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LyricsIn our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and
spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we
must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are
not examples for the children or the adults. The lyrics of many songs are not suitable for
anyone. All types of music need some kind of censorship. Censorship makes a person
realize that music is good for the heart. Censorship totally makes people act better, and
when thinking better, this sustains a better society. The lives of some musicians contain
types of anarchy and self-gratification. Once the musicians realize that people want not
just their music but them as well, they act as gods, which no one can touch. For example,
think of it like a secret dictatorship, and we breathe as a fascist society, which puts fun and
feelings above the Lord, above all. Many of the musicians consist of non-religious people
who live only for fun and only for themselves. Why then would we, especially as
Christians, put our total devotion in them? It exists like wanting to ride with a blind driver
rather than one with perfect vision. In addition many of the musicians use drugs and
stimulants to satisfy their hunger for themselves and for pure fun. The musicians tend to
use drugs massively, to get out of the very real world that they consist so much a part of.
Popularity seems pleasing but when one has the affections and total devotion of a mass of
people, that person can not handle it because that person does not have Jesus' personality
and only He could truly control that much fidelity. One person who truly could not handle
the excitement was Jimi Hendrix(Appendix A). Instead of performing as himself and using
his talent for good, he used rebellion and used many drugs. On stage, Jimi Hendrix would
put hits of acid in his headband. When he perspired, the sweat, containing acid would run
down into his eyes and make him "higher than a kite." Most people never actually saw Jimi
Hendrix the person, but a blurred vision of him. When Jimi performed on stage at
Woodstock (Appendix B and C), a man from the crowd asked him, "Jimi are you high?"
He simply replied back to the man, "Thanks man I got mine," causing the crowd to act
wild almost as if he had saved someone's life, but ironically he unintentionally destroyed
their lives. In addition Bob Dylan(Appendix D and E) also talked about getting stoned in
some of his music. The song "Rainy Day Woman #12 and #13," blatantly says that
�everybody must get stoned." That tells people to disobey the law and tells people to
mangle the temple of God, our bodies by perverting it with drugs and stimulants. Many
musicians make a mockery of their fans. The lead singers subsist to do this the most
because of the...
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