The Bible and Music

When popcorn reading in a classroom, it is very likely that you comprehend more when you read rather than when someone else does. When someone else is reading, you may be listening to what they are saying, but unless you’re following along, you might not comprehend what they are reading. The same idea can be applied to music. When you are listening to a piece of music for the first time, it is highly unlikely that you would understand every lyric, but when you are the one singing, you are focusing on the lyrics, and therefore have a better chance of understanding the message. Reading, and singing the lyrics, yourself, makes the song seem much more relevant to your life. We listened to a heavy metal song in class, and without reading the lyrics we probably never would have known that the song was full of biblical references. If we were asked to perform the song, and were given the lyrics, our first impression of the song would have been very different.