Name: Need for Religion
Duration: P00H03M09S
Description: Words & music by Mary Lee Kortes, inspired by a line from Jung's Four Archetypes where he discusses humans' need for religion. I took it from there!

Need for Religion

from True Lovers of Adventure by Mary Lee Kortes

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Words & music by Mary Lee Kortes, inspired by a line from Jung's Four Archetypes where he discusses humans' need for religion. I took it from there!

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I searched the blue horizon
And underneath my bed
For faith and hope and peace of mind
To put inside my head
So I looked for an altar
I learned to pray
Just like you're supposed to do

Maybe it was just my need for religion that made me believe in you

You have a certain charm
That's undeniable and strange
I gave you all of my best emotions
My heart, my home, my spare change
You showed me ten new commandments
You talked in tongues
Each syllable sounded true

But it was just my need for religion that made me believe in you
It was just my need for religion
That swept me away
And you laughed while I prayed

I pass you on the sidewalk
And I don't mean to be rude
But when I see you with your new disciple
I am filled with gratitude
That I ran from the rapture
Tore up your prayers
I guess that maybe God only knew

That it was just my need for religion that made me believe in you

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from True Lovers of Adventure, released April 23, 1999
Produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel

Mary Lee Kortes: vocals
Stephen Butler: electric guitar,
Andy York: electric guitar, electric sitar
Joe Chiofalo: accordion
Brad Albetta: bass
Graham Hawthorne: drums & percussion

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Mary Lee Kortes New York, New York

"Songs so meticulously crafted they sound completely natural". Jon Pareles, The New York Times
“Mary Lee Kortes's voice—the high mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde." David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"Mary Lee in concert... a feast for lovers of great songwriting that thrives in live performance for its wit, insight and glowing humanity." Billboard ... more

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