Series: Songs of Sacrilege

  • Songs of Sacrilege: No Laughing in Heaven by Ian Gillan

    This is the eighty-first 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 No Laughing in Heaven by Ian Gillan.

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    I used to be a sinner, used to have my cake and eat it
    They warned me of my fate, but I was quite prepared to meet it
    You’ll go to Hell they smiled at me
    And told me of the roaring fires
    But I was happy living wild
    And fueling my own desires
    I was a wild man
    Drinking, smoking and messing around with women
    Lots of women
    No, not swimming, women

    I wanna go to Heaven
    The place to be is right up there
    I wanna go to Heaven
    It’s gonna be good so I won’t despair

    I decided to reform and pray
    Beg mercy for my soul
    I prayed in church
    Threw away my bad habits
    Prayed out of church
    Adopted an entirely different role
    I gave my money to the poor until I was poor
    But at least I ensured that I would go up there
    Instead of down below to the Inferno
    Where the evil flames of desire
    Burned higher and higher and higher

    I’m gonna go to Heaven
    Paid my dues so I’m getting in
    I’m gonna go to Heaven
    It’s looking good if I abstain from sin

    I knocked on the pearly gates
    Neatly side-stepping the long queue
    Waved hi to St. Peter
    Who checked my card and let me through
    I smiled, threw my hands in the air
    Laughed and got arrested
    They said hey man, you’re in the wrong place
    Your behaviour is a disgrace
    Here we pray every hour, on the hour
    Read extracts from the Bible and look solemn’
    What, says I, no party?
    No party?
    Let me out

    Let me out of Heaven
    I got it wrong, no I can’t stay here
    No laughing in Heaven
    Let me out, I just can’t stay here

    Well I ran around in the state of shock and panic
    This wan’t what I expected
    Here was what looked like a bunch of manic depressives
    Can I get a transfer, I screamed
    But no, once you’re in Heaven, you’re here for good
    The good of your soul, but that’s no good for me
    If you want to go to Hell you’ve really got to be bad
    Okay, okay, I’ll be bad
    Too late
    What do you mean too late
    Too late
    No
    In the meantime

    Let me out of Heaven
    I’ve got it wrong, no I can’t stay here
    No laughing in Heaven
    Oh God, it’s awful here
    Going crazy in Heaven
    Take me out and let me go to hell
    No laughing in Heaven
    Don’t laugh, this place is Hell

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Get Down on Your Knees Dear Father by Rabbie 1121

    This is the eighty-second 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 Get Down on Your Knees Dear Father by Rabbie 1121.

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  • Songs of Sacrilege: God Said by Anthony David

    This is the eighty-third 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 God Said by Anthony David.

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    You know Christie
    Something happened a long time ago in Haiti
    And the people don’t wanna talk about it
    They were under the heel of the French
    And they got together and they swore a pact to the devil
    They said we’ll serve you
    If you’ll get us free from the French
    True story
    And so the devil said okay it’s a deal
    And ever since then they have been cursed

    Shake the hand of my imaginary friend
    See the trouble he gets in
    Can’t be traced back to me
    He can’t pretend at the slightest of his when
    He has the power to suspend our rules of morality
    And when he gets angry he can make the lion cry
    He can help me win the fight with his power
    Yes he speaks to me and it’s always positive
    Cause I can just ask for forgiveness and it’s over

    [Chorus:]
    So you can’t put the blame on me I’m doing what God said
    What God said, what God said
    Don’t you put the blame on me I’m doing what God said
    What God said, what God said

    So you’re praying for the death of the president of the united states
    Do you think it’s appropriate to say something like that or…
    I’m not saying anything what I’m doing is repeating what God is saying
    In the name of the one who made us all
    I will hide behind these walls from my enemy
    By the power bestowed from up above
    I will conquer you because it is my destiny
    And with the righteous hand
    I will bring you to your knees
    I will strip you of your freedom without mercy
    And when the earth quakes and the blood runs in the sand
    There will be no final stand for the unworthy

    [Chorus:]
    So you can’t put the blame on me I’m doing what God said
    What God said, what God said
    Don’t you put the blame on me I’m doing what God said
    What God said, what God said

    I stand on a mountain top on a solid rock
    I stand on abundance truth and I won’t be moved
    And when I come to claim my victory
    I’ll repeat what was told to me

    [Chorus:]
    So you can’t put the blame on me I’m doing what God said
    What God said, what God said
    And he speaks to only me I know what God said
    What God said, what God said

  • Songs of Sacrilege: God, Paper, Scissors by Paul Cusick

    This is the eighty-fourth 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 God, Paper, Scissors by Paul Cusick.

