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These are songs that, at first hearing, seem to be ordinary love songs, but are actually allegories about the singer's relationship with God. This is often done by artists who are trying to gain or keep a mainstream secular audience and feel that talking about God will put people off and exclude themnote if you want to be cynical, you can get the best of both worlds by writing an ordinary love song and telling people it's secretly about God. It can sometimes lead to problems when a praise song sounds dirty to people who aren't familiar with the context. Can sometimes be a subtrope of What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?. Sometimes this is lampshaded by having the singer change "baby" to "Jesus" or vice versa to appeal to a different audience. A lot of music from the High Medieval period is a version of this. At various periods and cultures, straightforward songs about romantic love were being frowned on by Moral Guardians of the day, so a lot of lovesongs have at least a veneer of being addressed to the Virgin Mary, an acceptable way for the writers to be writing about loving a woman. Because nuns at this time often expressed their love for Christ in erotic terms, their poems fit in this category as well. On the flipside of the same coin, any song about a Crisis of Faith is liable to sound like a Break-Up Song; see Religion Rant Song. Also compare Song of Prayer. God Is Good is likely to come up in these kinds of songs. If there's no chance of mistaking that the song is about God, you probably have Gospel Music or Christian Rock. The inverse of this, where love is sung about as though it were a religion, is Love Is Like Religion. Sometimes referred to as 'Jesus is My Boyfriend' songs. |
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"God", "Love Defined (the Bible)" by Daniel Johnston from his album Yip/Jump Music. | |
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"Only Hope" by Switchfoot, especially as it was used in the movie A Walk to Remember. Borderline, as the original version is somewhat less ambiguous. It's the more well known Mandy Moore version that causes the confusion. |
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Parodied in the Songs of Praise episode of The Vicar of Dibley, in which Dibley's choir performs "Love is All Around" (specifically the Wet Wet Wet cover), with the single alteration of changing "'Cos on my love, you can depend" to "On Jesus's love, you can depend". And it works. (Then again, the original Troggs version was apparently inspired by a Christian rock song called "Love That's All Around" by the Joystrings, so maybe it's not that surprising.) | |
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The Simpsons did a joke on this: First Ned hears a Christian folk singer announce "a love song about a dude I met in a sleazy motel" and then being surprised when she sings about God. Later she reveals that her band dumped her to sing pop rock, which they achieved by just changing the word "Jesus" to "baby", with the implication that the reverse would be true as well. | |
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The movie Sister Act inverts this by taking 1960s love songs and turning them into hymns. For instance, a version of Mary Wells' "My Guy" that changes the Title Drop to "My God", but keeps the rest of the lyrics identical to the original. Oddly, because of the tamer (relatively) lyrics of such songs at the time, as well as that it's the brides of Christ singing them, it actually works better than modern Christian rock. | |
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Thoroughly invoked and parodied in Hamlet 2. Imagine the cast of Glee putting on a performance of The Producers, and you're more or less there. It features a song called "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus". Though the director (played by Steve Coogan) insists it's a metaphor in movie, it's pretty obviously a song about wanting to bone Jesus. | |
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In Highway 61, the main character (who's possibly a Christ figure) has sex with his girlfriend in the graveyard outside a church, which is intercut with a choir inside the church belting "Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus". | |
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Have I Told You Lately by Van Morrison. The Rod Stewart cover, however, is meant as a regular love song. Also covered by Robin Mark. | |
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"When Worlds Collide" (from Vox Humana) is a straighter example. It's a love song from God to humanity. | |
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Most of Red's output sounds like love songs or songs about relationships of varying degrees of unhealthiness but actually, they are about the narrator’s relationship with God. | |
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The musical Altar Boyz is made of this trope. | |
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"What Is Life?" from All Things Must Pass (1970) | |
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"Long Long Long" from The White Album (1968) | |
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Inverted by Sam Cooke, among many others, when singers from the 'gospel trail' started adapting their music to commercial pop in the late 50s. | |
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The "Let My Love Open The Door"/"Still" inversion is parodied by "You, You, You" from A Bit of Fry and Laurie, with Stephen as God and Hugh as a (female) backup singer. | |
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"Bargain" by The Who is actually about the search for God/spiritual enlightenment. Similarly, the "you" in "See Me, Feel Me" and "Who Are You" is stated to be God. | |
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A lot of the music of 1980s Christian band Stryper, though this was not surprising. | |
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Unlike most of the above examples, he was doing this intentionally, and was probably inspired by the "church as the Bride of Christ" imagery from The Bible. And a lot of Donne's poetry was just straight up Intercourse with You stuff. (See "The Flea") | |
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Heather Clark, particularly her album Dark Yet Lovely, which draws inspiration from the Song of Songs. | |
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Apparently, "I Need You" by LeAnn Rimes falls into this category. Not surprisingly, it's been included on an album called Jesus: Music From And Inspired by the Epic Mini Series. | |
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Indonesian rock band Noah usually writes straight love songs, but there are exceptions: "Terbangun Sendiri" (Awaken Alone) from Seperti Seharusnya per Ariel is actually about not wanting to be left alone by God rather than by a lover. Similarly, "Menemaniku" (Accompany Me) from Keterkaitan Keterikatan according to David is about how God never left us. |
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Although they might actually be romantic lyrics played straight, quite a few lines in songs by Killswitch Engage seem to imply this, what with how closely they mesh with the heavy spiritual (Christian?) themes. | |
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Black Sabbath's "After Forever" was made as a reaction to accusations that the band is Satanist, when the members were actually Christian and using themes of the occult as an act. As a matter of fact, the song outright stated that "God is the only way to love". | |
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"I Love You #19" (from Horrendous Disc) is a meta version. It's as much a song about love as it is a love song, pondering how hard it can be to convince your romantic interest that your feelings are sincere—and then it draws a comparison to how hard it is to convince others that Jesus loves them. | |
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Plumb's "In My Arms" is from the POV of God. Many people view it as being about a mother and her baby though. | |
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South Park parodied this ruthlessly in the episode, "Christian Rock Hard", where Cartman creates a Christian rock group and achieves massive success by just taking already existing love songs and replacing words like "baby" with "Jesus". invoked Accidental Innuendo abound as the songs he picks to adapt get more and more explicit. | |
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Peter Tosh: "Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised)" from Legalize It. | |
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Parodied in True Blood with the song "Jesus Asked Me Out Today," performed at a camp held by the Fellowship of the Sun and attended by Jason. | |
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The Kyon/Haruhi fic Hot Air is based off the religious Owl City song Galaxies. It helps that Haruhi is more or less a God in Human Form. | |
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