Roger Waters - It's a Miracle

Check out the lyrics here guys. Sadly, these lyrics still ring true - 16 years after the song was published:

Miraculous you call it babe
You ain't seen nothing yet
They've got Pepsi in the Andes
Mcdonalds in Tibet
Yosemite's been turned into
A golf course for the Japs
The Dead Sea is alive with rap
Between the Tigris and Euphrates
There's a leisure centre now
They've got all kinds of sports
They've got Bermuda shorts
The had sex in Pennsylvania
A Brazilian grew a tree
A doctor in Manhattan
Saved a dying man for free
It's a miracle
Another miracle
By the grace of God Almighty
And pressures of marketplace
The human race has civilized itself
It's a miracle
We've got a warehouse of butter
We've got oceans of wine
We've got famine when we need it
Got a designer crime
We've got Mercedes
We've got Porsche
Ferrari and Rolls Royce
We've got a choice
She said meet me
In the Garden of Gethsemane my dear
The Lord said Peter I can see
Your house from here
An honest man
Finally reaped what he had sown
And farmer in Ohio has just repaid a loan
It's a miracle
Another miracle
By the grace of God Almighty
And pressures of marketplace
The human race has civilized itself
It's a miracle
We cower in our shelters
With our hands over our ears
Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff
Runs for years and years and years
An earthquake hits the theatre
But the operetta lingers
Then the piano lids comes down
And break his fucking fingers
It's a miracle

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[Oscar301]

chortle... in your lyrics you've got a "warehouse of butter..."

it's a warehouse of "Buddha"

but thanks anyhoo

always love the Lloyd-Webber bit... I could listen to his fingers getting crushed for eternity

[bloodsuckingclown]

@Oscar301

Frankly, I am not sure. I got the lyrics from a "lyrics page" somewhere. I do believe it should be butter, though - as a comment to the overproduction of butter and wine in the EU at the time of the song. I remember the stories in the papers about the immorality of overproducing butter and wine while people in other parts of the world did not have any food at all. I always though of his lyrics as a comment to that situation.

[postedupondaconna]

awsome shiiit..but wait he eint fond of lloyd webber?? can sombody explain....

[bloodsuckingclown]

mrjobangls stated this in an earlier comment, and that might be the explanation for this:

LMAO! Roger is really pissed off at Andrew Lloyd Webber ripping off his riff from Echoes and using it in Phantom of the Opera.

Kiss mine, Andrew Lloyd Webber!

[rhysmyth]

Roger waters is god on earth. I love everything he writes!!

[bloodsuckingclown]

Roger Waters has good lyrics that you need to think about, something that is lacking with many other artists. After you get tired of/used to the music its the lyrics that can make a song a classic, imho anyway :)

[mrjobangls]

LMAO! Roger is really pissed off at Andrew Lloyd Webber ripping off his riff from Echoes and using it in Phantom of the Opera.

Kiss mine, Andrew Lloyd Webber!

[kyrioskoks]

Roger is a genious -- no doubt.

He is a brilliant man, as well, and I can say that for sure, because we spend summers at a very beautiful village in mount Pelion, Greece, where our houses are very close to each other. Lucky me!

Anyway, thank you very much, Roger, for existing.

[theyank125]

@Oscar301 its warehouses of butter, the EU had warehouses of Butter Meat and powder of milk stuffed when they could have gave it away for nothing to the starving, it was Europe who paid farmers tons of money to produce and they just hoarded it

[TangerineWizard123]

fuck you webber

[deewkay1]

@Oscar301 You can have your Buddha and I'll have my butter.. LOL... I don't think it matters who is right, just that we think.. therefore we are.. Ha ha.. you're OK...

[Oscar301]

@deewkay1 a warehouse full of Buddha effigies representing the cheapening of world religions doesn't sound nuts to me, and a sentiment right up Waters' street. It doesn't really matter anyway - people hear what they want to hear. You have butter, I'll have Buddha :)

[deewkay1]

@Oscar301 it is "warehouses of butter..." warehouse of buddha is nuts.. It doesn't even make sense.. all the lyrics I checked say butter and it is what I always understood it to say...

[NerdyHippy]

You just can't go wrong with Roger Waters.

[vikaskhair]

Wonderful Song .. Roger Waters is Amazing .. Really its a Miracle.

[araxela89]

"...We've got a choice..."

[sexykatie90]

thumbs up if you like Roger Waters - It's a Miracle

[185alam]

Of course Roger Waters is a genius.My all time favorite

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