Christian Lyrics

[Priestley]

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Priestley

Reading these lyrics makes me realise how ignorant I have been of Christian music. sad

Listen now! What kind of music are you into? What bands?

Bits and bobs. The majority of my tastes are on my last.fm profile but it's not a conclusive list.  

[xxPromarkxx]

I like teh metal.  

[Lethkhar]

ryuu_chan

Oh, and as another thought... some lyrics.

I Can Only Imagine
-Mercy Me
I can only imagine
What it will be like
When I walk
By your side

I can only imagine
What my eyes will see
When your face
Is before me
I can only imagine

I can only imagine

[Chorus:]
Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feel
Will I dance for you Jesus or in awe of you be still
Will I stand in your presence or to my knees will I fall
Will I sing hallelujah, will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine

I can only imagine

I can only imagine
When that day comes
And I find myself
Standing in the Son

I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever
Forever worship You
I can only imagine

I can only imagine

[Chorus]

I can only imagine [x2]

I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever, forever worship you

I can only imagine

Oh, God no...Please no... xp  

[Lethkhar]

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Lethkhar

Lifehouse

Cause you're all I want
You're all I need
You're everything, everything

How do you know this is even about God?

It sounds like a love song for me...Which reminds me of South Park...

It is a love song! A love song about God! I know because it was made by a Christian band, and they made a whole skit about Jesus with that in the background. South Park is hilarious, but I boycotted that episode cause it pisses me off so much.

Boycotting a TV show generally just improves its ratings.

South Park rips on everybody. Us atheists got a 2-part episode ripping on us.  

[Lethkhar]

I'll admit the Demon Hunter lyrics are decent. It's a shame I don't like their music.

My favorite lyricist of all time is Steven Wilson. He doesn't write much about religion, and whenever he does he's almost always talking about several things at once, but:

Steven Wilson-The Creator Has a Mastertape

He captured and collected things
And he put them in a shed
He raised a proper family
So he could tie them to a bed

The creator had a mastertape
But he left it in a cab
I stared into the void tonight
The best dream I ever had

He worked himself into the ground
And drove a spike into his head
A voice said "Are you happy now?
Your sordid home is running red"

Pills and chloroform
All the pages torn

Steven Wilson-Halo

God is in my fingers
God is in my head
God is in the trigger
God is in the lead

God is freedom, God is truth
God is power and God is proof
God is fashion, God is fame
God gives meaning, God gives pain

You can be right like me
With God in the hole you're a righteous soul
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I'm not the same as you
Cos I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I got a halo round my head

God is on the cellphone
God is on the net
God is in the warning
God is in the threat

 

[Priestley]

Lethkhar

I'll admit the Demon Hunter lyrics are decent. It's a shame I don't like their music.

My favorite lyricist of all time is Steven Wilson. He doesn't write much about religion, and whenever he does he's almost always talking about several things at once, but:

Steven Wilson-The Creator Has a Mastertape

He captured and collected things
And he put them in a shed
He raised a proper family
So he could tie them to a bed

The creator had a mastertape
But he left it in a cab
I stared into the void tonight
The best dream I ever had

He worked himself into the ground
And drove a spike into his head
A voice said "Are you happy now?
Your sordid home is running red"

Pills and chloroform
All the pages torn

Steven Wilson-Halo

God is in my fingers
God is in my head
God is in the trigger
God is in the lead

God is freedom, God is truth
God is power and God is proof
God is fashion, God is fame
God gives meaning, God gives pain

You can be right like me
With God in the hole you're a righteous soul
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I'm not the same as you
Cos I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I got a halo round my head

God is on the cellphone
God is on the net
God is in the warning
God is in the threat

It's all a matter of taste. wink  

[The Amazing Ryuu]

Lethkhar

I'll admit the Demon Hunter lyrics are decent. It's a shame I don't like their music.

I like their music. Better than things like MercyMe. (Which, btw, was just one of the songs that popped up when I Googled christian music. xd )  

[xxPromarkxx]

Try August Burns Red, if you like hard metal.

The Eleventh Hour

We've heard the sound that ears bleed to hear.
The sound of a place the entire universe awaits.
A passion so powerful that walls crumble to their foundations.
Here the strongest fall to their knees.
The lost find their way back home, but the masses buy what will make them rich, feasting on lies, chasing their tails.
Truth be told, they'll get what they were promised.
Crawling away, burning with regret, to the deepest, darkest depths of Hell.
We got news for you.
The day is soon coming when turning your back won't be an option.
Keep telling yourself what you really don't believe.
You can compromise what you know to be true, and you can turn off all of your senses, but in the end you'll see nothing stands between a man and his maker.
No matter what it's your decision.
This isn't something you could do alone.
Give up, give in no matter what, it's your decision.  

