Is it time that I said some things that I've been meaning to say?
I gather up the words, and I can't seem to gather up a way
it's just that I hoped there would be something more when I think of us,
and when I think of what's in store
so what if I just asked you,
why is it so hard for you to say you're mine?
And times going by so fast now
I could drive around this world for years
but if I keep you in my heart, would you keep me in yours?
cause it's just so hard for me to pretend like I don't see my outstretched hands around you
and the tears rolling down your back
I guess that you will, go to find yourself in time and throw away what's yours and mine
I wish you knew everything was already here
but I guess you can throw it away, I guess you'll just throw it away
But I won't give up on you now
So I guess you will go to college and I guess I'll go on tour is that it?
is that all you wanted for us?
because I want so much more
and I know that you love me
and I know that we were meant to be
revolution.
revolt not by your worldly nature,
put it into my hands and wait and see.
i'll bring the authority to it's knees, through Christ who strengthens me.
but the public school and community have organized to defeat me,
through conformity and worldliness, a fascist dictatorship.
but i've been crucified with Christ, and Christ lives within me.
so little do they know while they brainwash our youth,
our soldiers have equipped.
we've disabled the front lines with truth for the masses,
today is the day that we fight back.
not you, nor satan, nor death itself...
has one ounce of power over me.
you are taking time away from us,
discipline becomes necessary,
when it's undeserved and incredibly unjust?
and the clock drags razors over naked flesh,
cause i can't find a way out of the loneliness,
in securities driving nails under my skin,
time slowing to a crawl, fear of abandonment tying the noose around my neck,
and i pull this veil over my eyes,
you'd be happy to punish,
because i dipped into her blood, and she spilled me from inside,
what can it matter now, thanks to this latent understanding of worthlessness,
so you take time away from us,
a lack of trust that cuts my throat, my paralysis made by me,
fear of abandonment tying the noose around my neck,
and i pull this veil over my eyes,
this time the bond i've made and given,
is stronger than i am, and i can't tell if she's made anything,
i thought she needed me because i needed her,
arms around each others waists,
we soak our pillows and you are all knowing,
you are wrong for this, and you take her away from me,
you take my happiness away, you take my happiness away,
i soak my pillow, and i was all knowing,
i was wrong for this, and she left me all alone,
did she take my happiness away, or did i forget hot to be happy?
it's killing me, it's killing me, it's killing me,
it's killing me, it's killing me, it's killing me, it's killing me
and i'll finish tonight
The promise of forever, the lie of mortal flesh
and blood the song of Solomon singed by the emotionally stunted heart of deception
how hard is it to make up your mind?
I love you, I need you only you forever
Then I peel these pages on the calendar off the skin on my chest
is the quest for information providing the experience and the wisdom?
and the ability to say that something is all right?
I spell your name with my incision in your embrace
Opening a heart seems to be an easy thing
still I'm drowning in the memories that make my spirit sing
so why are you out of reach?
when your lips are just out of reach
and your arms are just out of reach
and your heart is just out of reach
why are you just out of reach?
Is there any kind of genuine feeling of the fairy tale?
soiled by our American idealism
these pages that describe my heart
I'm longing for you to mirror me,
but you'll just leave again if I'd look up to the stars it will be intoxicating
and if I'd find the strength to say:
"Life is not short, life is so long, life is so very long"
instill in me divine presence of everlasting freedom
Because I love you, and I need you only you forever
The beauty screaming up my spinal column
The aching for a return stinging my central nervous system
I spell your name with my incision
and your eyes wonder to someone else one thousand times
Should you hurt yourself or simply sleep?
I shall collect myself after I weep,
And garb myself in ocean blue,
With no method of goodbye to you,
Should the marsh render a crane to cry,
And the sea suspend her gulls to fly,
I€™ll lend myself unto their wings,
And hear the voice of Jesus sing,
No wish for he whose whimsy does soar,
No wish to sleep forever more,
No eye shadow as thick as paint,
No pigment pleads unto the faint
Forgiveness like a blanket of snow whispers like the wind does blow,
Beckoning unto the deep, offering unto the meek,
And there you lay in Jesus€™ hands, resting there beside the lamb,
There will not be a circular piece to drive into a square shaped keep,
No hands to hold within my own,
No second soul inside our home,
We€™ll walk beside the crystal sea,
Myself for my love, and my love for me
We€™ve come so far, and here we are,
Amidst the endless hum,
No wind worth chasing, no revolution,
No blazing battle drum,
We laughed as we said, €œthe music is dead€?,
We€™ve plucked out its eyes, we€™ve shattered its head,
My work is so weary so let it be said €œFather, thy will be done.€?
Instruments make the best sounds as they€™re breaking,
People make the best smiles when they€™re faking,
Notes are shattered, blood is spattered,
The night is ours for the taking,
And what shall we say now that it is gone?
In ours eyes are no tears, in our hearts are no songs,
And now we€™ve gone pale, what was it we saw?
The beauty, the horror...
Of rock that is so raw
Before there was anything
I loved you endlessly
There are no words to make way for this truth
This love for you inside of Me
And if I paint a sky with bronze
Or blanket you with stars
It's not enough to prove to you
This love inside My heart
What if I knit you together
Inside your mother, with artistry?
Crafted in My very image
Because I need you here with Me
What if I gave everything
Just to have you close to Me?
What if My love was the only truth
Would you believe it could set you free?
