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Atheism in Music


Tori Amos' a/religious songs

God

God sometimes you just don't come through
God sometimes you just don't come through
do you need a woman to look after you
God sometimes you just don't come through

You make pretty daisies love
I gotta find what you're doing about things here
a witches' burnings gets a little toasty here
I gotta find why you always go when the wind blows
tell me you're crazy
maybe then I'll understand
you got your 9 iron in the back seat
just in case heard you've gone south
well babe you love your new 4 wheel
I gotta find why you always go when the wind blows

Will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky fall
will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky

- Under the Pink
1994 Atlantic Recording


CRUCIFY

every finger in the room is pointing at me
I wanna spit in their faces then
I get afraid of what that could bring
I got a bowling ball in my stomach
I got a desert in my mouth
figures that my COURAGE would choose to sell out now
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
drive another nail in
just what GOD needs
one more victim
why do we crucify ourselves
every day I crucify myself
nothing I do is good enough for you
crucify myself
every day
and HEART is sick of being in chains
got a kick for a dog beggin' for LOVE
I gotta have my suffering so that I can have my cross
I know a cat named Easter
he says will you ever learn you're just an empty cage
girl if you kill the bird
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in
got enough GUILT to start my own religion
please be save me I CRY

- Little Earthquakes
1991 Atlantic Recording


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