In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Stained glass windows keep the cold outside
While the hypocrites hide inside
With the lies of statues in their minds
Where the Christian religion made them blind
Where they hide
And prey to the God of a bitch spelled backwards is dog
Not for one race, one creed, one world
But for money
Effective
Absurd
Do you pray to the Holy Ghost when you suck your host
Do you read who's dead in the Irish Post
Do you give away the cash you can't afford
On bended knees and pray to lord
Fat pig priest
Sanctimonious smiles
He takes the money
You take the lies
This is religion and Jesus Christ
This is religion cheaply priced
This is bibles full of libel
This is sin in eternal hymn
This is what they've done
This is your religion
The apostles were eleven
Now there's a sod in Heaven
This is religion
There's a liar on the altar
The sermon never falter
This is religion
Your religion
While the hypocrites hide inside
With the lies of statues in their minds
Where the Christian religion made them blind
Where they hide
And prey to the God of a bitch spelled backwards is dog
Not for one race, one creed, one world
But for money
Effective
Absurd
Do you pray to the Holy Ghost when you suck your host
Do you read who's dead in the Irish Post
Do you give away the cash you can't afford
On bended knees and pray to lord
Fat pig priest
Sanctimonious smiles
He takes the money
You take the lies
This is religion and Jesus Christ
This is religion cheaply priced
This is bibles full of libel
This is sin in eternal hymn
This is what they've done
This is your religion
The apostles were eleven
Now there's a sod in Heaven
This is religion
There's a liar on the altar
The sermon never falter
This is religion
Your religion
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Religion Lyrics as written by John Lydon James Walker
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Yawn, another anti-relion song. These got old after Bad Religons first album. Not to mention Religon isnt really "after your money" when they donate it off to poor organizations and they are hardly getting by. call them pigs and shit, why dont you go out to the counrtyside to a church with 12 people and see how "they are after your money".
You have a severe misunderstanding of the history of the world. If you believe churches actually donate their money to worthy causes, I feel sorry for you. Worthy causes are things like: safe sex education programs and civil rights, not abstinence courses and charity that merely keeps the weak weaker and dependent upon outmoded social institutions like ... the church.
@robwyattfan Your message is from 2010, so if your views have changed on this then please ignore my following message.<br /> <br /> How can you blatantly lie like that? Churches are constantly donating to good charities. Sure, some charities could be shady, and there's that thing churches do when they are supposed to go to poor countries and help people, but instead just preach to them. But you are conveniently only mentioning one side and pretending their donations to charities never happened or are bad.<br /> <br /> "charity that keeps the weak weaker". So I guess all the celebrities and atheist groups that also donate to charities are also keeping them weaker? Where is your disdain for them?<br /> <br /> While we are at it, the churches even got involved with setting up vaccine sites during the COVID pandemic.<br /> <br /> usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/24/covid-vaccine-sites-churches-offer-vaccinations-help-us-rollout/4550240001/<br /> <br /> Now, if your views have changed on this but you still read my entire message, then my apologies. Your message from 2010 was at a time at the height of New Atheism. I could care less what people believe or don't believe, but this was at a time when atheists were trying to force their unbeliefs down everyone's throats, acting no different than their religious counterparts. And the atheists were definitely not nice about it. They would spread lies and even believe blatant lies about religion, just because it made religion look bad, despite their talk of reason and rationality. Like the lies they believed about Hypatia, Galilieo, Cyril and the burning of the library of Alexandria.