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Song Name: Gethsemane
Song Origin: Jesus Christ Superstar
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QW2Wh1OZBA" data-time="
Nominator: TheArkOfTurus (4/10)



For all of our sakes, I'm going to only focus on the song itself. First, I think I like songs that involve directly questioning God. I wouldn't say that's one of my things, really, but... it does grab my attention.

Second, I recently got into Leonard Cohen's "You Want It Darker" album and there's some interesting similarities between the title track and Gethsemane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y" data-time="

Most notably, Jesus & Cohen both refer to God in the context of a dealer, but to very different ends:

God, thy will is hard
But you hold every card
I will drink your cup of poison
Nail me to your cross and break me

Compared to:

If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game
If you are the healer, it means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame

I feel a lot could be made of the symbolism between Jesus resigning himself to his fate upon realizing that God held all the cards, while Cohen wanted to quit in response.

Both of them accept their inevitable deaths; Cohen writing and performing this song near the end of his life, declaring he was ready. Jesus walking to his death.

Really, comparing both songs is quite fascinating, even though they're not actually related to each other and I'm sure it's wrong to compare the two. Comparing a real person's death to a fictional version of Jesus is just going to provoke everybody, but I love both songs and can't help but see similarities in them.

And... I think that's about as far as I can go. Trying to discuss a song about and sung by a version of Jesus without directly confronting Christianity is difficult and I think I've gone as far as I'm willing to go with this writeup.

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