If I Believed In God

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Look around the world at the moment and there are many inspiring people trying to change it. But a lot of the time it does seem that the obstacles (corruption, greed, individualism, dishonesty) are too huge.
If only there was a god who could put us all back again into a perfect Eden. If only there was a God ...

credits

released 01 November 2012
Yona Dunsford - vocals
Steve Jeffries - keyboards
Greg Harewood - bass
Steve Skaith - vocals / guitar
Mike Jones - lyrics

Special guests on "If I Believed In God":
Roddy Matthews on electric guitar
additional vocals: Keith Murrell, Lenny Zakatek, Mary Carewe

and on "It Wasn't Really There":
Tom Ellis - guitar

Drums on both tracks: Martin Ditcham

additional recordings & re-mix september/october 2012
engineered, produced, mixed & mastered by Steve Jeffries

cover artwork by neomania design
stockphoto by B. Ostojic | Dreamstime

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tags: ballads pop english political pop singer-songwriter singersongwriter United Kingdom

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Track Name: If I Believed In God (re-worked)
IF I BELIEVED IN GOD
(Skaith)

A bomb drops on some wedding party
But these aren’t people we count worthy
Un-named, unimportant, in some non-place
Brown skins usually.
More settlements on the West Bank
And evictions in Jerusalem
Such righteous men with their righteous wars
And their righteous talks of peace.

If I believed in God I would ask him
Could we start all over again
That’s what I would ask him
If I believed in God I would ask him
Could we start all over again
That’s what I would ask him…..
Do without the kings and those who strive
To live above the rest
And can ‘truth’ mean what it says
And not what power thinks is best.
No serpent please nor all the fear
Of women, sex and love
And not worship men
Who once would sacrifice their only son.

More and more I turn away from so much I know is true
Turn right to the back page
And bury myself in transfer news
Don’t want to hear about some woman stoned
Or blasphemer running for his life
Many now they do fight back
But I deny is how I survive.
Track Name: It Wasn't Really There
IT WASN'T REALLY THERE
(Skaith / Jones)

They're playing Ferry on the stereo,
And you can go when you want to.
No one to stand in your way
No sense making hay
Your haystacks full of needles.
In this twilight of Beatles
When fun's on the run
There's no spring in the air.
You feel you're being driven
You're being driven but you're going nowhere

And from a riverbank
A kestrel in the air
Attacks a firecrest
That isn't really there.

You can make a start with 'Yesterday'
You can put your things together
No time for drying of eyes in a tissue of lies
And the issue's getting cloudy.
The crowd is getting rowdy
You're too far from the the bar
Watch your 'P's and 'Q' s
When your the only witness
The only witness
But there's no one to accuse

It isn't easier with Aznavour
But you turn that volume louder
Who needs the throwing of rice
To live poor as church mice
And go scratching in the skirting
All that darting and hurting
Why should it last for life
It's just a port of call
They say it's lover leap
One lover leaps and the other one falls.

And from a riverbank
A kestrel in the air
Attacks a firecrest
That Isn't really there.
And once a firecrest
In pale September air
Made a kestrel think
It wasn't really there.
It wasn't really there.
It wasn't really there.