Songs: Nine Inch Nails, Dave Matthews & Pearl Jam

  • Drew Goodmanson
  • Sep 6, 2004
  • Series: Music
    Songs: Nine Inch Nails, Dave Matthews & Pearl Jam

    Here are some other examples of songs that are examined in the light of the Gospel.

    Nine Inch Nails
    Dave Matthews
    Pearl Jam

    Nine Inch Nails “Terrible lie”

    hey God, why are you doing this to me?
    am i not living up to what i'm supposed to be?
    why am i seething with this animosity?
    hey God, i think you owe me a great big apology

    Bridge: terrible lie
    terrible lie
    terrible lie
    terrible lie

    hey God, i really don't know what you mean.
    seems like salvation comes only in our dreams.
    i feel my hatred grow all the more extreme.
    hey God, can this world really be as sad as it seems

    Bridge

    Chorus: don't take it away from me.
    i need someone to hold on to.
    don't take it away from me.
    i need someone to hold on to

    hey God, there's nothing left for me to hide.
    i lost my ignorance, security and pride.
    i'm all alone in a world you must despise.
    hey God, i believed that promises, your promises and lies

    Bridge

    you made me throw it all away.
    my morals left to decay .
    how many you betray.
    you've taken everything

    Bridge

    my head is filled with disease..
    my skin is begging you please.
    i'm on my hands and knees
    i want so much to believe.

    Chorus

    i give you everything.
    my sweet everything
    hey God, i really don't know who i am.
    in this world of piss



     

    Gospel Truth in the Song: For those outside of Christ, their morals are in a state of decay, their head is filled with a disease (sin), they are unable to live up to what we are supposed to be (law) and need Christ.

    Ephesians 2
    1As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

    1 Corinthians 2
    14The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

    Gospel lies in Song:

    God is a liar who is to blame for all our ills

    Disagree: If we are in Christ we are free from sin and the requirements of the law.

    Romans 8:1
    So there is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus,"

    Dave Matthews Band “Grey Street”

    Look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks Just listens to abuses And by the kitchen sink...

    She thinks, "Hey! Why do I live to this? I'm latest on life How did it end like this?" Oh, then the wrongs in her heart fall And she feels the weight in lies And the colors mix together to grey Grey Street

    Begging now the difference She prays to God most everynight Although she swears He doesn't listen There's hope in her that He just might

    She said, "I Pray!" "I Pray!" "I Pray!" "But they fall on deaf ears I'm supposed to take it all on myself To get out of this place."

    But soon the wrongs in her heart fall And then she rode the light in Oh, the pain now seems it's over And again she sees the pain And then the colors mix together to grey On Grey Street

    It's all colored in again Take what you can from your dreams Make it real as anything Takes the work out of the courage

    She said, "Please!" "Please!" "Please!" "There's someone sleeping outside my door I live on the corner of Grey Street And the end of the world."

    And the wrong in her whole plan I as hopeless as the day she came And the man she calls her father Ignores her and ignores her pain

    Oh, when I walk out in the morning In all this sunlight And all the colors mix together to grey On Grey Street On Grey Street It's Grey Street, you go

    So, if you don't see your Heaven Don't convince yourself you're done Just 'cause the things around you seem heavy Doesn't mean you can give up this ground

    When you hold me down in the heart now Move out and, oh, the wait is over Oh, might notice of your worry One another ... (?) And the colors mix together to grey On Grey Street On Grey Street To grey... Yeah, yeah...



     

    Gospel Truth in the Song: We should pray continually to God, who listens to us and has the power to answer our prayers.

    I Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.

    Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

    Gospel lies in Song:

    Prayer doesn’t work. God isn’t there, or doesn’t care about us. Life is unknown or so let everything “mix together to grey”.

    Disagree: God hears the prayers of his children. While He may not answer the way we want, if we ask anything according to His will He will do it.

    1 John 5 14This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him.

    James 5:16b The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

    Gospel Message:

    We are to pray without ceasing, trusting in God, that He will answer our prayer. It may not be the way we expect it but He loves us.

    Pearl Jam "I Am Mine"

    The selfish they're all standing in line... Faith in their hope and to buy themselves time. Me, I figure as each breath goes by, I only own my mind.

    The north is to south what the clock is to time. There's east and there's west and there everywhere life. I know that I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine. I am mine.

    And the feeling it gets left behind... Oh the innocence broken with time... We're different behind the eyes, there's no need to hide. We're safe tonight.

    The ocean is full cause everyone's crying, The full moon is looking for friends at high tide. The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrows denied. I only know my mind. I am mine.

    And the feeling it gets left behind... Oh the innocence broken with time. We're different between the lines, there's no need to hide... Cause we're safe tonight.

    And the feeling it gets left behind... Oh the innocence broken with time. We're different behind the eyes, there's no need to hide.

    And the feeling it gets left behind... Oh the innocence broken with lies. We're different behind the eyes. We're safe tonight.

     

    Gospel Truth in the Song: After this life, our time is up and God will judge us and our state will be fixed for eternity. (It is no longer ‘ours’.)

    Romans 14 12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

    World Gospel Message:

    Relativity there is no absolute truth except we “own ourselves” and this time is ours.

    Gospel lies in Song:

    1 Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's."

    1 Chronicles 29 10 David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, "Praise be to you, O LORD , God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. 11 Yours, O LORD , is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD , is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.

    Gospel Message:

    We are responsible and will give an account of “this time” to God. While we will be morally responsible, God owns everything; even our minds.

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