There isn't anything
That you could ever do
Not death or life, not depth or height
Can ever take My love from you
There is no greater love than this
That a man should lay his life
Down for his friends
And though I already have
I'd do it all again
Regenerative are My bones and My skin
My nerves are dismayed by intrusion
Yet if you are gone, for short or for long
It all aches with no sought restitution
I would do anything for you
It's obvious and in plain view
Like the life that I've laid before you
Everything that I've done is for you
So look for me with open eyes
Knock and I will open the door
I have loved you before there was time
And I will love you forever more
Someday they'll write a book about you,
Because you're so selfish it's funny,
So self-absorbed, this thunderous horde,
Of you, you, you,
So self-absorbed, this thunderous horde,
Of you, you, you
Yeah, I'd love you,
But you love yourself,
And you'd love me,
But I love myself
So tense are these nerves in any instance,
Teeth snap and a toe taps the dirt,
Cry like a baby and see if then maybe the others will cherish your hurt,
Never you see a cry or a plea,
Consider another or first,
Know this is YOUR world,
The harsh words you have hurled,
Recall you are the one in need worse
Yeah, I'd love you,
But you love yourself,
And you'd love me,
But I love myself,
Yeah, I'd love you,
But you love yourself,
And we'd serve you,
But we serve ourselves
Ignoring you, I dance, oh I do,
Through magnificent realms, quite divine,
Stopping to see my face smiling at me,
For this is my life and my time,
What an arduous task, it proves such a feat to be only one of a kind,
Through the scenery slips through the spaces we meet,
Press forward and leave me behind,
What a child you are, for you look just like me,
Looking out for number one, I'm all that I have and all that I see,
Saved by the grace of the Son,
So shall we deny?
And rot as we die?
As I write a book about me,
My noble wealth of serving myself,
I am so selfish it's funny
Gregor starved to death
No one dies of loneliness
i rip the label off my forehead,
the one that you conveniently placed,
to keep me under your thought control,
this time the enemy will be faced,
there's no way this injustice will go unnoticed,
i'm not a percent, i'm not a number,
ignorance has become comfortable for you,
close minded complacency, but, were bringing it down,
tearing you out of your comfort zone,
and standing up for what we know is right,
you didn't expect independent thought,
you never expected intelligence,
were bringing it down and the whole system too,
you've judged me ahead of time,
it seems futile for me to fight,
so i could accept the label that is mine,
but i am not a stereotype, no, i'm not a stereotype,
my strength comes from Jesus Christ,
and my faith is as hard as rock
Dance with me baby, let me hear your voice
Oh if I didn't wanna fall for you I never had a choice
Smear the makeup on my face
run your fingers through my hair
I can not keep my heart from you and I don't even care
Yeah, you turn me inside out
You make me shake and I can't stop
You give new meaning to drop dead gorgeous
And I'm about to drop
You are a song to me
And every note of every chord will set me free
There's no time before you came alone
Three cheers for the end of twenty one years
Nothing else is going wrong
Reverberate and complicate my evenings and my days
And I will only love you more
I will count the ways
Dance with me and when you see my pulse beneath my skin
It's racing now, I don't know how to hold the burning in
You've taken from me my defenses
My will is under attack
And baby when I wrap my arms around you
I feel the bones in your back
Oh yeah, your voice is like music
It's music to my ears
I'm not dying anymore, I'm alive baby!
Murder, seizing my arm,
to puppeteer direction to kiss these sweet sinful lips of my demise
I want to drive nails into the hands of my will,
and trade it in for yours
Falling in love with a fantasy
to watch my life slip slowly out of me
to bathe in the crimson that forgives me for being me
Father teach me to care,
guide your hands over these pale stitches in my heart
the evasions of death impaling me like a bleeding lover that is calling after dark
Twisting this dagger of shame further into my chest
these tears turn to scarlet,
I haven't given him my best sobbing over scalpels,
invite this slow blood letting for a way to think of what I've been forgetting,
is goodbye all there ever is to say?
Goodbye
I am tired of picking up the pieces.
and dragging this glass across my throat
will you hold me after I have let you down so much?
They want to peel the spine up from my back
and this is the culture that wants me to forget how to care,
or feel, or bleed, or die
they don't want to believe in love, they're ashamed of the truth
they don't want to believe in hope, they're ashamed of the truth
but I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe
twisting my head around backwards and breaking the vertebrae all apart
I want to take my own life so that you can give yours to me
Father, kill me, rebuild me
If I start writing you a letter tonight
I'll be writing for hours
It doesn't seem like I can say anything
Unless it's everything.
If it could ever find its way to an envelope
It won't find its way to you
You're a million miles away.
It always seemed that way when
You weren't at arms length
There were some things that I wanted to tell you
And wanted to say
But I couldn't find you
And I couldn't find a way
So how in the world did everything go wrong?
I won't fall asleep tonight
As hard as I look
I won't find you in my arms
I was almost sure you were supposed to be there
I locked you inside of my chest
Two years ago
And I'm not letting you out.
I just thought that you should know.
All the things I thought were everything
I'm scared weren't anything.
Separation is such a relentless ache
The thoughts of you streaming
Each one more beautiful than the one before
And I'm asking myself
How could I've been better for you?
Listening for your voice
To break the silence that goes on forever
I'm not sure I told you enough
You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
I'm sure if I look hard enough
I'll find you pressed against me in my arms,
Lips on your neck, You're voice
Promising me that you'll always love me
PS I'll always love you and I'm scared of hurting you.
When you close your eyes even your eyelids are beautiful
for so long there have been traces of you in blood vessels inside my skull
that coarse you eagerly through me into my hands that reach for you
I love you and I always will
it's all so sweetly beautifully true
and time just makes you so much more wonderful
swimming in the ocean that's drifting in your eyes
I'm walking on a fine line of elation and joy to see the eyes of you
The things are surfacing since years and years ago
leaving me to wonder off in search of all I know
Porcelain skin and the dizzying smile the eyes holding forever blue
just know that I'm in love with you
know that I'm in love with you
So hold me now as I'm holding you
and treasure what we know is true
on my own would never really be alone
unless it's without you
And we go on against scrapes and sores
we break the doors
we will be together
you will lift my heart and move my soul
for all that I am and all that we are
they won't pick apart the truth to spread the lies inside of it disabling
and rendering the truth under it's opposite
Remember me I'm yours today
and if you will come to me and if you stay
I'll offer all I have and sacrifice myself to cherish you
the wind is getting colder and the years are getting older
I won't ever know the feeling of giving up on you
oh beautiful and fair and amazingly true
my heart my eyes and everything is a sentiment to you
created in the image of love that's everlasting
and I draw her out in the future I'd been mapping
Across the sea beyond the sky
even after we lay down to die
I'll love you forever and I'll love you again
I'll love you after every single thing ends
Well it's way too late, baby
the talons of cynicism are already buried in my brain
when "do as I say, not as I do" is the broken glass that I drag my naked body across
I'm thinking of you,
and I don't want to give up but I'm a quitter thanks to you,
do you think it's fair?
