The Gospel According to Incubus - Part 3 - May 23, 2007
So I am loving Incubus more and more.
In the song When It Comes off their Make Yourself album the lyrics artistically express what its like when temptation is really pulling at you. You know how you start to feel like you are about to fall into sin. “It feels like trading brains with an imbecile” does it not. It’s like your brain goes out the door and you are left with a one track mind set on doing the very thing that you know you shouldn’t! Incubus calls this mental piracy! I think they are right on.
Also in the song is found the line that says: “To know,what I’m looking for, cannot be sold to me. I wish they all would stop trying cause’ what I want and what I need, is and will always be free.” Sounds like the Gospel to me!
Check out the entire song below:
It’s comin’ around again
they’re letting it out again, again.
It’s comin’ around again
they’re letting it out again, again.
When it comes,
it comes abrupt.
When it feels, it feels like trading brains with an imbecile… for real.
Yes I feel emphatic about not being static
and not buying philosophies that are sold to me, at a steal.
Just when you thought it was safe to think,
in comes mental piracy!
To know,what I’m looking for,
cannot be sold to me.
I wish they all would stop trying
cause’ what I want and what I need,
is and will always be free.
It’s comin’ around again
they’re letting it out again, again.
It’s comin’ around again
they’re letting it out again.
When it comes,
it comes unannounced.
And it feels like a matador is taunting me with his reddest red cloth and I am the bull.
Yes I feel emphatic about not being static
and not eating the bull____ that’s being fed to me no more…
cause’ now I’m full.
Just when you thought it was safe to think
in comes mental piracy!
What I’m looking for cannot be sold to me.
I wish they all would stop trying,
cause’ what I want and what I need
is and will always be free.
Posted by matthew gamble on May 23, 2007 at 10:16 AM
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hey pastor gamble,
Posted by Josh Moses on October 13, 2007 at 07:16 AM | #just arrived back at Avondale College from big camp 2007. it was good times all around and just thought i’d check out ya website here. This is that texan dude that had pastor anderson as my youth pastor, just to strike ya memory chords. anyways, i’ve liked incubus since 8th grade, but in about 11th grade i started to question their lyrics, specially in regards to their band name. i’ve loved them mainly because they are an ultra talented band with amazing rhytms and an awesome vocalist and to see that ya like them is pretty cool, but i’ve had this conversation with many friends in regards to their lyrics. by definition, an incubus was/is a demon that takes away females at night and rapes them??? or something like that, and i’m aware that another meaning is simple “strange, or wierd”. anyways, i passed it off for ages, but then when i looked into lyrics like those in “summer romance” “stellar” which both talk of sorta seducing and “taking you away to another place”....just wasn’t sure about it. all in all, i still listen to them pretty frequently and i’m not sure if i’m just reading into it too much, but i’d love to hear what ya have to say cuz i figure their a great band with some amazing love songs....you quoted aqueous transmission in one of ya sermons at big camp....thought that was cool, hahahaha...i appreciated big camp heaps. hope you’ve had safe travels back to the good ol U.S…
Hey Josh!
I got your email and am just reading your post for the first time. Thank you for taking the time to write.
Music is by no means a simple black and white answer. I have gone through my fair share of ups and downs and backs and forths as far as music is concerned. Where I am at right now is that I believe that music is an expression that more times than not is the expression of the soul. That being said, I find that a lot of music articulates from the authors perspective the internal struggle that they are facing as they are desiring to walk by the spirit and not by the flesh. That being said, when I listen to music I am listening for that lyric that I can identify with. The song “Pardon Me” in the late 90’s was what got me hooked on Incubus. While I am not trying to promote Incubus, I think that you need to make it a matter of prayerful consideration. What is God calling you to do? The Bible says that to him who knows to do right and doesn’t do it, to him it is a sin. What is right to you?
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