Randy Newman - God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) download song

The older I get, the more I think this song is far too kind to him.

I play this song over & over...and cry all the way through...over & over..."From the squalor and the filth and the misery"...

Classic...I hope Gods spinning his turntable with this on.

what genre is this? im searching for more blues-jazz-piano music like this. if you listen to it and think about bourbons and smokes, than you got what i meant.

just thought of typing Randy Newman in the search box and after all these years here we go, perfection

It'd be funny if they played this during a church service.

I "discovered" Randy Newman in the college in the early 80's .  I think it was one of those top 100 albums in rock in Rolling Stone.  I have always regarded this album as one of the greatest examples of American music.  I am drawn to this song because of the shootings at Umpqua Community College and some thing similar that happened about the time I was listening to this song in particular.  A man walked into a McDonald's in San Ysidro Calif. and killed about 20 people in a bloody shooting spree.  As kind of a cathartic act, I Xeroxed the picture of a survivor, a teenage girl who was looked straight out of the 80's except for the bloody arms and legs, onto a sheet of paper and typed the lyrics to this song onto the page, and then I taped it up on my wall.  I see now it was kind of macabre thing to do, but I was young and learning how things ain't always like we were told.  It was kind of a reminder that the world can be scary and that maybe I shouldn't bitch so much about my own life.  I feel old and tired to think that 31 years later, this kind of insanity is still a thing in American society with no real end in sight.

Wow, the Toy Story films sure did go in an interesting direction.

Cain slew Abel Seth knew not why For if the children of Israel were to multiply Why must any of the children die? So he asked the Lord And the Lord said: Man means nothing he means less to me Than the lowliest cactus flower Or the humblest Yucca tree He chases round this desert Cause he thinks that's where I'll be That's why I love mankind I recoil in horror fro the foulness of thee From the squalor and the filth and the misery How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me That's why I love mankind The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV They picked their four greatest priests And they began to speak They said, "Lord, a plague is on the world Lord, no man is free The temples that we built to you Have tumbled into the sea Lord, if you won't take care of us Won't you please, please let us be?" And the Lord said And the Lord said I burn down your cities-how blind you must be I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we You all must be crazy to put your faith in me That's why I love mankind You really need me That's why I love mankind

This is just too great. Thanks Randy Newman.

"Sail Away" is one of, perhaps, three albums I'll listen to from start to finish. I saw Randy at a very small venue in Evanston, IL called "Amazing Grace" sometime in the early '70s and sat about six feet away from him and his piano (No one was farther than 25 feet). He was far from popular then, it was way before "I Love LA" and "Short People." It was a wonderful evening.

He raised the bar with this song!

Hhhmm... God portrayed not as a loving omnipotent force of peace, but as the equivalent of a child frying ants with a magnifying glass. It's novel, it's ballsy, it's controversial (to say the least)- I like it.

Played when Some Jerk With A Camera left Disneyland in Season 2

This is the first Randy Newman album I ever owned. Hooked every since.

"There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truths protective layers. There are places to go beyond belief." Neil Armstrong

I'm surprised that everyone who has commented here has taken the literal anti-religious sentiment of this song. If you know nothing about randy newman, that would be a reasonable intperpretation. but this guy is way too subtle to simply condemn religions. Randy Newman is a genius in terms of his irony. cheap irony is where you say something different from what you mean, and you and the interlocutor are both in on the joke (ex. if you're in a hurricane and you say 'what nice wheather we are having!' everyone instantly gets the joke . The more profound kind of irony, and the kind that i think randy newman employs is much more subtle- it plays on a fundementally AMBIGUOUS, unclear idea, such as the meaning of life and religion, and rather than giving you a clear and distinct message, throws the listener into that amiguity himself so that he/she ultimately realises the inherent ambiguity and is forced to ask questions. So for all of you wondering "what is randy newman trying to tell me about religion and the meaning of life?'...he's trying to tell you NOTHING...rather, he is trying to inspire you to ask the question yourself