Christian lyrics ???

Moonlight Mollusc · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 2 Location: San Luis Obispo

Sorry if this is a touchy subject, but I've been reading here for a while trying to figure this out on my own.

As a new listener, I hear a lot in the lyrics that seems to have a Christian message. There's lots of "devils" and "angels" and "rapture" and in one song they even all yell "jesus".

But then other lyrics seem to be a little more tongue in cheek
"I got dressed for church on Sunday, went down to the river instead"
"We all found God, and we bought him a shot".

Honestly, I opted out of going to see them recently because I was convinced (at that time) they are a Christian band that is trying get people hooked on good music, and then brainwash you with Christian propaganda in the lyrics. The Stryper of jam-rock? Someone please tell me it isn't so, because I dig them otherwise. I'm Ok with lyrics that discuss religious ideas as subjects; I am not down with people trying to convert you to believe what they do.

6'er · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

I think you're safe!
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Weezie · Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 423 Location: Sota

Your rediculous..........and even if it is, good music is good music.
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plop · Joined: 14 Nov 2001 Posts: 221 Location: cracker barrell

You're onto us buddy, head for the hills cause those bible beatin tea leaf greeners are out to get ya. Boogieeebooogieee!!!!! This is too funny.
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Focker · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

Their music has turned me on to devil worship
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Lookin’ like a fool, walkin’ to the town
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Focker · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject:

Stryper Leaf Green

TO HELL WITH THE DEVIL!!!!
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Pants on the ground
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With the gold in your mouth, hat turned sideways
Pants hit the ground, call yourself a cool cat
Lookin’ like a fool, walkin’ to the town
With your pants on the ground!

HanzerBiscuit · Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 5059

You may be on to something... Tequila sounds like a southern baptist revival and makes me want to stand up and shout ... and drink tequila to get the demons out ...
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muck · Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 2038 Location: North Beach

I'd like to point out that while the word "rapture" has been hijacked by the christian right, its meaning is not religious. In fact, I would counter that by the definition below, Tea Leaf Fiends experience a helluva a lot more rapture than non-fiend churchgoing folk.

rap•ture

Pronunciation: (rap'chur), [key]
—n., v. -tured, -tur•ing.

—n.
1. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
2. Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
3. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
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GreenE · Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 4005 Location: Diablo Valley

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DG · Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 7506

You guys don't have to take the thread seriously (great thread so far, by the way), but, you know, it's all so fun... so here goes,

Many of Trevor's songs address religion and philosophy. It's a prevelant topic in the lyrics. To me it sounds like he has no need of organized religion - "I don't go to school and I don't go to churches, I don't visit graveyards, I don't know the purpose of 'em, I'm just living in between the Earth & Sky". He skips church to start Incandescent Devil. Live and let live, Trevor lays it on the line at the peak verse of the song For Every Lonely Lady...

There is no easy answer, there’s no one way to get by... You may spend your life through Jesus or you may waste it drinking his wine. / We’ve got to learn our lessons, we’ve got to lead our lives / You may be tempted by the devil or you may always do what’s right / And they say the soul is immortal, and our father’s in the sky / And He heards us like a shepherd into His paradise / And if that’s what makes you happy, it doesn’t matter if it’s true / But I don’t need no here nor after, I’ve got my paradise right here with you

Angels and devils are present symbols that I think can be real in our perception. The angel could be your love, the devil's in your troubles; or whatever you want to make of it.

Also: http://www.dgold.info/green/song/kali-yuga/
http://www.dgold.info/green/song/rapture/
http://www.dgold.info/green/song/an-aeroplane-has-never-seen-it/ Don't be soulless...
http://www.dgold.info/green/song/stormcloud/ You'll spend your last days passing...
http://www.dgold.info/green/song/i-believe/ I believe in you and me and everything...
http://www.dgold.info/green/song/deep-river/ There's an angel in the orchestra and he's playing songs...

Bear · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

Laughing my ass off here. lol

Actually, PlateFace is a saint!
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Ang · Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 1845 Location: here

a unique thread. you must fight their attempts to convert you. i have...unsuccessfully...

all hail plateface!
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swirls · Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 2926

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HanzerBiscuit · Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 5059

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Subliminal what?

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6'er · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject:

swirls · Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 2926

if by spreading christianity you mean
smoking weed
drinking tequila
killing people
tripping balls to a pastry
sex
smoking weed with snoop dogg
stylish moustaches
stylish nutwings
and the hit jamaican family film "Cool Runnings"

than you are absolutely correct. Fuck these guys, they all about the GOD stuff.

not ragging on you man but even if they were a christian band, that shouldn't stop you fromraging to them. For some wierd reason all I eat is chocolate cake ever since I started listening to this band
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mkahootz · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 644 Location: State College

i really dont know what else to say...
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Hahahahahahahaha.

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Focker · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:01 am Post subject:

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Pants on the ground
Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground
With the gold in your mouth, hat turned sideways
Pants hit the ground, call yourself a cool cat
Lookin’ like a fool, walkin’ to the town
With your pants on the ground!

young and in the way · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:54 am Post subject:

This is funniest thing Ive read since the first time I found out about the Chuck Norris site. Good stuff. Amen, brothers and sisters.
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Weezie · Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 423 Location: Sota

I think its at the Mystic show after death cake when Josh says, "Hail Satan, Hail Satan, manufacturer of Death Cake"

If anything, u got it the other way around my brotha!
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the_dude · Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 396 Location: Chicago

This is some pretty funny shit. But I've got to admit though that the first show I ever heard had a "I Believe" and I was listening casually while doing other stuff and not really hearing the lyrics. When the "Jeeeeeeessssssuuuuusssss!!!" ending came, I was kind of wondered what was up with that. Further listening showed me that this is a band that isn't necessarily religious but has a nice spiritual and philosophical streak that I can really dig.

This thread is kind of sad because it really shows that a certain fundementalist faction has so successfully hijacked religion in the is country, so that these days you can't mention the words "jesus", "angel" or "devil" without people thinking you're a Bible-thumping, fire-and-brimstone loving Jesus freak.

(rant over)
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TEAm · Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 842 Location: TEAm

Taught to be proud of where I come from, and I'm so sad that I'm the only one. Like a cold preacher boy talking only to himself: how did he think that he got to promised lands?? Sometimes I'm confused and I don't know where I'm going... mistaking gentle rivers for that cold wind a-blowing. I'm always sure of an angel when she gets here, but I never see her coming and I miss her when she disappears...

august west · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:58 am Post subject:

Sorry to jump in on this one late, but I could'nt help myself.

Without Angels and Devils (biblical or metaphorical) life would be pretty boring.

old hound dog · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:35 am Post subject:

just read today the supreme court just upheld the drinking of hallucinogenic tea for a small church in new mexico:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11188277/

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SeedBorneOnTheWind · Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 386 Location: Bloodroot Nation

had to add this:

ash wednesday (march 1) in asheville, moooohahahahahahah!!!!! devil

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tomtucker · Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 256 Location: Philly, PA

if you think tlg is christian rock music, it can only mean one thing:

YOU HAVEN'T LISTENING TO ENOUGH TEA LEAF GREEN AND DONT QUITE UNDERSTAND YET

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