Stevie Wonder – Jesus Children Of America

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  Song Meaning:The „Holy Roler“ dear people is an old mocking name for Christians of old when they were falling down under the power of God and rolling! “Jesus People” was also a name of Hippie movement in early 1970 in which many young people were converting to Christ! And S.Wonder wrongfully accusing them all from taking “needle in the vein” as he thought that they were all taking drugs, but this clearly was not the case as many turned away from drugs when they find their joy in living Christ! I know some of this people until today. ISNT IT STRANGE THAT JUST 3 DAYS AFTER S.W.RELEASED THIS BLESPHEMEOUS BLASPHEMOUS SONG HE HAD A SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT? AFTER WHICH HE CONFESSED THAT IT CHANGED HIM A LOT AND HE SAID "thanks to God that I'm alive." I AM 100% SURE THIS WAS THE CASE DEAR PEOPLE!

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  My Interpretation:I'm not sure at all, but I understand the song as a critique against some types of Christians, that are maybe too extreme, unrealistic or fanatic. Maybe the meditation is something he finds silly or too extreme. The "Mary looking at you" part may be a reference to more catholic beliefs or practices, but I'm not sure at all! "Are you hearing/feeling what you're praying?", "are you standing up like a soldier?" also gives me an impression that he's excaggarating (or even parodying) some ways of being a Christian, and maybe being too focused on being a perfect person. At least that's a possibility, in my opinion. Ask him!

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  My Interpretation:I thought this song was about John Lennon at first, with 'Holy Roller' being a reference to Lennon's song Come Together, the 'Jesus died for you' stuff referring to the 'Beatles Bigger Than Jesus' comment that John made, the references to transcendental meditation which John had done in India in '68 and the junkie remarks which make sense considering John's heavy drug use, in particular his heroin addiction. John of course had written the song 'God' just 3 years before this song was released where he seems to put down religious and states he doesn't believe in Jesus, The Bible etc. And John had been a solider of peace and doing a lot of protesting around this time.
  
  But now I'm thinking it's just taking aim at people who claim to believe in Jesus but don't live their lives accordingly...the meditation part confuses me though

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  General Comment:This is probably his best overall vocal performance imo

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