What would you ask if you had just one question? (Joan Osborne)

If God had a name, what would it be?

And would you call it to His face,

If you were faced with Him in all His glory?

What would you ask if you had just one question?

           

And yeah, yeah, God is great,

Yeah, yeah, God is good

And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us?

Just a stranger on the bus

Trying to make his way home?

           

If God had a face, what would it look like?

And would you want to see it, if seeing meant

That you would have to believe in things like heaven

And in Jesus and the saints, and all the prophets?

           

And yeah, yeah, God is great,

Yeah, yeah, God is good

And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us?

Just a stranger on the bus

Trying to make his way home?

           

Just trying to make his way home,

Like back up to heaven all alone,

Nobody calling on the phone,

‘Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome.

To hear Joan Osborne perform One of Us, click on the video below.

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