'That’s a funny line. You know what, I probably took Phil Collins more seriously than he took himself on some of his songs. This song is a parody!'
“I don’t like the song. It’s probably the production.” Photo: Genesis/YouTube “Jesus He Knows Me” isn’t really in the upper echelon of Genesis hits. Released in October 1991 during the band’s We Can’t Dance era, the track isn’t Psalms-y as much as it is a brutal skewering of the televangelist movement with Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks unleashing their inner heathens at the false prophets who plague small-screen America for money.
Oh, for sure. There’s one line that goes, “I believe in family / With my ever-loving wife beside me / But she don’t know about my girlfriend / Or the man I met last night.” Clockwise from top left: Collins deep in “prayer.” Photo: Genesis/YouTubeRutherford preaching. Photo: Genesis/YouTubeBanks, the hottest member. Photo: Genesis/YouTubeThe trio strutting their stuff. Photo: Genesis/YouTube Clockwise from top left: Collins deep in “prayer.” Photo: Genesis/YouTubeRutherford preaching. Photo: Genesis/YouTubeBanks, the hottest member. Photo:... more Clockwise from top left: Collins deep in “prayer.” Photo: Genesis/YouTubeRutherford preaching.
The problem there is we constantly put authority outside ourselves, and we’re always looking for somebody else, so that becomes very easy to manipulate. We have to begin to take some of that and pay attention to our own life experience. We have to check what we’re being taught with reality as we understand and perceive it. I think it can really work for a while in all of our lives until it doesn’t.
One of your most upstanding congregants, my dad, recently gave me his opinion on the song and video. He feels it “almost seems prescient while at the same time already inappropriate.” Do you agree?
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