New found light

I've loved santana's album supernatural since long long time ago. It's an album I dearly played over and over again. And I thoroughly enjoyed every song in the album. But, just recently I fell in love again to one of the song there. Put your lights on. By Santana featuring Everlast.

The song is still the same song that I've loved before, but I just found out about the lyrics. Have a look at them :

Hey now, all you sinners
Put your lights on,
put your lights on
Hey now, all you lovers
Put your lights on,
put your lights on

Hey now, all you killers
Put your lights on,
put your lights on
Hey now, all you children
Leave your lights on you better
leave your lights on

Because there's a monster living
under my bed
Whispering in my ear
There's an angel with a hand on
my head
She says I've got
nothing to fear

There's a darkness deep
in my soul
I still got a purpose to serve
So let your light shine,
into my home
God don't let me lose my
nerve
Lose my nerve

Hey now, hey now,
hey now, hey now
Wo-oh hey now, hey now,
hey now, hey now

Hey now all you sinners
Put your lights on,
put your lights on
Hey now, all you children
Leave your lights on you
better leave your lights on

Because there's a monster
living under my bed
Whispering in my ear
There's an angel with a
hand on my head
She says I've got
nothing to fear
She says,
Laa ilaa haa IlAllah, you shine like stars
Laa ilaa haa Ilallah, you shine like stars
And fade away

(Taken from Song meaning completed with a comment from Ipul in the same page)

I just found out that Everlast is a moslem. From that comment of Ipul that he is a moslem and that's why the lyrics contain the syahadah. I didn't believe it at the first time. And this ipul name really sounds like an Indonesian :D My bf even went on to say its a fake.

So, I listened to the song. And, yes, indeed, you can hear the syahadah there in the last parts of the song. Now, that really brings new meaning to the song for me.

I'm surprised in how could I have missed it, considering I remember there were the complete lyrics of the songs supplied in the Supernatural album cassette cover. And I sang all of them nonstop from time to time. Was the lyrics of this particular song unwritten there? I can't wait to go back to Indonesia to check my cassette album cover for the lyrics.

But, anyway, now after this finding I re-found that this song lyrics have a very deep meaning. It really carries the spirit of light in Islam religion. I'm touched. Thumbs up for Everlast.

A bit abt Everlast, turns out he was in the House of Pain earlier. Yayy, I knew that Jump Around is really a great song! ;D And he is indeed a practicing moslem it seems, check out his myspace

Respekt!!

He definitely just got a new fan now <3