Results for “deliverance”

Songs

Van Morrison

A song of emergence from suffering into light, built almost entirely on weather imagery and physical sensation rather than…

deliverance renewal suffering and endurance

Creedence Clearwater Revival

CCR's take on this traditional American folk-blues song reworks a prison-camp lament into a swampy rock anthem, keeping its cast…

incarceration and forced labor folk tradition and inheritance longing for deliverance

The Staple Singers

This is the Staple Singers' rendition of a traditional African American spiritual, one long believed to have carried coded…

deliverance/salvation biblical exodus imagery collective faith

Ann Peebles

Ann Peebles addresses trouble, heartache, and sadness as if they were unwelcome visitors, ordering them off her doorstep now…

deliverance through love personification of emotional states resilience

Merle Haggard

This is a plainspoken gospel prayer sung from a position of exhaustion and humility, asking for the strength to survive the…

religious surrender humility and human limitation present-moment endurance

Etta James

Etta James takes the 1933 Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler standard and strips it down to raw, aching testimony, using weather as an…

heartbreak and abandonment weather as emotional metaphor spiritual longing