Song: “Make You
Mine”
Artist: Stryper
Album: Reborn
(2001)
Track: 4
One of the biggest problems in “Christian” “music” today,
besides really horrible theology, is the “Jesus is my bearded girlfriend” style
of tune. These are the songs where
you’re pretty sure the singer is singing about his girlfriend until he says a
line that cannot be interpreted as anything but singing to Jesus, and you get
that really queasy feeling when you realize what the band has been singing to
God.
One of the reasons I like the hard rock bands, besides the
fact that hard rock is awesome, is that there aren’t a lot of these songs. There are a lot of tunes like “Open Your
Eyes” and “Reborn,” but not so much about cuddling with Jesus.
But I keep looking at the lyrics on this one, and it’s very
borderline, and it’s taking some work to figure out what this is about.