Dear God	Song lyrics Demands explanation
What I've Learned	From Esquire Thoughts on life from celebs
Closer to Fine	Got answers? Seek the truth

Dear God

Dear God,
Hope you got the letter and
I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image,
See them starving on their feet
'Cause they don't get enough to eat
From God
I can't believe in you.

Dear God,
Sorry to disturb you, but
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.
We all need a big reduction in the amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image,
See them fighting in the street
'Cause they can't make opinions meet

About God,
I can't believe in you.

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too?!

Dear God,
Don't know if you noticed, but...
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book,
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
And all the people that you made in your image,
Still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain't, and so do you

Dear God,
I can't believe in...
I don't believe in...

I won't believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You're always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And it's the same the whole world 'round.
The hurt I see helps to compound
That Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
And if you're up there you'd perceive
That my heart's here upon my sleeve.
If there's one thing I don't believe in.....

It's you.....
Dear God.

What I've Learned

From Esquire magazine.
Celebs in bold.
Answers below

George Carlin
Comedian, 64, Venice, CA

**The first thing they teach kids is that there's a God -- an invisible man in the sky who is watching what they do and who is displeased with some of it. there's no mystery why they start that with kids, because if you can get someone to believe that, you can add anything you want.

**It's amazing to me that literacy isn't considered a right.

**Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

Homer Simpson
Nuclear-power-plant worker, 39, Springfield

**When someone tells you your butt is on fire, you should take them at their word.

**If you want results, press the red button. The rest are useless.

**You may think it's easier to de-ice your windshield with a flamethrower, but there are repercussions. Serious repercussions.

**Let me just say, Winnie the Pooh getting his head caught in a honey pot? It's not funny. It can really happen.

Chuck Close
Artist, 61, New York City

**Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

**It's always right before it's wrong.

**Nuance and subtlety are where it's at. It's those little adjustments. You get something 99 percent of the way there, but it's that last 1 percent that really makes the difference.

**You don't have to have a dramatic story. It's all in the telling.

**Being self-involved and having the arrogance to think that you have something to say and somebody else should pay attention is a necessary component of an artist's life.

Closer to Fine

By the Indigo Girls

I'm trying to tell you something bout my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously
It's only life after all

Now darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I'm crawling on your shores

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains,
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin, and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry, or see a b-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
I got my paper and I was free

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains,
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

I stopped by the bar at 3 am
To seek solace in a bottle, or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
I went in seeking clarity

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountain, I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains, we look to the children, we drink from the fountains
We go to the bible, we go through the workout, we read up on revival, we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine