Of more traditional or gospel-sounding songs…
**Harry Stewart **- End Of My Journey; Maybe my favorite traditional-ish hymnal, from the movie Cadence
**Afroman **- Hush; Yeah I know- Afroman? But he can sing on this one.
**Soulsavers **- Revival; Has sort of a Tom Wait-ish, smokey western sound, would be right at home on a Tarintino soundtrack.
Some other stuff, not all necessarily Christian, or even pro-theistic, but speak of God in one sense or another…
**Alias **- Divine Disappointment; Really a bit of a downer song, but still well done.
**Arrested Development **- Fishing 4 Religion, Give a Man a Fish, Raining Revolution; Taking it back old school. I love these guys.
**Atmosphere **- Woman With the Tattooed Hands"…a glimpse of religion, a piece of coming closer to understand more about what intrigues me most. I didn’t get turned on I just got turned…"
**Brother Ali **-Rain Water"God’s rain water flows through the same gutters that we walk today"
**DMX **- Angel, The Convo; Always puts at least one religious song on his albums.
**Gnarls Barkley **- Go Go Gadget Gospel; Could have maybe gone up with the first songs, try and sit still on this one.
**K-OS **- Ballad of Noah, Hallelujah; An original, not the Cohen song. Sunday Morning, Valhalla; One of two sons of preachers on this list, from wiki:" raised by Trinidadian Jehovah’s Witness parents. His father was a minister at two congregations in the Greater Toronto Area."
**Mr Lif **- Iron Helix; Similar to the next song(conversational in tone), I suppose you could say it is about Man realizing his creative powers; its unclear who exactly the other side of the conversation is- god, devil, man, all?
**Ras Kass **- Interview With A Vampire; A very neat song involving a conversation between Man, God, and the Devil.
**Roots Manuva **- Colossal Insight, Evil Rabbit, Sinny Sin Sins, Thinking; From wiki: “His parents were from a small village in Jamaica called Banana Hole where his father was a preacher and tailor. Spending much of his early years in poverty, this and his strict Pentecostal upbringing clearly had an influence on his music”
**Sage Francis **- Climb Trees; Supposedly told from the perspective of the antichrist, I dunno, still a good song though. Hoofprints in the Sand;“my higher power doesn’t need to be thanked. Thanks anyways, that from him - to me - to you. I don’t mind being a middle man someday I might need one too”
**Saul Williams **- 5 Senses(a poem); Children of Night(a poem); DNA; “Hail Mary Mother of God, got a whole host of Angels shuffling in my Ipod”. Tao of Now; Perhaps my favorite song of his, I hope that link works. Wine (verses at: 3:50, 7:58); What more can be said about Saul Williams? Over his entire body of work I don’t think there is a better lyricist around when it comes to the spiritual and metaphysical.
Also, most of the lyrics should be easily found via Google. There is quite a bit of clever word play in some of those so it might help to read along; especially with the quicker deliveries.