Results for “faith and patience”

Songs

Faith

George Michael

A dance-pop declaration of self-preservation dressed up as a love song: the narrator is attracted to someone but refuses to hand…

romantic self-protection distrust of surface attraction patience versus desire

Faith

Stevie Wonder

A buoyant, danceable love song built from Stevie Wonder's signature optimism, framed here as a duet-style celebration (the track…

romantic optimism self-possession and confidence admiration turning to love

Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience

Parquet Courts

This is really two linked songs stitched into one track: an anxious, stuttering account of near-violence and existential…

urban anxiety exhaustion of patience alienation and numbness

True Faith

New Order

A euphoric-sounding synth-pop anthem that turns out to be about addiction and the erosion of innocence, dressed in language so…

addiction and dependency loss of childhood innocence denial and self-deception

Faith Healer

Julien Baker

Julien Baker draws a direct line between religious devotion and addiction, treating both as desperate transactions with anyone…

addiction and craving religious skepticism and desire for belief self-awareness vs. self-destruction

I Still Have Faith In You

ABBA

A reunion song that doubles as self-address, written by a band returning after nearly four decades apart. It moves from private…

reunion and reconciliation self-doubt vs. resolve endurance through time

Through the Falling Rain (Love Story)

Teddy Pendergrass

A testimony of romantic survival built almost entirely from repetition and affirmation: a narrator who was once burned by a love…

endurance of love disillusionment and recovery faith and patience

Our Day Will Come

Amy Winehouse

This is Amy Winehouse's cover of the 1963 Ruby & the Romantics doo-wop standard, recast in her contralto as a slow, hazy soul…

young love patience and deferred happiness faith against doubt

Blues Man

B.B. King

B.B. King uses a first-person narrator identified as an aging traveling musician to plead for dignity and recognition, framing…

itinerant hardship dignity under judgment aging and endurance

It's Going to Take Some Time

Carole King

A quiet post-breakup meditation in which the narrator refuses easy resolution, choosing patience over self-pity. Carole King…

heartbreak recovery self-forgiveness patience

Nobody Knows

Faces

A meditative, almost liturgical track from Faces' debut album that trades the band's usual barroom swagger for spiritual waiting…

spiritual longing stasis versus change faith and doubt

Reasons for Waiting

Jethro Tull

A gentle, hushed love song built on the image of watching a sleeping partner and holding onto quiet, private moments. It moves…

tender devotion distance and longing the fragility of romantic idealism

Up Above My Head

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

A call-and-response spiritual built on a single image: music heard overhead as proof of heaven. The song barely moves lyrically…

faith as certainty call and response tradition transcendence through sound

Hymn 43

Jethro Tull

A caustic broadside against the American co-option of Christianity, pairing frontier violence and cowboy mythology with the…

religious hypocrisy American mythology and violence colonialism

Easy, Easy, Got to Take It Easy

Teddy Pendergrass

A slow-burning seduction ballad built almost entirely around a single piece of self-advice: don't rush. Teddy Pendergrass…

patience as desire vulnerability in intimacy self-restraint

Grace

IDLES

A stripped-down prayer that trades religious and political authority for a single article of faith: love as the only sovereign…

faith and doubt surrender and vulnerability anti-authoritarianism

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

A young narrator recounts the slow death of a girl he loves from bone cancer, intercutting scenes of adolescent intimacy with…

mortality and illness adolescent love faith and doubt

Tom Ames' Prayer

Steve Earle

A cornered outlaw's deathbed-adjacent monologue turns into a bitter negotiation with a God he's never bothered to acknowledge.…

outlaw fatalism transactional faith self-reliance vs. surrender

Angel

Eurythmics

A meditation on death and disillusioned faith framed as a lullaby for someone who has died, with the singer caught between grief…

mortality loss of faith idolatry and celebrity

Take Our Time

TLC

This CrazySexyCool deep cut is a slow-burn seduction song built almost entirely on repetition, asking a partner to slow down and…

