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What If God Was One Of Us

Eric Bazilian

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?

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

Tryin' 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 Jesus and the saints,

and all the prophets?

Yeah, yeah, God is great...

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

Just tryin' to make his way home

Back up to heaven all alone

Nobody calling on the phone

'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

Yeah, yeah, God is great...

This song starts with some questions about God. For exemples: "If God had a name what would it be?" or "What if God was one of us?". I answer to this first question, I think that if God had a name, the name wouldn't be one, would be the name each one of us. Why? Becouse God is in every one. An other question is: "What would you ask if you had just one question, if you were faced with him in all his glory?". If I was faced with God in his glory, T wuoldn't know what to ask. I would have a lot of questions but without answers. If God was one of us, he would be from the poorest person to the richest person. God is in everyone in a specific moment, when we help to who have besides ours. And if God had a face, I wouldn't really care. Becouse all that things that we see, we believe in it. But the value is to believe in it without having seen it before.

L.S.R.

Bibi Russell

Bibi Russell is a fashion designer and former international model from Bangladesh.Born in Chittagong, Bangladesh, she studied in London College of Fashion, earning a graduate degree in 1975. In the next five years, she worked as a model for different magazines including Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar. She also worked as a fashion model in fashion shows until 1994, working withYves Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Karl Lagerfield and Giorgio Armani. Having returned to Bangladesh in 1994, Bibi opened Bibi Productions, her own fashion house, fusing indigenous Bengali cultural elements into her line. With assistance from UNESCO, she organized her first European fashion show in paris in 1996. As of 2004, her company employed 35,000 weavers in rural Bangladesh. Her enterpreneurship has earned her many awards. The Asiaweek magazine highlighted her as "one of the 20 people to watch in the millennium". Bibi Russell in fact is called Masuma, that means innocent. Russell is the last name of his husband, although she is divorced. She has campaigned against great multinationals, for example Nike. She made a great speech against Nike in the Fòrum of Barcelona 2004.

“I don't believe in the charity, to only I convince them to compete without complexes.”

("Yo no creo en la caridad, sólo les convenzo para competir sin complejos."

“I have realized which in Spain they dress in something more
of color than in London. I do not know if it is that you have learned to being happier… I would like that they understood that within the poverty also there is beauty.”

("Me he dado cuenta de que en España visten con algo más de color que en Londres. No sé si es que ustedes han aprendido a ser más felices... Me gustaría que entendieran que dentro de la pobreza también hay belleza.")

"Fashion isn't only footbridge, fashion is the history of each article."

("Moda no es sólo pasarela,
moda es la historia de cada prenda.")

Bibi Russell, originaria de Bangladesh, tuvo la suerte de nacer en el sí de una familia hindú bien acomodada. Fue la primera mujer de Bangladesh que estudió en la Escuela de Moda de Londres. Su llegada hizo furor, un gran desafío para alguien procediente de los aluviones del Ganges. Después de graduarse empezó a trabajar como modelo en grandes firmas, en revistas como Vogue, Cosmopolitan y Harper's Bazaar. Más tarde prosiguió a desfilar para Yves Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Karl Lagerfield y Giorgio Armani. Después de unos años de gloria, quiso volver a su Bangladesh, en el año 1994. Es allí donde realmente empieza su vertiginosa carrera. Bibi abrió su propia firma de moda: Bibi Productions. Prendas, accesorios y zapatos confeccionados con los grandes tejidos índios, pero lo más importante: elaborados por famílias índias, contratadas con todos los derechos de un trabajador europeo. Esa es la clave del éxito de Bibi. Por ello, da de comer a más de un millón de personas y ha sacado de la miseria a más de 34.000 aldeas. Además, cuenta con 200.000 clientes repartidos por todo el mundo, eso si, no tiene ni una sola tienda propia. Ha dirigido durísimos ataques en contra grandes multinacionales que explotan a sus subcontratados. Un ejemplo es Nike, contra la cual Bibi hizo un discurso directo y agresivo cuando asistió en el Fórum de Barcelona, en el 2004.

L.S.R.

Summary of my life
(special of this spring/summer '06)