What If God Was One Of Us?

[LEMONed 05]

I noticed the similarity as soon as I heard the song. It's kind of distracting actually. Still a lovely song, though.

In her TIME interview, notice Ayumi mentiones:

"...Joan Osborne. I loved her song in [the movie] Vanilla Sky, so I bought the soundtrack but it wasn't on it. I asked everyone about it, and finally my friend in Hawaii told me who it was."

I'm pretty sure the song played in the movie was "What If God Was One Of Us?" Most likely, Ayumi spoke with the song writer and said something like, "Hey, I really like this song and I'd like to make a song that has a similar sound and feel."

Just my guess.