Love is so alive, so I've got to find a way to make it die
picturing your face being cut inside my head
I've got to find a way to keep you from being beautiful
You and me are the touch of two lips;
we're the center of a kiss
but you won't stay long enough to believe this
you and me are the sky in love with the sea
But you're not so pretty when you're dead
When I rot I want you to be there when I become the dust again
I want to know that you forgot, everything that I was, and was not
When I kissed you good night tonight, you weren't there
your lips lied like the tongue inside your beautiful mouth
but if I cut it out you'd never lie to me again
'Cause you don't love me, you're just in love with everyone
and if you were like me, and you were dead within
you'd understand that I don't know how to be your friend
You've burned blue eyes and soft lips in my soul
but I'd cut that out and wrap it in a ribbon for you
baby you know there's few things that can make me care,
i'm already dead, i'm wasting away,
i'm in love with my despair,
so tonight, lady hold on tight,
before i drown in an ocean of starlight,
i hope it's easy for you to see, i'm in love with you,
but sadness is in love with me,
isn't it romantic and doesn't it make you laugh?
the way that time cuts everything in half...
i lose every time i fight
you know, i love to think i'm giving up,
i love to think i'm letting go,
i'm bleeding tonight, waiting for him to carry me out,
because when apathy hides behind the shadow of doubt,
my incision becomes so delicate, and time goes by so slowly,
i know that he will save me from sadness,
is he the only one that knows me?
how can i hold on if i'm all alone?
what does a man gain for his labor under the sun?
generations come and generations go...
all streams flow to the sea, yet the sea is never full,
all things are wearisome, more so than one can say,
what has been done will be done again and again,
i saw the tears of the oppressed,
power was on the side of their oppressors,
and they had no comfort whatsoever,
everything, everything, everything is meaningless,
everything, everything, everything is meaningless,
and i declare that the dead, who have already died,
are happier than those who are still alive
Razor blades and a bottle of pills won't make me change the way that I feel
When life gave up on me, I just gave up on life
it spills over your lips and wraps around me
like a gift in fear of temporary placement,
on the table we made with the letters we wrote,
you are everything so hold on to me, like I hold on to you
I won't learn from my mistakes this time
making the same ones in different years
There's no way out, no way out, no way out
no way out, no way out, no way out, no way out, no way out
if I could think of something better than this to say
I'd tell you a story about my princess
or a fairy tale about happiness that lasts,
but your beauty was never make believe
This is not rock and roll, someone please help me
Every time I said it, I felt it every time I didn't say it,
I still felt it you are a seal I place on my chest and arm
I'd give you my circle if you'd take it from me and make a promise to me
you still have my promise if I fade away
so place me like a seal on you're chest and arm
You love to lie to me, I live to love your lies,
I live to love you still, I love to live to die
I'm gonna shed my skin, deactivate my head
The skin that I regenerate looks like the skin that I just shed
I'm better suited being typical
I keep choking down the cockroaches until I get full
A centipede! Yeah, a centipede!
The trunk moves independently of the head
Cant keep it quiet, no cant keep it quiet
The lips keep moving when the brain is dead
Don't wanna keep it down, I wanna throw it up
I just can't keep it to myself, I can't shut myself up
Don't need no honesty, it isn't half as fun
I just want to run my mouth
It makes me feel like I am someone
A centipede! Yeah, a centipede!
The trunk moves independently of the head
Cant keep it quiet, no cant keep it quiet
The lips keep moving when the brain is dead
I don't need to meet the arch bishop
Don't need to shake hands in a roman cathedral
Just drag the garbage up out of my guts
For I am all things to all people
A centipede! Yeah, a centipede!
The trunk moves independently of the head
Cant keep it quiet, no cant keep it quiet
The lips keep moving when the brain is dead
we're all burning alive (burning alive).
no one is special anymore (no one).
your education assembly line (descending).
cap and gown, i hope you're happy.
this is not being alive, this is not life.
i dare you to open your eyes.
place one finger to my bottomless negativity,
it only gets worse from here, it only gets worse.
not a single one of you realizes you are bleeding to death,
this is your utopia: a culture geared for perpetual meaningless.
we offer ignorance and feeble mindedness,
to idols made of stone and proclaim:
"we are an entire generation of injured children".
screaming in a whisper "someone save us from ourselves."
slit wrists.
realize you are bleeding to death. realize you are bleeding.
I am made of parts that freeze and ligaments that atrophy
Though they look they'll never see
They don't know something's wrong with me
And just as well, I'll never tell what's underneath the scales
I've worn to thin to honor you, my every effort fails
Bury me with Israel and cover up my tracks
Leave not a trace of what I was, I'm never coming back
And if you're mercy falls upon he whose blood is cold
Unearth me with your hands of love and never break your hold
The world is full of ones like me
Who need to see the truth
But the truth is never truth indeed
The truth is only you
Jesus bless the crocodiles, forgive the cobras and all the snakes
Open up your arms to carry all of our mistakes
Suck the venom from every bite and vomit every drop
Some of us may bite your hand but some of us will not
And every knee will bow before you, each forked tongue confess
My selfishness will rot in me and I will seek your rest
Still some lizards flee from you, ashamed of all they've been
So Jesus take myself from me, never bring it back again
The world is full of ones like me, who need to see the truth
But the truth is never truth indeed, the truth is only you
The world will soon become extinct, the age will pass away
And all will know that you are God, hallowed be your name
Jesus bless the crocodiles, forgive the cobras and all the snakes
Open up your arms to carry all of our mistakes
Forgive the basilisk, forgive the moccasins and adders too
Have mercy on each alligator that never lived for you
I myself hatched from an egg, no white light from above
Just another ancient serpent that never earned your love
But still you find me underneath the rocks and in the ground
I cowered there just short of air and never made a sound
It's true that I'm in love with you, and even in my shame
You wipe away the imperfections and take away the pain
You wrap your loving arms around this wretched thing called me
Your love is all I'll ever need, your love has set me free
The truth is only you.
