Results for “liberation through surrender”

Songs

Erykah Badu

A meditation on getting lost, both literally and existentially, that refuses to resolve into a tidy moral. Badu treats…

self-doubt and self-trust fate versus choice spiritual wandering

Nina Simone

A catalogue of natural images -- birds, rivers, blossoms, stars -- builds into a declaration of personal liberation and renewal.…

renewal freedom self-possession

Roberta Flack

A slow, hymn-like ballad that traces one relationship's progress through three ascending intimacies: first sight, first kiss,…

awakening love cosmic/natural imagery as emotional scale vulnerability and surrender

Leonard Cohen

A three-part meditation in waltz time that moves from a woman by a river, to Christ walking on water, and back to the woman…

erotic love as spiritual apprehension faith and doubt surrender to a guide

Patti Smith

A duet between erotic urgency and something closer to faith: the speaker asks a lover to take her as she is, and then defends…

erotic desire as sustenance night as sanctuary from harm doubt and belief

David Bowie

A radio drama in miniature: a space agency counts an astronaut into orbit, celebrates him as a media sensation, then loses him.…

alienation celebrity and spectacle technological failure

Aretha Franklin

This is a driving-metaphor party song: sex and romance recast as a joyride down an open highway in a pink Cadillac. It's…

romantic/sexual liberation escape and momentum playfulness and flirtation

Talking Heads

A preacher-like voice addresses an unnamed "you," cataloguing the accidental furniture of a middle-class life and then asking…

mid-life disorientation the unearned life time as drift