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Live’s Water Religion Live’s songs portray a quest for salvation through active religion. Live consistently uses the metaphor of water to indicate acceptance of spirituality. The narrator of the band’s songs communicates an evolving religious belief. Live uses the image of water to illustrate religion itself, holy love, and ultimate salvation. As a symbol of religion, water is the means to save modern society from God’s wrath. Through water baptism the individual can be born again in absolute faith in God. The songs “All Over You”, “Run To The Water”, “Pain Lies On the Riverside”, and “Overcome” exemplify the connection between religion and water. Live’s music shows distaste in the lack of religion and compassion in modern society. In “Pain Lies on the Riverside” the line “you are a victim of this age” illustrates the evil seen in the present civilization. “Overcome” shows the emptiness of society in the lines “even now the world is bleedin’ but feelin’ just fine all numb in our castle.” Everyone living in his own castle away from the problems in the world illustrates the lack of compassion in modern times. The numbed society feels no sympathy to fix the bleeding world. T