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    Dear god I hope you’ve got your ears on,
    I wanna tell you something that you
    wouldn’t believe.
    There’s children dying in the gutters.
    Tell me why you hide your heart up your sleeve?

    You never come down here.
    You never show yourself, is it fear?
    You never prove yourself.
    When you’re needed you disappear.

    Who sins?
    Who chooses?
    Who wins?
    Who loses?

    My god – is bigger than your god.
    Your god – is better than my god.
    My god – thinks he is your god.
    But is god – but is god better than me?

    My god – does no more than your god.
    Your god – does no less than my god.
    My god – thinks he’s the one god.
    But is god – but is god better?
    We’ll see…,

    And they say – that my god forgives more
    than your god, forgives more than me.
    And they say – that my god accepts more
    than your god, accepts more than me.

    You never come down here.
    You never show yourself, is it fear?
    You never prove yourself.
    When you’re needed you disappear.

    Who sins?
    Who chooses?
    Who wins?
    Who loses?

    Your god is kinder. My god is finer.
    Your god is wiser, but my god’s older.
    Your god is smarter. My god is sharper.
    Your god is better, but my god’s greater

    My god, your god, my god, but is god?

  • Songs of Sacrilege: God is Not Great by George Hrab

    This is the latest 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 God is Not Great by George Hrab.

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    god is not great, not from where I stand
    this 21st century man can, 
    tend to get irate / I rate, on a scale from one to one
    less than some, it’s no fun, pounding my fists at the gate
    god is not great, I’ll plainly state, it’s not to late, maybe it is

    god’s way to mean, for all the power he’s got apparently it’s a lot I 
    find it all obscene / seen quite enough of this bad play, 
    yet they stay, day after day, less logic more latrine
    god’s way to mean, I’ll calmly scream, and cause a scene

    and in a way, it’s a shame, that some folks would remain
    in a box, and ignore, what they say he made us for

    god’s no ‘of course’, he’s had enough of a chance
    a new song needs a new dance, I’ll scream until I’m hoarse/horse
    race is lost but jockeys whip, though their grip
    starts to slip, never questioning the source
    god’s no of course, Christian or Norse, Sauron or Force, 
    to me it’s all the same- god is not great.

    Bruce Gerencser, 69, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 48 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.

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  • Songs of Sacrilege: Get Away by Pearl Jam

    This is the eighty-sixth 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 Get Away by Pearl Jam.

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    Everyone’s a critic looking back up the river
    Every boat is leaking in this town
    Everybody’s thinking that they’ll all be delivered
    Sitting in a box like lost and found

    But I found my place and it’s alright
    We all searching for our better way
    Got yours off my plate, it’s alright
    I got my own way to believe

    Find a lighthouse in the dark stormy weather
    We all could use a sedative right not
    Holy rollers sittin with their backs to the middle
    All hands on deck, sinking is the bow

    And if you wanna have to pray, it’s alright
    We all be thinking with our different brains
    Get yours off my plate, it’s alright
    I got my own way to believe

    It’s ok
    Sometimes you find yourself
    Having to put all your faith
    In no faith
    Mine is mine, and yours won’t take its place
    Now make your getaway

    Science says we’re making love like the lizards
    Try and say that fossils ain’t profound
    Simon says that we are not allowed to consider
    Simon says “Stand-up. Sit-down. You’re out!”

