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This Topic is for all those Song Lyrics (or perhaps lines from literature / films) that strike a chord - religious or spiritual or moral or in reading the “signs of the times”
 
But if my life is for rent
and I don’t learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

Dido
 
See Mother I make all things New

Jesus on the Way of the Cross (Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ)
 
G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition) by Common
Retrospective for Life by Common

The first is about respect for the faiths of others. Part of it says:
“Koran and the Bible, to me they all vital and got truth within 'em/ gotta read them boys, you just can’t skim 'em/ different branches of belief, but one root that stems ‘em/ but people of the venom try to trim ‘em, and use religion as an emblem/ when it should be a natural way of life/ who am I or they to say to whom you pray ain’t right?/ It’s what’s got you doin’ right and got you this far/ whether you say ‘In Jesus name’ or ‘Allhumduallah’/ long as you know it’s a being that’s supreme to you/ you let that show towards others in the things you do/ cause when the trumpets blow and 24 elders surround the throne/ only 144,000 gon’ get home”

Retrospective for Life is an anti-abortion song. Common is a devout Muslim and has this song about an unmarried couple who becomes pregnant. Part of it says:
“Knowing you’re the best part of life, do I have the right to take yours because I created you irresponsibly?/ subconsiously knowing the act I was a part of, the start of something, I’m not ready to bring it to the world/ had myself believin’ I was thorough/ I look at your mother’s stomach and wonder if you are a boy or girl/ turnin’ this woman’s womb into a tomb, but she and I agreed/ and see, we don’t believe you would have been much more than a mouth to feed/ but someone I would have fed this information I read/ and someone, my life for you I would have had to lead/ instead I led you to death/ I’m sorry for taking your first breath, first step and first cry/ but I wasn’t prepared mentally or financially/ it’ll take more than having a child to bring out the man in me/ plus I wanted you to be raised within a family/ don’t want to go through the drama of havin’ a babies mama/ weekend visits and buyin’ chains ain’t gon’ make me a father/ for a while bearin’ a child was something I never wanted to do/ for me to live forever I could only do that to you/ the nerve I got to talk about them niggas with a gun/ must have really thought I was God to take the life of my son” and more of it says: “is this unprotected love or safe to say it’s lust?” and “from now one I’ma use self-control instead of birth control/ cause 315 dollars ain’t worth your soul” and the last line is: “you say your period hasn’t came, and lately you’ve been sleepy/ so quit smokin’ the weed and let’s have this boy”

In Christ,
Rand
 
Momma, momma, momma
You’re taking away my last chance
Don’t take it away
Can’t you feel my heart?

Those lyrics are from “Momma” by Genesis, a song that I was positive was about abortion, but when I researched it, I found out it was actually about a teenage boy with a crush on a middle-aged prostitute. How stupid is that?

Even so, it is a good song, the music (which is very eerie sounding) and the lyrics make it seem like a great anti-abortion song.
 
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

“And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last,
To be a rock and not to roll”

We must not do our will but seek God’s will, we will find it if we search for it. We have to be like a rock and not roll away from our faith.
 
I like this song, “Summer Breeze” by Seals and Croft. It kind of shows the joy that can come from the simple things in life. My girlfriend also gave me some Rosary beads made from crushed jasmine petals, so those lines have special meaning.
See the curtains hanging in the window
In the evening on a Friday night
A little light a-shining through the window
Lets me know everythings alright
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refrain:
Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
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See the paper lying on the sidewalk
A little music from the house next door
So I walk on up to the door step
Through the screen and across the floor
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refrain Sweet days of summer, the jasmine’s in bloom
July is dressed up and playing her tune
When I come home from a hard days work
And you’re waiting there, not a care in the world
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See the smile a-waiting in the kitchen
Food cooking and the plates for two
Feel the arms that reach out to hold me
In the evening when the day is through
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refrain
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“American Soldier”-Toby Keith
“Your Spirit’s Alive”-DropKick Murphy’s
“The Warrior’s Code”-DropKick Murphy’s
“The Green Field’s of France”-DropKick Murphy’s(Yes I’m a huge fan of their’s.)
“Livin’ on a Prayer”-Bon Jovi
“In the Ghetto”-Elvis Presley
 
I’m kind of embarrassed to post this :o (I’m normally not a pop/rock kind of person and know next to nothing about that sort of music) …

I don’t know about the rest of the song (it doesn’t make much sense to me) but:

“if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel”

from Mysterious Ways by U2

is a pretty good lyric… and true too :).
 
