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我聽過這首歌。

我熟悉這首歌的旋律，可是我沒有留心過這首歌，我沒有注意過它的訴求，我甚至不喜歡女歌者鐵環穿鼻的前衛造型。

可是我不諱言，星光二班的黃美珍，讓我重新地去聆聽這首歌，這首在我記憶留存許久，但直到今天才完全顯形的歌曲。

在鬧／靜，快／緩的並陳中，這首歌創造出一種相對的空間感和速度感，那中板微噪的鄉村搖滾曲式，架設出了芸芸眾生萬頭鑽動的場景，而紛擾的樂曲編制，彷彿象徵了熙攘的塵世浮音，在此其中，Joan Osborne沙啞粗樸的嗓音，平緩輕鬱的唱白，卻又構建出另一處空間，裏面沉澱著浮世之中靜謐、超然、不受干擾的心靈省思。

我想，真正重要的，真正為這首歌灌注血肉的，是它的歌詞。

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

會不會上帝其實無處不在，祂就隱身在我們眼前的人群之中？會不會上帝並不高高在上，祂每天也是默默寂寂地如我們凡人一般做些無奇的瑣事，一般在傍晚的人潮中趕路回家？會不會許多人口口聲聲敬愛上帝尊崇上帝，可是那些無心無用的讚語只是諷刺地增添了上帝無邊的孤寂？如果我們能從眼前千千百百的陌生人，得到一絲一毫生命的正面能量，他有沒有資格成為我們生命一瞬的光潔上帝？

這首歌的歌詞充滿了太多疑問，埋藏了多種異樣的情緒，也暗伏著許多挑戰。或許在根本上，它並不否認上帝的存在，只是歌者口中的聲聲詰問，質疑並且挑戰了以往世人搜尋上帝的方位。

如果我們仰視上帝的角度錯誤，我們還能不能望見祂的真實面容？


《One of us》
Performed by Joan Osborne
In the album of , 1995.

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[oh...
one of these nights at about twelve o'clock
this whole earth's gonna reel and rock...
things thay'll tremble and cry for pain
for the Lord's gonna come in his heavenly airplane.]

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


Yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
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
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the Saints
And all the Prophets and...



Tryin' to make His way home
Back up to Heaven all alone
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome



Just tryin' to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to Heaven all alone
Just tryin' to make his way home
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome