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Dear God Lyrics by XTC
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- Recording: “Dear God” is credited to XTC.
- Released: Jan 28, 2022 on “The Studio Wizardry of Todd Rundgren”.
- Length: The recording runs 3:38.
- Genre: Filed under Rock.
- Lyrics: This page has 41 lyric lines and 43 timed cues.
- Chart: No dated chart rank is attached yet.
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Dear God lyrics by XTC
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0:11Dear God, hope you get the letter and
0:13I pray you can make it better down here
0:18I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
0:23But all the people that you made in your image
0:26See them starving on their feet
0:29Cause they don't get enough to eat from God
0:36I can't believe in you
0:42Dear God, sorry to disturb you but
0:45I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
0:50We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
0:55And all the people that you made in your image
0:57See them fighting in the street
1:00Cause they can't make opinions meet about God
1:07They can't believe in you
1:15Did you make disease and the diamond blue?
1:25Did you make mankind after we made you?
1:44And the devil too!
1:53♪
2:07Dear God, don't know if you noticed but
2:10Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
2:14And us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
2:20And all the people that you made in your image
2:23Still believing that junk is true
2:25Well I know it ain't, so do you
2:28Dear God
2:32I can't believe in...
2:37I don't believe in...
2:42I won't believe in heaven and hell
2:45No saints, no sinners, no devil as well
2:48The pearly gates, no thorny crown
2:50You're always letting us humans down
2:53The wars you bring, the babes you drown
2:56Those lost at sea and never found
2:58And it's the same the whole world round
3:01The hurt I see helps to compound
3:04The Father, Son, and holy ghost
3:06Is just somebody's unholy hoax
3:09And if you're up there you'll perceive
3:12That my heart's here upon my sleeve
3:14If there's one thing I don't believe in
3:20It's you
3:28Dear God
3:28♪
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- Jan 28, 2022Released
- 3:38Length
- 41Lyric lines
- 43Timed cues
- 198sTimed span
- Lyric record matched as “Dear God” by XTC
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Release record
The release record places this version on “The Studio Wizardry of Todd Rundgren.” The earliest source-linked release date stored for this version is 2022-01-28. The duration attached to the recording is 3:38.
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The cached lyric contains 41 non-empty lines across 7 text sections. This edition carries 43 timed lyric cues spanning about 198 seconds. The text repeats 2 line patterns; those returns are tracked as structure, not padded with an invented interpretation. The YouTube player reads those timestamps continuously, while the saved offset aligns video time with the matched recording.
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- Album / release
- The Studio Wizardry of Todd Rundgren
- Released
- 2022-01-28
- Length
- 3:38
- Recording source
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