![]() I disagree with some of your opinions, but god damn, you make some great tunes.Įdit: username is sarcastic. This one song though, I have to skip every time. I stopped listening to them in grade 7 and later became an atheist, but I still go back to their old albums occasionally because I love their music. Looking back, it sort of disturbs me that I listened to this as a little kid. It'd be interesting to hear POD's comment on this specific song as well, and what sort of mindset the band was in when they conceived it. fitting for a band that covered U2's 'Bullet the Blue Sky' on their last album. Whether they changed their values/faith as they progressed or simply hid behind vague lyrics another question I would love to hear answered (I can usually pick out the religious undertones in their more recent stuff, but needless to say, it's much less obvious). I I I 1 Fundamental Southtownies: Sonny Sandoval, Noah 'Wuv' Bernardo. ![]() Needless to say, their early stuff was much more blatantly religious than their later albums (this is correlated with them getting popular). If you want more evidence, go look up any of the other songs off that album like Coming Back (about jesus returning) or Every Knee ("Every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess, that he is king"). His face red like a rose on a thorn bush. You can listen for yourself (i think it was also in the reissue as a hidden track). Bullet the blue (Sky) (Yeah, alright, I want you) Verse 3 So this guy comes up to me. In their debut album Snuff the Punk there was a track Abortion is Murder. I don't know who said there was "rock" and then there's "Christian rock," but I think you should give credit and respect to the people who are singing about what they feel, and not just what everybody wants to hear. We've never used our faith to market anything. They were wild party guys, and all of a sudden they find something that's real and shoot it in there-you never heard, "Oh, now they're Buddhist hip-hop." You never hear the Beastie Boys as Buddhist hip-hop. We've proven ourselves in the past 12 years, I don't know what else to say. But I don't want people to not give the music a chance and go, "Oh, I'm not a Christian," or "I don't believe the same, so I can't listen to it." No, it's rock-and-roll music. Bullet the Blue Sky Lyrics: In the howlin wind / Comes a stingin rain / See it drivin nails / Into the souls on the tree of pain / From the firefly / A. If you are genuine and you want to sit down and talk heart-to-heart, and you care, then we could talk about it. All of a sudden people were making an issue out of it. “We've never denied our faith or anything-that's something that's with us, with or without rock and roll. Since the song was politically based about the war, the concert’s often ended in violence and protest. In an interview Sonny Sandoval singer of P.O.D. Bullet the Blue Sky was played over 650 times at concerts. There's an interview with Sonny in August 2004 where he mentioned something that's always stuck with me when hearing about "christian rock".
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