If God isn’t real – “If the Heavens ever did speak” – then the only goods to be enjoyed in this life are the pleasures of food and sex. He’d almost prefer to have people mocking the Christian sacraments and images. The stats show that young people will likely exchange the sacramental life and liturgy for the liturgy of sexual experimentation.Īnd that’s exactly why this song has become an American anthem. The devil doesn’t needs a league of heavy metal Satanists. However, young people are likely to exchange their Christian faith for sexual license. Your son will not likely consecrate his baby to Lucifer and baptize him in goat’s blood. The music industry is now much smarter than it was in the days of Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Slayer. Your daughter is not likely to love Marilyn Manson and erect an idol to Satan in her bedroom. And that’s the so-called “genius” of this song. What’s amazing about his song is that it’s about as offensive as anything produced by Marilyn Manson, Judas Priest, or Slayer – yet hardly anyone recognizes it! It takes rich Catholic sacramental language but re-signifies the imagery as a sexual encounter. No masters or kings when the ritual begins (egalitarian ritual – sex) There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin (hey, at least he knows it’s sin – he’s Irish!) In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene (a reference perhaps to leaving earth into the “heavenly bliss” of sexual embrace) Only then I am human Only then I am clean (he ends with a reference the sexual completion as a kind of baptism or absolution)ĭownload Your Take Me To Church Study Guide Take Me to Church Meaning If I’m a pagan of the good times My lover’s the sunlight To keep the Goddess on my side (the god/girlfriend is also a goddess) She demands a sacrifice (here’s where the song gets “Eucharistic” with reference to sacrificial meal and hunger…) Drain the whole sea Get something shiny Something meaty for the main course That’s a fine looking high horse What you got in the stable? (reference to the Christ Child “in the stable”) We’ve a lot of starving faithful That looks tasty That looks plenty This is hungry work (x2) Take me to church (remember, “Church” here is sexual reference in this song) I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies I’ll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife (confession reference) Offer me my deathless death Good God, let me give you my life (he hands over his life to her the “god”) It’s the place of union between him and the “god”/girlfriend) The only heaven I’ll be sent to Is when I’m alone with you I was born sick, but I love it (acknowledges original sin – but he loves it) Command me to be well (a reference to Christ commanding people to be well in the Gospels) The God throughout the song is a girlfriend.) If the Heavens ever did speak (“If the Heavens ever” = revealed religion is cast into doubt) She’s the last true mouthpiece Every Sunday’s getting more bleak A fresh poison each week “We were born sick”, you heard them say it (“they” teach original sin) My church offers no absolutes (So unlike Catholicism, there are no moral absolutes – only relativism) She tells me “worship in the bedroom” (the liturgy is sex. My lover’s got humour She’s the giggle at a funeral Knows everybody’s disapproval I should’ve worshipped her sooner (So this is the cue. Here’s my theological analysis with my commentary in the red: Regrettably, the lyrics to “Take Me to Church” are pretty blasphemous. This is Irish Catholicism with a blasphemous twist… Take Me to Church Lyrics Analyzed However, Hozier’s religion is not Protestant or Evangelical Christianity. When he sings of “Church,” it is a “sacrifice” at a “shrine” with a “ritual” and includes “I’ll tell you my sins.” “Take Me to Church” by Hozier could only have been written by an Irishmen with Catholic roots. It’s almost hymn-like.” It’s Elton John mixed with an old Southern Spiritual from the American Civil War.īut then I started listening to the lyrics… Admittedly, when I first heard it, I thought, “Wow, this is a powerful song. The song is hauntingly beautiful with subtle verses and a soulful chorus.
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