Don't Pray on Me
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“Don't Pray on Me” | |||||
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Song by Bad Religion | |||||
Album | Recipe for Hate | ||||
Released | September 21, 1993 | ||||
Recorded | 1993 at Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California | ||||
Genre | Punk rock Hardcore punk |
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Length | 2:42 | ||||
Label | Epitaph (Original) Atlantic (Re-release) |
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Writer | Brett Gurewitz | ||||
Producer | Bad Religion | ||||
Recipe for Hate track listing | |||||
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"Don't Pray on Me" is a song by American punk rock band Bad Religion, written by the band's guitarist Brett Gurewitz. It is the eleventh track on their 1993 album Recipe for Hate.
The song makes references that allude to pop culture actors, musicians, historical figures, and authors from the past. Examples from the song include:
- Hanson and Hester, the main characters from the novel The Scarlet Letter
- Mark David Chapman, an assassin who shot and killed former Beatle John Lennon
- John Lennon, a British musician from the band Beatles
- John F. Kennedy (in the lyric, they called him Jack), a former United States president
- Marilyn Monroe, an American actress who became one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s
- Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity
- Moses, Biblical Hebrews religious leader
- God, believed to be (but never proven) the creator and overseer of the universe according to the various theories of Creationism
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