I walk the world on insect legs beneath an unforgiving sun
Eat the dirt throughout my days On the dirt and dirt I come undone
Messiah born in Bethlehem won't find me lying there
The world's too big for him to see me or hear the things I've said
Hold me to you as I pray, Take the rest of the world away
My blood runs warm because of you, The scales fall out of my eyes
I laughed in the keep of a man with a rose my mandibles are caked in trash
Thought you wouldn't recognize me, in the black of soot and ash
Don't turn deaf into my voice, but one thing I want you to know:
I have always loved you though my life has never said so
Hold me to you as I pray, Take the rest of the world away
My blood runs warm because of you, The scales fall out of my eyes
Hold me to you as I pray, Take every other thing away
My heart is breaking out for you, The scales are out of my eyes
I love you Lord, and I lift my voice
To worship you, Oh, my soul rejoice
Take joy my King in what you hear
May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear
I walk the world on insect legs beneath an unforgiving sun
Eat the dirt throughout my days On the dirt and dirt I come undone
Messiah born in Bethlehem won't find me lying there
The world's too big for him to see me or hear the things I've said
Hold me to you as I pray, Take the rest of the world away
My blood runs warm because of you, The scales fall out of my eyes
I laughed in the keep of a man with a rose my mandibles are caked in trash
Thought you wouldn't recognize me, in the black of soot and ash
Don't turn deaf into my voice, but one thing I want you to know:
I have always loved you though my life has never said so
Hold me to you as I pray, Take the rest of the world away
My blood runs warm because of you, The scales fall out of my eyes
Hold me to you as I pray, Take every other thing away
My heart is breaking out for you, The scales are out of my eyes
I love you Lord, and I lift my voice
To worship you, Oh, my soul rejoice
Take joy my King in what you hear
May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear
I've got great plans for a better place to live
by taking twice as much as I could ever give
we could make a better world by burning down the whole place
but we're too stupid to see our hands in front of our face
To give up on your generation means a better world
giving up on hope means a better world
mastering disgust and apathy,
a better world
giving up on everything means a better world
Burn it down
and build it up
I want to be someone to help enlighten the youth of today
but we're all complacently brain dead,
so what is there to say?
the pleasures of my body are rotting with my faith
in reconstruction for American,
so burn it all today
Trample the weak,
the patriotism and narcissism
stop the blood short of my veins the temporal lobe is pale,
and the circulation cut short
fighting and igniting the red white and blue
When we die I bet they'll haul a box into a pile of dirt
Nothing in it but a sack of bones
And stuffy tie and shirt
As loved ones wish we'd get up
And moan this isn't fair
But you and me won't be there
When I die, whatever you might say
Don't say I'm gone
Gone is not the word for someone
Who finally found his way back home
Death, it doesn't scare me
Thinking that you're somewhere on your waya
I can't go on pretending
I might never see the day
It's not hard for me to picture
What makes me feel out of place
Hope I'm not afraid when I see you face to face
To some you're like a prison
When they've yet to taste freedom
And maybe you feel bitter
Because Jesus broke your kingdom
Once you were so powerful
And power made you happy
But now you're like a ferry boat
Now you're like a taxi
When I die, whatever you might say
Don't say I'm gone
Gone is not the word for someone
You talk so much that you must think
your tongue spools out from your brain
but those around you demand your wisdom
to combat the lowly inane
and oh how you make me hate the freedom of speech
because you use it like your throat sprung a leak
and actions do speak certainly
but since you won't pay attention shut your mouth and listen to me
I've got to get myself to forget myself
The soapbox you stand on has got a few cracks
the horse that you ride is quite high
perhaps you're as wise as your words may suggest
or perhaps you wear a disguise
for all the wrong that you call to attention
some seems to have been misplaced
and since you speak so honestly
why don't you point your finger right back in your own face?
Lord i hate the sin so much
and i love the sinner, i certainly do
but how will they know how to purge the evil
I hear when Jesus tells me that I need to bite my tongue
And my teeth, they try to cage it
But the prison comes undone
And everything I'm saying goes falling to the floor
And you're trying not to trip on it
As you walk out the door
My pride negates the iron bar I've driven through my neck
Compounded by the effort
That I constantly regret
Can you show me some patience while I try to see this through
When what goes on inside of me
Is not always the same as what I do
I tell him that I'm trying
But I'm sure you have your doubts
And this awful weight I'm dragging
I can mostly do without
If you still want to love me
It won't come without a cost
The fight to be much better
Lines in my hands, light through the walls
I'm writing letters to you with my prayers
Long before what I've stood up will fall
Or who I thought I might be is ensnared
A man inside a fish, scales from someone's eyes
A family in a great big boat while the rest of the world dies
You're making food to feed five thousand
You're saying "Let the children come to me"
In the corner of the classroom I am pulling back the carpet
I'm afraid of what I see
What is truth? What is true?
How big are love and history, what hides inside their mouths?
There are holes in me from things pushed in when I pull them out
And out of which come questions that I cannot unwrap
What I once learned is not enough to hold the torrent back
I feel as though the weight of questions has grown to cruel to bear
And though I long to lift it now the load makes me despair
Ask though I may the faces who once led me by the hand
Their voices are unfamiliar
I'm not even sure they understand
And now my spine is bowed by the boxes on my back
I don't know how to open them
I want to give them back
And yet you will not stir to ease this burden that I carry
It seems as though you've piled them up and treated me unfairly
It's this devastating world that laughs and steals upon my back
And everything comes crashing down when my will finally cracks
No longer will I tote the cryptic words of ages gone
When I was being broken, where were you all along?
The lessons recounted faithfully now fall like clumps of wool
The men and women who lied to me are cockeyed, panting wolves
They wave their flags and cast their stones and sneer with lusty grins
Commanding me to a follow a path they have never believed in
They low like cattle with bulging veins and militant fists in the air
Join their flock or burn in hell and I'm not sure that I care
Crawling out from the wreckage of all that I've been taught
I'm leaving it behind
They fling their venom out at me when I resign
Outside the gates I drag myself into a world bigger than I had believed
And inside they flay their sheep lest they follow me and leave
But after everything I've done and everything I do
I can still remember you
Lines in my hands, light through the walls
I'm writing you letters with my prayers
After all that I've stood up falls
And I afford you none of my cares
If I ask you "What is truth" will you be silent still?
