Gideon (song)

"Gideon" is a song by rock band My Morning Jacket. The song was written by lead singer Jim James and remains one of the most popular from their album Z, and features the epic sound that My Morning Jacket has incorporated into recent recordings. The song is probably not AbOUT the biblical character Gideon. The lyrics plead that Gideon "come down off the wall" and claim that he has become "hated and feared for something we don't want". This is more likely a reference to the widely distributed Gideon Bible. The Gideons, the organization which places that book, do take their name from the biblical Gideon, but neither he nor his story are known to be hated and feared in modern culture. The band performed the song on many Late Night Television talk shows to promote the album, and performed it accompanied by the Boston POPS Orchestra on The Late Show with David Letterman in June 2006.