Another Jesus

This is a poem I wrote in 2007. I imagine all of my poetry set to music but I am rarely able to create my own tunes. This one I imagine set to the tune of Do They Know It’s Christmas by Band Aid. The ending I imagine sung to the tune of Give Peace A Chance by John Lennon over the fading chorus.

It's just another bad day
What more can you say
Your mother called you a name
And you hit her in the face
Then you went outside
But could find no place to hide
There's a whole corrupt world out there
And you don't even care
We've all become so full of hate
Is this just our fate
The callousness of the rich
Won't let them give an inch
And the covetousness of the poor
Means they will always want more
Our leaders bring us into war
But we don't know what for

Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
What we really need is love
And we don't have enough
Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
We need another Jesus
For this lost generation
We need someone like the Jesus from history
We need someone to love us
Not to correct the nation
We need someone to teach us how to love

Our world will never be short
Of heroes and their sort
They all propose their plans
And act on them when they can
But when they are overthrown
We forget they were ever born
Along comes another one
With nothing new under the sun
All the ideologies
Don't mean a thing to me
They say the system is good
But it doesn't work as it should
Our plans go astray
And our heroes go away
In the meantime we play
And quickly lose our way

Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
What we really need is love
And we don't have enough
Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
We need another Jesus
For this lost generation
We need someone like the Jesus from history
We need someone to love us
Not to correct the nation
We need someone to teach us how to love

He said that he'd be back
Now he's been gone so long
Until he returns
Who can right the wrong
But when he left us behind
Feeling so blue
He left himself
Inside of me and you

So don't ask who will take his role
We are his hands and feet
The love that the world needs
Is inside you and me

Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
What we really need is love
And we don't have enough
Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
We need another Jesus
For this lost generation
We need someone like the Jesus from history
We need someone to love us
Not to correct the nation
We need someone to teach us how to love

Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
What we really need is love
And we don't have enough
Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
We need another Jesus
For this lost generation
We need someone like the Jesus from history
We need someone to love us
Not to correct the nation
We need someone to teach us how to love

Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
What we really need is love
And we don't have enough
Who can lead us now
Who can help us out
We need another Jesus
For this lost generation
We need someone like the Jesus from history
We need someone to love us
Not to correct the nation
We need someone to teach us how to love

All the people say
Calvinism
Stoicism
Marxism
Hinduism
Aneurysm
Cataclysm
And all I'm saying is give Jesus a chance

All the people say
Give Peace a chance
My circumstance
Meditation Trance
Don't dirty dance
Pick on France
Auto accidents
And all I'm saying is give Jesus a chance

All the people say
Plato
Cicero
Marsiglio
Vico
Russeau
Montesquieu
And all I'm saying is give Jesus a chance