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Thread: Songs that encapsulate your theology/faith position
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Golden Key
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Some of these fit my current beliefs, and others helped me in previous stages, and all have helped with spiritual feelings/support:
--"Morning Has Broken", lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon, music the Cat Stevens version and sung by him.
--"Lord Of The Dance".
--Ditto to "Feed The Birds" *with the visuals from that scene in the film*. Gave me some of my strongest, earliest religious feelings. (I was maybe 5 or 6, I think.)
--"Kyrie", performed by Mister Mister.
--"Sanctus Kyrie", from the film "Jonathan Livingston Seagull".
--Jennifer Berezan's album "Returning".
--"Blow, Gabriel, Blow", by Cole Porter. Used in a great scene in the Porter bio-pic, "De-Lovely".
--"All Creatures Of Our God And King", a hymn based on a prayer of St. Francis.
--"Fly Away With Me". That site is for Jamie Owens-Collins' version of it. I think what I heard, way back in the day, may have been sung by Honeytree, but I can't find it and I don't know who wrote it. But the lyrics are the ones I know.
--"Let It Be", by the Beatles.
and, on days when I'm sick of religious wrangling
--"Imagine", by John Lennon.
-------------------- Blessed Gator, pray for us! --"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon") --"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Golden Key
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Re "One Of Us":
This was used as the theme for the TV show, "Joan Of Arcadia", and--there--it was most definitely about God being real.
The show followed Joan, a high schooler, as she started getting visits from God, in all sorts of guises: IIRC, some were a child, a cafeteria worker, homeless person. She'd just come across them in the course of her life, and God would talk to her via them. I don't remember for sure whether God simply took those forms, or spoke through actual people. Really, really good. Unfortunately, it was canceled just as it took an intriguing turn: she met her opposite number, a teenage boy who was being visited by the other side.
-------------------- Blessed Gator, pray for us! --"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon") --"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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venbede
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Karl posted something that encapsulated an aspect of the C of E he didn't like.
Funnily enough, (karl and I not having that much in common) I'd sort of agree with him, but the poem that encapsulates everything I'm suspicious of in MOTR establishment C of E (and the two thing go together however much Ken, rest his soul, denied it) is John Betjeman's In Westminster Abbey
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8493441-In-Westminster-Abbey-by-Sir-John-Betjeman
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nobody but me
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Congratulations on a fab thread. There are tons of songs that have been theologically significant to me whether they were intended to or not and in more or less significant ways. (Enough of a caveat?!) The first that sprung to mind after Brother Sister Let Me Serve You was Move Any Mountain by The Shamen.
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nobody but me
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Oh and when in that happy place of utter despair over mans's inhumanity to man (and unusually desiring the existence of a bad-ass God) the Man in Black aka Johnny Cash says it for me in Run On For a Long Time.....
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L'organist
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I fear my choice may be thought rather frivolous but I get great comfort from this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZCv98XKFs) when life gets more than usually trying.
There are bad times just around the corner
(Edited for link) [ 11. March 2015, 09:23: Message edited by: Firenze ]
-------------------- Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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jrw
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'I've seen this happen in other people's lives and now it's happening in mine'.
(The Smiths - That joke isn't funny anymore).
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Albertus
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quote: Originally posted by L'organist: I fear my choice may be thought rather frivolous but I get great comfort from this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZCv98XKFs) when life gets more than usually trying.
There are bad times just around the corner
(Edited for link)
Me too: and from Sail Away, especially in this arrangement. Used to laugh at that Harry Williams line about finding God in Noel Coward's songs but I now increasingly see what he meant- although actually I think that the ethic there is a noble classical pagan one rather than a Christian one. Still, there's an understanding and a fortitude and underneath it all very often a kindness there. [ 13. March 2015, 10:48: Message edited by: Albertus ]
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L'organist
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I used to see Harry often as I was growing up, and I well remember him singing The Stately Homes of England.
-------------------- Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Jack o' the Green
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Friday Morning by Sidney Carter. Julian of Norwich by Sidney Carter (on a good day).
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Garasu
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Alan Bell's Bread and fishes...
-------------------- "Could I believe in the doctrine without believing in the deity?". - Modesitt, L. E., Jr., 1943- Imager.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Another song that is one of my long-time favorites is Soul Asylum Runaway Train. The fact that it is a favorite suggests that the lyrics probably speak to me deeply, and so have a faith involvement.
I think this song reflects how I feel most of the time. I am running the wrong way down a one-way track, because the world, the church, everything is going the other way. But - unlike in the song - this is because I see things differently*.
The song is simple and yet brilliant. I never get tired of it.
*Not necessarily rightly, just that I so often see things in ways that are different to others. Sometimes, this is because I have a different grasp on the truth, sometimes it is because I'm an idiot.
-------------------- Blog Music for your enjoyment Lord may all my hard times be healing times take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Albertus
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quote: Originally posted by L'organist: I used to see Harry often as I was growing up, and I well remember him singing The Stately Homes of England.
Wow. That's a real conversation stopper, in the best possible way.
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Fool
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Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf, Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult.
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passer
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Yesterday I heard on the radio this track from Sufjan Stevens, which is due for release this month. The lyrics are typically enigmatic, as aficionados of Sufjan would expect, with the pervading sense of loss and lost which makes him (to me) so interesting. There's no shade in the shadow of the cross.
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Sopralto
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From This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) by the Talking heads, this single line:
"Never for money, always for love"
Those are the words I want engraved on my tombstone, if I should end up with one.
-------------------- Sopralto
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Kelly Alves
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Nice choice!
Anyone remember James Taylor? " shower the people you love with love..."
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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balaam
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U2 - She moves in mysterious ways.
A great way of describing the Holy Spirit.
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Lolly
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Redemption Song - Bob Marley
-------------------- And draw us near and bind us tight all your children here in their rags of light - LC
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Yerevan
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Here Beneath the Cross:
Here beneath the cross; what love is this I see How beautiful the sacrifice of Christ for me How deep the healing wounds that pierced Your heart for mine The blood that flows through history the sinner finds Amazing love how can it be That You my God would die for me...
...Here beneath the cross my glory I lay down For I will sing of Jesus Christ and His renown He has conquered death, the stone was rolled away My God arose in victory and He reigns today Here beneath the cross I'll rest for all my days Buried with my Saviour then forever raised
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The5thMary
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quote: Originally posted by balaam: U2 - She moves in mysterious ways.
A great way of describing the Holy Spirit.
Yep! Completely!
-------------------- God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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Beeswax Altar
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The Hymnal 1982
-------------------- Losing sleep is something you want to avoid, if possible. -Og: King of Bashan
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Golden Key
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"Rocky Mountain High":
"Talk to God, and listen to the casual replyyyy..."
-------------------- Blessed Gator, pray for us! --"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon") --"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Kelly Alves
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quote: Originally posted by ChastMastr: Sometimes it's Kansas' "Carry on my Wayward Son."
YES!
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Belle Ringer
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When I first heard this song it stunned me. So much my own jumbled experience and confusion at the time. "Sunday morning very bright I read your book by colored light" It still goes deep in identification for back then.
Today? The songs I write some of which are a bit subversive as to church like my "I'm running off to church but never having any time for praying blues" (about church busyness and needing to stay home to connect with God and get life back on track).
Commercially known songs, I would need not one song but a collection, including "What a Wonderful World".
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Teilhard
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"Now the Green Blade Rises"
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