Are there songs that have distinct religious messages or even religious overtones that you like anyway? I think many songs i heard in church were beautiful. Even songs on the radio such as Spirit in the Sky.
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Judas Priest - Saints In Hell
They laughed at their god
And fought him in vain
So he turned his back on them
And left them in pain
Now here come the saints
With their banners held high
Each one of them martyrs
Quite willing to die
Wake the dead, the saints are in hell
Wake the dead, they've come for the bell
Cover your fists
Razor your spears
It's been our possession
For eight thousand years
Fetch the scream eagles
Unleash the wild cats
Set loose the king cobras
And blood sucking bats
Wake the dead, the saints are in hell
Wake the dead, they've come for the bell
We are saints
In hell
We are saints
In hell
We're going down
Into the fire
We're going down
Into the fire
The streets run with blood from the mass mutilation
As carnage took toll for the bell
Abattoir, abattoir, mon dieu quelle horreur
For a time is was like second hell
Saints in hell
Saints in hell
The battle is over, the saints are alive
How can we all thank you, we felt so despised
Gotta love Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing! Halford isn't bad either!
RiverRick
Level 7
Nov 4, 2019
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Definitely religious lyrics. Haha thanks for the submission!
Thanks for including the words. That was helpful.
"Pane Angelicum." So simple..and yet, such lovely harmonies..
LucyLoohoo
Level 9
Nov 3, 2019
1
I think you mean Panis Angelicus...and yes it is a favourite of mine too.
@Marionville Mine's just singular.... 
This song dominated the radio for months in the 70s. Sappy, but I still like it.
Tinocca
Level 7
Nov 3, 2019
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I remember this very well.
Back in Catholic elementary school, every day started out with mass attendance in the next door church. There were always 3 or 4 hymns sung through the course of a mass. We would usually mumbble our way through them. We must have sounded terrible. But soon after this movie, Lilies of the Field, airied on TV, the preist, a hefty man with a good and deep singing voice would often end the mass singing the verses to this song, Amen. Us kids would just sing the, "amens," like the nuns in this scene. We shook the pilllers. Our teachers had to wonder where their pupils went.
Just a little extra piece of trivia: Sidney Poitier was the first black to win an academy award for his part in this movie. I am sure that the song did not hurt him any.
MrDMC
Level 7
Nov 3, 2019
1
Certainly makes you want to join in and sing along.
I very much like the first verse of “How Great Thou Art”.
The other verses sink into dogmatic Christian doctrine.
WilliamFleming
Level 8
Nov 3, 2019
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I think there are a few songs like that for me. A little is fine, too much is pushing it.
White Bird in a Golden Cage!!!
of-the-mountain
Level 9
Nov 3, 2019
1
Another I haven’t heard in forever. I don’t catch the religious aspect of this song.
Here’s a beautiful and inspiring religious song, originally posted by Skado:
WilliamFleming
Level 8
Nov 3, 2019
1
I need a tissue. That was so beautiful and moving! Thank you for sharing, my brother!
"You Say" by Lauren Daigle. I had to hear it sung several times to catch on it was a religious song even though the last verse addresses God.
RussRAB
Level 8
Nov 3, 2019
1
Compare and Contrast this song, exactly the same lyric, opposite meanings.
Ah the difference a little distortion and tone of voice brings eh?
Original is by depech mode?
Davesnothere
Level 7
Nov 8, 2019
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A more current selection.
Tinocca
Level 7
Nov 6, 2019
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Kind of a Dan Folgelberg feel to his work, with more orchestration.
I think this song treats Gospel with the musical respect it deserves, setting all religious notions aside.
I think some folks cannot do that, they cannot listen to an amazing rendition of amazing grace without the religion intruding.
For me, all music touches something, and not always a plesant omething. In order to enjoiy it one has to be able to seperate, and sometimes despite our best effort, some memory, good or ill, will become your dominant emotion anyway.
