Your Religion is a Gamble
Once again I'm making playlists, 'cause that's what I do. And everyone once in a while I feel like sharing.
So, a while back my friend Dannie made an LJ post reminding how much I love this one song, and thinking about that song got me thinking about religion, and songs about belief and religion, and what songs would describe what I believe.
I grew up Mormon, but now consider myself agnostic. There are a lot a religious ideas I like, and a lot of ideas that I really don't, and in the end I am decidedly undecided. I think that basically anything could true. But there are a lot of things I like the idea of thinking about, whether I believe them or not.
Also, growing up Mormon was somewhat repressed, and so it's a bit liberating to explore music that takes different views on things. So I decided to make a kind of personal Agnostic Worship CD. Some songs are religious and some aren't. Some are anti-religion, and some just explore thoughts on life in general. Some are in there as a joke and some I'm dead serious on.
ALBUM: Your Religion is a Gamble
Various Artists
Tracks
1. The Oatmeal Song - Mike Birbiglia
I feel like every religion should have their own Rock and Roll.
2. The Circle of Life - Disney DDR
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round
3. God is a Girl - Groove Coverage
God is a girl, she's only a girl,
Do you believe it, can you receive it?
She wants to shine, forever in time,
She is so driven, she's always mine,
Clearly and free, she wants you to be,
A part of the future, a girl like me
4. God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You - Kiss
You can take a stand, or you can compromise
You can work real hard or just fantasize
But you don't start livin' till you realize
God gave rock and roll to you
5. Music Makes Us Real - Fraggle Rock
Every time I turned around
All I heard was battle sounds,
'Til the minstrel way was found.
Music makes us one.
6. Turn, Turn, Turn - Byrds
To everything, turn, turn, turn.
There is a season, turn, turn, turn.
And a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to gain, a time to lose.
A time to rend, a time to sow.
A time for love, a time for hate.
A time for peace, I swear it's not too late
7. The Power of the Gospel - Ben Harper
It will make a weak man mighty.
It will make a mighty man fall.
It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all
8. What God Thinks - Voltaire
God thinks all people like you are hateful
God thinks all people like you are an embarrassment to creation
self-righteous, judgmental, first to throw a stone
and using His name for your own protection
9. Dear God - XTC
I won't believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners,
No devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You're always letting us humans down.
10. All You Need is Love - The Beatles
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time.
11. In the Name of God - Ziggy Marley
in the name of your god, why do you kill?, why do you hate?
12. We're All Going to Hell - The Bastard Fairies
All you Catholics wearing condoms, you are going to hell
All us fatties eating bonbons, we are going to hell
Unbaptized babies learn to limbo, purgatory is hell
And your religion is a gamble and you are going to hell
13. Salvation - The Cranberries
To all the people doing lines
Don’t do it, don’t do it
Inject your soul with liberty
It’s free, it’s free
14. The Devil Went Down to Newport (Totally Rocking) - Mono Puff
God said to Satan,
"Dude, I'm sick of waitin',
In order to win,
Chuck, you gotta hang ten."
15. The Power of Love - Jennifer Chi (from Sailor Moon)
It gives meaning to each moment.
It's what our hearts are all made of.
You got to believe in the power of love.
16. Carry On, My Wayward Son
Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know
17. Tribute - Tenacious D
All of a sudden, there shined a shiny demon
in the middle of the road.
And he said: "Play the best song in the world,
or I'll eat your souls"
18. Love is My Religion - Ziggy Marley
I don't condemn, I don't convert, this is a calling have you heard
bring all the lovers to the fold, cause no one is gonna lose their soul.
19. Freewill - Rush
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill.
You can download the entire album with all the tracks here.
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