Atheist Songs

[The Magic Pudding]

I put this post in the What are you listening to now thread, I think it fits here.
I don't know Kev's stance on religion, but he doesn't sound too impressed with Christians.

Thou Shalt not Steal - Kev Carmody

1788 down Sydney cove
The first boat people land
Sorry boys our gains your loss
We’re gonna steal your land
And if you break our new British law
Be sure your gonna hang or work your
lives like our convicts
With a chain on your neck and hand

CHORUS
And they told us
Woah black woman thou shalt not steal
Hey black man thou shalt not steal
We’re gonna civilize your black barbaric lives
And we’ll teach you how to kneel
But your history couldn’t hide the genocide
The hypocrisy that was real
For your Jesus said you’re supposed to give
The oppressed a better deal
We say to you
yes our land thou shalt not steal
Woah Our land you better heal

With your science and technology
You can make a nuclear bomb
Development has increased its size
Three million mega ton
And if you think that’s progress
I suggest your reason is unsound
You should have found out long ago
You best keep it in the ground

CHORUS

Job and me and Jesus Sittin underneath
that Indooroopilly bridge
Watchin’ that blazin’ sun go down
Behind a tall tree'd mountain ridge
The land’s our heritage and spirits here
The rightful culture's black
And we’re sitting here just wondering
When we gonna get our land back

CHORUS

Well you talk of conservation
Keep the forest pristine green
But in 200 years your materialism
Has stripped the forest clean
And a racist contradiction
that's understood by none
but mostly their left hand holds the bible,
And the right hand holds the gun

CHORUS
[youtube:20kpoujb]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6fem7-ucxg[/youtube:20kpoujb]

[DaveD]

The Emperor's New Clothes - Procol Harum

We've seen it before
The high flying act
Is it manic delusion
Or a statement of fact
That hot fevered brow
Them bright shining eyes
The hand on the heart
Those self serving lies
It's an ancient tradition
But everyone knows
Them gaudy old rags
Are the emperor's new clothes

We've heard it before
Your ego parade
You're always so sure
A hollow charade
You promise the moon
An' squander the earth
The only person you fool
Is yourself
It's an ancient condition
But everyone knows
Them gaudy old rags
Are the emperor's new clothes

We've seen it before
Those crocodile tears
The well should'a run dry
It's been so many years
You throw us a bone
Then ask for it back
The only thing you own
You stole from our backs
It's an ancient religion
But everyone knows
Them gaudy old rags
Are the emperor's new clothes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x_jjB1H_P8

[humblesmurph]

Ex-Christian rapper  Greydon Square.  "Extian" with lyrics-


[youtube:2okicegs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf62wptEP8M[/youtube:2okicegs]

[DaveD]

...and of course:

Dear God - XTC

Dear God, hope you got the letter, and...
I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image, see
Them starving on their feet 'cause they don't get
Enough to eat from God, I can't believe in you

Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard
Loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image, see them fighting
In the street 'cause they can't make opinions meet about God,
I can't believe in you

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make
Mankind after we made you? And the devil too!

Dear God, don't know if you noticed, but... your name is on
A lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it, you
Should take a look, and all the people that you made in your
Image still believing that junk is true. Well I know it ain't, and
So do you, dear God, I can't believe in, I don't believe in

I won't believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no
Devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You're always
Letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you
Drown. Those lost at sea and never found, and it's the same the
Whole world 'round. The hurt I see helps to compound that
Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody's unholy hoax,
And if you're up there you'd perceive that my heart's here upon
My sleeve. If there's one thing I don't believe in

It's you....
Dear God

[youtube:j7yf0lih]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk41Gbjljfo[/youtube:j7yf0lih]

[Baphomet Jones]

[youtube:cfxidvkb]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5F-xHX1PDE[/youtube:cfxidvkb]

[George]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_5a5FBs ... re=related
 


How do you embed a vid??

[DaveD]

[youtube:43e3acu9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_5a5FBszNw[/youtube:43e3acu9]
 


How do you embed a vid??

Remove the "&feature=related" part if it's there, then put the youtube tags around what remains. (Highlight the address for the video and click on the youtube button.)

[George]

Cool cheers Dave  

[Sophus]

I think this song counts:

[youtube:ayou782o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYewptydkvE[/youtube:ayou782o]

[Asmodean]

Always liked this for some reason... You can pro'lly find one with better sound quality though  

[youtube:1ttmn1p1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYMqDcN88CI[/youtube:1ttmn1p1]

[Sophus]

These are the other two songs I listed the lyrics to:

[youtube:2nlby49c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-_HemCiFHs[/youtube:2nlby49c]

[youtube:2nlby49c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaV-nGQ5yqw[/youtube:2nlby49c]

[Sophus]

[youtube:2drv30lc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hCQLEIWadk[/youtube:2drv30lc]

[Tanker]

[youtube:3dq3exyn]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s57FtD2HKLw[/youtube:3dq3exyn]


Skip to 2:00 if you want to skip the intro sequence. I like the full song personally.

[PoopShoot]

There is no tool that is more of a clear cut anti-religion song than Opiate.

[youtube:2jiydtmq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt0Zqo-vOFM[/youtube:2jiydtmq]

[ElizabethPeart]

Rush's last song, BU2B, is atheistic in views:

I was brought up to believe
The universe has a plan
We are only human
It’s not ours to understand

The universe has a plan
All is for the best
Some will be rewarded
And the devil take the rest

All is for the best
Believe in what we’re told
Blind men in the market
Buying what we’re sold
Believe in what we’re told
Until our final breath
While our loving Watchmaker
Loves us all to death

In a world of cut and thrust
I was always taught to trust
In a world where all must fail
Heaven’s justice will prevail

The joy and pain that we receive
Each comes with its own cost
The price of what we’re winning
Is the same as what we’ve lost

Until our final breath
The joy and pain that we receive
Must be what we deserve

Rush as a band are all atheists, or at least agnostics. Some other songs I can think of are:

Thoughts of a Dying Atheist- Muse
Eternal Life- Jeff Buckley
Sing For Absolution- Muse
Faithless- Rush
In The Name of God- Dream Theater
Psalm 43- Jethro Tull