Chords for Stryper 1987 interview on NBC Live At 5

Fans a different breed indeed.
They're a rock band with a Christian theme.
Their album, To Hell With The Devil, recently went gold.
It's been on the charts for more than 15 weeks.
Before we meet band members Robert Sweet, Oz Fox, and Tim Gaines, here's a video from their album. _
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Welcome to Live at Five.
Do you guys really throw Bibles out at the end of concerts?
Sure do.
Well, right in the middle of the concert, actually. _
Gives us time to have a break _ from all the singing and moving around.
_ _ Usually, heavy metal groups are associated with wicked things.
Satan, the devil, groups with names like poison.
_ Parents are usually very upset with that sort of _ aura about it.
Don't you get in the middle of controversy frequently?
Don't they immediately think you're the same thing?
Well, yeah.
_ People just assume because heavy metal has this certain thing about it, that it's the music that's bad.
But _ _ we feel that it's the spiritual father whom you serve.
If you're serving Jesus Christ, obviously that's going to come off in your lyrics.
And it's going to have a positive effect on your listening audience.
So, that's where we come from.
If you're going to sing about Satan or the devil or worldly things, that's going to have the effect in the lyrics on your audience.
And your audience will follow after pretty much whatever they hear.
The message goes around in their mind and sooner or later it takes root.
And _ _ _ whatever the desire is that they're following after, that's what takes root in their heart and they pursue that interest.
I understand that you're even criticized on the other side.
The television evangelist, Jimmy Swigert, for example, has criticized you throwing the Bibles out.
Saying that you're doing anything you can to make money.
[Eb] Well, I'd have to disagree with that.
If [C] Striper was a band that wanted to make money, we really wouldn't sing about Jesus.
_ Because we actually get less airplay because we sing about Christ.
And probably, like you said, run into more controversy.
But [G] it's something we believe in [N] and we throw Bibles out there because we feel the people in the audience can benefit from what God's word says.
And a lot of people think it's a disrespectful thing to do.
But the words are holy, not the pages it's printed on.
So we throw them out there and we see a lot of people grabbing them up.
And usually after every show there's lines of people saying, hey, you got any more?
_ _ Did you actually get your name from the Bible?
_ _ Tell her, Oz.
_ [Bb] Actually, the name [Ab] came up when we were trying to change [B] it.
The first name we came up with was Enigma Records, our record company.
They wanted us to have something that was more catchy and would sound better and people would remember. _ _
We were thinking of, all of us were shooting out names, and Robert came up with Striper, spelled with a Y because it rhymed with hyper.
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And later on we came up with, [Gb] by his stripes we were healed, Isaiah [Db] 53-5.
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Have you all three [N] long been Christians or is this something that happened to you once you got into the rock music [Ab] business?
Where did it all come from?
It's kind of a transformation.
We all kind of grew up in Christian homes.
_ _ [Gb] And at a young age you kind of rebel against your parents and things.
You want to do your own thing, you don't want to have certain things pushed on you. _
With me [G] personally, my dad's a [Abm] pastor.
[A] And having that _ put on my _ _ _ life at a young age, people had a lot of expectations out of me.
So I rebelled against it and went completely [Ab] opposite.
_ [G] Ended up doing a lot of cocaine [N] and _ messed up my nose.
I can hardly breathe through my nose anymore.
And I turned to alcohol too, which was really heavy. _ _
And [G] when I turned 20 years old, that's when I decided that there was something more than just partying every night.
_ There's something more to fill this void inside of me.
And that's when I realized that Jesus Christ was real and I turned to him.
And my life's completely changed around now for the better.
And I know that he's real and I know that all the things I did in the past, _ _ they don't last forever.
That was just for the evening or just for a short amount of time.
But I know that Jesus Christ [Gb] will last forever in [Ab] my life.
_ _ How did that all happen for you?
I went to school with Robert and Michael _ together.
We went to high [Db] school together.
_ [D] Michael's the other brother who's not here.
Robert is a brother to Michael who isn't here right now.
But _ _ _ my mother became a born-again Christian.
I was raised a Catholic and I'm not a Catholic anymore.
Now I'm following Christ, just Christ.
And the same sort of thing happened with Robert and Michael where they knew about Christ at an earlier age, fell away.
And then when we came together as a group, we realized that _ following Christ was the only way we really could _ do anything really.
And be [Db] good _ without sinning, without doing anything that's wrong, without being a bad influence on people. _
_ Robert?
[Fm] Well, I became a Christian at the age [N] of 15.
And at that time I was going to a lot of Jimmy Swagger crusades.
Jimmy Swagger, okay.
That's really how I, Michael and I, gave our lives to the Lord.
And, you know, you can say yes to God but not do his will.
And I would say that classified me.
And at 23 years old, I gave my life back to him.
_ And it's just a very simple thing of saying, okay, [Abm] God, I've kind of [D] backed off.
I really haven't done what I should for you.
I haven't stood up for you like I should.
Here we go.
And _ all four of us together, you know, just one night just prayed and said, God, we don't know what's going to happen.
We're going to get out there on stage.
We're going to tell people that Jesus saves.
And if it works, [N] it works.
If it doesn't, well, we know it's still the right thing.
And here we are today.
Well, thank you very much for joining us.
Best of luck to you all.
Thank you.
Thanks, Striper.
Tony?
All right, Jane.
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