    But I found my place, and it’s alright
    Bearing witness to some stranger days
    Get yours off my plate, it’s alright
    I got my own ways to believe

    It’s ok
    Sometimes you find yourself being told to change your ways
    There’s no way
    Mine is mine and yours won’t take its place
    Now make your getaway

    It’s ok
    Sometimes you find yourself
    Having to put all your faith
    In no faith
    Mine is mine, and yours won’t take its place
    Now make your getaway

    It’s ok
    Sometime you find yourself
    Being told to change your ways
    For Gods sake
    Mine is mine and yours won’t take its place
    Now make your getaway

    Make your getaway

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Heresy by Nine Inch Nails

    nine inch nails

    This is the eighty-seventh 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 Heresy by Nine Inch Nails.

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    He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see
    He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
    He’s got the answers to ease my curiosity
    He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity

    Your god is dead and no one cares
    If there is a hell I’ll see you there

    He flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line
    He made a virus that would kill off all the swine
    His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain
    Demands devotion atrocities done in his name

    Your god is dead and no one cares
    If there is a hell I’ll see you there
    Your god is dead and no one cares
    If there is a hell I’ll see you there

    Drowning in his own hypocrisy
    And if there is a hell I’ll see you there
    Burning with your god in humility
    Will you die for this?

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Roll the Bones by Rush

    This is the eighty-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 Roll the Bones by Rush.

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    Well, you can stake that claim
    Good work is the key to good fortune
    Winners take that praise
    Losers seldom take that blame
    If they don’t take that game
    And sometimes the winner takes nothing
    We draw our own designs
    But fortune has to make that frame

    We go out in the world and take our chances
    Fate is just the weight of circumstances
    That’s the way that lady luck dances
    Roll the bones

    Why are we here?
    Because we’re here
    Roll the bones
    Why does it happen?
    Because it happens
    Roll the bones

    Faith is cold as ice
    Why are little ones born only to suffer
    For the want of immunity
    Or a bowl of rice?
    Well, who would hold a price
    On the heads of the innocent children
    If there’s some immortal power
    To control the dice?

    We come into the world and take our chances
    Fate is just the weight of circumstances
    That’s the way that lady luck dances
    Roll the bones

    Jack…relax
    Get busy with the facts
    No zodiacs or almanacs
    No maniacs in polyester slacks
    Just the facts
    Gonna kick some gluteus max
    It’s a parallax…you dig?
    You move around
    The small gets big
    It’s a rig
    It’s action…reaction
    Random interaction
    So who’s afraid
    Of a little abstraction?
    Can’t get no satisfaction
    From the facts?
    You better run, homeboy
    A fact’s a fact
    From Nome to Rome, boy

    What’s the deal?
    Spin the wheel
    If the dice are hot…take a shot
    Play your cards. Show us what you got
    What you’re holding
    If the cards are cold
    Don’t go folding
    Lady Luck is golden
    She favors the bold
    That’s cold
    Stop throwing stones
    The night has a thousand saxophones
    So get out there and rock
    And roll the bones
    Get busy!

    Roll the bones

    Why are we here?
    Because we’re here
    Roll the bones
    Why does it happen?
    Because it happens
    Roll the bones

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Jesus He Knows Me by Genesis

    Genesis

    This is the latest 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 Jesus He Knows Me by Genesis.

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    You see the face on the TV screen
    coming at you every Sunday
    see that face on the billboard
    that man is me

    On the cover of the magazine
    there’s no question why I’m smiling
    you buy a piece of paradise
    you buy a piece of me

    I’ll get you everything you wanted
    I’ll get you everything you need
    don’t need to believe in hereafter
    just believe in me

    Cos Jesus he knows me
    and he knows I’m right
    I’ve been talking to Jesus all my life
    oh yes he knows me
    and he knows I’m right
    and he’s been telling me
    everything is alright

    I believe in the family
    with my ever loving wife beside me
    but she don’t know about my girlfriend
    or the man I met last night

    Do you believe in God
    cos that’s what I’m selling
    and if you wanna get to heaven
    I’ll see you right

    You won’t even have to leave your house
    or get outta your chair
    you don’t even have to touch that dial
    cos I’m everywhere

