2016
Promises
A weary desert song about promises of deliverance that never quite arrive. Drawing on images of wandering, punishment, and the elusive land of milk and honey, it turns sacred language into a human story of...
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Songs Tagged: religion critique
11 songs
December 24, 2024
Let's Do It
A philosophical song about building meaning without supernatural framework. The verses catalog what doesn't exist; the refrain proposes alternatives — find a cosmic voice, make a joyful noise, make it on our...
September 16, 2023
Let it Lie
A folk song about choosing not to examine what you believe, and what that choice costs. The verses address the subject directly but without contempt, and the final refrain offers an alternative: "you don't...
January 19, 2023
Ring Around the Lizard
A song about the limbic system — the reptile brain — and how it limits reason, shapes belief, and gets exploited by media and religion. Five verses work through different contexts: church, news, social media....
Rough Working Demo
July 30, 2022
On Our Own
A philosophical song that moves through inherited religious language toward a bracing conclusion: no one is coming, and meaning is ours to make.
Rough Working Demo
2017
In Line
A folk song, built entirely on adverbs — "soberly, carefully, methodically" — stacked verse by verse into a portrait of submission and quiet desperation. The bridge is instrumental and arrives as relief. The...
Rough Working Demo
March 1, 2024
Doesn't Your God Wonder
A song built as a direct challenge to divine certainty. The verses catalog specific Biblical incidents — the flood, bears sent to kill children, the Incarnation — with the plainness of someone reading a...
2007
When
A searching song about belief, denial, and the stories people tell themselves to avoid what is in front of them. Rather than preaching, it keeps circling the same hard question until it becomes the song's...
Rough Working Demo
1980
Too Late
An early apocalyptic lament that faces loss without softening it. The song piles up its reckonings one after another, but beneath the severity a human voice insists that what has happened must be named.
2011
Hey Jesus, What the Fuck?
A blunt protest song aimed at violence done in the name of faith. Its anger is public rather than private, turning outrage into a rough, unvarnished chorus that refuses consolation.
May 3, 2025
Ain't No Slave
A song with a dark, resonant pulse, written as a direct response to the traditional spiritual "Ain't No Grave." The theological swap is explicit: no maker, no afterlife, no submission. The lyric is as plain...