Tu Lo Chiami Dio

You call him god but I don't know him
He's not a friend of mine and I find him a bit shady
God must be important because in him is concentrated
the sacred sense of the created empire
God must be important but attention attention
I won't talk about god with those who support a religion
You call him god but I don't know him
Your god lives in heaven and we are in a ditch
My god doesn't justify contradictions
He takes sides and fights, doesn't postpone until tomorrow
He doesn't have to embody my aspirations
He eats with me, we proceed gropingly

I've seen too many people die alone
in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit
a thousand generations tormented by doubt
tortured with calculation it's a sin it's a sin
I've seen women fight inhumane battles
violated in their intimacy and called whores
a thousand generations tormented by doubt
tortured with calculation it's a sin it's a sin
I've seen lives destroyed in the smile of a priest
calm and reassuring as he talks to me about faith
a thousand generations it's a sin it's a sin
and he calmly smiles in the majolica cloister

You call him god but I don't know him
my spirituality doesn't express itself in worship
my god doesn't live in heaven, he can't even fly
if I need him I don't have to pray to him
he doesn't part the waters, doesn't multiply the loaves
my god is my gut and it's her who moves my hands