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Do You Listen to Swans or Supertramp?

ThePerfectNobody

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I ask because my father refuses to listen to bands who have written at least one line about anything offensive to God. The Swans album, Children of God, has a song where myMichael Gira says God has "cruel arms" and my father says the whole song mocks God. He even says the song sounds demonic (honestly, I believe The Monster's Loose by Meat Loaf sounds more that than that Swans song and the Meat Loaf discography is far from devil praise). Supertramp's "Goodbye Stranger" has a line about the devil being the singer's savior.

But does the whole discography do this? No. I avoid what's evil. But the rest of the Swans discography does not tackle anything like that. God doesn't allow sin in his sight, but are the other albums sinful? Should one idiotic decision affect the rest of the career?
 
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In actuality, the Supertramp line is

"They can laugh at my behavior
But that don't bother me
(they can) say the devil is my "savior",
But I won't pay no heed"

The narrator in the song is scoffing at those who suggest he's a devil worshipper.


However, on the same album (BREAKFAST IN AMERICA), there is a quasi-blasphemic song called "Lord, is it Mine?", in which the singer (not the same one in GS, incidentally) challenges God with lyrics like:

"So, give us an answer! Won't you?
We KNOW what we HAVE to do!
There must be a million voices trying to get through."

L2IM is not as well known, but still, given the context of your message....

PS: it's a song I usually skip.


I also thought BIA's closing song (Child of Vision) was anti-Christian, but 'twas confirmed as a Take That! from one lead singer to the other.
 
Alotanor
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Thx for clearing up the BIM lyric 'the devil is my "savior"' (8 years later - LOL) It always made me cringe, and I wondered if they were worshipping Satan somehow. Now I know the proper context.
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