I opened this thread just to relate that song as something similar that is actually good, glad to see I am not the only one who remembers it.
I always thought the most forced rhyme ever was “You and me babe, hey hey”.
But then again, I can’t stand Def Leppard.
-Joe
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Actually on one of those videos Osama made a reference to the fact that not all of the hijackers knew it was a suicide mission. Itis thought that only the four pilots knew what was going to happen. The other terrorists in the crew controlling the passengers were probably just as suprised as everybody else.
Tell me you’re not trying to justify something here. I don’t know quite what you would be getting at, but I do know I don’t like it.
I was going to suggest the OP listen to the pitted song and this back to back. 
Exactly. I hear that song, and I say, “Oh you want me to cry, do you? Well, fuck you!”
I haven’t heard this version yet, but I had similar feelings about the bastardized version of Don Henley’s “In A New York Minute” that came out shortly after everything happened. I’ve only heard it a handful of times, but it pisses me off every time I do.
And that lyric you have a problem with why? It’s a perfectly nice song I think.
Hey, god? Fuck you.
I’ve never understood the hostility to that song, especially because the central tenet of Christianity is that God did become one of us, just a slob like one of us.
Because it sounds too much like a guy throwing out a line that rhymes as a joke, and instead of shaking his head and laughing, left in the song.
Since I don’t agree with the central tenets of Christianity, I’m not going to like a song simply because it rehashes Christian theology.
Nice melody. Nice voice. But the lyrics ruin it for me. Not because they are about God, mind you, but because they are not that good.
Sure, you can consider all that. It’s just awfully hard to justify in light of the whole Free Will thing. What you’re saying is that God respects our free will, so he has to allow bad things to happen, except that sometimes he does intervene to keep bad things from happening.
What makes it sound weird is the inverted syntax, which is what I was trying to parody. Ah well.
Well you see, if America wasn’t full of liberals and gays and feminists, He wouldn’t have just sat there in the plane reading the airline gift catalog and eating His peanuts. But since Mary Cheney and Barbara Streisand and Michael Moore live here, he sat on His holy ass and let it happen.
Dude, that’s just way too subtle for a guy who’s been up since 5:00 AM and dicked around in Authorware all day. I need a crash of cymbals or a bike horn or something.
Heaven? As in “Baby you’re all that I want, when you’re lying here in my arms” Heaven? And someone turned that into a song about a daughter singing to her father?
That is Seriously. Fucked. Up.
Not to mention ungrammatical. It should be “What if God were one of us?”.