New Song: Maybe Your God's On The Toilet

Maybe Your God's On The Toilet [2011] Humour 
Some might say that sarcasm ain't the language of Zion
Interfaith conference on Mount Carmel
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We use different paths to climb the same mountain
So let's build a safe place to explore the terrain

We're all part of ancient faith communities

There may be common ground that we can embrace

No one person has all the answers

So let's try to find the things that unite

I hope that you'll be part of the conversation

I'll share my feelings first if you like

Maybe your god's on the toilet

Maybe he can't get to the phone

maybe the man with the plan, the whole world in his hands

Sits on a porcelain throne

Maybe he's making a pit stop

Loosing a couple of pounds

Either way he's not home so leave your prayer at the tone

Perhaps he'll answer you when he comes out

I hope I haven't somehow offended you

I hope I haven't said something wrong

Because you practice human sacrifice

And you outnumber me four hundred to one

You fundamentalists don't think humour

Has a place within religious debate

But I'm just trying to facilitate a paradigm shift

So lighten up you prophets of Baal

Maybe your god's on the toilet

Doing a poop or a pee

Is he still in control when he's sat on the bowl

And he's bombing the porcelain sea?

Maybe he's mixing some concrete

Maybe he's moving some earth

He's dropping some logs, seeing a man 'bout a dog

So perhaps we should just call off the search

Some might say that sarcasm ain't the language of Zion

And I should wash my potty mouth out when I'm through

But ask brother James, maybe he can explain

I'm a man, just a man, just like you

Maybe your god's on the toilet

Trying to do number two

Grow a tail, hang a rat, park a coil, send a fax

Drop the kids off at the pool

Maybe he's blasting a dookie

Punching a growler somewhere

He's taking a slam, he's pinching a yam

But it doesn't mean that he doesn't care

Maybe he's laying some wolf bait

Maybe he's laying a brick

He's going boom boom in the little boys room

He'll come out when he's launched the big ship

Maybe your god's on the toilet

But I'm starting to entertain doubts

So I guess I'll just go 'cos your god's a no-show

And if he's in there then he's not coming out.

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Day 310: Love Nottingham And More Poo

Had a couple of hours at Shabby Road laying down song 44 - Maybe Your God's On The Toilet. It will be up on the blog bright and early tomorrow morning.

In other news Nottingham's newest (internet) radio station NGenious went live today. The big difference to our other station is NGenious plays all Nottingham music, as opposed to Radio whatever-trent-is-called-this-week which doesn't play ANY music from Nottingham. Check it out.

Time for some internet love!

Warren Lee is a soul singer that I'd never heard of before I can across him on a New Orleans sampler. Here he is backed by The Meters

Chris Henson is one of those guys that makes you say "why aren't you famous?". I love practically everything I've heard by him, but why don't you try Science Museum or Hate To Be That Guy on for size? (WARNING: Science Museum contains a bad word).

Just listening to Nottingham band The Money, I used to teach guitarist Jake when he was a kid

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Day 304: Forty Three And Counting

I find I'm not playing with a full deck

I'm up to my neck like Toulouse Lautrec

So Oct is over. Spent a week workshopping, writing, recording and performing with another batch of talented kids as well as Joff and John from Swimming and Nottingham's first lady of Electro pop Ronika. A couple of songs with the young peeps and completing Never In A Million Years takes me up to 43 songs completed this year. 

I guess I'm informally shooting for completing 50 songs this year, but at the same time I'm hoping to get into a real studio to record a four song EP by the end of the year. That's gonna take a lot of work, not least trying to complete 2 more possible songs for that project. 

But tonight I wrote 4 choruses for a song about Elijah and the prophets of Baal, working title is…wait for it…Maybe Your God's On The Toilet. You might want to check your hebrew commentaries now…

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