====== Frank Turner - Glory Hallelujah ======

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<blockquote>Brothers and sisters, have you heard the news?\\ 
The storm has lifted and there's nothing to lose\\ 
So swap your confirmation for your dancing shoes\\ 
Because there never was no God\\ 
 
Step out of the darkness and on to the streets\\ 
Forget about the fast, let's have a carnival feast\\ 
Raise up your lowered head and hear the liberation beat\\ 
Because there never was no God\\ 
 
And there is no God so clap your hands together\\ 
There is no God, no heaven and no hell\\ 
For there is no God, we're all in this together\\ 
There is no God so ring that victory bell\\ 
 
No cowering in the dark before some overbearing priest\\ 
No waiting until we die, until we restitute the meek\\ 
No blaming all our failings on imaginary beast\\ 
Because there never was no God\\ 
 
No fighting over land your distant fathers told you of\\ 
No spilling blood for those who never spread a drop of love\\ 
No finger pointing justified by phantoms up above\\ 
Because there never was no God\\ 
 
There is no God so clap your hands together\\ 
And there is no God, no heaven and no hell\\ 
There is no God, we're all in this together\\ 
There is no God so ring that victory bell\\ 
 
I know you're scared of dying, man and I am too\\ 
But just pretending it's not happening isn't gonna see us through\\ 
If we accept that there's an end game and we haven't got much time\\ 
Then in the here and now that we can try and do things right\\ 
 
We'd be our own salvation army and together we believe\\ 
In all the wondrous things that mere mortals can achieve\\ 
 
Well, I've known beauty in the stillness of cathedrals in the day\\ 
I've sung 'Glory Hallelujah', won't you wash my sins away?\\ 
But now I'm singing my refrain and this is what I say\\ 
I say there never was no God\\ 
 
There is no God so clap your hands together\\ 
There is no God, no heaven and no hell\\ 
But there is no God, we're all in this together\\ 
There is no God so ring that victory bell\\ 
One more time\\ 
 
There is no God so clap your hands together\\ 
There is no God, no heaven and no hell\\ 
But there is no God, we're all in this together\\ 
There is no God so ring that victory bell\\ 
<cite>Frank Turner - Glory Hallelujah</cite></blockquote>

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<blockquote>Yet the most striking and contentious song is Glory Hallelujah, described by Turner as "atheist gospel", is a stirring sing-a-long based around a chorus of "There is no God! So clap your hands together!" and is best described as a musical version of London's 2009 atheist bus adverts. "I know this will get a lot of attention, but I want to make it clear it is not an anti-religious song," he says. "It is an anti-theist song. I'm a big Richard Dawkins fan, but I wanted to write a joyous song, not a spiteful fuck-you song that says if you are a religious person, you are an idiot. I have no desire to offend anyone: in fact, I'm not even sure I'll play it at the show tonight because it is in the crypt of Liverpool cathedral.
<cite>[[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/02/frank-turner-inteview|Frank Turner: troubadour with a troubled past]], The Guardian, Thursday 2 June 2011.</cite></blockquote>

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