God's Children - The Kinks

[echopractic]

The final Kinks album Phobia explores what happens when we're no longer able to go back.

[edudesigns]

This is one of my favorite all time Kinks songs! I figured it out on the guitar!

[jamaral81]

One of their alltime best songs

[renotsecniv]

If I had a dime for every time I read on YoutTube that Ray Davies and the Kinks are underrateed, I'd be wealthy. Another thing that I read a lot is that they never sold out. I guess there's a correlation there, huh? I feel honored and blessed that I was exposed to this music. One advantage to the internet is that now others can discover what a treasue Ray's music is. It thrills me to pieces when I see people discover the Kinks.

[biggibson49]

"Same lungs that he gave me to breathe with...same eyes he gave me to see with."

[Henryformusic]

This another song written by Ray Davies, that is so underrated

I agree with some of the comments here, he was so more advanced than the so called "super composers"

I have the feeling that John Lennon knew it!!

Paul McCartney? Too little a musician to know

[MegaRussellC82]

As usual Ray is a half mile ahead of any of us. He was/is the best lyracist of his generation, with all due respect to John "Mr. Big' Lennon", Dylan, McCartney, whoever. The song is up for interpretation, (like the Bible). Ray does like to play w/peoples heads. The Kinks never got SUPERSTAR acclaim in the US because you have to both listen&think,a tall order4some. Song is on "Backtrackin'.

[douglasj53]

This is beautiful poetry. Truth really does have a certain ring to it, does it not?

[jaherron2000]

So this isn't a super religious song. It was released on a soundtrack. Percy, about a penis transplant...... So again I'm pretty sure it's more about society accepting people for who they are. The album/soundtrack wasn't released in the US. So thats a pretty good reason why most people haven't heard these tracks in America.

[happytree1233]

This song is so beautiful, it can mean so many different things for different people.

[phillydog17]

This must be an alternate take.

It's great!

[Seabearr]

gowgeus :3

[ShotgunTheMan]

Don't GET Me STARTED

ARGH/SHOOT

Shotgun

[spizznightelf]

cool song very cool point of view

[andyandyband]

great song.. im 34 and found this song today. Kinks! God's children!

[MIK415]

One should wonder, given all that Ray has written and said over the years, how much "faith" is involved in this song. As some have said, this song represents a protest by Ray because he did not think transplants or sex changes were "proper", which means more than just "moral". Ray disagreed with alot that was happening at this time and as years went by. He always spoke his mind as he saw things at the time, with some insight into whether many of the changes happening made us happier.

[unbekannte5]

i like the mood of this song so much, dreamy, wishful...i cant share the faith but its a nice imagination

[thebaps]

This is my favourite song by the Kinks.That is saying a lot,since I am an immense fan.One of my regrets in life is missing them,Glastonbury,early nineties.Could hear them from the campsite but they were on very,very early!

[Luscious09Leah]

As a Kinks fan for over thirty years you will not find a a song you dont like !!

[mobyboy]

i only discover this album recently. is it good ?

[jamreaper]

is there a kinks song i wont like ???

someone plz tell me cuz i think the answer is no

[doctorcastille]

the answer is NO !!!

[jamreaper]

i knew it

thx bud

[kinksboss1]

@jamreaper

Bernadette sung high pitched by Dave was hard to take, but I'll take 99.9% of them

[jkoff76]

My all time favorite Kinks song. Weird place to find it . But it's my fave all the same!!

[Mindermaniac]

Ray wrote this song as a form of protest in reaction to the plot line, once he found out that the subject matter of this film was about a penis transplant. Percy is a good album, but like any sound track it has some pretty bad instrumentals, including an instrumental version of Lola!

[fsergios]

Wrong bassist on the photo.

John Dalton had already replaced Pete Quaife.

[rascalfareye]

Yeah, rock on. It's not an intellectual issue.

[sbarr10]

In his autobiography, Ray said that when he was a kid, his family doctor told his mother that Ray was destined to become a preacher.

Preach on, Ray !

[fodsaks]

Songs of this simplicity and beauty could be what just the church needs to save it from the decay it seems to be going through.

