10 Greatest Ever Stone Roses Songs
5. I am The Resurrection
More religious wording here. The chorus directly quotes the Bible, “I am the resurrection and I am the light,” before concluding, “I couldn’t ever bring myself to hate you as I might.”
You wouldn’t know it from the savage lyrical takedown of the verses. If Ian Brown is a god then he is a vengeful god, or at least a spiteful one.
The barbs thrown at some unknown enemy range from the straightforwardly viscious to the esoterically hilarious. “You’re tongue is much too long,” Brown insists, “I hate the way it slips and slurs upon my every word.”
But that’s only the first half of this stunning track. The second section is a kinetic instrumental jam recorded in a single take. The song is the last on their debut album and it’s as if some excess of verve and energy has exploded into a last gasp of guitar heroics and funky drumming.