Gary Numan - A Question Of Faith Lyrics

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and I breath for my sole

I remember when I first heard this album. The album was called Dawn when I saw it and had art from that comic. I was a questioning person at the time, always had been, still am and this album - and that comic - spoke to me. I had this CD on constant repeat for months.

From the recent trip to Istanbul the feeling and wavelength was very strong, this may be due to the European crossover of the Sunni side of Islam and mystical Sufi practice. My mother who is buried in a cemetery in England among the christian graves was very spiritual, more of the Fakir line. One uncle was Sunni the other Shia ( mainly practiced in Iran / Persia). Anyway my aunt from the Sunni side performed a witch/wizard ritual magic summoning the Djinn (Jinn). many Islamic scholars will say this is evil and devils work, but there is also a good side to Jinn. Otherwise it would not have appeared in the Koran.

I'm just not interested any artist's religious or atheist views. I could care less. Not why I like their music. Gary's included. I like Gary's voice and his way with synthesizers. I would like new music with high and low synth registers, the lows with the soaring highs. I haven't found any other musician who can create the kind of music Gary can make using synths.

I love how diverse Gary Numans musical catalog is... and I may be in the minority but I love his early stuff, his mid to late 80s stuff and his darker 90s and 00s stuff. He just does it all well.

I don't think you speak in dissent at all. when it comes to bands that have been around for a long time, most people always say "the old stuff was better". I honestly don't think that's always the case with most bands, I think people have a tendency to like the old stuff from a band more because it's been around longer. and so it's had more time to grow on you, as opposed to something that's new. for me it's the very early, and the very recent Gary Numan that I like most.

This album needs to be Remastered!

Ponweeman I would buy it in a blink of an eye if they did

They did remaster it in the late 90s, though I think this album has been out of print for a while now.

Apparently, Numan + Fenton are currently in the process of remastering this album and several others!

@James Bush Not only remastering, apparently they are re-recording the whole damn thing! At least that's what Gary himself has said.

this song is a fave of mine. this next to Lilith Immaculate by CoF has become my anthem.

I'll crawl for you
Hurt if you want to
I'll be the thing that you feed.

I'm not asking
For love or redemption
I'll sell my guilt to your need.

I'll breathe for you
Die if you want to
I'll mourn with you by my grave.

I dare you to judge me
Now God has disowned me
I've come to you to be saved.

They say I sold my soul.
We all reap what we sow.

I'll shine for you
Burn if you want to
You'll be the prize for my pain.

I'll kill your god
And pray for salvation
I'll be the in to your sane.

I'll lie for you
be your conscience in you
Sacrifice reason for shame.

I won't ask for
Faith or forgiveness
I'll be the blood in your veins.

They say I lost my way
I'll wait for judgement day.

Don't pray for my soul.
Don't pray for my soul.
Don't pray for my soul.
Don't pray for my soul.

I'll be your darkness
In the light
I'll be your vampire calling
In the dead of night

I'll be your demon
Shadow man
I'll be your one confession
And if I can

I'll be your nightmare
And scream for you
I'll be your one possesion
If you want me to

I'll be your secret
Memory,
I'll be your exhibition
Of atrocity.

They say I sold my soul.
We all reap what we sow.

They say I lost my way.
I'll wait for judgement day.

Don't pray for my soul.
Don't pray for my soul.
Don't pray for my soul.
Don't pray for my soul.

They kneel down, praise God
Shout allelujah,
Lift up their eyes when they pray.

When children kill children
Don't it make them wonder?
Don't it make them question their faith?

Great tune from legend. See you in London on the 20th March Gary, can't wait.

Check the Anubian lights remix it takes the song to a new level

I just think that it's been easier for artists in the last two decades to speak more controversially (esp. religion) than it has been in the past...
thanks to artists like NIN and Gary...it's so funny how everyone harped on Manson for being Satanic and taking his lyrics as such, when Gary's lyrics are so obviously anit-religion and he's been doing it way longer

He still is good, someppl have said on YT that he has crossed over to the dark side. Well I know more about Trent Reznor then Gary, however if you know his music from 1979 till now, he was always there. And I love it.

This is a quality track back when Numan was good.

Back when? So... 5 years later, have you heard his new album Savage? It's the sound of this, 10X!

Frank M he still is good. He is better I saw him live 5 months ago it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my entire life

he has got better and better

@hehfilms As for Numan, he isn't questioning. He knows (he is a Gnostic Atheist) there is no God of any kind. This song is exploring how it affects his life.

@hehfilms You are kind of simple, aren't you? :P jk "Heresy" has multiple layers actually, each of them more exploratory than an assertion of a theological position. As for him claiming to be Deist, that doesn't run contradictory to what I said. Deist is quite possibly the most ambiguous standpoint of them all as it could entail absolutely anything including a belief in the Christian God minus the rituals. So no, I am not off base here.

@hehfilms "Question of Faith" is more honest, I must say, though. I don't know about anyone else, but the more I listen to Reznor's music, the more I get a Christian vibe. The way he phrases things on his later albums just doesn't sound right for someone who isn't a believer.

LicoriceLain true

Its more of a guy that grew up in the Midwest possibly believing in something that he no longer does. There's that want for something to be there and yet not feeling it. That's the vibe I get with Trent's later music.

@hehfilms Are you accusing him of ripping off Trent with song?

@APracticableDreamer You got it.

Sounds a lot like The Radial Pair's Kiss Me and Die song.

I love this song!!!!