Religion, Supernatural
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References to God, gods, spirits, supernatural, ghosts, horrors, surreality, etc.
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- Au Contraire - Ghandi, spiritual leader of India
- Birdhouse In Your Soul - "Like guardian angels it's always near"
- Bread Hair - "Use a yarmulke of challah bread if you're a Jew"
- Charlottesville - "Filled with devils from the depths of hell"
- Dead - reincarnation, "I came back as a bag of groceries"
- Dig My Grave - St. Peter
- Dirt Bike - about a religious cult
- Doctor Worm - Rabbi Vole
- The Edison Museum - "Ghosts move up the stairs... Loyal phantoms of his in-house staff"
- Feast Of Lights
- Finished With Lies - "[I'll] move the needle telepathically", "I'll fix it so you can't remember what was true"
- Hopeless Bleak Despair - "I died and went to hell but my despair had ascended to heaven."
- Hypnotist Of Ladies - not quite supernatural, but perhaps worthy of a mention
- I Can't Feel My Arm - "Oh God, I feel weird"
- I Never Go To Work -"And Sunday is the day of rest"
- Kiss Me, Son Of God - the title, and "I look like Jesus..."
- Kitten Intro - "They Might Be Giants are not Satanists"
- Maine - "Maine is the heaven below", "Maine is the hell from above"
- Meet James Ensor - "the torments of Christ"
- Memphis - "I died and went to heaven"
- No Answer - "The ghost of somebody who decided not to begin"
- On Earth My Nina - "God forbid a vaguer feat"
- Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head - "And I'll see you in church" also it's possible that "the puppet head" is a religious item.
- Reprehensible - immortal soul, reincarnation
- Road Movie To Berlin - "We were once so close to Heaven, Peter came out and gave us medals"
- She's Actual Size - "Light beams down from Heaven."
- Snowball In Hell
- Stomp Box - "Free the demon, hear the ceaseless screaming..."
- Tavern In Pinsk - "Till the savior comes, till the Mashiach comes at last"
- Thunderbird - "You can't see heaven when you're standing tall..."
- Why Did You Grow A Beard? - "What the Christ? What the devil?"
- Your Racist Friend - "Can't shake the devil's hand..."