recent songs on the problem of evil – student submissions:

’cause if you’re not really here
then the stars don’t even matter
now i’m filled to the top with fear
but it’s all just a bunch of matter
’cause if you’re not really here
then i don’t want to be either

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make mankind after we made you? And the devil too…

I won’t believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no Devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You’re always letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you drown….

If there’s one thing I don’t believe in…
It’s you…

Is everybody going crazy
Can anybody tell me what’s goin on
Tell me what’s goin on
If you open your eyes
You’ll see that somethin’ is wrong

those discussed in class:

Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

…

And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had

I found god
On the corner of first and Amistad
Where the west was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I Said where you been, he said ask anything
Where were you?