It's a Miracle

by Roger Waters

From the album: Amused to Death

Track 13 of 14 on Amused to Death (1992).

Duration: 8:30

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Lyrics for It's a Miracle

Miraculous you call it babe You ain't seen nothing yet They've got Pepsi in the Andes They've McDonalds in Tibet Yosemite's been turned into A golf course for the Japs And 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 They had sex in Pennsylvania A Brazilian grew a tree And a doctor in Manhattan Saved a dying man for free It's a miracle It's a miracle It's a miracle Another miracle By the grace of God Almighty And the 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 We've got a designer crime We've got Mercedes We've got Porsche Ferrari and Rolls Royce Yeah 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 a farmer in Ohio has just repaid a loan It's a miracle It's a miracle 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 lid comes down And breaks his fucking fingers It's a miracle

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More from Amused to Death

  1. The Ballad of Bill Hubbard
  2. What God Wants, Pt. I
  3. Perfect Sense, Pt. I
  4. Perfect Sense, Pt. II
  5. The Bravery of Being Out of Range
  6. Late Home Tonight, Pt. I
  7. Late Home Tonight, Pt. II
  8. Too Much Rope
  9. What God Wants, Pt. II
  10. What God Wants, Pt. III
  11. Watching TV
  12. Three Wishes
  13. It's a Miracle
  14. Amused to Death