I can't recall what I ate last night, but play some 45 year old song and I might know the lyric, and be able to tell you where I first heard it, if it made enough of an impact on me.
a 60's version of a 1925 song
Davesnothere
Level 7
Nov 6, 2019
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Really like the music. It’s a little difficult to make out a few of the words along the way. I get enough of it, though. Nice selections you’ve been offering up.
@Tinocca I can easily do this all day, my favorite feature of you tube, endless versions of music I own
AND
endless NEW music
@Tinocca Old Delta Blues. Son House is one of the few folks who could pull off Delta with no music at all, and most of had a strong message to his work. I will look for a grinnin in your face with lyrics.
Dont you mind people grinnin in your face
Dont mind people grinnin in your face
You just bear this in mind, a true friend is hard to find
Dont you mind people grinnin in your face
You know your mother would talk about you
Your own sisters and your brothers too
They just don't care how youre tryin to live
Theyll talk about you still
Yes, but bear, ooh, this in mind, a true friend is hard to find
Dont you mind people grinnin in your face
Dont you mind people grinnin in your face
Dont you mind people grinnin in your face
Oh, just bear, ooh this in mind, a true friend is hard to find
Dont you mind people grinnin in your face
You know theyll jump you up and down
Theyll carry you all 'round and 'round
Just as soon as your back is turned
Theyll be tryin to crush you down
Yes, but bear this in mind, a true friend is hard to find
Dont you mind people grinnin in your face
Dont mind people grinnin in your face
Dont mind people grinnin in your face, oh, Lord
And just bear this in mind, a true friend is hard to find
Dont you mind people grinnin in your face
This could be a hymn, if music was your religion . . .
Davesnothere
Level 7
Nov 5, 2019
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This does have a hymnal quality to it. I feel floaty listening to it.
Working out at our gym and listening to my I-pod I heard a piece that fits this posting. The Shaker song, "Simple Gifts" by Virgil Thompson is a favorite of mine. Unfortunately, I can;t seem to find a link to a choral version. Perhaps someone has more computer skills than I.
JackPedigo
Level 9
Nov 4, 2019
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There us one by Virgil Fox and one by Stanford Thompson on YouTube. Do you know which one you were looking for?
@Tinocca Neither of those has the choral. It's not the same without the choral. Thanks but I did find one at the Stanford Thomas link.
I am drawn to music that soothes and this is definitely soothing.
@JackPedigo I'm glad you were able to find and post one you liked. Soothing is good. I concur.
Yes...of course you can listen to and sing anything you like. A great deal of the most beautiful music ever written is religious in nature...I, as a choral singer sing all of it,...requiems, masses, hymns...the lot. The words only have meaning if you invest in them a belief in god...something I have never had. I have won gold medals for singing religious pieces, so I seem to be able to invest them with a religious devotion which I don’t actually feel, because it’s the notes not the music that are emotionally speaking to me. My own favourite non classical religious song is Ready To Go Home the 10cc hit. I’d have this Morten Harket version of it sung at my funeral if I did actually believe the words and thought I was “going home”
Marionville
Level 10
Nov 4, 2019
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Thank you for your comments and the song selection. I’ve never heard this. It definitely sounds quite religious. The imagery in the video is lovely. I like the nature/ circle of life component to it. That is soothing.
david75090
Level 7
Nov 3, 2019
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This is too much for me. Nice music, but the lyrics actually turn me off from it. Thanks for the input.
@Tinocca That one is extremely religious. It's lively. I imagine in the setting it would be sung, it would have folks swaying and dancing.
@david75090 yes, I’m sure folks would be getting into the spirit of it in the right setting. I would not find myself comfortable in such a setting. Lol
Alive by P.O.D.
Or any of their songs, really. I had the album that this song is on as a teenager and I listened to it a lot. I had no idea that they're technically a Christian Rock band until I was older. My music tastes have changed a bit, but I still listen to them from time to time.
Kynlei
Level 8
Nov 3, 2019
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Interesting. Not my musical taste, but listening and seeing the lyrics, I could easily interpret this with or without religious meanings.
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