Religion, Supernatural

References to God, gods, Heaven, Hell and spirits as well as supernatural, spiritual, paranormal and surreal phenomena.

Central theme

• Announcement A - a recitation of the song "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
• Answer - the narrator posits that he is the answer to all of the prayers of the song's subject
• The Devil Went Down To Newport
• Dirt Bike - About a religious cult
• Devil Spawn
• The Fellowship Of Hell
• God's Sister Jessica
• Haunted Floating Eye
• Hell Hotel
• I Left My Body
• I'm Impressed
• Iowa
• Kiss Me, Son Of God
• Kumbaya
• Omnicorn
• Shape Shifter
• She's An Angel
• Trouble Awful Devil Evil
• Tucson
• Turn Around
• Walk On Water
• Welcome 2 Hell
• You Probably Get That A Lot

Briefly mentioned

• Au Contraire - Gandhi, spiritual leader of India
• Bad Jokes - "And all three of different ethnic backgrounds, maybe religious backgrounds"
• Birdhouse In Your Soul - "Like guardian angels it's always near"
• Bread Hair - "Use a yarmulke of challah bread if you're a Jew"
• Butcher's Tale - "If the priest he could go and see the flies"
• Crystal Fortress - "A unicorn awaits at a rainbow bridge"
• Charlottesville - "Filled with devils from the depths of hell"
• Chip The CHiP - quotes the Gospel of Matthew
• Cut The Strings - "All hell breaks loose"
• Darlin' Allison - "An angel will come and bid me welcome"
• Dead - reincarnation, "I came back as a bag of groceries"
• Dig My Grave - St. Peter
• Doctor Worm - Rabbi Vole
• Dog Walker - Draculas
• The Edison Museum - "Ghosts move up the stairs... Loyal phantoms of his in-house staff"
• Erase - "See the way the deep sea diver falls into the mermaid's arms"
• Feast Of Lights
• Finished With Lies - "[I'll] move the needle telepathically", "I'll fix it so you can't remember what was true"
• Good To Be Alive - "I'm not some mega-church style preacher / But my spirit is revived"
• Hate The Villanelle - "Tumble through Hell"
• Helicopters Of Elves - Mention of The Land of Nod, a location where Cain was exiled to in the Bible's book of Genesis
• Hodgman Promo 2 - "Or is that money the Delia needs to continue to house a coven of evil witches?"
• Hopeless Bleak Despair - "I died and went to hell but my despair had ascended to heaven"
• Hot Cha - "Prodigal son", one of Jesus' parables
• Hypnotist Of Ladies - not quite supernatural, but perhaps worthy of a mention
• I Broke My Own Rule - "Now I'm condemned to hell"
• I Can't Feel My Arm - "Oh God, I feel weird"
• I Lost Thursday - "It's supernatural"
• I Never Go To Work -"And Sunday is the day of rest"
• Jackie The Clipper - "God I'm tired"
• Impossibly New - "Telling tales of local vampires"
• Kitten Intro - "They Might Be Giants are not Satanists"
• Long White Beard - "Like Zeus on Mount Olympus"
• Madam, I Challenge You To A Duel - "By spirits taught to sing"
• Maine - "Maine is the heaven below", "Maine is the hell from above"
• Maryland My Maryland - "His torch is at thy temple door"
• Meet James Ensor - "the torments of Christ"
• Memphis - "I died and went to heaven"
• The Mesopotamians - Mention of Hammurabi, religious law maker of the Mesopotamian culture.
• Moonbeam Rays - Alludes to the act of placing someone under a curse
• 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.
• Quit The Circus - "There must be a way, To scare off this old ghost"
• Rabid Child - "Lord, please don't take me away"
• Reprehensible - immortal soul, reincarnation
• Right Before Showtime - "Hour eight: Jesus Christ", "It's like a miracle / It is a miracle"
• Road Movie To Berlin - "We were once so close to Heaven, Peter came out and gave us medals"
• Rock Club - "Put your hands together, get on your knees and pray"
• Roy G. Biv - "You'll never see a unicorn"
• Science Is Real - "I like the stories about angels, unicorns and elves"
• She's Actual Size - "Light beams down from Heaven"
• Snowball In Hell
• Starry Eyes - "We never asked for miracles"
• Stomp Box - "Free the demon, hear the ceaseless screaming"
• Tavern In Pinsk - "Till the savior comes, till the Mashiach comes at last"
• Teenagers Are Going - "Religion and self-knowledge"
• Three Might Be Duende - "A ghostly sight"
• Thunderbird - "You can't see heaven when you're standing tall"
• This Is Only Going To Go One Way - "A peg-leg captain's ghost", "The devil and the deep blue sea"
• Turn Around - "The ghost of my dance instructor"
• Twisting (Demo) - "She says there's a place in heaven..."
• Why Did You Grow A Beard? - "What the Christ? What the devil?"
• Worried Sleep - "By the parking lot of some church hall"
• Your Racist Friend - "Can't shake the devil's hand"

Honorable mentions

• Alphabet Lost And Found - In the music video, when they say "They're gonna have to get together", they show a lunch-box with a vampire that lost its 'V'
• Damn Good Times - Music video centers around vampires
• Hide Away Folk Family - In live concerts, the audience is told to "scream as if you're in Hell"