# Songs about God...but not about God. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498 "2008-12-10T03:24:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/41 "2008-12-11T04:51:54Z")
How about Neil Young’s [When God Made Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10yrW1eSuSI)? ---
**Author:** ![Nan\_Sequitur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Nan\_Sequitur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nan_Sequitur)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/42 "2008-12-11T05:55:19Z")
**Rain Come Down** by EastMountainSouth is a good one if you like **Come to Jesus**. also: [**Have a Little Faith in Me**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UkKTlzyLhQ) John Hiatt [**Change**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s448Vvx2J7w) Tracy Chapman [**If it Be your Will**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzRXjg1rYE) Leonard Cohen, also a very pretty Jan Arden version Actually, many Leonard Cohen songs have quite a bit of religious imagery, in the sense that confusing religious angst with sexual angst and religious ecstasy with sexual ecstasy seems to be a common theme with him. **Hallelujah** is a good example. Not always uplifting, though. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/43 "2008-12-11T16:02:28Z")
As I Lay Me Down by Sophie B. Hawkins. One of my favorite relax and forget the world songs. ---
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/44 "2008-12-11T16:15:08Z")
> [@Nan\_Sequitur](#): > > [**Have a Little Faith in Me**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UkKTlzyLhQ) John Hiatt I’ll have to wait until tonight to listen to most of these as a lot of the sites are blocked from work, but I have to say, I love that John Hiatt song, especially the Joe Cocker version. The way he sings it all grumpy and imperfect speaks to me about the difficulty of persevering when you think it’s impossible to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/45 "2008-12-11T16:20:40Z")
43 posts and no one’s mentioned Van Morrison? And It Stoned Me Into The Mystic Brand New Day St. Dominic’s Preview Listen To The Lion If I Ever Needed Someone Bright Side Of The Road Full Force Gale Dweller On The Threshold She Gives Me Religion Beautiful Vision Rave On, John Donne …etc etc etc ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/46 "2008-12-11T17:16:56Z")
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, [Into My Arms](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owifmb8n2s) ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/47 "2008-12-11T17:42:13Z")
Billy Joel, [The River Of Dreams](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNS4pV9Pls0) I’d post a relevant snippet of lyrics but really, the [whole song](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/River-of-Dreams-lyrics-Billy-Joel/D2D17626A86F10B348256CBC0005D0D0) fits the description in the OP. And I especially like how he uses odd-measure silences in the song to indicate spiritual reflection. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/48 "2008-12-11T18:39:51Z")
Jars of Clay is a Christian group, but overall their songs don’t namecheck God and they have a good vibe going. Ditto Newsboys (who also are very catchy, even when they’re happily singing about having no breakfast in hell). ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/49 "2008-12-11T18:40:15Z")
Cat Stevens- _Morning Has Broken_ It warms this Jewish Atheist’s heart… ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/50 "2008-12-11T18:49:54Z")
I really like the tracks [The Story of Our Lives"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzBpV1GHikQ) (ignore the video), [Suffer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KYZLdbDha4) (ignore that video, too!), and [Believe](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AVR2GS/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk11?ie=UTF8&qid=1229021322&sr=8-16) by **The Echoing Green**. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/51 "2008-12-11T19:16:36Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > It betta not had been my crush! Clifton, where ever you are, I miss you and your afro supreme! Jali, I loved that song, too. No - Not Clifton. It was Terrence Robertson - oh god. Just saying his name takes me back. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-god-but-not-about-god/476498/52 "2008-12-11T19:57:49Z")
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