Pop Poetry, v1

If you're a self professed music snob like myself, you would not think the words pop and poetry belong in the same sentence. Really, it's more of an oxymoron.

However, I've found myself listening to pop on the radio a lot recently, and I've been surprised by what I've heard in the lyrics. A lot of the songs have deep spiritual truths in them. I don't know if the writers of these songs intended on their lyrics addressing the spiritual, but they definitely do. I have many examples but I'm going to keep it to one song per post, hence the v1.

My first example is a song by the band Parachute. The lyrics are below. Imagine if he weren't singing about a girlfriend here.

God is love. All love is a gift from God. Whether the writer realizes it or not, he understands the love story between us and God.

Parachute VA
She Is Love lyrics

I've been beaten down, I've been kicked around,
But she takes it all for me.
And I lost my faith, in my darkest days,
But she makes me want to believe.

They call her love, love, love, love, love.
They call her love, love, love, love, love.
She's all I need.

Well I had my ways, they were all in vain,
But she waited patiently.
It was all the same, all my pride and shame,
And she put me on my feet.

They call her love, love, love, love, love.
They call her love, love, love, love, love.
They call her love, love, love, love, love.
She is love, and she is all I need.

Cause when that world slows down, dear.
And when those stars burn out, here.
Oh she'll be there, yes she'll be there,
They call her love, love, love, love, love.
They call her love, love, love, love, love.
They call her love, love, love, love, love.
They call her love, love, love, love, love.
She is love, and she is all I need,
She is love, and she is all I need,
She is love, and she is all I need.

To watch the music video on You Tube click HERE

- Natalie Wilson