Songs about spirituality?

[Jack]

Do you know songs about spirituality?

In the days(in last year) which i was concentrating on "Oneness" i heard a song on the radio at the car with my mother while waiting for my father to come back to car,some lyrics(they were in my language) of it was:
"What are hidden in the past?Who am I?Who am I?I am One!One!"
After hearing the lyrics,my mother repeated "I am One! One!" hehe,but i am sure she was knowing nothing about what the lyrics truly mean

[thoth]

I don't know what your dear mumma was listening to but she sure got the right message.
I can't listen to Angelique Kidjo sing "We Are One" without getting all
goosebumpy.
Oh yea, let's not forget "I Know what Love is" by Don White

[Rohini]

Good one!!!
Lots of song on spirituality in my lang!
To translate a few lines from a very touching song-
" You are my mother
you are my dad
you are my body
you are my mind
you are the truth "

[Alex2007]

Here are some:


Reach for the Light (Weil)
Steve Winwood - Balto Soundtrack, 1995

Higher Love
Steve Winwood (Winwood/Jennings)

Juanita
Shania Twain - Album 'Up'

You Can Still Be Free
Savage Garden

Affirmation
Savage Garden

Welcome To Wherever You Are
by Bon Jovi
From the Album “Have a Nice Day”

Let it Be
The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)

Imagine
John Lennon

I Wish I knew How it Would Feel to be Free
(As sung by Nina Simone)

[Gukkor]

Songs marked with an asterisk are not your typical "spiritual" song. That is, they aren't exactly happy and/or positive, but the subject matter deals with spiritual matters nonetheless. Also, keep in mind that my definition of what is spiritual might be a bit broad, so the connection might not be there when you first hear the lyrics to some of these songs.

Audioslave - Like a Stone* (I think)

Coldplay - Clocks

Coldplay - A Whisper

Evanescence - Tourniquet*

Flyleaf - Red Sam

Flyleaf - I'm So Sick*

Gomez - See the World

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (Well, spirituality or drugs...or both...I'm not sure, Gorillaz is a weird band)

Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark*

Hyde - Season's Call (Yeah, he's a Japanese singer, but I'm pulling these straight out of my music files, so I'm just listing all that apply. Spirituality has no native tongue, after all )

Do as Infinity - Fukai Mori

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Lacuna Coil - Swamped

Lostprophets - Last Train Home*

Nujabes feat. Cyne - Feather

Nujabes feat. Shing02 - Luv Sic, Parts 1-3 (Well, it's a love song, really, but there's a very strong spiritual undertone to it. It's not a typical love long)

Origa - Inner Universe

Origa - Rise

Queen - Innuendo*

Queen feat. David Bowie - Under Pressure

Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah (Actually a Leonard Cohen cover, but I like Wainwright's version better )

Seether - Rise Above This (I think)

Steve Conte - Living Inside the Shell

Stylophonic - Soul Reply

Sublime - What I Got

Switchfoot - Meant to Live

System of a Down - Arials*

Willy Wonka - Pure Imagination (The Ataris did a nice cover of this song)

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony*

...okay, so I got a bit carried away. Sorry about that.

[seo1]

a couple of very spiritual songs:

the sound is a bit heavy but the lyrical content is amazing

"Lateralus"
"Reflection"
Tool

[lasti]

A spiritual message in a song of System of A Down (Aerials):

Life is a waterfall
Were one in the river
And one again after the fall
Swimming through the void
We hear the word
We lose ourselves
But we find it all

[daj]

Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (One of the best songs ever.)
YouTube - All is full of love


Bjork -Wanderlust (One of the most
beautiful 3d animated music videos out there.)
wanderlust | Veoh Video Network

[Alex2007]

Originally Posted by daj

..........Veoh Video Network

The "Veoh Video Network" is not available to all countries. Unfortunatelly they are opened only to those countries which are profitable.

This philosophy is poor.

[krisking911]

Originally Posted by daj

Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (One of the best songs ever.)
YouTube - All is full of love


Bjork -Wanderlust (One of the most
beautiful 3d animated music videos out there.)
wanderlust | Veoh Video Network

Wooow, thanks for sharing that "All is full of love" song. That was unbelievable! That song truly hits it on the head. The video is awesome!

[TheKarmicLaws]

Tool - Reflection
Aenema
H
Right in two
10000 Days

Actually every song in the Tool discography has some lesson which can be used to motivate your growth, spiritually, mentally and physically.

[martin]

Madonna - Nothing Really Matters(actually the whole ray of light album is quite spiritual)

[reflections]

"Bliss" is very heart centered spiritual music.

"]http://www.amazon.com/Bliss-UK/dp/B00022VMMQ/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1216276827&sr=1-9"]

Deva Primal is also quite amazing.

Amazon.com: Embrace: Deva Premal: Music

[The Large Dude Scam]

I can recommend the band "Absurd Minds", almost all their songs are spiritual.

Some excerpts:

"There`s only the source, dark in itself, making everything shine.
When all names and forms have been given up the real is with you.
Break the bonds of memory and self-identification
and the shell will break by itself.
All you need is you."

"The dreaming of the world takes many forms,
because the body seeks in many ways to prove - it is real.
The searching for the truth takes many forms,
because the body feels in many ways this world is not real."

[Old Soul]

Here is a verse from Styx revealing the illusion of the ego


Welcome to the grand illusion
Come on in and see whats happening
Pay the price, get your tickets for the show
The stage is set, the band starts playing
Suddenly your heart is pounding
Wishing secretly you were a star.

