Good God

(As long as it doesn't hold you down)

For my mate Mike, God is called Christ
It gives him headspace among the high-rises
It lends order to the muddle of his mind
Sorts his troubles into sins
Helps him struggle through a crisis

For Tom Tom, God is Dionysus
He prays by dropping little white hits
And waits for the hurricane of light
Blowing rugged in his eyes
Leaving puddles in his irises

For Polly, God is called Isis
She steals kisses from the nice lips
Her heart's large enough to hold the moon
She's the chorus of a soul tune
Says a little prayer like this:

Deep in the belly, you've got to watch what you worship
Chasing pennies is a very weird way to find a purpose
Get yourself a good god and get yourself free
What you call it makes no bones to me

Deep in the belly, you've got to watch what you worship
Chasing pennies is a very weird way to find a purpose
Get yourself a good god and get yourself free
What you call it makes no bones to me
No bones to me

No bones and no idols, I circle with the cycles
Instrumentals are my temples and the mind is my Bible
I keep it wide open, let my verse flow free
Psalms spoken as an urgent poetry, words are muscles
And they break commandments, casting them aside to let
The spark of life set the dark alight
Far and wide over land and sea
My magic speaks with the thousand mouths of the banyan tree
With all the twisted tongues that nature gives it
Without the grandiose pantyhose of the mystic
Who sacrifices sense at an altar shrine
"The body's sinful and the soul divine"
Well, I've had a skinful of an older wine
I came free, now I'm going forth to multiply
The same beast that was present at the origin of people
I'd rather one tree than a forest of cathedrals

Deep in the belly, you've got to watch what you worship
Chasing pennies is a very strange way to find a purpose
Get yourself a good god and get yourself free
What you call it makes no bones to me

Deep in the belly, you've got to watch what you worship
Chasing pennies is a very strange way to find a purpose
Get yourself a good god and get yourself free
What you call it makes no bones to me
No bones to me