It’s alright peregrinator_it - your secrets safe with me 🙂

Here’s another one (a line rather than a lyric)

Thee who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of Wisdom

Gandalf (speaking to Saruman of many colours…)

A comment on reductionism perhaps
 
My current Favorite is Good Morning Lord…Fantastic CD. Liz is the aunt of one of our forum members. Rachel gave me the cd and I play it at least once per day.

Her Aunt Liz is listed on EWTN JuteBox. I highly recommend this one.

Elizabeth Schmeidler Music
www.elizabethshop.com

 
Get Together - Chet Powers

Love is but a song we sing
And fear’s the way we die.
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry.
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why.

C’mon people now
Smile on your brother
Ev’rybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Some will come and some will go
And we shall surely pass.
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last.
We are but a moment’s sunlight
Fading in the grass.

C’mon people now
Smile on your brother
Ev’rybody get together
Try to love one another right now

If you hear the song we sing
You will understand.
You hold the key to love and fear
In your trembling hand.
Just one key unlocks them both
It’s there at your command

C’mon people now
Smile on your brother
Ev’rybody get together
Try to love one another right now
 
Jesus Freak

Separated, I cut myself clean
From a past that comes back in my darkest of dreams
Been apprehended by a spiritual force
And a grace that replaced all the me I’ve divorced

I saw a man with a tat on his big fat belly
It wiggled around like marmalade jelly
It took me a while to catch what it said
Cause I had to match the rhythm of his belly with my head
‘Jesus Saves’ is what it raved in a typical tattoo green
He stood on a box in the middle of the city
And claimed he had a dream

What will people think
When they hear that I’m a Jesus freak
What will people do when they find that it’s true
I don’t really care if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain’t no disguising the truth

Kamikaze, my death is gain
I’ve been marked by my Maker
A peculiar display
The high and lofty, they see me as weak
Cause I won’t live and die for the power they seek

There was a man from the desert with naps in his head
The sand that he walked was also his bed
The words that he spoke made the people assume
There wasn’t too much left in the upper room
With skins on his back and hair on his face
They thought he was strange by the locusts he ate
The Pharisees tripped when they heard him speak
Until the king took the head of this Jesus freak

What will people think
When they hear that I’m a Jesus freak
What will people do when they find that it’s true
I don’t really care if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain’t no disguising the truth

People say I’m strange, does it make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger
People say I’m strange, does it make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger
What will people think
When they hear that I’m a Jesus freak
What will people do when they find that it’s true
I don’t really care if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain’t no disguising the truth

DC Talk
 
I didn’t realize what this was about at first, but when I did, WoW!..

i only know what i believe
the rest is so absurd to me
i close my eyes so i cant see
but the picture just gets clearer everyday

i read somewhere to learn is to remember
and ive learned we all forgot
there was peace in her before
but that was yesterday

but i can see the beauty that is here for me
the chance to live and walk free from a legal kill

i know your side so very well
it makes no sense that i can tell
the smell of hell is what i smell
and you hand it out with handshakes every day

i have trouble with the persons with the signs
but i feel the need to make my own
yes there two ways to be
and truth does not depend on me

but i can feel the fight for life is always real
i cant believe its no big deal
its a legal kill

Kings X
 
Savatage: Believe (From the album “Streets”)

It’s the last song in a concept album, where a burned out drug addict finds Christ for the first time…
I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark
I hear your screams
Don’t turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I’ll be right there
I’ll never leave
All I ask of you
Believe
Your childhood eyes were so intense
While bartering your innocence
For bits of string
Grown-up wings
You needed

But when you had to add them up
You found that they were not enough
To get you in
Pay for sins repeated

And for all the years you borrowed
And for all the tears you cried
And for all the fears you had to keep inside
 
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