Letter from God to Man (Scroobius Pip)
Posted on 15th January 2008 by Mat
Found this song on myspace earlier today, and it’s genius so I’m posting the link and the lyrics for you all to listen/read. It’s got a great Radiohead sample and some of the best, most poignant lyrics I’ve read for ages.
http://www.myspace.com/lesacvspip
Letter from God to Man (Scroobius Pip)
Hey there.
How’s it going?
Long
Time
No
See.
I know I haven’t been around much but it didn’t seem like you wanted me to be.
the last time I sent down a message, you nailed it to a cross.
So I figured I’d just leave you to it and be your own boss.
But I’ve been keeping an eye on you, I have. And it’s amazing how you’ve grown.
All your technological advances and the problems you’ve overthrown.
All the beautiful art you’ve created with such grace and such finesse.
But I must admit there are a few things that, I’m afraid, Have impressed me less.
So I’m writing to apologise for all the horrors committed in my name.
Although it was never what I intended I feel I should take my share of the blame.
A lot of the good I tried to do was corrupted when organised religion got into full swing.
What I thought were quite clear messages were taken to unusual extremes.
My teachings were taken out of context to meet the agenda of others.
Interpretations were taken in many different ways and hidden meanings ‘discovered.’
Religion became a tool for the weak to control the strong.
With all these new morals and ethics survival of the fittest was gone.
No longer could the biggest man simply take what ever he needed,
Because damnation was the price if certain rules were not heeded.
Some of the deeds committed in my name just make me wonder where I went wrong.
Back at the start when I ‘created’ all of this, the foundations seemed so strong.
See all the elements were already here long before I began.
I just kind of put them all together. I didn’t really think out a long term plan.
I made the sun an appropriate distance and laid the stars across the sky,
So you could navigate this globe or simply experience a sunrise.
I covered the earth with plants and fruits, some for sustenance and some for beauty.
And made the sun shine and clouds rain so that maintenance wasn’t your duty.
I tried to give each creature its own attributes. But without making them enveloped.
I gave you all space to grow and, in your own way, space to develop.
I didn’t know that such development would cause rifts and jealousy.
Cause you to war against each other and leave marks on this planet indelibly.
You see, I wasn’t the creator, more the curator of nature.
And I want to set things straight with homosexuals right now; I DON’T hate ya.
I was a simple being that happened to be the first to yield such powers.
But I just laid the ground. It was you that built the towers.
It was you that invented bombs and fear that comes with them.
It was you that invented money, and corrupt economic systems.
You invented terms like ‘just wars’ and terms like ‘friendly fire,’
And it was you that didn’t know when to stop digging deeper and when to stop building higher.
It was you that exhausted the resources I carefully laid out on this earth,
And it was you that even saw these problems coming but accredited them little worth.
It was you that used my teachings for your own personal gain
And it was you that committed such tragedies, even if they were in my name.
So i apologise for any mistakes I made and for when my words were misconstrued,
But this apology is to Mother Nature because I created you.
Andy
January 15th, 2008
9:00 pm
That is pretty impressive.
It beats the post I was going to make about snot.
Sorry - I feel the first comment should be better than this.
Laura
January 16th, 2008
12:24 am
This so could be a number 1, I hope they play it on Radio 1 some time, its sucha new sound and ace lyrics, praise God! x
Pete
January 16th, 2008
2:05 pm
This issn’t direct linked, but it kind of is…
I am feeling very angry today! Firstly, I am angry at Americans (sorry to any Americans out there, I am sure you are not all as bad as what i am angry about). I watched some of the Michael Portilo program on BBC 2 last night, that was about the methods of execution used for prisoners, and how inhumane they are. In was made in the light of the current caught cases around the leithail injection in America. So it looked into all the methods used. I wont go into detail, but basically they all can cause large amounts of pain and distress before death-for example someone had to be electrocuted 3 times before they died. They put the electricution probes on a dead pig and switched it on, and the pigs head burst into flames Green Mile style. It makes me angry- surly the answer is simple, don’t kill people!
And then at the GP’s today-A patient had come in to get some blood test results. The results showed he was Diabetic. SO the doctor had to give him the news, and they did such a bad Job of it! Been told that you have a life long condition which is going to need life long treatments is difficult news to hear, and you would hope that the doctor who tells you would be a little bit sympathetic, and tell you about the disease and the pro’s and con’s of the recommended treatment. The doctor didn’t do any of that, she basically said-’you have diabeties, you need to take this tablet, more info is on this leaflet’ and then sent him on his way, and he was clearly worried and taken a back at the news, and she did nothing to try to help with that.
Susie
January 16th, 2008
2:14 pm
That’s why I’m glad you’re going to be a doctor Pete.
Susie
January 16th, 2008
2:17 pm
Also, Andy, when the mouse turned into the little ‘click me’ hand over the hoyland and co sign, i thought “wow, maybe when you click on it there’s some magical link to some fun magical land”, but no. It just took me back to the home page. Please can you do soemthing about that?
Jonny Evans
January 16th, 2008
4:51 pm
When you say - “do something about that” - do you mean that Andy should create a magical link to some fun magical land?
I’m all for that!
Susie
January 16th, 2008
4:56 pm
That’s exactly what I mean. I’m really looking forward to it!
Laura
January 16th, 2008
6:12 pm
You mean Pete, that they test the electric chair out on animals first, I’m very angry now, thats awful, I feel like crying! I mean I hate capital punishment anyway, but to just use a pig before hand is distgusting.
Also Im up for magical land!
Pete
January 16th, 2008
6:46 pm
They don’t normally do it, but to show what can happen for the program they did it.
I hope the magical world that Andy is about to build will not have any death or pain.
Andy
January 16th, 2008
6:47 pm
Right - Susie - it’s not quite a magical wonder land but it’s better than before. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed…
Carolyn
January 17th, 2008
11:36 am
From Laura’s post does anyone else get the feeling that she would rather a human die than a pig??!!!
Gloria
January 17th, 2008
1:13 pm
It does sound a bit like that. Also, no-one seems to be noticing that the pig was actually DEAD ALREADY!
Jonny Evans
January 18th, 2008
4:41 pm
Laura’s not even a real veggie. She bit a human being when she was at ours over Christmas. Proof right there that she’s a carnivore!
Pete
January 18th, 2008
10:57 pm
a cannible no less! Probably the worst kind of cernivore there is!
Gloria is right, please realise that THE PIG WAS ALREADY DEAD! I know Michael Portilo is an ex-tori, but even they have limits…except Maggie, she would have electricutred it alive, while laughting evily-but not before privetising the prision service that is doing the pig frying.
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