songs that reference both Jesus and Elvis

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Tom Petty - "Free Falling"
Counting Crows - "Round Here"
Incubus - "Megalomaniac"
George Michael - "John & Elvis Are Dead"
Jon Bon Jovi - "I Talk To Jesus"

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

also, apparently some guy named Greg Brown has a song called "Jesus And Elvis"

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

and Elvis himself sang a bunch of religious songs, obviously

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Everything Nick Cave has ever sung. (More seriously, "Tupelo.")

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Jesus & Elvis" - Greg Brown:

Elvis he died young - Jesus he died younger.
Elvis died of too much - Jesus died of hunger.


"Fizzy" - Jesus & Mary Chain:

Elvis lives and Bob Dylan is dead
And OJ's wife's crawling back from the dead
Love is great / Oh yeah love is good
And my bed friend thinks that love is food

God is great / Oh yeah God is good
And my friend Ben thinks that beer is food


"10 Minutes" - Shivaree:

Jesus Presley Elvis Christ
Happy parents standing in some living room


"Elvis Has Just Left The Building" - Frank Zappa:

Elvis has just left the building
Those are his footprints, right there
Elvis has just left the building
He's up there with Jesus, in a big purple chair


"Fame is Dangerous" - Gary Myrick:

Johnny Lennon was so alive
Elvis Presley was so alive
Kennedy's sons could have survived
What really happened was, fame is dangerous.

Walk down the street in peaceful demonstration,
Speak to the people or rocknroll the nation,
Jesus on the cross do I have to go on
Fame is dangerous.

"Mmm Skyscraper I Love You" - Underworld:

And I see God talking! Elvis! God talking!

Pornfest pork fat Jesus Christ night light
Elvis fresh meat and a little whipped cream

"Jesus Cried" - Mitsoobishy Jacson:

Elvis died choking on red meat and french fries
Jesus cried choking on Elvis and french fries

"Picture of Jesus" - John McCutcheon:

We need a whole new picture of Jesus
For the 21st Century

So I took a little bit of Elvis snd a little dab of Mt. T
And I threw in some Jerry Seinfeld ‘cause I sure liked him on TV


"Elvis Has Left the Building, Jesus is Coming Soon" - Mercy River

monocle (Sean Miguel), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

"In a certain light he looked like Elvis
In a certain way he seemed like Jesus…"

Elvis Costello, "The Delivery Man"

mark 0 (mark 0), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I knew there was a Costello song that I was forgetting...

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 7 October 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Let us not forget the classic "Walk the Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was)...

One night I dreamed of New York
You and I roasting blue pork
In the Statue of Liberty's torch
Elvis landed in a rock-rock-rocket ship
Healed a couple of lepers and disappeared
But where was his beard

J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Saturday, 7 October 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus Mentioned: Warren Zevon

I'm going down to Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
I'm going down to Graceland
Thinking about the King
Remembering him sing
About those heavenly mansions
Jesus mentioned

Can't you just imagine
Digging up the King
Begging him to sing
About those heavenly mansions
Jesus mentioned

He went walking on the water
He went walking on the water
He went walking on the water
With his pills

Can't you just imagine
Digging up the King
Begging him to sing
About those heavenly mansions
Jesus mentioned

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 7 October 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Elvis Fucking Christ" by the Cramps.

David A. (Davant), Saturday, 7 October 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

underworld: mmmskyscraperiloveyou,
obviously

"and i see god talking! elvis! god talking!

pornfest pork fat jesus christ night light.
elvis fresh meat and a little whipped cream.
pornfast cornfat jesus christ night ride.
elvis fresh meat and a little whipped cream.
thirty thousand feet above the earth. thirty thousand feet above the earth."

Charles (Charleseattle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Rufus Wainwright "Movies of Myself"

"Cause I'm looking for a reason, a person, a painting
A Saturday Evening Post Edition by Jesus
An old piece of bacon never eaten by Elvis"

Eric Harvey (eric marathonpacks), Sunday, 8 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Don Henley "If Dirt Were Dollars"

"I saw Jesus on the plane
Or maybe it was Elvis
They kinda look the same."

John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 8 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

there's gotta be a Mojo Nixon song that fits

Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 8 October 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

El Vez, oeuvre

Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 8 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Butthole Surfers:

There's a time to shit and a time for God
The last shit that I took was pretty fuckin' odd
. . .

There's a time to live and a time to die
I smoke Elvis Presley's toenails when I wanna get high

God is Jesus, right?

Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 8 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

there's gotta be a Mojo Nixon song that fits

Elvis is Everywhere. Right?

dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 8 October 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, looked at a few lyrics pages and apparently not. I'm shocked.

dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 8 October 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

"i don't believe in jesus, i don't believe in elvis" - john lennon, "god"

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 8 October 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 8 October 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

"Personal Jesus" doesn't mention Elvis, but

The song was inspired by the book Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley. According to songwriter Martin Gore:

It's a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. It's about how Elvis was her man and her mentor and how often that happens in love relationships; how everybody's heart is like a god in some way, and that's not a very balanced view of someone, is it?[6]

some dude, Sunday, 18 August 2013 02:06 (twelve years ago)


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