November 27, 2008

song

God Help the Outcast, from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

* one of my fave songs

I don't know if you can hear me, or if you're even there.
I don't know if you will listen to a humble prayer.
They tell me I am just an outcast, I shouldn't speak to you...
Still I see your face, and wonder, were you once an outcast too?

God help the outcasts, hungry from birth.
Show them the mercy they don't find on Earth.
The lost and forgotten, they look to you still.
God help the outcasts, or nobody will.

I ask for nothing, I can get by.
But I know so many less lucky than I.
God help the outcasts, the poor and downtrod.
I thought we all were the children of God.

I don't know if there's a reason;
why some are blessed, some not.

God help the outcasts, the tattered, the torn.
Seeking an answer to why they were born.
Winds of misfortune have blown them about.
You made the outcasts, don't cast them out.

The poor and unlucky, the weak and the odd.
I thought we all were the children of God.

2 comments:

Doug P. Baker said...

What a very moving song! I absolutely love both the book and the movies of The Hunchback. I've seen at least four or five different movie versions and they were all deeply affecting.

Happy Thanksgiving, although by now it is probably Friday morning in Malaysia.

Regarding your earlier post, I too have lately felt 'stuck. Blocked. Stuffed up.' God comforts those who mourn, but lately my mourning has seemed less than wholehearted. You've clarified the source of a feeling of being stifled for me. Thank you!

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