Story Behind The Song

The song is about the harm that organised religions do. My fundamentalist upbringing brings me to the song's conclusions.

Song Description

The song asks its audience to give up organised religion.

Lyrics

GIVE IT UP

It's in Exodus chapter 20 verse 3
Thou shalt have no other god but me
But there's a queue of rival deities
And unless the world agrees then we
Give it up

Holy scriptures don't give me no thrill
They give you license to despise and kill
Where's the loving in the heart of a man
There's no redemption till you know you can
Give it up.

Gentle Jesus meek and mild
That's my corner over there
We come before you as a little child
Then you give us a scare.

Can't get a camel through a needle's eye
The poor go shopping in the sweet buy and buy
There's that divide between have and have not
Something tells us to be glad with our lot
Give it Up

Every nation is a promised land
Every person made by God's own hand
What's the reason that we know we're right
What's the reason we can sleep at night
Give it up

Watch the Buddha meditate
He wouldn't hurt a fly
Go transcendental, make sure that he's paid
For pie in the sky.

Pack up your prayerbook it's time to confess
Fundamentally, we're in a mess
Forget humanity, go with the clan
With absolution you know you can
Give it up

And at the closing when the last trump sounds
No one's listening as we're still in the ground
No wait a minute, what's that I read,
Outside in the Bible somebody said
Give it up