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Killing for Love Lyrics

What's the point
If you hate, die and kill for love
What's the point with a love that
Makes you hate and kill for

You've got a heart on fire
It's bursting with desires
You've got a heart filled with passion
Will you let it burn for hate or compassion

What's the point
If you hate, die and kill for love
What's the point with a love that
Makes you hate and kill for

What's the point
If you hate, die and kill for love
What's the point with a love that
Makes you hate and kill for

You're killing for love
You're killing for love

You've got a heart on fire
It's bursting with desires
You've got a heart filled with passion
Will you let it burn for hate or compassion

What's the point
If you hate, die and kill for love
What's the point with a love that
Makes you hate and kill for

Killing for love
Killing for love
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chanyinkeen On Sep 30, 2007
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The first time I heard this song it made me think of religion and how people can be so easily manipulated into hatefulness of what is unfamiliar and what goes against their teachings. Countless people have died, hated, and killed all for their God and church. what kind of love is that? beautiful song though...

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I actually do hear the "die". I don't know why you guys don't. You just don't want it there. But it actually makes sense with the song. You guys think it's some sort of blasphemy that someone thought they heard lyrics that you don't. Big deal.

I hear the "die." That's all.

And I love this song.

@zoolah It doesn't say die. He's saying "And"

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Wow, Christiaan33. Stop being such a dick. Not only is "die" in the lyrics, but lazyoldsun is giving what they consider the song's meaning. They're doing that because thats the point of the site...

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for me this is a standout on the new album, thsuper track!

Cover art for Killing for Love lyrics by José González

I agree. It is (clearly) one of my new favorites.

Cover art for Killing for Love lyrics by José González

i was at his show last night and he did a joke right before this song about religion. it made me look at this song very differently.

I always felt it was about religion. people have always done terrible things for the love of their God.

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This is a love song. It analyzes love. Illusions are brought to the light. "Will you let it burn for hate or compassion." Your heart, your passions.

Will you let that human passion for sex, companionship, togetherness, security, be expressed negatively, with harmfully selfish consequences, or will you try to compromise and make it as gracefully expressed as possible?

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I'm gonna start out stating that my son had open heart surgery a day after he was born. We are now in a hotel outside the hospital waiting response. Anyhow very tired from being up so long we both went to sleep, 3 am my phone starts playing this song. My wife asks is it your alarm. No I don't have this song on alarm and I haven't heard this song in quite sometime. Note I'm a very spiritual person. I've seen ghosts with friends to testify that they have seen ghosts around me. For my phone you wake up pity of no where and start playing this song only makes me want to dig deep in finding the meaning. My son Benny is a stone in my heart as well as my 21 month old. I wish the song writer would explain the meaning of his words inn this song. It's now 4am and I'm wide awake curious and waiting for an explanation

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It is strange to witness the passion with which some rail against the misdeeds of the Crusaders and Inquisitors more than 500 years ago. The number sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition appears to be about 10,000. Some historians contend that an additional 100,000 died in jail due to malnutrition or illness.

These figures are tragic, and of course population levels were much lower at the time. But even so, they are minuscule compared with the death tolls produced by the atheist despotisms of the 20th century. In the name of creating their version of a religion-free utopia, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong produced the kind of mass slaughter that no Inquisitor could possibly match. Collectively these atheist tyrants murdered more than 100 million people.

Moreover, many of the conflicts that are counted as "religious wars" were not fought over religion. They were mainly fought over rival claims to territory and power. Can the wars between England and France be called religious wars because the English were Protestants and the French were Catholics? Hardly.

The same is true today. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not, at its core, a religious one. It arises out of a dispute over self-determination and land. Hamas and the extreme orthodox parties in Israel may advance theological claims – "God gave us this land" and so forth – but the conflict would remain essentially the same even without these religious motives. Ethnic rivalry, not religion, is the source of the tension in Northern Ireland and the Balkans.

Blindly blaming religion for conflict

Yet today's atheists insist on making religion the culprit. History tells a different story for sure.

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Why is the word die included when Gonzalez clearly does not say it?