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Your own Personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own Personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who's there
Feeling's unknown and you're all alone
Flesh and bone by the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you believer
Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your shest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I'm a forgiver
Reach out and touch faith
Your own Personal Jesus
Feeling's unknown and you're all alone
Flesh and bone by the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you believer
I will deliver
You know I'm a forgiver
Reach out and touch faith
Your own Personal Jesus
Reach out and touch faith
Reach until you find...
...whatever makes ya comfy.
I only rate this low because this was overplayed and DM have so many other wonderful tunes…
Overplayed diminishes the quality? I don't understand that. Could you please explain?
To me it seems like you'd say a painting isn't so great anymore because it's been looked at too many times.
Given that the first song was "People Are People," the change in tone and tempo completely broke my brain.
Religion - Together we can find the cure.
I just figured out that the singer is proposing himself as somebody's personal Jesus, and that the song isn't religious at all--he was probably just trying to get into their pants...
Wow, really? Televangelists man
I just figured out that the singer is proposing himself as somebody's personal Jesus, and that the song isn't religious at all--he was probably just trying to get into their pants...
"Reach out and touch faith". I've heard it called many things before but not that
I don't think that's what this song is about at all.
Found on Radio Paradise....
Thank You.
"...there's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows..."
Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow
Boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear
on't rely on pop stars for your philosopy bruh.
Also don't take philosophical advice from people who call other people "bruh".
on't rely on pop stars for your philosopy bruh.
thebrit wrote:
I have made my decision
I am building a religion.
It started with a thought
It started with a vision.
It won’t be very sad
It won’t be very funny.
One thing you can be sure.
It’ll generate some money.
It will be built upon fear
The threat of a fire everlasting
Stirred up with greed
And obligatory fasting
https://www.gnomesondope.com/.
"...there's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows..."
I have made my decision
I am building a religion.
It started with a thought
It started with a vision.
It won’t be very sad
It won’t be very funny.
One thing you can be sure.
It’ll generate some money.
It will be built upon fear
The threat of a fire everlasting
Stirred up with greed
And obligatory fasting
https://www.gnomesondope.com/.
And I prefer this one
whereas I'd rather have a Chocolate Jesus
And I prefer this one
Agree on that...but this is an interesting contrast...
Gospel of John 13- 1-17
1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel. 5 Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. 6 He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" 7 Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand." 8 Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me." 9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" 10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you." 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "You are not all clean." 12 When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Everybody in my church loves this song...
Yeats wrote, "Rhetoric is fooling others. Sentimentality is fooling yourself."
Well, that's your opinion of another recording; you needn't invoke some hundred-year-old quotes to rationalize it. However, I do greatly prefer this version to Mr. Cash's.
But Keats and Yeats are on his side!
This one is great! The latter not so much...
No no no, it's "Reach out, flush me"
He just ruined it, period. Sentimentality (and bad taste) will make you believe otherwise, mind.
Sentimentality is both a literary device used to induce a tender emotional response disproportionate to the situation, and thus to substitute heightened and generally uncritical feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgments, and a heightened reader response willing to invest previously prepared emotions to respond disproportionately to a literary situation.
"A sentimentalist", Oscar Wilde wrote Alfred Douglas, "is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."
Yeats wrote, "Rhetoric is fooling others. Sentimentality is fooling yourself."
Well, that's your opinion of another recording; you needn't invoke some hundred-year-old quotes to rationalize it. However, I do greatly prefer this version to Mr. Cash's.
Definitely one of the best cuts on one of the best albums of the 90s.
Me, too. I heard Johnny sing it first, and that's the one I favor.
But the Depeche Mode version is good.
Don't feel that strongly myself, although JC's version of "Mercy Seat" is far better than Nick Cave's original.
He just ruined it, period. Sentimentality (and bad taste) will make you believe otherwise, mind.
Sentimentality is both a literary device used to induce a tender emotional response disproportionate to the situation, and thus to substitute heightened and generally uncritical feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgments, and a heightened reader response willing to invest previously prepared emotions to respond disproportionately to a literary situation.
"A sentimentalist", Oscar Wilde wrote Alfred Douglas, "is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."
Yeats wrote, "Rhetoric is fooling others. Sentimentality is fooling yourself."
Exactly. Johnny Cash was never that good when he was alive. He's no better now that he's dead.
GREAT SONG
Just picked up this album this week.
WITHOUT ANY SENSE!
They have a unique sound.This is the original. Hard to believe that some comments below seem to reflect the notion that Johny Cash wrote this. This is not at all in keeping with JC's style.
It's like the comments : "Colbain's song - Man who sold the world" is much better than the cover by David Bowie.
Funny, Cash's version means pretty much nothing to me, because I'd long since heard the acoustic version of this song performed by Martin Gore, which was featured on the 101 tour documentary and the CD Maxi-single. Cash's version just sounds kind of unoriginal to me. But tastes differ, of course, and if you couldn't tell that I'm a rabid DM fan by my handle, this post will certainly make that clear.
Credit card, please. Plastic, but still...
He just ruined it, period. Sentimentality (and bad taste) will make you believe otherwise, mind.
Sentimentality is both a literary device used to induce a tender emotional response disproportionate to the situation, and thus to substitute heightened and generally uncritical feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgments, and a heightened reader response willing to invest previously prepared emotions to respond disproportionately to a literary situation.
"A sentimentalist", Oscar Wilde wrote Alfred Douglas, "is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."
Yeats wrote, "Rhetoric is fooling others. Sentimentality is fooling yourself."
Shut your puke hole.
Do you have a copyright on the term, "puke hole?" If not, may I borrow it?
Kind of ambivalent about DP, but I've always really liked this song. And 'Dreaming of Me' ...
Johnny Cochran!
Jesse Custer
Joan Collins.....
This is the original. Hard to believe that some comments below seem to reflect the notion that Johny Cash wrote this. This is not at all in keeping with JC's style.
Still LUVIN' this tune 19 years later!
me too ! :)
Still LUVIN' this tune 19 years later!
In your opinion it may be a poor song, but it can't be a poor cover because it's the original.
> Nil. > Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus". Yes, that's puke over Nil. over this song (for those of you scoring at home).Another cut that is still in regular rotation (after 19 FRIGGIN' YEARS!) here in Chicago on 'XRT. I don't need to hear it here on RP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey. Just because it is also played on the radio does not mean it should not be played here too. Depeche Mode is fantastic. Shut your puke hole.
> Nil. > Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus". Yes, that's puke over Nil. over this song (for those of you scoring at home).Another cut that is still in regular rotation (after 19 FRIGGIN' YEARS!) here in Chicago on 'XRT. I don't need to hear it here on RP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quit your bitchin and use the mute button. Some of us still love it (and don't listen to terrestrial radio any more).
Nil. > Nil. > Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus". Yes, that's puke over Nil. over this song (for those of you scoring at home).Another cut that is still in regular rotation (after 19 FRIGGIN' YEARS!) here in Chicago on 'XRT. I don't need to hear it here on RP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Johnny Cochran!
Jesse Custer
Johnny Cochran!
Nil.
Depeche Mode + Firefly = 
Trent Reznor told an interviewer that "Hurt" was now Johnny Cash's song forever.