Keeping God in the American Culture as Depicted in the Audio Adrenaline Song, Can't Take God Away

Keeping God in the American Culture as Depicted in the Audio Adrenaline Song, Can't Take God Away

Music has always been a big part of our culture. People sing and listen to songs for entertainment and for encouragement. Explore folk songs or Negro spirituals for instance. Many slaves sang spirituals for encouragement and hope to carry them through the rough times they experienced. Even today, most people enjoy listening to music because they can relate to the things about which the artists sing. Often artists sing about things that either upset or please them. These days, much of American music exposes problems in our society. In a song entitled, Can’t Take God Away, the Christian rock group Audio Adrenaline sings about how God is being taken out of various aspects of the American culture more and more, but nothing can take Him out of the singer’s life. This song is an accurate assessment of the nation today.

The song deals first with education when it explains, "You can take God out of my school/You can make me listen to you/You can take God out of the pledge" in lines 1-3. It used to be that there was daily prayer in our nation’s schools. At one time, students learned about God there. In recent years, though, God has been taken out of school as much as possible. Some people have even gone as far as taking the "under God" clause out of the Pledge of Allegiance. I agree with this portion of the song. Every day, I attend a school where I’m taught that my beliefs are just as good as yours - if you think something’s right, you are justified in doing it, even if I believe it’s wrong. I am forced to listen to the concepts of evolution that say we came from essentially nothing. Rather than learning about God, we learn about how...

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...o tell you something you need to understand

CHORUS

You can't take God away from me

You can take my life, my land, my liberty

Lock me up, I'll still be free

'Cause you can't take God from me

You can take God out of the law

You can make me listen to ya'll

You can take God out of the start

But you can't take God out of my heart

Listen to me closely, lend me your ear

The substance of my statement lets you know I'm sincere

Government officials, shapers of the land

I've got to tell you something you need to understand

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE

You can't take God, you can't take God away

You can't take God, you can't take God away

You can't take God, you can't take God away

You can't take God, you can't take God away

REPEAT CHORUS

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