This is maybe the best modern song ever written about Christianity: more pure and amazed and confused, even angry, than anything "Christian" rock or those schmaltzy campfire sing-alongs could ever aspire to. more Tom Waits than Carrie Underwood.
It is also one of the most honest songs of theirs, along with "State I Am In," which makes it my favorite: Providential inspiration coming when the "heavy eyelids flutter" while falling asleep in a church choir stall as the priest drones on -- brilliant!
The YouTube live version is more fun, more alive and spirited than the studio version.
This is maybe the best modern song ever written about Christianity: more pure and amazed and confused, even angry, than anything "Christian" rock or those schmaltzy campfire sing-alongs could ever aspire to. more Tom Waits than Carrie Underwood.
It is also one of the most honest songs of theirs, along with "State I Am In," which makes it my favorite: Providential inspiration coming when the "heavy eyelids flutter" while falling asleep in a church choir stall as the priest drones on -- brilliant!
The YouTube live version is more fun, more alive and spirited than the studio version.