Monsters of Folk - Dear God

Monsters of Folk is an American group consisting of Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes, and M. Ward.

It all started in 2004 when the members were on tour with their respective projects. After playing together both on-stage and backstage, they started working together on various material. Due to the those main projects the first album didn't come out until 2008.

This song is from their first self-titled studio album and sampes  Trevor Dandy's 1970 gospel song "Is There Any Love".

Connor played bass - we both did - I did a lot of keyboards. I tried to make things sound as if they were part of the loop, like a Wurlitzer line. [Though,] it got kind of spacey sounding, so, it didn't end up sounding like this part of the loop. [The sample] didn't dictate where the song went. I do think, though, that it created an R & B feel that we wanted embrace in keeping the arrangement sparse and vocal-heavy. I know the vocals have a beachy-esque quality to it, but it also has an R & B quality. It inspired that sort of direction. It didn't dictate what we did, but it put us in that direction. We kind of wanted that one to be a little trippy, sort of.

I think it's quite obvious the meaning of the song. It's related to God and the relation between the singer and Him. How many times - if you believe in God - you wonder 'if He existis why this happen to me?' or 'Why does war exists?'?

Well I've been thinking about,
And I've been breaking it down without an answer
I know I'm thinking aloud but if your loves
Still around why do we suffer?
Why do we suffer?

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