My questions and doubts have created a chasm
That I fear you can not fill
Perhaps the lens I've eyed you through
Keeps me from from the truth
I can't find what I'm looking for
And I still remember you
When I relent the shackles of all that I've been fed
I pull back the floor and find something beautiful instead
After everything I've been through
I'm not sure I recognize myself anymore
Sometimes I think I might remember
But then I close the door
I walk away from everything and find myself made free
In all the tangles of who I am the truth is that you love me
Just as I was, just as I am, just as I will be
I remember everything, to be what I've become
A willingness for anything that can and must be done
I remember writing in the womb, wrapped up in viscous gloom
My will is calling out like a sweeping plague
Swallowing the mountains and the deserts and the rain
I remember thinking once that love could never die
But love is small and very frail and can't be kept alive
Unless you love the one for whom roars this internal din
The love that devours everything, the love of self burns within
My will is calling out like a sweeping plague
Swallowing the mountains and the deserts and the rain
Raping what is left of you, two flesh becoming one
My will is everywhere, my will be done
My will is calling out like a sweeping plague
Swallowing the mountains and the deserts and the rain
Raping what is left of you, two flesh becoming one
Something keeps me awake, something outside is stirring
Through the dark and over the grass
The rabbits and snakes are concurring
They sing in the soil and bones rattle loud
They cry out as this they do see
Someone in those walls is suffering proud
For you are worth every ache within me
I don't hear music, don't hear anything
I see dirt, I see cement
What a troubled world it is when you're outside arms length
It pulls out it's teeth in dry irreverence
Come and find me on this floor
I am only a half, truth be told
Take away all the distance and say:
"my beloved, I'm here, and now you are whole"
If I turn and see your eyes in the dark I will know the blue in an instant
Never have they gone so far
Never has your face been distant
My life I will give you like a verse and a ring
I will be your only one
And what you ask of me will be yours until all is said and done
Your heart is a song that I hear Jesus sing
It comes over oceans to me
And the notes spell out messages in vibrant streams
And what's written you show only me
But if you can't close up all the gaps tonight
Put me to bed in your way
You see right through everything I am
For you my insides are displayed
Sing me to sleep my beautiful one
I will love only you for all time
Sing me to sleep my only one
With promises that you are all mine
Be still my heart, I hear your back cracking
It sounds like music to me
I see your face and I can hardly breath
Ha! The joke's on you buddy. This isn't a song at all.
Turning over in interrupted slumber,
You ponder others, growing ever wakeful,
You've locked the vermin in the other bedroom,
To be so perfect causes you to feel so thankful,
Now find the fault because your boyfriend can't read,
Reflecting on to you is all the bitterness you need,
So unhappy, yet so preoccupied,
Never found beaten down with your forked tongue tied.
Your eulogy is like poetry,
But your mouth is like a magazine.
Queen dependency is cowering, please don't be confused,
You are vacant and submissive, receptive to abuse,
Virtue isn't tangible, and sense of self is dated,
Names constant on your cracked lips are now eviscerated,
Your spine is made of metal, Your veins are bound in electric tape,
And all along an impulse lights at random in your face,
Yough cought up an offering and forget which words are lies,
Then your skull echoes a singeing pop, as your brain is cauterized.
Within the walls I hear all of its legs,
There must be so many to carry it over our heads,
Seething and unsettled and oh such a let down,
Oh Lord, I'm sick of myself
I'd rather bury it than carry it
I'm desperate for help
And barely sentient means I'm just being me
Follow suit the destitute my modus operandi
A face that's marked by pallor means you're wasting away
So get a tan and raise your hands and take to feeling okay
No one enjoys the party when they're stricken with anemia
A shallow sinking surface simply screaming septicemia
Peace of mind is hard to find
So I'm standing in line and feeling fine
Aye, me sad hours seem long
And even longer when you're numb
Fading away and that's okay
Cause life has me under her thumb
I'm languorously open-ended and the ending's no good
I've been told to break the mold and I would if I could
But apathy is easier than caring at all
And the undulating nothingness means having a ball
Incredibly impressive and bereft of concern
Lobotomized and optimized and then I'm ready to burn
At war within myself and self is winning the fight
Because feeling like no one at all means feeling alright
Sense of purpose has got me feeling worthless
And I'm fading away, but that's okay
Aye, me sad hours seem long
And even longer when you're numb
Fading away and that's okay
Cause life has me under her thumb
Oh yeah, all right
I'm in a big fat cage and feeling free
That's okay, that's all right
Cause that's all that's left of me
Oh Lord, I'm sick of myself
I'd rather bury it than carry it
I'm desperate for help
And barely sentient means I'm just being me
Follow suit the destitute my modus operandi
Aye, me sad hours seem long
And even longer when you're numb
Fading away and that's okay
Cause life has me under her thumb
Oh yeah, all right
I'm in a big fat cage and feeling free
That's okay, that's all right
Cause that's all that's left of me
Oh yeah, all right
I'm in a big fat cage and feeling free
Goodbye, goodnight
(It's four o'clock)
If I could turn my back on anything
I'd choose it to be you
I've lost all interest in almost everything that you do
You've more to do with complacency
And the whims and trims of children
Than any sort of worthwhile thing
Or the few folks left to feel them
Who am I but another fool who's flirting with divorce
Like every other thing
You keep my foolishness on course
Maybe there is someone else less like an awful void
Who might beckon me with open arms
And offer new employ
I've got to say I'm looking for it
But if it never comes
I'll think of when I love you
Before you were what you've become
Who am I but another fool who's flirting with divorce
Like every other thing
You keep my foolishness on course
Still we have our common ground
Which can never be annulled
To sing of the one who made us both
A man at home with a hammer in hand
Is thinking about his life
Deciding that it would be best
To kill his children and his wife
A woman at home with a ring on her finger
Is thinking about herself
Her husband is a good man
But she has sex with someone else
