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* Music/TypeONegative's "Christian Woman" parodies this kind of song by bringing out the above mentioned UnfortunateImplications in the open: the song is about a woman harbouring PerverseSexualLust for Jesus Christ.
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* Music/TypeONegative's "Christian Woman" "[[Music/BloodyKisses Christian Woman]]" parodies this kind of song by bringing out the above mentioned UnfortunateImplications in the open: the song is about a woman harbouring PerverseSexualLust for Jesus Christ.
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* The [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon/Haruhi]] fic ''[[http://www.soulriders.net/brian/fanfic/hotair/ Hot Air]]'' is based off the religious Music/OwlCity song ''Galaxies''. It helps that Haruhi is more or less a GodInHumanForm.
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* The [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon/Haruhi]] fic ''[[http://www.soulriders.net/brian/fanfic/hotair/ Hot Air]]'' is based off the religious Music/OwlCity song ''Galaxies''. It helps that Haruhi is more or less a GodInHumanForm.
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* Literature/TheBible's ''Literature/SongOfSongs'': Some scholars say that this erotic poetry about a bride and groom on their wedding night is meant to be understood as a metaphor of God's relationship with his people. Other scholars say that the book is simply celebrating erotic love in a marital context. [[TakeAThirdOption Or possibly both.]]
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* Literature/TheBible's ''Literature/SongOfSongs'': Some scholars say that this erotic poetry about a bride and groom on their wedding night is meant to be understood as a metaphor of God's relationship with his His people. Other scholars say that the book is simply celebrating erotic love in a marital context. [[TakeAThirdOption Or possibly both.]]
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A lot of music from the HighMedieval period is a version of this. At various periods and cultures, straightforward songs about romantic love were being frowned on by MoralGuardians of the day, so a lot of lovesongs have at least a veneer of being addressed to the Virgin Mary, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar an acceptable way for the writers to be writing about loving a woman]]. Because nuns at this time often expressed their love for Christ in erotic terms, their poems fit in this category as well.
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A lot of music from the HighMedieval [[TheHighMiddleAges High Medieval]] period is a version of this. At various periods and cultures, straightforward songs about romantic love were being frowned on by MoralGuardians of the day, so a lot of lovesongs have at least a veneer of being addressed to the Virgin Mary, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar an acceptable way for the writers to be writing about loving a woman]]. Because nuns at this time often expressed their love for Christ in erotic terms, their poems fit in this category as well.
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-->--[[http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6994557.html This]] [=LiveJournal=] entry
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* The Persian/Arabic folklore ''LayliAndMajnun'' (''The Madman and Layli'') is a story of CourtlyLove; however, many Sufi poets write about it and interpret it as an allegory of the believer's relationship with God. (Of course, that's a typical Sufi thing.)
* Literature/TheBible's ''Literature/SongOfSongs'': Some scholars say that this erotic poetry about a bride and groom on their wedding night is meant to be understood as a metaphor of God's relationship with his people. Of course, other scholars say that the book is simply celebrating erotic love in a marital context. [[TakeAThirdOption Or possibly both.]]
* Literature/TheBible's ''Literature/SongOfSongs'': Some scholars say that this erotic poetry about a bride and groom on their wedding night is meant to be understood as a metaphor of God's relationship with his people. Of course, other scholars say that the book is simply celebrating erotic love in a marital context. [[TakeAThirdOption Or possibly both.]]
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* The Persian/Arabic folklore ''LayliAndMajnun'' (''The Madman and Layli'') is a story of CourtlyLove; however, many Sufi poets write about it and interpret it as an allegory of the believer's relationship with God. (Of course, that's (That's a typical Sufi thing.)
* Literature/TheBible's ''Literature/SongOfSongs'': Some scholars say that this erotic poetry about a bride and groom on their wedding night is meant to be understood as a metaphor of God's relationship with his people.Of course, other Other scholars say that the book is simply celebrating erotic love in a marital context. [[TakeAThirdOption Or possibly both.]]
* Literature/TheBible's ''Literature/SongOfSongs'': Some scholars say that this erotic poetry about a bride and groom on their wedding night is meant to be understood as a metaphor of God's relationship with his people.
