This is the sixty-eighth installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please send me an email.
Today’s Song of Sacrilege is My Church by Maren Morris.
Lyrics
I’ve cursed on a Sunday
I’ve cheated and I’ve lied
I’ve fallen down from grace
A few too many times
But I find holy redemption
When I put this car in drive
Roll the windows down and turn up the dial
[Chorus]
Can I get a hallelujah
Can I get an amen
Feels like the Holy Ghost running through ya
When I play the highway FM
I find my soul revival
Singing every single verse
Yeah I guess that’s my church
When Hank reads the sermon
And Cash leads the choir
It gets my cold cold heart burning
Hotter than a ring of fire
When this wonderful world gets heavy
And I need to find my escape
I just keep the wheels rolling, radio scrolling
Until my sins wash away
[Chorus]
[Chorus]
[Chorus]
Can I get a hallelujah
Can I get an amen
Feels like the Holy Ghost running through ya
When I play the highway FM
I find my soul revival
Singing every single verse
Yeah I guess that’s my church
Yeah I guess that’s my church
Yeah I guess that’s my church
link not working… here’s a YouTube version:
Working OK now. Must of been some sort of glitch on Youtube’s end.
It is turn up the DIAL, not turn up the God.
Thanks for catching the typo.
I’m fairly cut-off from any mainstream media (by choice), so when I heard my pre-teen stepdaughter singing the main line from the chorus to this song, I had no idea it was a secular song. I heard it for the first time last night on the radio & could easily see how it would seduce a person (young or old) in to mindlessly singing along. Satan certainly knows how to needle his way into our lives in brilliant disguise.
Yep, the song deserves much higher production values than can be had in live performance recorded on a cell phone by the sounds of it….
Just another reason I don’t listen to country music. Music is a powerful tool that sways the mindset. I pray this young lady and all the others who like to challenge or sustitute the work Jesus Christ for some apathetic philosophy of sinful man, have their eyes and hearts opened before it is too late.
*sigh*
Such a great song! Love this list of songs. Not sure if you’re still doing it, but “Brand New Man” by Brooks & Dunn with Luke Combs would be a good example.