patience in intimacy trust between lovers sensuality

Down By the Riverside

Etta James

Etta James reworks the spiritual tradition of the riverside as a site of release and communion, turning a familiar gospel image…

spiritual longing surrender and trust peace after suffering

Kokomo, IN

Japanese Breakfast

A song written from the point of view of someone left behind by a person who's moved on to a bigger life, framed as a letter of…

unrequited devotion being left behind longing and patience

I Want Your Sex, Pts. 1 & 2

George Michael

George Michael turns a single, blunt demand into a sustained argument about desire, patience, and monogamy, dressing up a simple…

sexual desire and frustration persuasion and rhetoric monogamy versus promiscuity

The Panties

Mos Def

A slow-burn seduction song built almost entirely on repetition and murmured reassurance rather than narrative incident. Mos Def…

seduction and patience presence over words physical intimacy as the only true communication

Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Annie Lennox

A domestic warning delivered as slow-burning soul: a woman absorbs quiet humiliation night after night until patience curdles…

repressed anger domestic betrayal the limits of patience

Cool to Be You

Descendents

A song built entirely around a single envious refrain, cataloguing the forms of belonging the narrator lacks: group solidarity,…

alienation envy family estrangement

Amazing Grace

Loretta Lynn

This is Loretta Lynn's rendition of the eighteenth-century hymn 'Amazing Grace,' one of the most recorded pieces of…

redemption divine mercy mortality and eternity

Jesus & Gravity

Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton builds a simple physics-and-faith conceit into a testimony song: gravity is the force that keeps her humble and…

faith and humility gratitude versus entitlement balance between grounding and transcendence

Lord, I Just Can't Keep from Crying

Blind Willie Johnson

A slide-guitar lament built almost entirely around a single confessional refrain, in which the singer admits that faith and…

grief and bereavement faith under strain inherited religious consolation

Jesus Is Calling

Hank Williams

A plain-spoken gospel invitation built almost entirely on a single repeated refrain, this is Hank Williams working in the…

religious faith spiritual weariness redemption

Jesus Walks

Kanye West Tribute Band

Kanye West stages a war between street survival and spiritual longing, using a marching-drum gospel choir to frame hustling,…

faith under duress racial profiling and criminalization survivor's guilt

Clockwork Angels

Rush

The title track of Rush's final studio album stages a public spectacle of mechanical seraphim presiding over a city square, and…

manufactured faith spectacle and control surrender of reason

KING

Misfits

This is a hip-hop track built around a boastful, chant-like hook declaring a collective return to form, wrapped around two…

redemption and faith survival and resilience addiction and recovery

The Sign of the Southern Cross

Black Sabbath

A slow, doom-laden meditation dressed in Ronnie James Dio's signature mystic-quest imagery, using the constellation of the…

faith and doubt transience/mortality spiritual searching

Work It Out

Jurassic 5

A posse cut built around a Dave Matthews-sung hook, where four Jurassic 5 members each take the title phrase and apply it to a…

reconciliation and repair romantic regret social unity across difference

When Will I?

Candi Staton

A meditative gospel-soul confession in which the singer admits she hasn't yet mastered the surrender her faith calls for. The…

spiritual struggle anxiety and worry longing for peace

Three Little Birds (Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By The Film)

Kacey Musgraves

This is a faithful, largely unadorned cover of Bob Marley's reggae standard, recorded for a soundtrack tribute. Musgraves…

reassurance gratitude simple faith in the future

Cool It Down

The Velvet Underground

A loose, easy-rolling shuffle about romantic patience versus urgency, dressed in vague hints of bureaucratic or criminal…

desire vs. patience urban anonymity casual detachment

Closer to Believing

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

A ballad built around the shaky, provisional nature of faith—spiritual and romantic—where belief is something always approached…

spiritual uncertainty the fragility of belief love as substitute faith

Vienna

Billy Joel

A weary older voice counsels a driven young person to ease off the throttle, arguing that ambition pursued without patience…

ambition versus patience fear of mortality burnout