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About "One of Us" Video
Written by Eric Bazilian
Originally released by Joan Osborne.
As described by You Tube user: The song deals with various aspects of belief in God by asking questions inviting the listener to consider how they might relate to God, such as "Would you call [God's name] to his face?" or "Would you want to see [God's face] if seeing meant that you would have to believe?" The name of the song comes from the question contained in the refrain, "What if God was one of us?"
Released in March 1995 on the album Relish (produced by Rick Chertoff), it hit the top 40 in November of the same year. With this song, Osborne received one of many Grammy nominations in 1995, including Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, but failed to win. One year later Prince covered the song for his Emancipation LP.
Around January 1996, "One of Us" hit the top 10. Finally, in March of 1996, "One of Us" climbed to #1 on Rock On The Net's ARC Weekly Top 40, and stayed there for two weeks. Its peak chart position on the Billboard Hot 100 was #4.
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Joan Osborne. A refreshingly creative path for someone whose major label debut stormed the charts with the runaway smash (What If God Was) One of Us. The whirlwind that followed included a Top 5 hit, multi-platinum album sales, five Grammy nominations and a second life a decade later when the song was tapped for the critically acclaimed CBS series Joan of Arcadia.... |
Eric Bazilian. "Classical music was the mainstay in his household, until Eric saw the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. At age 10, Eric's life changed forever ... Eric has become recognized internationally as a gifted songwriter, musician, arranger and producer. Eric wore all those hats while involved with Joan Osborne's debut project. Relish was nominated for 6 Grammy Awards in 1996 including Song Of The Year for the #3 Billboard smash hit, One Of Us, which Eric is proud to have single handedly written..." | |
What If God Was One of Us Lyrics
If God had a name, what would it be?
And would you call it to His face
If you were faced with Him in all his glory?
What would you ask if you had just one question?
And yeah yeah God is great
Yeah yeah God is good
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
Seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like Heaven and in
Jesus and the saints and all the prophets
And yeah yeah God is great
Yeah yeah God is good
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
He's trying to make His way home
Back up to Heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in Rome
And yeah yeah God is great
Yeah yeah God is good
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
Just trying to make His way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to Heaven all alone
Just trying to make His way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in Rome
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Lyrics
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along the unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
Till ringing, singing on its way
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bowed my head
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men."
Words: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music: John Baptiste Calkin
Alternate tune: Joseph Mainzer
Historical Note: This hymn was written during the American civil war, as reflected by the sense of despair in the next to last stanza. Stanzas four and five speak of the battle, and are usually omitted from hymnals:
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound the carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn, the households born
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
Christianity
John 9
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
- As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
- His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
- "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.
- As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
- While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
- Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.
- "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
- His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?"
- Some claimed that he was. -- Others said, "No, he only looks like him." -- But he himself insisted, "I am the man."
- "How then were your eyes opened?" they demanded.
- He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see."
- "Where is this man?" they asked him.
"I don't know," he said.
- The Pharisees Investigate the Healing -- They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
- Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man's eyes was a Sabbath.
- Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. "He put mud on my eyes," the man replied, "and I washed, and now I see."
- Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." -- But others asked, "How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?" So they were divided.
- Finally they turned again to the blind man, "What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened." -- The man replied, "He is a prophet."
- The Jews still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man's parents.
- "Is this your son?" they asked. "Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?"
- "We know he is our son," the parents answered, "and we know he was born blind.
- But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don't know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself."
- His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for already the Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ[a] would be put out of the synagogue.
- That was why his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."
- A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. "Give glory to God,[b]" they said. "We know this man is a sinner."
- He replied, "Whether he is a sinner or not, I don't know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!"
- Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
- He answered, "I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?"
- Then they hurled insults at him and said, "You are this fellow's disciple! We are disciples of Moses!
- We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don't even know where he comes from."
- The man answered, "Now that is remarkable! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
- We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will.
- Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.
- If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
- To this they replied, "You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!" And they threw him out.
- Spiritual Blindness -- Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
- "Who is he, sir?" the man asked. "Tell me so that I may believe in him."
- Jesus said, "You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you."
- Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.
- Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind."
- Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, "What? Are we blind too?"
- Jesus said, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.
John 9:22 Or Messiah
John 9:24 A solemn charge to tell the truth (see Joshua 7:19)
JUDAISM:
A Rabbi Speaks About Euthanasia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYfoPe5EWg
Islam:
How Islam Treats Humans With "Special
Needs"
Everyone deserves due love and respect in Islam, and this fact doesn't change when some organs of a
person, Muslim or not, are impaired or he or she is not endowed with a whole body. What really matters is his or her heart and conduct. Allah relieves the disabled of their responsibilities and holds them responsible only for virtuous conduct. A Muslim is instructed to approach the disabled with compassion, for Allah has compassion for them and grants them ease in their servitude to Him:
* {There is no harm in the blind, nor is there any harm in the lame, nor is there any harm in the sick (if they do not go forth); and whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, He will cause him to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow...}* (Al-Fath 48:17)
Disability Rights Movements in Islamic Countries Interview with Dr. Nawaf Kabbara; by Laura Hershey.
BUDDHISM:
Buddhism PLUS Disability New Mobility magazine. "The magazine for active wheelchair users."
New Music Videos
Jars of Clay - Frail
Avalon - Testify to Love
The Hairbrush Song (For those whose disability makes it hard to keep track of things)
Wayne Watson -- For Such A Time As This
Here I Am, Lord: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otaSC_NHlCw&feature=related