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** Of course, unlike most of the above examples, he was doing this intentionally, and was probably inspired by the "church as the Bride of Christ" imagery from Literature/TheBible. And of course a lot of Donne's poetry was just straight up IntercourseWithYou stuff. (See "The Flea")
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** Of course, unlike Unlike most of the above examples, he was doing this intentionally, and was probably inspired by the "church as the Bride of Christ" imagery from Literature/TheBible. And of course a lot of Donne's poetry was just straight up IntercourseWithYou stuff. (See "The Flea")
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parodied this ruthlessly in the episode, "Christian Rock Hard", where Cartman creates a Christian rock group and achieves massive success by just taking already existing love songs and replacing words like "baby" with "Jesus". UnfortunateImplications abound as the songs he picks to adapt get more and more explicit.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parodied this ruthlessly in the episode, "Christian Rock Hard", where Cartman creates a Christian rock group and achieves massive success by just taking already existing love songs and replacing words like "baby" with "Jesus". UnfortunateImplications [[invoked]] AccidentalInnuendo abound as the songs he picks to adapt get more and more explicit.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MNH7vZb8k&feature=related This]] Christian parody of the song "OMG" by Usher, which is unambiguously about sex/lust, practically just takes the original song and changes "baby" to "Jesus". And it's ''serious''.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MNH7vZb8k&feature=related com/watch?v=Gw3FKFkukUM This]] Christian parody of the song "OMG" by Usher, which is unambiguously about sex/lust, practically just takes the original song and changes "baby" to "Jesus". And it's ''serious''.
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* ''Have I Told You Lately'' by Music/VanMorrison. The Rod Stewart cover, however, [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning is meant as a regular love song]].
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* ''Have I Told You Lately'' by Music/VanMorrison. The Rod Stewart cover, however, [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning is meant as a regular love song]]. Also covered by Music/RobinMark.
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Also compare and contrast NotChristianRock and SongOfPrayer. GodIsGood is likely to come up in these kinds of songs. If there's no chance of mistaking that the song is about God, you probably have GospelMusic or ChristianRock. The inverse of this, where love is sung about as though it were a religion, is LoveIsLikeReligion.
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Also compare and contrast NotChristianRock and SongOfPrayer. GodIsGood is likely to come up in these kinds of songs. If there's no chance of mistaking that the song is about God, you probably have GospelMusic or ChristianRock. The inverse of this, where love is sung about as though it were a religion, is LoveIsLikeReligion.
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* Many songs by NotChristianRock band Music/{{Flyleaf}}, including "All Around Me", "Sorrow", and "Missing", are not explicitly about religion, but can easily be interpreted that way. Made more explicit by the very Christian Music/DavidCrowderBand covering the former.
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* Many songs by NotChristianRock band Music/{{Flyleaf}}, including "All Around Me", "Sorrow", and "Missing", are not explicitly about religion, but can easily be interpreted that way. Made more explicit by the very Christian Music/DavidCrowderBand covering the former.
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* Although they might actually be romantic lyrics played straight, quite a few lines in songs by Music/KillswitchEngage seem to imply this, what with how closely they mesh with the heavy spiritual ([[NotChristianRock Christian?]]) themes.
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* Although they might actually be romantic lyrics played straight, quite a few lines in songs by Music/KillswitchEngage seem to imply this, what with how closely they mesh with the heavy spiritual ([[NotChristianRock ([[AmbiguouslyChristian Christian?]]) themes.
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* Music/BlackSabbath's "[[Music/MasterOfReality After Forever]]" was made as a reaction to accusations that the band is Satanist, when the members were actually Christian and using themes of the occult as an act. As a matter of fact, the song outright stated that "God is the only way to love".
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Let the king bring me into his chambers.\\
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* Most of Music/{{Red}}'s output sounds like love songs or songs about relationships of varying degrees of unhealthiness but actually, they are about the narrator’s relationship with God.
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* Most ofMusic/{{Red}}'s Music/{{Red|Band}}'s output sounds like love songs or songs about relationships of varying degrees of unhealthiness but actually, they are about the narrator’s relationship with God.
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* Indonesian rock band Music/{{Noah|Indonesia}} usually writes straight love songs, but there are exceptions:
** "Terbangun Sendiri" (Awaken Alone) from ''Seperti Seharusnya'' per Ariel is actually about not wanting to be left alone by God rather than by a lover.
** Similarly, "Menemaniku" (Accompany Me) from ''Keterkaitan Keterikatan'' according to David is about how God never left us.
** "Terbangun Sendiri" (Awaken Alone) from ''Seperti Seharusnya'' per Ariel is actually about not wanting to be left alone by God rather than by a lover.
** Similarly, "Menemaniku" (Accompany Me) from ''Keterkaitan Keterikatan'' according to David is about how God never left us.
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* Heather Clark, particularly her album ''Dark Yet Lovely'', which draws inspiration from the Song of Songs.
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* Heather Clark, particularly her album ''Dark Yet Lovely'', which draws inspiration from the Song of Songs.Literature/SongOfSongs.