Oh the thought of what sets a person free
Before I could ever love you back
You gave your love to me
Now I see my sentencing reprieve
You offer me your everything
Even though I am still me
A woman with lots of money
Whose plans were left in doubt
Because of the baby in her womb
So she pays to have it's brain sucked out
A man in desperation
A girl in his bed
She doesn't want to make love
So she will get raped instead
Oh the thought of what sets a person free
Before I could ever love you back
You gave your love to me
Now I see my sentencing reprieve
You offer me your everything
Even though I am still me
Thieves and liars
Murderers and whores
Homosexuals, extortionists
Pedophiles, abortionists
Junkies and rapists
Adulterers and terrorists
Every woman, every man
To be common place would be unique,
But we€™re so obscure we€™re incoherent,
Like tongueless vigilantes choking just to make you choke,
Rattling, rattling,
No nails to hold ideas in place, no expression on your face
Music and her patrons are dead and irrelevant,
Like osteoporosis, she€™s brittle she is broken
Static comes through synthesizers, megaphones and drum machines,
Beauty sounds like smashed guitars,
And several references to feedback,
Rattling, rattling,
No surgery to save your life,
No promise everything€™s all right
Music and her patrons are dead and irrelevant,
Like osteoporosis she€™s brittle and she is broken,
Languages must be organic because like flies they fall and die,
Music now sleeps with Latin and Aramaic,
It€™s over, it€™s over,
No more waiting for something to live for,
It€™s over, it€™s over,
Everything is dying and we want something more
This letter won't make it to you in time
Introverted by your distance from me, and by mine
But the chameleons who sift through the trees
Are garnering a bouquet in my head's faculties
And its filled with scales and perfumes wearing thin
There is no flaw in you, there is no sun on your skin
Where have you been all of my life?
I hear a lizard tongue above my head
Will you be my wife?
Skin and bones and things that make my heart beat
My possession my obsession, everything to me
The sound of your voice and all your fingertips
Is like a bible verse spilling right across your lips
Waiting for my bride no longer taking it's toll
Like a great horned owl swallowing fruit bats whole
Now that you're here I feel a presence that I didn't before
I feel your love I feel the warmth I'm feeling so much more
No more stiff joints, no more skin dry and rigid
You're like a funnel in my heart
No longer artic and frigid
I'm indebted to you, you are my only one
Straight from the breath of the almighty Father, Spirit and Son
Skin and bones and things that make my heart beat
My possession my obsession, everything to me
The sound of your voice and all your fingertips
Is like a bible verse spilling right across your lips
Skin and bones and things that make my heart beat
My possession my obsession, everything to me
The sound of your voice and all your fingertips
Is like a bible verse spilling right across your lips
Skin and bones and things that make my heart beat
My possession my obsession, everything to me
The sound of your voice and all your fingertips
Is like a bible verse spilling right across your lips
People are afraid to say what they mean,
or keep on talking if it's not about them
I don't say I hate them before they hate me
I've just shut down cause I know what we're all thinking
we're just going by the numbers,
dragging along were just clinging on to someone,
anyone suck the blood and leave the carcass, now we're full.
lie to not disrupt the balance, it balances
We're all fake
We want to understand the point,
let us drive it through your naive head
murdered by self-righteous,
we've killed humility dead
So is the flesh weak and the spirit willing?
Or is Jesus inside a building?
the rituals, rules and things we make up,
it takes so much to wake us up to trade the funding and turn the cheek,
to exchange the proud in for the meek to say to our reflections
"I deny you"
feel the splintering wood on my back and follow
You love the men who drove nails through your wrists
I know enough to know that love does exist
if you bled for the fakes that are just like me
why do I want to make all the fakes bleed?
Jesus, forgive us...
we know not what we do
Jesus have mercy on us,
I am what I hate, but I want to be just like you
It's Sunday morning and like sheep with no Shepherd
they're turning off alarm clocks and ironing ties
above reproach is where we'll be in the eyes of the lesser
as they see our family van on it's way to church,
on it's way to tithe fundamentally you'll find it at the heart of our religion
all the answers and the ways of faith
learn it hear and speak Jesus name
it's synonymous with this place
And then a committee regulates where the money goes
and the people gather
who will teach the children and bring the gospel?
the Bible doesn't matter
we've heard it all a before from sermons and Sunday school
never from his book or from his voice
the Bible is just a reference tool socially
it's all required rituals, rules and youth group trips
they walk us through what we believe
we never hear love from graceful lips
So bring a date and bring a friend and socialize before service begins
We're making up more as we go along
and the weight of the morals the righteous men carry
we can make up more rules or cut some of them out
it's really all quite arbitrary
We will not learn from he who offers his voice to us daily and gives us life
we can read about it in colorful brochures
and see when service starts that night
As long as we sit under this roof
we're earning our way to a perfect heaven
I'm sure the Lord said something similar among the things that were said
when he walked among us and healed the diseased
if he came to our new location
I'm sure he'd be pleased with all our modern accommodations,
new paint and electrical tools
while the heathens sit at home,
idly they waste away like fools
we sit complacent and stagnant
and pleased that the building we've made finally suits our needs
and now we can learn and grow in this place
not by his voice or seeking his face
I tried to run across the water and I sank into the deep
Listlessly beneath the sea, within it's murky keep
I want to keep my dinner down but I threw it up today
See how agonizingly propelled without delay?
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
The Jesus lizard tried to love but it's heart was made of lead
He could not move the way love does so he faked it all instead
The Jesus lizard wants to be the center of your ray of light
But any light he has yet to see, no light is in his sight
I tried to pull the nails from you
Out of your hands and feet
And when I tried I made you die and yet you came back for me
If I drag myself throughout this world
If I throw up everyday
Will you still see that I'm still here?
