Joan Osborne

在一家小酒吧中演唱后，无意中进入音乐事业的Joan Osborne，95年发行的那张Relish让她得到了7项格莱美提名。专辑中的这首One of Us更是红遍全球。此后的2年中，为推广这张专辑，Joan Osborne更是走遍了全球，同时，也饱尝了这首涉及宗教信仰的歌曲所引起的宗教纠纷。

信仰天主教的Joan Osborne对精神与肉体的关系，人性的矛盾与迷茫，有着深刻的体会。在纽约市区club多年的演唱经验，使她成为了一个成熟而又敏锐的singer-songwriter。时而低沉沙哑时而高亢清亮的嗓音传达了她对人性深入而又细腻的观察。

随着歌曲行云流水般划过，感受着Joan Osborne的轻松诙谐，天真烂漫。
Yeah, yeah, God is great. Yeah, yeah, God is good
What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us,
Just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home...
Like a holy rolling stone... nobody calls him on the phone
想象着上帝跟我们一样的面孔，
想象着上帝跟我们一样着急着赶路，
想象著上帝跟我们一样容易受伤害, 且没人打电话安慰他。

调侃似的口气，仿佛让人觉得上帝就在我们身边，上帝就是我们之中的某个。。。


One Of Us
By Joan Osborne

If God had a name what would it be?
And would you call it to his face?
If you were faced with him
In all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question?

*And yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

If God had a face what would it look like?
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that
you would have to believe
in things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints
and all the prophets (*)

Trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
\'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome(*)

Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
\'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome