Change - Tracy Chapman

If you knew that you would die today,
Saw the face of God and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that love can break your heart
When you're down so low you cannot fall
Would you change?
Would you change?

How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?

If you knew that you would be alone,
Knowing right, being wrong,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that you would find a truth
That brings up pain that can't be soothed
Would you change?
Would you change?

How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?

Are you so upright you can't be bent?
If it comes to blows are you so sure you won't be crawling?
If not for the good, why risk falling?
Why risk falling?

If everything you think you know,
Makes your life unbearable,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you'd broken every rule and vow,
And hard times come to bring you down,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that you would die today,
If you saw the face of God and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you saw the face of God and love
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?

This song has been played on the radio alot - a Christian radio station I listen to while I dissect, and it really touches me with its truth.

I've so many friends who still don't know Him yet - friends on my course, etc. All very scientific people. We have arguments sometimes - maybe that's not so good - where we fervently defend what we feel to be true. I'd like to find out more about why I believe what I believe. I don't doubt that He is real and that He created the world, but I would like to know more, especially about the science of it, so that I can talk to my coursemates too. So if anyone can help / send me stuff, please do.

Behind all the thinking, the philosophy and the intellect though we're all similar people with similarly messed-up lives. Hence the song goes - "How bad, how good, does it need to get?" How high or how low can people go before they realise that without Him, everything is empty and there's no point to life?