What's God got to do with it?

(Picture Credit - Tina Turner by Bubblews)

 

 

My reworked version of the great lyrics of Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, as sung by Tina Turner. The original of course was about “Love”.

 

What’s God got to do with it?

What’s God but a second hand devotion?

Who needs a God

Who can never be woken?

 

It may seem to you

That I love to blaspheme.

When you’re close to Him

All doubt is too grim.

 

Yet those whizzing racing cars are not

The only Formula One:

Big Banged Hydrogen atoms

Make Chemicals

The building blocks of Life.

 

Our universe runs to a pattern:

Countless Earths and Eyeball worlds

Round yellow, orange and red suns;

Tidally locked planets

(Each with one face to its sun)

In Goldilocks Zones:

And where there is water

There is Life.

 

A Force is with us:

There’s no name for it

Or phrase that fits.

But whatever the reason,

It does it for me.

 

I’ve been taken in a new direction,

But have to say

I’ve been thinking about my own protection

It so scares me to feel this way.

 

So what’s God got to do with it?

Maybe one day

He – or more likely She –

Will let us know.

 

Paul Butters

 

(C) PB 12\5\2013 in Yorkshire.