rolled up tight
While I shake my head and wonder Where Is God

Where is God? When does He start working
When did He start shirking His responsibility
Leaving it to amateurs like you and me?

    If He can send tornadoes and the fatal flood
    Bury whole cities in a wall of mud
    Put a deadly virus in a baby's blood
If God's sitting back and resting
Who's doing all this testing?

Is God on a long vacation where there is no phone?
Did he stop his mail delivery? Has he left us on our own?
When his secretary told him there was not a single prayer
In his messages one morning did he bag it then and there?
    And with all these damn religions
    There should be a God to spare

Where Oh Where is God?

My grandmother told me just before she passed away
She said she had the answer to the question of the day
She said the saints and sages have been telling us for years
But no one wants to listen
No one seems to have the ears
Then she turned to me and said,

"If God has hands they're our hands
If God has eyes they're our eyes
And if God has love, it's our love."

Sometimes when I pray it feels like all my words are
Bouncing up and down the walls
And wandering down the halls

Sometimes when I pray it feels like God is laughing
if He's even there at all to
Listen for my call?

But sometimes when I pray it helps remind me
I am just a man and
There are things that I can never know

Cause sometimes when I pray it feels like
I'm finally letting go
Yeah, sometimes when I pray it feel like
I'm finally letting go
 

© 2000 by Lil Shack O' Tunes / See No Evil Music / Raisin Music (ASCAP)
 
 

Part of my ongoing, ever-evolving song cycle, "THE QUIET SESSION."
and maybe from an upcoming untitled musical review about religion.

Information about buying Bonus Round Sessions CD at Youth Guardian Services

Steve's website at http://ww.bonusround.com