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If There’s A God In Heaven (What’s He Waiting For)

This version of If There’S A God In Heaven (What’S He Waiting For) was released by Elton John in 1976.

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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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The lyrics for If There’S A God In Heaven (What’S He Waiting For) are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Elton John. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to If There’S A God In Heaven (What’S He Waiting For) have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for If There’S A God In Heaven (What’S He Waiting For) - Elton John and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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