Live's Water Religion

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Live’s Water Religion

Live’s songs portray a quest for salvation through active religion. Live consistently uses the metaphor of water to indicate acceptance of spirituality. The narrator of the band’s songs communicates an evolving religious belief. Live uses the image of water to illustrate religion itself, holy love, and ultimate salvation. As a symbol of religion, water is the means to save modern society from God’s wrath. Through water baptism the individual can be born again in absolute faith in God. The songs “All Over You”, “Run To The Water”, “Pain Lies On the Riverside”, and “Overcome” exemplify the connection between religion and water.
Live’s music shows distaste in the lack of religion and compassion in modern society. In “Pain Lies on the Riverside” the line “you are a victim of this age” illustrates the evil seen in the present civilization. “Overcome” shows the emptiness of society in the lines “even now the world is bleedin’ but feelin’ just fine all numb in our castle.” Everyone living in his own castle away from the problems in the world illustrates the lack of compassion in modern times. The numbed society feels no sympathy to fix the bleeding world. The line “I wish somethin’ would break cuz we’re runnin out of time” establishes the need to do something. Through the metaphor of water, Live presents religion as the answer to the bleeding world.
The connection between love in religion and water is a dominant presence within “All Over You.” This song connects water to God’s love. The song’s opening line makes the simile of “our love is like water.” This line in itself offers only the association of love to water. The love is clarified in the final line of the second refrain with a word change in the simile. The line “our love is like angels” relates water to religion with the exchange of angels for water. God’s love is as es...