Life Is A Problem

Album: Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012)
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  • After suffering from near-fatal double pneumonia in the mid 2000s, Spiritualized mainman Jason Pierce had to undergo another year of medical treatment including intense chemotherapy while he tried to complete Sweet Heart Sweet Light. On this song Pierce begs: "Jesus please be my aeroplane/Fly me to heaven/Jesus please meet me the day that I die." Speaking with The Sun, he explained that he used religion, "as a shortcut to putting ideas across. "When I was a kid, into The Velvet Underground," he added, "I read that Lou Reed listened to an awful lot of doo-wop which used language like 'Heaven sent me an angel'.

    I also like old gospel music and it's all to do with love, a love that comes from heaven whether you believe or not. The language doesn't matter if you are religious or not. Life Is A Problem was written really with a lot of humour. And songs are about how you feel sometimes not always. And now I feel great. I'm just glad to be back on tour."

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