Here is one of my favorites

(lyrics Anderson/music Vangelis)

Sounds like a signal from you
Bring me to meet your sound
And I will bring you to my heart

Love like a signal you call
Touching my body my soul
Bring to me, you to meet me here

Home be the temple of your heart
Home be the body of your love
Just like Holy water to my lips
Yes I do know how I survive
Yes I do know why I'm alive
To love and be with you
Day by day by day by day

Time, time again, it is said
We will hear, we will see
See it all-in his wisdom-hear
His truth will abound the land
This truth will abound the land
This State of independence shall be
This State of independence shall be

[Niamh]

I agree. Tool is heavy on the spiritual. Although, some might find it heavy on the sound...
Its lovely either way

[songwriter]

I'll try not to repeat cause some of this are very obvious:

One-u2
One World-Bob Marley
Within Without you, I am the walrus, Love you to, The inner light, Across the universe, All you need is love, etc. - The Beatles
Instant Karma, God-John Lennon

surpringsily, many Oasis songs...

Stairway to Heaven!-Led Zeppelin

[Elrond]

From the nest we descend in a mist,
all like birds on thin ice
From the kingdoms of childhood we dream on
and turn to the wise
And the code that was written in blood & flesh
in an ancient time
From the kingdom of heaven
the ships of dreams were sent to enlighten YOU.

The Flower Kings - Serious Dreamers


All their lyrics are spiritual, but I think these are pretty epic.

[songwriter]

the thing with the Beatles is that sometimes the lyrics are easy to understand and sometimes they need to be decoded. Two examples, first is easy, second is not.

Recorded in India, with George Harrison and Indian musicians, and with special Indian smells in the studio.

Within You Without You-The Beatles 1967 (song of George Harrison)

original version

YouTube - Within You, Without You

love remix and videoclip in 2008, with sounds of Tomorrow Never Knows (another quite spiritual one with The Beatles creating techno music in 1966!)

YouTube - Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows


We were talking
about the space between us all
and people who hide themselves
behind a wall of illusion
never glimpse the truth
then it's far too late
when they pass away

We were talking
about the love we all could share
When we find it
to try our best to hold it there
with our love, with our love
we could save the world
if they only knew

Try to realize it's all within yourself
no one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
and life flows on within you and without you

We were talking
about the love that's gone so cold
and the people who gain the world
and lose their soul
They don't know, they can't see
Are you one of them

When you've seen beyond yourself
then you may find
peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come
when you see we're all one
and life flows on within you and without you

[songwriter]

here comes the difficult one I am the Walrus, inspired in Lewis Carrol poem

The Walrus is one character that chooses to be the one "who will claim against kings", that was Lennon choosed to do from 1967 on. Claiming against anything wrong and the status quo. The Carpenter is other character of the poem, that happens to be the conceiver of the ideas of the Walrus but doesn't want to like the claiming Walrus role, that's Paul McCartney.

I am the walrus-The Beatles (song of John Lennon)

YouTube - The Beatles - I am the Walrus (High Quality)

I am he as you are he as you are me
and we are all together
(no explanation for these lines, in this board I think)

See how they run like pigs from a gun
see how they fly
(people being sheep)
I'm crying
(and that's sad)

(etc. I don't know how to decode the rest, But I've saw it made by English native speakers.)

Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
you let your face grow long

I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Mr. city policeman sitting
pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying
Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
you let your knickers down

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Sitting in an English garden
waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come you get a tan
from standing in the English rain

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Expert, texpert choking smokers
don't you think the joker laughs at you
See how they smile like pigs in a sty
See how they snide
I'm crying
Semolina pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking
Edgar Allan Poe

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' goo
goo goo g' joob goo
juba juba juba
juba juba juba
juba juba juba juba
juba juba

[DaftMonk]

What about this? It has no lyrics, but it's definitely a spiritual song.

YouTube - Sunset in St. Carlos, B-Tribe

[rasberigirl]

Power of Goodbye -Madonna.

[WhiteLight]

Tool is definitely on the list, as others have stated. Some others I find spiritually uplifting are:

"Sour Grapes" by Puscifer (Maynard Keenan's side project)
YouTube - Sour Grapes

"Only" by Nine Inch Nails.
YouTube - Nine Inch Nails - ONLY

"The Good Solder" by Nine Inch Nails.
YouTube - Nine inch nails-The Good Soldier

"Pardon Me" by Incubus
YouTube - Incubus - Pardon Me

"Pendulous Threads" by Incubus
YouTube - INCUBUS - pendulous threads - (light grenades 2006)

"Rogues" by Incubus
YouTube - Rogues - Incubus - Look Alive DVD

"Tear" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
YouTube - Tear-Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Parallel Universe" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
YouTube - (exclusive!!!!!)---red hot chili peppers---(exclusive!!!!)

"No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age
YouTube - Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows

"Go With the Flow" by Queens of the Stone Age
YouTube - Queens Of The Stone Age - Go With The Flow

"Hey" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
YouTube - Red Hot Chili Peppers- Hey

"White Light" by Gorillaz
YouTube - Gorillaz-White Light

"Gold Lion" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
YouTube - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion

"Mastermind" by Deltron 3030 (video in the link is actually for a gorillaz song, but deltron still makes an appearance as the blue gorilla ghost)
YouTube - Deltron 3030 - Mastermind

"3030" by Deltron 3030
YouTube - Deltron 3030 - 3030

Some could be describe as social commentary (like deltron), but you can interpret them on a spiritual level.

[Erock]

Someone already mentioned it, but I'm pretty sure stairway to heaven is about enlightenment (whether Robert Plant knows it or not). From Wikipedia:

"My hand was writing out the words, 'There's a lady is sure [sic], all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven'. I just sat there and looked at them and almost leapt out of my seat."

I mean look at the last 4 lines:

And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

Awesome.

Erock