Dug this up from 2012. (I'll try and keep this short) LOL
Linda Perry has written some amazing songs and given them to some amazing performers, and they've become chart topping hits. (Pink, Christina Aguilera, etc....)
Not this one though...... "Letter to God" was given to Courtney Love / HOLE, and they BUTCHERED it so bad that it was RUINED from the word GO. It had no chance at all. Horrible rendition.
Then Linda performs it on a talk show with just piano, strings, and a small children's choir, and it brings everyone to tears. Sharon Osborne can barely get it together to close out the segment.
It's a pretty powerful performance.
I don't think Linda ever recorded this song herself, and this is the best vid quality I could find. You'll need to turn the volume up a bit. The audio quality is "okay" I guess. Could be better, but there's nothing else out there.
I have it cued up to the song HERE >>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5zq42xzk-0&t=211s
They just talk for the first 3 minutes, so we skip that part. Boring. :yawn: :yuck:
Lyrics below. It's basically Linda talking to God.
A Letter to God lyrics
Dear God, I’m writing this letter to you
Cause’ I'm coming unglued
Can you help me?
I’m sitting here
Simply trying to figure out
What my life’s all about
Can you show me?
I never wanted to be
The person you see
Can you tell me who I am?
I always wanted to die
But you kept me here alive
Is there more to who I am?
I lie awake
Conducting this symphony
That you have gifted to me
But I can’t ever sleep
Don’t be mad
But I get weak inside
And I start to fall apart
Cause I feel nothing
I never wanted to be
The comic relief
Can you show me who I am
I've been tortured and scorned
Since the day that I was born
Can you tell me who I am
I never wanted to be
This person you see
But thank you
Oh, God please tell me now
Are you disappointed? Are you proud?
Haven’t I done everything, everything
I’m so sorry I’m so weak
And I’ve turned into a freak
But I don’t know anything, anything
I’ve lost all self-esteem
By burying everything
Still I feel nothing, nothing
Oh God please tell me now
Please tell me now
Cause I feel nothing.
https://lyricstranslate.com