Ok, so Monday is almost over, or may even be completely over by the time you read this, but I liked the title. :) Just something off the beaten path. (Not that I never post odd videos)!
In the last day or two I've been in an email exchange with John Fincher in which we're sharing "religious" lyrics with each other (from bands such as Jethro Tull, Soundgarden, etc). I mentioned to him that I had heard the song "Whatever" from Godsmack 3 times in the past week, and I had thought about posting the video here, but wasn't too sure how far I wanted to push things. LOL. Anyway, I heard the song one more time today, so I thought, OK, let's do it! It's a song from 1998, so it's kind of 'weird' that I would hear it so many times in one week, especially when I'm only a very casual (not daily) listener to the two rock stations that I heard the song on.
I've also got a couple more songs to share as well... both are comical in their own ways, and they're songs I heard on the radio today.
Godsmack - Whatever (click link - embedding disabled) (radio version: swear words edited out)
I don't know if there is any 'religious' intent in this song, but to me it smacks of religion. There is angst in the lyrics that seems to me to come from a place in which someone has been under the pressure of religious performance. By the way, the name of the band supposedly comes from an incident in which one of the band members was making fun of someone with a cold sore. The next day he himself got a cold sore, and someone told him that that was a godsmack (God getting him back for making fun of someone else). Talk about a sad religion!
I won't post all the lyrics because they even make me blush, but the chorus goes:
I'm doing the best I ever did
I'm doing the best that I can
I'm doing the best I ever did
Now go away!
Drowning Pool - Bodies (Let the Bodies Hit the Floor) (Benny Hinn)
I heard this on the radio this week. A while back this Benny Hinn version was posted on Meeting of One and it gave me a good laugh. :-D
Steel Breeze - You Don't Want Me Anymore
Keeping with the "metal" theme (Steel Breeze)... This is a song from the 80's that I loved singing along to. Heard it on the radio today for the first time in many, many years. Something that will never be true of God: "You don't want me anymore." :)
I still think 'Let the Body's hit the floor' in this video is great. What else would you expect in a room full of suits!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post
Ya gotta get a copy of Plagues of Exodus @
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm5DbMpvKcA&eur
If I had the 'gift' of 'Pushing' like Mr. Hinn did, I would use it all the time (not just on the stage alone) :) May be thats the reason God didn't give that to me, he knew that I would misuse it! ;)
ReplyDeleteLOL Bino!
ReplyDeleteThat video is kinda sad. It's a shame that he does all that in the name of Jesus. It's ridiculous is what it is.
WC,
ReplyDeleteI think I needs to order me a copy of that CD to go along with my Metal Hymns cassette that I've had since the early 90's. :) That tape wasn't quite growling death metal like this one is though. The last time I really got into that type of music was on a Stryper tribute tape that was heavy and death metal most of the way through. Had some ok stuff on it.
Bino and Matthew, my fellow pushers... we all have the gift. It's whether we stre-e-e-tch out our faith or not that determines how much of an impact we make. Seriously... next time you're standing next to someone, stretch out your hands toward them and see if they topple over!
Joel,
ReplyDeleteWe forgot about those Satanic dinosaurs, Led Zeppelin.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
Stairway to Heaven
Joel, that Benny Hinn video was something else. I've never fallen easily but I always was envious of those who did thinking that God was doing some great things in them. Occasionally, I would fall and was always disappointed. When I got up, I was exactly the same as before I fell. Nothing changed.
ReplyDeleteWhile that stuff may be a great crowd pleaser, it doesn't seem to accomplish anything but give people a momentary rush.
BTW, I have prayed for people and a couple have fallen or staggered. I didn't push but maybe they felt sorry for me and pretended to be hit by the spirit. Talk about an ego booster.
For a small donation of $100.00 or more, I'll gladly pass the gift on to anyone who would like to contribute to my ministry.
Beating a dead horse, here's some lyrics from Van Morrison, who I think is a believer:
ReplyDeleteHAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU
(Thanks for the tech tip!!!)
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what you do
Oh the morning sun in all its glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
And you fill my life with laughter
You can make it better
Ease my troubles that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
And its yours and its mine
Like the sun at the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray to the one
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
And its yours and its mine
And it shines like the sun
At the end of the day we will give thanks
And pray to the one
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what you do
Take away my sadness
Fill my life with gladness
Ease my troubles that's what you do
Fill my life with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles that's what you do.
Aida,
ReplyDeleteSomehow in the madness that has been my life this past week... LOL... I missed this comment of yours. Sometimes I highlight several emails at once, to archive them or delete them, and I must've accidentally done that with the email I received about your comment.
Anyway... I've been in services in which people have tried to "push" me (usually my forehead), and since I'd seen others fall I figured that the Spirit would simply make me fall when I was touched or pushed, so I simply waited for something to happen. But nothing would happen. A couple of times the person would then push me again, as if trying to make me fall, almost as if they were embarrassed that it wasn't happening. But even in my naivety, I knew that if "I" made it happen by intentionally falling, then that wasn't of God! As I look back it just amazes me that people will try to make a show out of all of this stuff, when there is so much other wonderful stuff that God does in and through us on a daily basis, simply in the day to day things of life.
John,
I know who Van Morrison is, but I don't think I've heard much of his music. Great song here. I've heard the Rod Stewart version of that song, but I didn't know it was originally a Van Morrison song.
Watching the video... he looks so different than how I pictured him from his younger days. (Don't we all). :) I wouldn't have recognized him. Kind of like Peter Frampton in that Geico commercial a year or two ago. Mostly bald with a grey mustache and beard. Totally different from his bad hair from the 70's. :)
JOEL! Don't me messin' with FRAMPTON!!! I used to swoooon over him. ;)
ReplyDeleteI like John's contribution, GREAT lyrics!!
Ummmm, the Benny Hinn thing? Why do I have to go to SOMEONE ELSE to "bring out" what is already in me??? It's sad that people chase after these ministries to "get" what they already have. What more can you add to Christ in you?
Jamie,
ReplyDeleteI'm not messing with the guy... did you see the two comparative videos on the blog post that I linked to... I'm simply saying what I see. =D
About what you said about Benny Hinn and other such ministries... tru dat!!!
Frampton aside, have you seen Billy Squire!!! OMG. He looks exactly like a neighbor of mine!
ReplyDeleteAlso, Rod Stewart totally screwed up this song. I actually like Van Morrison's version he did with The Chieftains. Very Celtic. If you like Celtic music, The Long Black Veil is probably one of the best albums of the last 15 years. It has Mick Jagger singing an old country song!
You can hear a snippet of the Van Morrison song here
Joel, I'm amazed that we even have those types of pre-programmed services when they were never done by Jesus or any of the apostles. They never lined people up to lay hands on them.
ReplyDeleteToday, those services have become a performance, a show done for entertainment. From what I've seen, all of that falling down changes absolutely nothing in the person. They all seem to get up and leave the same way they came in.