I'm waiting in all of my ways
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
The Jesus Lizard formed for himself
For Jesus he would not ache
With insects stuck between his teeth
He scurried ever so fake
"I am God" the lizard said
Alpha, omega end with me
The sun was hot upon his head
So he tried to run across the sea
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
I can't breathe and I don't want to anymore
Shall we use needles or knives to realign your spine?
the tissue degenerates so rapidly
perhaps it proves it is the time to cover your face
and smile at me to see if I am out of sight,
denying ventricle flow revel in your plight tonight,
you're such a wonderful person to know
and my name will rest in utter disdain
my resentment receives its wings for flight
you deceitfully stroll on just the same into your holy light
With music destroyed, we'll only create noise
sweet dissonance is all that you'll have left
we'll dance across its grave
the art of singing empty praise with knives of hope and peace stab art to death
I've watched it on its drugs
and I've seen the doctors shrug cerebellums withered up,
the heart is black
No scalpel, pill or stitch, no religious sales pitch
will ever bring the art that's dying back
and so we are the heirs, of this glowing lack of care our hearts in one discord
we all cry out for blood and spit we clap, the amps are feeding back
my heart is filled with the one to whom I shout
And glowing you speak in the friendliest tongue in sentiments of gold
and oh the sweetest songs are sung and the sweetest lies are told
so spread this virus and seek yourself you pursue it quite relentlessly when Sunday comes
you'll raise hands to sing what a glorious sight to see
Yet I see true art, I see her, and I see you
and Father you inspire me to sing to you
you inspire me to sing to you
Burn all the flags and the money, sacrifice and laugh
The light in your eyes reflects and I see myself
and all I want to be for you I'll give everything,
just to linger on your lips and feel your fingertips, you are an angel
Art is not the world, art is in our heart
And so I am the prince of sounds that make ears ring
my princess kiss me with your sweet lips and lo,
my heart will sing if art is in yourself,
or in a class at school if art is ego and selfishness,
and at the mercy of primitive tools we sing sweet good-byes in screams and screeches
and bury these knives in your heart
no paintings or poems to let you live on
we've seen the last of art as servants and lovers
we wash your feet and cry out into the dark the noise, the beauty,
the love you bring me stabs these knives right into art art is not the world,
art is in our hearts
Stab art to death
i close my eyes and i see you wrapped in a sheet of sleep,
as everyone's eyes age, your deep blue remains untouched,
an angel's finger tips touch the surface,
an ocean of the bluest saline,
having some trouble trying not to feel so broken hearted,
i'll give my sorrow wings so that it will fly away from me,
but the sky will be so jealous of your eyes,
i'll give my misery sails so that the wind will carry it away,
but the ocean will be so jealous of your eyes,
this time we have found each other, i was looking for you when i got lost...
as you wet my lips with yours the sun rolls in,
everything has become so bright that i cannot even see,
to find your hand, so that you can not leave,
winter whispers up my back, and swirls over your stomach,
my heart racing like it was two years ago,
i'd give up with one touch and melt into you forever,
having some trouble trying not to feel so alone without you,
i'll wrap my arms around you rest my head on your shoulder,
and wet your back with my tears,
can't seem to find a way to be happy,
your kiss comes to me again like it never left,
like my paralysis slips away at the touch of your lips,
because i've never felt, until i felt you,
i close my eyes and see us wrapped in a sheet of sleep,
to be yours and to have you forever,
letting go of so much and holding on to so little,
i make you a promise and open my hand,
i can wait for you to reach for me,
as i wet the ground with my tears
She's driving these nails of restless anti-submission into a head
full of the naive light of day
and then bury this ax with my name into the belly of the never ending stay
the torment refuses to lift off the ground
and the contradictions don't make a sound
until they're all just screaming at her
So take my heart and make it yours
this is the last thing I have left to give to you
So take my heart
I'm not doing anything with it, and I'm tired of being alive
It won't go on separated by a chasm of denial
someone is only one to us and maybe she will finally come to me
invitations written in violet over pale thin wrists
So we pretend we're so far apart when we're really arm in arm
she won't look at me
she feels my heartbeat the lips, the arms, the embrace
and the things she whispers in my ear
the letters mailed across the ocean
So take my heart and make it yours
this is the last thing I will ever give to you
So take my heart
I'm not doing anything with it and I'm tired of being alive
Then the eyes roll back
cast out by the gleaming lights
she was playing make believe
she was putting these scars on our hearts scars,
hearts, putting scars on our hearts
Shimmering sweat for the swollen shame that squeezes my lack of a stomach
I wish I was everything that you wanted when the plane took off
she didn't realize there was an absolute selfishness
wrapping strangling hands around her pale neck
to choke an adolescent out of her
and I started to weep as the glass just broke into so many shards around her
and I cried and walked in a circle behind her a million miles away my love,
my heart, where are the words to say?
because I am so tired, I am so tired today my love,
my heart where are the words to say?
Because I am exhausted, I am so tired today
The love letters that lead to bliss,
Embracing, youthful, love's first kiss,
Stops after school, the parents fooled,
Thinking they'll be home so soon,
She waits for him in parking lots and hallways everyday,
He smiles anticipating, thinking of the words to say.
Then it begins this absurd parade,
Such an unproductive way to behave,
The accusations are unending,
Tiring, no more listening,
I wish I never saw his name written on your notebook,
I wish I didn't break my neck to take another look,
I wish I never held your hand, I wish I never knew your name,
Or I just wish that from the day we met nothing ever, ever changed,
Then you put your hands on my face,
Pink roses and red valentine lace,
You're dancing like hot dripping wax,
Like your fingertips running up my back,
The truest parts of the feeling within skinned by insecurities in him,
will no longer retort to the truth,
This half-decade charace of wasted youth.
Yeah, yeah I'm dying.
Please don't say the words he screams, Please don't let me go,
Please don't cut me up again just to turn and go,
How many ways can I say I care?
Run my fingers through your silky hair,
Look up and see the pale skin of your back as you walk away again,
Look up and see the pale skin of your back as you walk away,
The ring's been set in the shape of her finger,
Still on and off the torment that lingers,
Going through and falling again,
Where are we going? Where have we been?
