Blue Moves

WV1976/2024

 

BLUE MOVES was Elton John's first studio album that I bought in 1976 in a record store in Mechelen. All songs on this double album have been a source of inspiration for later drawings and so on over the years, such as this...

 

IF THERE'S A GOD IN HEAVEN (WHAT'S HE WAITING FOR)

 

“Torn from their families

Mothers go hungry

To feed their children

But children go hungry

There's so many big men

They're out making millions

When poverty's profits

Just blame the children

 

If there's a God in heaven

What's he waiting for

If He can't hear the children

Then he must see the war

But it seems to me

That he leads his lambs

To the slaughter house

And not the promised land

 

Dying for causes

They don't understand

We've been taking their futures

Right out of their hands

They need the handouts

To hold back the tears

There's so much crying

But so few that hear

 

If there's a God in heaven

Well, what's he waiting for

If there's a God in heaven

What's he waiting for? for..."

 

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1976.

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