    And Jesus he knows me
    and he knows I’m right
    I’ve been talking to Jesus all my life
    oh yes he knows me
    and he knows I’m right
    well he’s been telling me
    everything’s gonna be alright

    Won’t find me practicing what I’m preaching
    won’t find me making no sacrifice
    but I can get you a pocketful of miracles
    if you promise to be good, try to be nice
    God will take good care of you
    just do as I say, don’t do as I do

    I’m counting my blessings,
    I’ve found true happiness
    cos I’m getting richer, day by day
    you can find me in the phone book,
    just call my toll free number
    you can do it anyway you want
    just do it right away

    There’ll be no doubt in your mind
    you’ll believe everything I’m saying
    if you wanna get closer to him
    get on your knees and start paying

    Cos Jesus he knows me
    and he knows I’m right
    I’ve been talking to Jesus all my life
    oh yes he knows me
    and he knows I’m right
    well he’s been telling me
    everything’s gonna be alright, alright

    Jesus he knows me
    Jesus he knows me, you know…

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Where’s God? by Insane Clown Posse

    This is the ninetieth 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 Where’s God? by Insane Clown Posse.

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    Innocent……….folks
    Innocent……….folks
    Folks..
    Innocent……….folks
    Innocent……….folks
    Folks..
    Innocent folks wrong place at the wrong time,
    Doing bids or drawn in a chalk line, little kids crossing the bridge too young,
    Some tortured before they come, {damn}
    Evil is here, the boogie man too,
    You  don’t own a gun, man you should plan to,
    Am I looking at shxt negatively,
    Crib death mom ain’t got shxt left,
    How the fxck is shxt fair out here,
    Homeless family froze on the stairs, where’s God bumping his ipod,
    It’s odd, I’ll be the lightning rod,
    I wanna know,
    Where’s God? {pitiful that}
    Where’s God?
    Where’s God, when shxt goes down?i wanna know,
    Where’s God? {pitiful that}
    Where’s God?
    Where’s God, when shxt goes down? {it ain’t right}
    Are we all be tested fail me then,
    So much fxcked up shxt where to begin,
    Some kids are born with a silver spoon,
    Others born with a needle & a world of doom,
    Little girl found duct taped & raped, & the killer escaped God give me a break,
    I want to keep believing but it’s a struggle,
    Let Jake & jack jeckel juggle,
    Drunk drivers killing Iraq survivors,  he can’t interfere, then why’s he here?,
    After years of feeling like nobody cares,
    Most of us switch gears on Him, Cheers,
    Cheers……
    Where’s God? {pitiful that}
    Where’s God?
    Where’s God, when shxt goes down? {it ain’t right} cheers….
    Where’s God? {pitiful that}
    Where’s God?
    Where’s God, when shxt goes down? {it ain’t right}
    Children fire, everybody dies,
    As a preacher explains & I roll my eyes,
    This game tryin’ to make sense of madness,
    For a ray of hope in a world of sadness,
    I get it,  we all need hope to cope,
    But collection plate money goes to dope,
    I cling by a finger & I’ll admit it,
    Most of it is bullshxt, & I don’t get it,
    If he was up there chillin’,
    Lettin’ this happen,
    Doin’ nuttin’,
    He’d be in need of a slappin’,
    But we’re all clueless to how it works,
    There are no experts & that’s what hurts,
    Where’s God? {pitiful that}
    Where’s God? {we need Him here} where’s God, when shxt goes down? {it ain’t right}
    Where’s God? {pitiful that}
    Where’s God? {we need Him here}
    Where’s God, when shxt goes down? {it ain’t right}

    “There’s not an individual who’s ever confessed Christ, who has not but one time or another, said the wrong thing, thought the wrong thing, done the wrong thing, & I don’t care how saved you are”

    Where’s God? {pitiful that}
    Where’s God? {we need Him here}
    Where’s God, when shxt goes down? {it ain’t right}
    Where’s God? {pitiful that}
    Where’s God? {we need Him here}
    Where’s God, when shxt goes down? {it ain’t right}
    {pitiful that}

    I still believe…..

    It ain’t right,
    Pitiful that,
    We need him here,
    It ain’t right