♱ love is like religion is a trope commonly found in pop songs and other romantic works where religious imagery and terminology are used to talk about love as though it itself were a faith or as though the beloved were a celestial being.

• unsainted, slipknot — you've killed the saint in me, how dare you martyr me?
• arkangel, thornhill — are you an angel right now? i need an angel right now, i see red
• closer, nine inch nails — my whole existence is flawed, you get me closer to god
• blessed be, spiritbox — i say my blessings all for you, i feel it fade from the inside, i open up to adore you / and if i lose myself, blessed be, i could survive in these chemicals for you. offer me, i have the heart of a coward, so open up my sternum, the only blessing that i know
• family tree, ethel cain — so take me down to the river, and bathe me clean, put me on the back of your white horse to ride all the way to the chapel, let you wash all over me.
• crucify me, bring me the horizon — there is a hell, believe me, i've seen it, there is a heaven, let's keep it a secret
• uma thurman, fall out boy — the blood, the blood, the blood of the lamb is worth two lions but here i am, divide me down to the smallest i can be, put your venom in me. i can move mountains, i can work a miracle, i'll keep you like an oath, may nothing but death do us part.
• crush, richard siken — his lips at my neck, and yes, i do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.
• unpunishable, ethel cain — sacrificial angel, dirty slut with needs. the darker the fruit, the sweeter, he's mean, i'm meaner
• cement, citizen — meet me by the lake, i'm ripe with severed faith. you wear the only scar. if i'm a saint, then you're heaven, my only, if i'm a waste, then you're golden, my only, if i'm shame, you're bolder than all of me. i'll give you myself, give you myself any day.
• de profundis, oscar wilde — love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
• tulsa jesus freak, lana del rey — sing me like a bible hymn. we should go back to arkansas, trade this body for that can of gin, like a little piece of heaven.
• sacrifice, the devil wears prada — your words drawn like a blade contaminate my veins until what's real fades, just bury me in red, i don't want another fight, push me off the edge, and i can be your sacrifice
• take me back to eden, sleep token — my, my, those eyes like fire, i'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre, come now, bite through these wires, i'm a waking hell and the gods grow tired
• obsession, thornhill — i'll surrender and crawl, even if it breaks me, just say you'll never leave, cause you're heavenly
• since our story is a crime itself, g.f. — for love, i will handle your sins. / and for justice? / for justice, i will show you mine.
• coming down, halsey — i've got a lover, a love like religion, i'm such a fool for sacrifice.
• the summoning, sleep token — i've got a river running right into you, i've got a blood trail, red in the blue. something you say or something you do, a taste of the divine. oh, and my love, did i mistake you for a sign from god?
• like a prayer, madonna — when you call my name, it's like a little prayer
• i'm your man, mitski — you're an angel, i'm a dog, or you're a dog and i'm your man. you believe me like a god, i'll destroy you like i am.
• take me to church, hozier — i'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies, i'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife, offer me that deathless death, good god, let me give you my life. if i'm a pagan of the good times, my lover's the sunlight, to keep the goddess on my side, she demands a sacrifice.