Profanity in Eagles Songs

[Funk 50]

I'm sorry VA. Now I will have to explain it to you & I would rather not have to because as I said, it is a complete coincidence.

F50 is implying 'our souls' could sound like the British pronunciation of 'assholes' i.e. 'arseholes'.

It's very unfortunate. It's such a great song and Glenn sings the line so well but every time I hear it I'm thinking, here it comes. I'm never gonna mention it again.

7 years on, despite it's many flaws, Long Road Out Of Eden is still the Eagles album I listen to the most, It's good to have some Glenn songs back.

[Brooke]

I've enjoyed reading this discussion and am sorry I missed it over the weekend!

Nothing to really add other than I can do without any of the vulgarity in any of the songs. I suppose they thought they needed to use those words to make a point and fit the song. Whatever!

[thelastresort]

Genuine question - for those (I'm presuming avowed Christians) uncomfortable with the reference in LITFL, do you also feel the same way about the taking of the Lord's name in vain in Wasted Time?

[Freypower]

Or for that matter 'God knows I love you' in Glenn's It's Your Life?

Perhaps a new thread needs to be started otherwise this will veer completely off topic. The topic was originally about the song Long Road Out Of Eden. I would do it but I can't merge the posts on the profanity/blasphemy issue.

[chaim]

That would be an interesting thread for sure. But, of course, there are "avowed Christians" among fans of any artist, and many artists use that kind of language. (Kristofferson's early work, for example, is full of "......, Lord" stuff.) Maybe it could be in the "Singing for the Sake of the song" section?

[BillBailey1976]

I have noticed that they have stopped using GD in Life in the Fast Lane. I do like that. I don't know if Don actually doesn't say it or if they just mute his mic for that word. To me, that says that age and or beliefs have made them more sensitive to that sort of thing.

[thelastresort]

Do they? Appears to say it here (@3:00~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoe5F5p1VH8

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Well - I'm not sure about that BB1976. Don has sang the words in all of the shows that I've attended - most recently this past September in NYC and Boston.

[BillBailey1976]

Well, I know for a FACT that he didn't in Knoxville, at the show I was at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQFdPbZSxiM

At around 2:40 into the video. You can hear him not singing it.

[thelastresort]

That sounds odd, almost like the choked or something. I would have thought that being the devout perfectionist Henley is, if he was going to drop the 'god' reference he would have hid it a bit better, doing it like he did there was so obvious. On the videos I have seen (from 2014) he doesn't explicitly say it, but it's nowhere near as removed as it is there. Weird.