[Ixor Firebadger]

Without Condition by Ginny Owens

You find this situation just a bit uncomfortable;
You'd rather stay far away from reality.
For you to understand would be clearly impossible;
So you shut your eyes and swear you can see.
Claiming there is a God, but does that mean anything?
So condescending to those that you don't understand;
Just too easy to make them your enemies.
Like an ostrich, you bury your head in the sand,
And then shout about all the things you believe.
But if there is a God, don't you think He can see
What you really mean? What you're doing?

Chorus:
You can't find the answers
Till you learn to question;
You won't appear stupid
Just ask for direction.
You're insecure and it clouds your perception
So stop and listen
And learn a lesson in love without condition.


So place all the souls that you know
in their own little box;
Quite convenient to handle them that way;
You're the only one you know who carries a cross
You don't care what they care about anyway.
You talk to your God,
Prayin' for those who sin,
For their eyes to be opened

I have a pretty eclectic taste in music, Christian and secular. One of my co-workers once used two words to describe my iPod on shuffle: culture shock rofl

Though, I hae a definite preference to fast-paced/heavy music.  

[mlsassman]

Oh yes, I know this tension that you speak of
We're in the palm of a hand making a fist
It'd be best for one of us to speak up
But we prefer to pretend it does not exist
And you can't see past the blood on my hands
To see that you've been aptly damned
To fail and fail again

Cause we're all guilty of the same things
We think the thoughts whether or not we see them through
And I know that I have been forgiven
And I just hope you can forgive me too

Relient K:Forgiven  

[The Amazing Ryuu]

One of my favorite songs of all time:

In the Presence of Enemies Part 2
-Dream Theater
Welcome tired pilgrim
Into the circle
We have been waiting

Everyone's gathered
For your arrival
All the believers

Angels fall
All for you
Heretic
Demon heart
Bleed for us

I've been waiting for you
Weary preacher man
You have been expected
Now we can begin
Let this hallowed day of judgment reign

I have known you father
And your sacred quest
Blessed soldier fighting
You shall never rest
I have known you but do you know me?

Angels fall
All for you
Heretic
Demon heart
Bleed for us

My soul is yours
Dark Master
I will fight for you

Dark Master within
I will fight for you
Dark Master of sin
Now my soul is yours
Dark Master my guide
I will die for you
Dark Master inside

I cannot see his face
But I could feel his spite
A presence from the dead
Abandoned by the light
This shadow will consume him
from within

This power that I sense
The rage behind those eyes
Is just a shrouded ghost
A spirit sealed inside
The body and the soul both threats
For they are one

Angels fall
All for you
Heretic
Demon heart
Bleed for us

My soul is yours
Dark Master
I will fight for you

Dark Master within
I will fight for you
Dark Master of sin
Now my soul is yours
Dark Master my guide
I will die for you
Dark Master inside
Dark Master amen
I belong to you
Dark Master within


Don't
Bother trying to find them
They will be coming to you
Fight
Fight and destroy
Until you can't take anymore

Slay
Spill the blood of the rebels
They are the children of hell
Flesh
Of the undead
Stopping at nothing to kill

Sin
Caught in a moment of weakness
Committed the greatest of all
Sold
Half of my soul
And now it's too late for you

I judge as
My eyes see
I judge and I am just
For I speak
Of the beast
That lives in all of us

Unwelcome ones
Your time has come

Lord
You are my god and my shepherd
Nothing more shall I want
Walk
Through the abyss
Into the shadow of death

Fear
There is no evil to fear now
For I know you are with me
My
Cup overflows
With my enemies blood

I
Decay in the house of the lord
Forever amen
Death
Will follow me
All the days of my life

I judge as
My eyes see
I judge and I am just
For I speak
Of the beast
That lives in all of us

Unwelcome one
Your time has come

Servants of the fallen
Fight to pave the way
For their savior's calling
On this wicked day.

Through a veil of madness
With a vicious blade
One man rises up
Standing in their way
It's time for your reckoning


(Instrumental)


My soul grows weaker
He knows and he waits
He watches over me
Standing at the infernal gates
In the hour of darkness
The moment I feared has passed
The moment I lost my faith
Promising salvation
My soul is my own now
I do not fight for you
Dark Master


Ah, the war in heaven when the angels fell... and a little bit of our own personal demons to fight. But what's really fun as you're listening to it is seeing when the parts change and which character is supposed to be speaking.  

[Avis Felicis]

I listen to a lot of Christian music. Some of my personal favorites (mainly because they spoke to me at certain points in my life) are:

Skillet

Whispers in the Dark
Despite the lies that you're making
Your love is mine for the taking
My love is
Just waiting
To turn your tears to roses

I will be the one that's gonna hold you
I will be the one that you run to
My love is
A burning, consuming fire

(Chorus)
No
You'll never be alone
When darkness comes I'll light the night with stars
Hear my whispers in the dark
No
You'll never be alone
When darkness comes you know I'm never far
Hear my whispers in the dark

You feel so lonely and ragged
You lay here broken and naked
My love is
Just waiting
To clothe you in crimson roses

I will be the one that's gonna find you
I will be the one that's gonna guide you
My love is
A burning, consuming fire

Superchick

We Live

There's a cross on the side of the road
Where a mother lost a son
How could she know that the morning he left
Would be the last time she'd trade with him for a little more time
So she could say she loved him one last time
And hold him tight
But with life we never know
When we're coming up to the end of the road
So what do we do then
With tragedy around the bend?

