History Main / GodIsLoveSongs

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.]]

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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* 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.]]

** 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")

* ''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.

* [[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''.

* ''Have I Told You Lately'' by Music/VanMorrison. The Rod Stewart cover, however, [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning is meant as a regular love song]].

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.

* 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.

* 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.

Let the king bring me into his chambers.\\

-->With the touch of your hand
-->I am whole again
* 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.

* Heather Clark, particularly her album ''Dark Yet Lovely'', which draws inspiration from the Song of Songs.

* 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]]".

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.

* 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".

* 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.

* 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]].

* "You Got the Love" by CandiStaton (popularized by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine) can be interpreted as such.

* 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.