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lyrics

Christ was crucified for sedition
Not for your sins
One among many zealots
Who refused to obey an oppressive state
A failure in his plan
These holy lands all market place
All this hallowed ground
Has been hollowed out
No kingdom to come
So we impose our own beliefs
And build a god that thinks like me

Who do you serve
A Higher Purpose
Or authority?

Who do you worship
A Higher Power
Or powers that be?

I’m trying to be Christlike
But I’m frightened of sacrifice
It’s easy to compare if you care to fantasize
I am conspiring in a collapsing empire
With the meek and the beaten ‘round a dying campfire
We’re searching for a world worthy of salvation
Fighting for faith among the deprivation
We refuse to fund a violent empire
While paradise is colonized by liars
We travel the land in roving bands
Gathering our followers on Instagram
As all these sinners cast the first stone
The state surveys with all seeing iphones
Evil men thread a camel through the eye of a needle
While we become like children free and feeble
Spreading the word of apocalypse
The good word of the gospel always on our lips
Warning the poor of the end of days
Praying heaven is our if we just rise up and claim it
The first shall be last when we feel god’s wrath
Through collective psychosis and climate collapse
The fires of hell will be felt on earth
Money exchangers tables finally turned
Oh Christ, good god, how could I compare
This savior complex is a cross to bare

Chris hangs his head in shame
For the horrors done in his name
We project holiness
The burden rests on his throned crown
Screaming to an empty sky, crucified
Crying “Why?”
Why have you forsaken me?

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from Impermanence, released February 2, 2024

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