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SmoothRider27 07-15-2009 05:40 PM

Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
I could listen to this song on repeat for hours. I LOVE this song! By far my favorite song on the album. What do y'all think?

bantam 07-15-2009 05:56 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
at first i thought this song was horrible and then one day listening to it in the car it just hit me and i love this song.

At first my reason for hating it was i felt the compression on the cymbals screwed with the song.

warehouse06 07-15-2009 06:03 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
agreed, OP

Philmb 07-15-2009 06:37 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
Loved it from the start

Needs some work live though

Panther41 07-15-2009 08:38 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by SmoothRider27 (Post 9801847)
I could listen to this song on repeat for hours. I LOVE this song! By far my favorite song on the album. What do y'all think?

:thumbsup

Possibly the most beautiful chorus (tonally) that Dave's ever written.

Lude99 07-15-2009 08:42 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
Absolutely. Already one of my favorite songs lyrically.

Timebomb07 07-15-2009 09:21 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
a top 20 all time song for me.. It will move up as it gets better live. Easily my favorite off BW.

ShakingMonkey 07-15-2009 10:35 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
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Originally Posted by Timebomb07 (Post 9803468)
a top 20 all time song for me.. It will move up as it gets better live. Easily my favorite off BW.

Yes. I think it's very comparable to BTCS material both musically and lyrically. Great, great stuff from DMB.

Ram 07-15-2009 10:40 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
Beautiful stuff, for certain. :thumbsup

rantingthespian 07-15-2009 10:59 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
Everything on that track is perfect. Not even Lillywhite or Lanois could make it better!

dmbfan4ever 07-15-2009 11:03 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
I love the extended live jam too, Coffin tears it up. Very spoonish.

gunnar1104 07-15-2009 11:48 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
Did we ever come to grips with whether this was mostly a religious song, or mostly about drug addiction?

bmt322 07-16-2009 12:28 AM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
I love singing along with this song. There's several vocal parts to sing along with. Dave, Carter, and I'm pretty sure Rashawn is in there too. 3 parts to sing along with, or make up your own vocal melodies!

Gravedi 07-16-2009 01:17 AM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
It's gorgeous!

coldblueice 07-16-2009 05:51 AM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
the song has a dream-like, timeless quality to it. lovelovelove it.

jkrue22 07-16-2009 05:59 AM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
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Originally Posted by gunnar1104 (Post 9804073)
Did we ever come to grips with whether this was mostly a religious song, or mostly about drug addiction?

Didn't Dave say in Relix that he "didn't want to say too much" about this one?

Sounds pretty obvious to me though: love > religion (in Dave's eyes)

Ram 07-16-2009 07:04 AM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
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Originally Posted by jkrue22 (Post 9804423)
Didn't Dave say in Relix that he "didn't want to say too much" about this one?

Sounds pretty obvious to me though: love > religion (in Dave's eyes)

He did say it could be about someone being lost, or someone licking a cactus or something crazy like that....but they're leaving it intentionally vague.

I can easily see how a song about transcendence can be interpreted through love/religion/drug experience equally, and I'm certain he's happy that's how the song turned out and doesn't want to be any more specific with it.

It's probably a little bit of all of those.

BDJCL3 07-16-2009 08:20 AM

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Thought I haven't sat and thought about it much, it's probably in my top 3-4 songs from BWGGK. I like the flow of it. I also read in an interview that Dave recorded the vocals at like 430am and he was dead tired; hence the overall sleepy sound of the vocals. Knowing this made me like the tune even more.

ericvol 07-16-2009 08:27 AM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
This song is easily in my top 5 slow DMB songs EVER.

It moves me and takes me to another world with each listen...and not only that almost everyone I play it for falls in love with it too!!!!

LITHOG for LIFE!

BDJCL3 07-16-2009 08:28 AM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
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Originally Posted by ericvol (Post 9805244)
This song is easily in my top 5 slow DMB songs EVER.

It moves me and takes me to another world with each listen...and not only that almost everyone I play it for falls in love with it too!!!!

LITHOG for LIFE!

Top 5 of ALL their songs?

rutherm124 07-16-2009 08:39 AM

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the harmonies in the bridge are my favorite part of the song.....Its funny dave said he was recording them at like 3a.m. and had his head resting in his hand cause he was so tired.

Hawk#41 07-16-2009 08:57 AM

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I think I like the intro of What You Are from 6/9/08 more ;)

Beefsteak1138 07-16-2009 09:20 AM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
I thought the thread title said "awful" and I was going to agree.

DMBvol41 07-16-2009 09:24 AM

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:thumbsup

Hawk#41 07-16-2009 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Beefsteak1138 (Post 9805586)
I thought the thread title said "awful" and I was going to agree.


You sir are wrong

Beefsteak1138 07-16-2009 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Hawk#41 (Post 9805732)
You sir are wrong

False.

Hawk#41 07-16-2009 01:08 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
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Originally Posted by Beefsteak1138 (Post 9805838)
False.


How is LITHOG "awful"??

Lude99 07-16-2009 01:12 PM

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Its not, and theres no need to defend it.

dobyblue 07-16-2009 01:15 PM

Re: Lying In The Hands Of God is absolutely beautiful...
 
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Originally Posted by Lude99 (Post 9807620)
Its not, and theres no need to defend it.

:thumbsup

Love the timbale in this song - Carter rules.

Lude99 07-16-2009 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by dobyblue (Post 9807640)
:thumbsup

Love the timbale in this song - Carter rules.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pL65a5jr2g

Not the best quality, but damn Carter is a machine :thumbsup


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