Prefab Sprout Ride

Prefab Sprout is back! Here is the magnificent Ride from the new album Let's Change the World With Music.

I look around me and I see
folks leading more constructive lives than me.
They dont do this for reward
they are walking in the footsteps of their Lord.

And for themselves they make no claims
they may die without the world knowing their names.
But they will

Ride, ride, home to Jesus, heads held high
They will ride, ride home to Jesus, heads held high
They will ride, ride, home to Jesus

Some good people will deny
anything that they cant see with their own eye.
They dont walk in Gods light.
They just walk the way they do because its right.
And they will

Ride, ride, home to Jesus, heads held high
They will ride, ride home to Jesus, heads held high
They will ride, ride, home to Jesus

People hear me, who can know,
If our time on Earths the soundcheck or the show?
Ask a good man and theres no doubt
hell have too much on his mind to work it out.
But he will

Ride, ride, home to Jesus, head held high
He will ride, ride home to Jesus, head held high
He will ride, home to Jesus (head held high)
He will ride, ride home to Jesus

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Prefab
• Sprout
• Paddy
• McAloon
• Ride
• Lets
• Change
• the
• World
• With
• Music

[miasmiles]

Hope there is music in heaven. And if so hopefully Paddy will be in charge!

[capitalsho]

The fact that I have yet to hear this played on any radio is confirmation (not that I needed) that radio stations are staffed by people who hate music.

[randykawasaki]

I think a few people take the lyrics a bit too literally. Ethics and religeon are not the same thing. This was like 1992/3 and what is really interesting is how close Paddy is to House...

[chutasynth]

@cuacharin ese día hay que creer en Jesus jaja

[enfinlibre68]

In any case,Paddy is ambitious.His ambition is clearly that of a classic writer who creates characters as a novelist.His voice as a singer should not always be confused with that of Paddy the man.I am deeply touched by that song because I am making the opposite journey:the overwhelming majority of the most evil persons I can think of are christians or monotheist (the extreme being the mobsters italians,russians,irish,africa­n,muslims,jews) but even if very few are good people we need them.

[enfinlibre68]

After watching an interview in the old TVseries Rapido.Paddy's clear goal is to talk about deep moral issues yet using a common dance beat of the time.Paddy being fascinated by popular musicals.He was still trying to write a religious one.Spirituality and Religion cannot and should not be reduced to any organized religion.See yourself as you are and find your own path to enlightenment.Free yourself!The lyrics in God watch over you go"I have no time for religion maybe doubt is a modern disease"

[tht707]

@hawera261: The lyrics tread in a very slippery way in what the sermon of the Mount pictures as people living saintly lives without having clearly met Christ. However, it contains teologically erroneous elements as it speaks of "not walking in the footsteps of their Lord" or "not walking in God’s light", since the beatitudes present people implicitly "walking in God’s light". It’s more than ambiguous. It appears inherently erroneous.

[hawera261]

I am a huge Prefab Sprout fan and I think this song is a beautifully crafted piece of music but I have an issue with verse 2. If you deny Jesus you will not be going home to Him. No good works will get you to heaven. We all fall short of the glory of God. We are all in the same boat, no matter how good or bad we believe we are. It is faith in Jesus that gets you to heaven. He rose again to show 'time on Earths the soundcheck '. Believe this and you 'will ride home to Jesus, head held high.'

[enfinlibre68]

Paddy is a brilliant lyricist and a true musical artist in the long northern CELTIC sense and tradition of the word.I guess the Beatles,Shack,Jah Wobble belong to this tradition also.Actually Andromeda H did reach a level hardly attained in the 90s and certainly not since Steve Mc Queen.I still regard the Swoon album breakthrough as something utterly different and deeply moving.It was hard to predict then they would get so sweet and still retain an edge but THIS won't change the World for sure.

[nick21006]

@SEANBANOG4 I agree 

[megaEDWIN3]

paddy should join zz top