This is the latest installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series, which I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent toward 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 Runnin’ With the Devil by Van Halen.
Lyrics
Yeah, ah
I live my life like there’s no tomorrow
All I’ve got, I had to steal
Least I don’t need to beg or borrow
Yes, I’m livin’ at a pace that kills
Ooh, yeah
Ah (runnin’ with the Devil)
Ah, ah-ha yeah, whoo-hoo-ooh
(Runnin’ with the Devil)
I’ll tell you all about it
I found the simple life ain’t so simple
When I jumped out on that road
I got no love, no love you’d call real
Ain’t got nobody waitin’ at home
Ah (runnin’ with the Devil)
God-damn it lady, you know I ain’t lying to ya
I’m only gonna tell you one time
Ah-yeah
(Runnin’ with the Devil)
Yes I am, yeah
Whoo
Whoo
You know I-
I found the simple life, once so simple, no
When I jumped out on that road
Got no love, no love you’d call real
Got nobody waitin’ at home
Ah-yeah
(Runnin’ with the Devil)
Oh God, oh God, I’m runnin’, oh yeah
(Runnin’ with the Devil)
Ugh, ugh, one more time
Ah, yeah
(Runnin’ with the Devil)
Oh yeah, oh yeah-yeah
(Runnin’ with the Devil)
Whoo, whoo
(Runnin’ with the Devil)
Ah-ah-yeah, ah-ah-yeah, ah-ah-yeah
(Runnin’ with the Devil)
Whoo
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen 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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