If There's A God In Heaven (What's He Waiting For?)
Available on the album Blue Moves
written by: Elton John and Davey Johnstone
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
Piano and vocals: Elton John
Bass: Kenny Passarelli
Drums: Roger Pope
Electric guitars: Davey Johnstone and Caleb Quaye
Organ: James Newton Howard
Congas and tambourine: Ray Cooper
Strings: The Martyn Ford Orchestra
Torn from their families
Mothers go hungry
To feed their children
But children go hungry
There's so many big men
They're out making millions
When poverty's profits
Just blame the children
If there's a God in heaven
What's he waiting for
If He can't hear the children
Then he must see the war
But it seems to me
That he leads his lambs
To the slaughter house
And not the promised land
Dying for causes
They don't understand
We've been taking their futures
Right out of their hands
They need the handouts
To hold back the tears
There's so many crying
But so few that hear
If there's a God in heaven
Well, what's he waiting for
If there's a God in heaven
What's he waiting for
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