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