(Chorus)

We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
[x2]

There's a man who waits for the tests
To see if the cancer has spread yet
And now he asks, "So why did I wait to live till it was time to die?"
If I could have the time back how I'd live
Life is such a gift
So how does the story end?
Well this is your story and it all depends
So don't let it become true
Get out and do what we were meant to do

Waking up to another dark morning
People are mourning
The weather in life outside is storming
But what would it take for the clouds to break
For us to realize each day is a gift somehow, someway?
So get our heads up out of the darkness
And spark this new mindset and start to live life cuz it ain't gone yet
And tragedy is a reminder to take off the blinders
And wake up and live the life we're supposed to take up
Moving forward with all our heads up cuz life is worth living

We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
[x4]

dc talk

Jesus Freak

Separated, I cut myself clean
From a past that comes back in my darkest of dreams
Been apprehended by a spiritual force
And a grace that replaced all the me I've divorced

I saw a man with tat on his big fat belly
It wiggled around like marmalade jelly
It took me a while to catch what it said
Cause I had to match the rhythm of his belly with my head
'Jesus Saves' is what it raved in a typical tattoo green
He stood on a box in the middle of the city
And claimed he had a dream

What will people think
When they hear that I'm a Jesus freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain't no disguising the truth
[There ain't no disgusing the truth]
[I don't need to hide it... The truth]

Kamikaze, my death is gain
I've been marked by my Maker
A peculiar display
The high and lofty, they see me as weak
Cause I won't live and die for the power they seek

There was a man from the desert with naps in his head
The sand that he walked was also his bed
The words that he spoke made the people assume
There wasn't too much left in the upper room
With skins on his back and hair on his face
They thought he was strange by the locusts he ate
The Pharisees tripped when they heard him speak
Until the king took the head of this Jesus freak

What will people think
When they hear that I'm a Jesus freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain't no disguising the truth

People say I'm strange, does it make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger
People say I'm strange, does it make me a stranger
That my best friend was born in a manger

What will people think
When they hear that I'm a Jesus freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain't no disguising the truth

What will people think
When they hear that I'm a Jesus freak
What will people do when they find that it's true
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain't no disguising the truth

What will people think [What will people think]
What will people do [What will people do]
I don't really care [What else can I say]
There ain't no disguising the truth [Jesus is the way]

I'm too lazy to add a song by newsboys... (even though they're awesome).

Off topic, the name of the first band, Skillet, always makes me think of scrambled eggs for some reason...

Oh! Oh! All three of these songs (as well as some others) are on the playlist on my profile if you want to hear them. ^_^

I think that's all... XD  

[saki_hanajima7]

After Edmund - Like A Dream

Sometimes the silence speaks when I don't have the words
Whispering the wonder of Your love
And in my ear a melody more beautiful than words
And I can hear the promise of Your love

Like a dream coming true
I believe in You
Don't let me go
I'm hanging on to You

Heaven with humanity, a miracle of love
Grace that found me broken in my needs
And the mystery of our chemistry: I'm never good enough
But still I find You're everything I need

Forever and ever, forever and ever
I'm nothing if I'm not holding on  

[saki_hanajima7]

After Edmund - Tears

All I'm thinking about
Is keeping your hope alive
And you say you're better alone
But tears won't let you hide
The feeling that I know so well
The place I've been before
Locked behing the pain inside
Screaming for a door

Your tears won't let you hide
Your tears won't let you hide
You're running to a breakthrough
There's nowhere else to go
You're reaching for the sunshine
The sunshine, the sunshine

All the lines are on the move
The colors start to fight
True love clears the view
Reveal the black and white
Confusion now is history
And all the fear is gone
You left behind the pain inside
Screaming for more

You're running to a breakthrough
There's nowhere else to go
You're reaching for the sunshine
The sunshine takes you home  

[shea tree]

Lethkhar

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Lethkhar

Lifehouse

Cause you're all I want
You're all I need
You're everything, everything

How do you know this is even about God?

It sounds like a love song for me...Which reminds me of South Park...

It is a love song! A love song about God! I know because it was made by a Christian band, and they made a whole skit about Jesus with that in the background. South Park is hilarious, but I boycotted that episode cause it pisses me off so much.

Boycotting a TV show generally just improves its ratings.

South Park rips on everybody. Us atheists got a 2-part episode ripping on us.

I guess I don't necissarily boycott it. I choose not to watch it, because I don't think God likes me watching a show that makes fun of him.