The Rhetoric of Unity (What would Bobby Do?)

Musical Interlude:

 St Bob

The Rhetoric of Unity

(What would Bobby Do?)

Oh, my name it is nothing,

My age it means less.

The church that I come from

Is all but gone West

I was taught and dragged up there

Their laws to abide, and

That the church that I lived in

Had God on its side.

Oh, the big black books tells it,

It tells it so well:

The Angels they charged,

And Lucifer fell.

The Christians are still charging,

Though believers have died 

Oh, the religion was young then,

With God on its side.

The Romans and Anglo's

had War had their day,

And the Civil Church Wars, too,

were soon laid away.

And the names of the leaders?

Too many to memorise,

With the truth in their hands

And God on their side.

The First Wave of War, boys,

It came and it went;

Of their reasons for fighting

They simply repent

But I learned to support it,

Support and not hide;

For you don't count the lost ones

When God's on your side.

The Second Wave War, boys,

It came to an end.

We forgave the Catholics,

Now we're half brothers if not friends.

They murdered many millions

In the crusades with lies

The Church it must seem to

Have God on their side.

In the 1960s, it came down,

The Conversion War;

When somebody told me

What Jesus died for

Many young men they cried,

Of heir sins they were tried;

And they asked me the question,

Is God on your side?

Now they've learned to hate the sin

That ravages life.

If another faith comes,

Then it's them we must fight.

To fear them and hate them,

To scorn and to chide,

We'll never ask questions

With God's on our side.

We'll wield godly word weapons

It'll be dust to dust.

Into fire they'll be cast down,

In fire we trust.

One more charismatic,

And we'll take the world wide;

And we never ask questions

When God's on our side.

Through many a year now

I been thinking about this,

How Jesus the Christ was

Betrayed by a kiss.

Though I can't think for you,

Its for you to decide

If Judas Iscariot had

God on his side.

Oh The Vine Yard hooked Dylan

How deep? - you decide

The Scientists caught Tom Cruise

It seems you can't hide

Now a slow trains a leavin'

To vanilla skies

But in Gods eyes we're all famous 

With Him on our side

As I get closer to leaving

At this moment, to hell.

From confusion I'm reeling

Under religious spells

The truths fill my head

And they drip to the floor;

And if God is on my side then,

There will be no more war.

RCB 2013 -        Borrowed a smidgen from Bob Dylan