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* In ''Highway 61'', the main character (who's possibly a [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Christ figure]]) has sex with his girlfriend in the graveyard outside a church, which is intercut with a choir inside the church belting "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAPWMRYTvGI Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus]]".
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* In ''Highway 61'', ''Film/Highway61'', the main character (who's possibly a [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Christ figure]]) has sex with his girlfriend in the graveyard outside a church, which is intercut with a choir inside the church belting "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAPWMRYTvGI Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus]]".
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* Music/DonnaSummer's "Unconditional Love" featuring Musical Youth.
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Also compare and contrast NotChristianRock. GodIsGood is likely to come up in these kinds of songs. If there's no chance of mistaking that the song is about God, you probably have GospelMusic or ChristianRock. The inverse of this, where love is sung about as though it were a religion, is LoveIsLikeReligion.
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* Multiple songs by Christian rock group Fireflight, most notably "It's You", "Wrapped In Your Arms","Core of My Addiction", and "All I Need To Be".
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* Multiple songs by Christian rock group Fireflight, most notably "It's You", "Wrapped In Your Arms","Core of My Addiction", and "All I Need To Be".
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* "Completely" by Ledger (fronted by Jen Ledger of Music/{{Skillet}} fame). "My Arms" sounds almost like an inversion.
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A lot of music from the HighMedieval period is a version of this. At various periods and cultures, straightforward songs about romantic love were being frowned on by MoralGuardians of the day, so a lot of lovesongs have at least a veneer of being addressed to the Virgin Mary, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar an acceptable way for the writers to be writing about loving a woman]]. Because nuns at this time often expressed their love for Christ in erotic terms, their poems fit in this category as well.
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* Actually a lot of music from the HighMedieval period is a version of this. At various periods and cultures, straightforward songs about romantic love were being frowned on by MoralGuardians of the day, so a lot of lovesongs have at least a veneer of being addressed to the Virgin Mary, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar an acceptable way for the writers to be writing about loving a woman]]. Because nuns at this time often expressed their love for Christ in erotic terms, their poems fit in this category as well.
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* Actually a lot of music from the HighMedieval period is a version of this. At various periods and cultures, straightforward songs about romantic love were being frowned on by MoralGuardians of the day, so a lot of lovesongs have at least a veneer of being addressed to the Virgin Mary, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar an acceptable way for the writers to be writing about loving a woman]].
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* Actually a lot of music from the HighMedieval period is a version of this. At various periods and cultures, straightforward songs about romantic love were being frowned on by MoralGuardians of the day, so a lot of lovesongs have at least a veneer of being addressed to the Virgin Mary, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar an acceptable way for the writers to be writing about loving a woman]]. Because nuns at this time often expressed their love for Christ in erotic terms, their poems fit in this category as well.
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* "You Got the Love" by CandiStaton (popularized by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine) can be interpreted as such.
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* "You Got the Love" by CandiStaton Candi Staton (popularized by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine) can be interpreted as such.
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* Many songs by Music/NotChristianRock band Music/{{Flyleaf}}, including "All Around Me", "Sorrow", and "Missing", are not explicitly about religion, but can easily be interpreted that way. Made more explicit by the very Christian Music/DavidCrowderBand covering the former.
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* Many songs by Music/NotChristianRock NotChristianRock band Music/{{Flyleaf}}, including "All Around Me", "Sorrow", and "Missing", are not explicitly about religion, but can easily be interpreted that way. Made more explicit by the very Christian Music/DavidCrowderBand covering the former.
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** This isn't an entirely modern phenomenon. 18th century Hymnwriter Charles Wesley wrote one song called "Jesus lover of my soul".
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* Parodied in the ''Songs of Praise'' episode of ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'', in which Dibley's choir performs "Love is All Around" (specifically the Wet Wet Wet cover), with the single alteration of changing "'Cos on my love, you can depend" to "On Jesus's love, you can depend". And it ''works''. (Then again, the original Troggs version was apparently inspired by a Christian rock song called "Love ''That's'' All Around" by the Joystrings, so maybe it's not that surprising.)
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** In the 1960s, "Christian Rock" as such was a few years away, but syndicated radio shows like Pastor John Rydgren's ''[[https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/07/pastor_john_ryd.html Silhouette]]'' and Brother Jon Rivers' ''[[https://blog.timesunion.com/chuckmiller/brother-jon-rivers-and-the-other-powerline/23899/ Powerline]]'' used popular Top 40 love songs with phrases of devotion like these that could be addressed to God — Christ — you know?