{"id":1214,"date":"2007-11-22T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/the-golden-compass-kate-bushs-lyra\/"},"modified":"2007-11-22T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T16:37:00","slug":"the-golden-compass-kate-bushs-lyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/the-golden-compass-kate-bushs-lyra.html","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Compass &#8212; Kate Bush&#8217;s &#8216;Lyra&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/golden-compass-quick-update.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lyra<\/a>\u2018, the song that Kate Bush recorded for the soundtrack to <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/its-not-anti-catholic-because-its.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Golden Compass<\/a><\/i>, was played on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/aod\/mainframe.shtml?http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/aod\/6music_aod.shtml?6music\/6m_roundtable\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the BBC<\/a> today, and it\u2019s pretty underwhelming.  It starts around the 44:20 mark.  Among the lyrics:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lyra and her face<br>Full of grace<br>Two worlds collide around her<br>The truth lies deep inside her<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lyra as a sort of Marian bridge between the human and the divine?  Yeah, <i>that<\/i> won\u2019t add to the debate over this film\u2019s religious and\/or anti-religious sensibility, will it.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/hear-kate-bushs-lyra\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hat tip<\/a> to BridgeToTheStars.net.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Lyra\u2018, the song that Kate Bush recorded for the soundtrack to The Golden Compass, was played on the BBC today, and it\u2019s pretty underwhelming. It starts around the 44:20 mark. Among the lyrics: Lyra and her faceFull of graceTwo worlds collide around herThe truth lies deep inside her Lyra as a sort of Marian bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Golden Compass -- Kate Bush&#039;s &#039;Lyra&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&#039;Lyra&#039;, the song that Kate Bush recorded for the soundtrack to The Golden Compass, was played on the BBC today, and it&#039;s pretty underwhelming. 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