I'll bet far more people would be willing to stand up and say they believe themselves to be children of God if this was their anthem.

[rascalfareye]

Amen. Ain't gonna save 'the church', though.

But we're all God's children.

[NaturalBornHedonist]

Percy is their best ALBUM in my opinion!!!

[JoeChrisMorris]

Come on

[HellMustFearMe777]

Hey LEFWWC or whatever, you´ve got no right at all..........if you don´t mean it, erase it!!

[LEFWWFC]

I didn't mean my last comment - I don't care what faith or religion Ray is of, I could never lose respect for such a great man and brilliant song writer. I may be an atheist, but I must admit that this song is simply beautiful.

[paddyo702]

I don't know how religous he is, this song was writen as part of a movie soundtrack.

[theamazingsamurai]

i had no idea they were religious. good for them

[theamazingsamurai]

wow. that was an extremely asinine, narrow-minded, and mostly offensive, thing to say. did it ever occur to you that i might be Christian? but thanks anyway for telling me that my brain must be mush to have faith in the "book of fairytales"

[JoeChrisMorris]

Don't think religion is nonsense, personally

I'm not a believer but I can understand why someone needs faith in something to exist..

Some sort of reason to exist..

[shinybald36]

well thats refreshingly civil, if only more people thought that way

[jayne0914]

The song "Moments" from Percy is superb and romantic. Ray is a songwriting genius.

[serpentineflame]

We are all the same to Him. aaahhh

[serpentineflame]

don't want this world to change me

[3hundred]

l love this song!

[brilliantcolors7]

My 2nd fave Kinks song after Sweet Lady Genevieve, altough it's close...

[WilburyVision]

Yes, yet another long lost Davies classic. Equally neglected is the track "The Way Love Used To Be" from the same Percy soundtrack album. God bless Ray Davies!

[jansawa]

AMAZING SONG FROM A GREAT BAND

[jkoff76]

My favorite Kinks, this song makes me cry. A song of human frailty in a Kink's Soundtrack for a movie about the first Penis transplant. Only Ray Davies!!

[789pequignot]

great song

[gbj11]

Another forgotten Kinks Klassic. When was the last time you heard this played on the radio? How about... never?

Ray once again bucks every popular trend with the lyrics. Who else would have written a song like this?

[jkoff76]

Nobody. Because nobody is the songwriting genius that Davies is. He's the most socially conscious, middle class oriented, original songwriter there has every been. God, look at the music today. God send us another Ray Davies!!

[MrGriffey5656]

@jkoff76--Couldn't agree more with every point. Ray Davies was unbelievable at what he did, we can only HOPE for another.

[MrGriffey5656]

@jkoff76--Couldn't agree more with every point. Ray Davies was unbelievable at what he did, we can only HOPE for another.

Don't you love Muswell Hillbillies??

[jkoff76]

@MrGriffey5656, yes and I love that album. He tries to combine an American type of vernacular with his Muswell surroundings. An under appreciated classic.

[Duenderelojero]

perfect song, It makes me cry.

[scamersfoort]

Great song. It is one of the best songs by the Kinks.

[Louiseskybunker]

Education: The Kinks University

PhD's on offer: Loveliness!

[RhumOnFire]

one of ray's forgotten masterpieces! GOD SAVE THE KINKS!

[carspiv]

Superb. Sublime. Perfect. Kinks.

[jwbos1388]

Thanks for putting this song up. Percy is a great album.

[showmerightnow]

Perfect! I just sat thru Percy again. It's NOT that bad of a film. This song sets a gentle tone at the beginning. The best one is "The Way Love Used to Be" though, in chapter 19.

[JoeChrisMorris]

Is the film available stateside?

[zstardust838]

It is, I ordered the DVD online. I didn't think it was a bad film. . . I just found it a bit boring actually! The music is the best part :)

[JoeChrisMorris]

I'm surprised the film or its sequel (Percys Progress) isnt up on Youtube..

Robyn Hitchcock's father did the script for this film.

It IS a great soundtrack. Some of the songs off this (Gods children, moments) are absolutely incredible and perhaps the finest songs written by the man