It's so much simpler then we make it,
Fearing the other one can fake it,
Tears and sweat and lips again,
I wonder if she'll stay with him,
The words we share are nothing short of inspired,
I love you's and I miss you's across a telephone wire,
She says she never thinks of another,
I wonder if she's a liar.
It turns my stomach every night
like scattering bats in disrupted flight
the idea of ideas and tired points to pierce the skin
little children lining up and losing all of their time
Losing all their time
I don't have the time for my own lifetime
when you blink my stay here is over
batting those long eyelashes, baby save yourself the trouble
And separate from this strangling cable
I have won victory over death
won like an automatic weapon
fingers itching, itching for my trigger
I am a firearm, a machine gun
Walk this tired planet, make sand castles in the tide
I am not my own, so I will not call this place my home
I do not belong to me, and I do not have a care to see
my hands reaching out for wind,
like you're reaching out for wind
Counting the days, counting the scars
counting the miles to get this far
and looking back at nothing, looking back at nothing
and I turn to look up at your flags laughing
thinking of how sad it is to see you capture butterflies in mason jars
I rip my rib cage open and proclaim, I belong to Christ
today i'll give up on you,
cause holding on to hope is something that seems hard to do.
nowadays hopelessness and i make a great team, we see eye to eye.
and this never ending cycle makes me sick.
it's what i've come to in this place, and i am what makes it.
it's getting harder to find the strength to go on,
when all the hope that linked us once and lived in me is gone.
my God, oh God,
i feel like i've died at least a thousand times.
and hopelessness is all that's real and all that is mine.
my insides feel so hollow as i gaze out of the car window,
the scenery could be moving or could be standing still.
what's the point in you or me, or anyone or anything?
all that this could mean to me...
i'm feeling tired and i'm ready to sleep.
it seems so surreal to think of now,
your love and those days seemed never ending.
it breaks me to think of now,
all this must end and won't have a new beginning.
one last thing before i go, is it safe to say that i'll always know,
happiness can't belong to me, and i can't let go... i give up.
once a memory was you in my arms, and a cold winters day.
once i knew i'd be all right.
now there's nothing left to say.
I was looking for you when I first heard the sirens
The ambulances filled the streets
The masses screamed and called for help
You were no where next to me
The soldiers came to round up the living
And take them away to somewhere that's safe
But if I cant find you there's no place to save me
If you are gone then its too late
Night turns to dawn, and dawn into day
And the land overflows with the dead
Where did I last hold you in my arms?
What was the last thing that you said?
Some hide underground, others hide in a mall
I still drag myself through the streets
I life without love my love isn't a life to me
I don't believe that love can rot away
So first aim for the heart, then aim for the head
I wept bitterly and then I threw up
Something silver washed up in my lap
This metal thing, your wedding ring
Brought all of the memories back
I remember the bite, and breaking my teeth
I remember choking it down
Eating your fingers one at a time
I left most of you there on the ground
And it's there that I find you, just as you were left
Writhing you rise to your feet
You come back to my side with very few insides
They're still strewn about on the street
I have heard it said that love endures all things
And now I know that its true
Stronger than the grave, death cant put it out
Here I am, the walking dead, still next to you
I don't believe that love can rot away
So first aim for the heart then aim for the head
If true love last forever, then love doesn't die
It just becomes the living dead
welcome to a dead end,
a wall stronger than you could ever imagine,
a breeze of things remembered only cuts like the desperation,
that gasps and gives up,
there is nowhere left to go,
and nothing left to lose,
we let ourselves inside become one disgusting skin,
closer than ever before,
held tighter when i release,
i taste the saline, and you cut my throat,
what a fantastic self portrait,
painted with nativity and blind hope with no vertebrae,
when i look to the canvas through an honest fog,
it is blank and empty like the inside of me,
i have bled all that i can,
stupid girl, you cut my throat and watched it run down,
crimson trails finding their way down my neck,
beautiful lady, don't let me go tonight,
we can go to sleep forever, we can go to sleep forever,
we are one person, we are, we are, one person,
and this story wrote itself,
when one tear rolls down my cheek, i'll look to you alone and i will seek,
a completion this life cannot offer me,
and rest in your arms where i long to be,
if you are not too ashamed of me,
if you are not too ashamed of me,
i have not met one expectation worth meeting,
i've disappointed, i let her down,
i let you down, i let me down, i failed
Sing with me child, as my ears are bleeding,
The dreams that have now seemed so fleeting,
Still your cradle, with no effort sways,
Where this monochromatic record is played,
And I€™ll purse my lips and blow kisses goodbye,
It€™s so easy if you never ask why,
My lungs will contract and give up a brief sigh,
Shall we say an appendage has finally died?
Or is it easier to go on with a smile,
With faltering ease, and talk for a while,
Words fall from your mouth and are lost on the floor,
And I can€™t go on singing anymore
Oh the tale you tell, oh the web that you€™ve spun,
And the salt that was sprinkled on the things you have done,
Makes the anger oh so sweet, makes the world fall at your feet,
Makes the pity that you pour over your head quite a treat,
So go ahead and cry, and go ahead and lie,
Begin every sentence that you vomit with €œI€?,
And then Jesus will forgive you, but oh what can I do,
To see if there€™s enough forgiveness left for me
But in all of Israel, father did you see someone who seeks himself so perfectly,
The Pharisees would be content at the sight of me,
The snakes would wrap around me and we€™d dance across the sea,
To ridicule you there and to spit upon your face,
Unsheathe this wicked tongue, and invite disgrace,
Isn€™t that the goal that I€™ve always pursued?
While I beg you, lord to be used for you
Under a light in Bethlehem I was sifting through the sand,
The saline burned my eyes, I was looking for your hand,
I gave up on myself, and left this pride disarmed,
I cried out €œI€™m alone!€? and found myself in your arms
Rest in me oh my love,
I have loved you before the world began,
Rest in me oh my love,
You will never to wander too far to reach my hand,
Did they not murder you?
Did they not see you die?
Hanging on a tree as the life had left your eyes,
Did we not torture you?
Smiling as you died,
Or is it that you killed death itself, and now you are alive?
I won€™t find you there, lying with yourself,
Sleep under a rock until your mouth is full of insects,
I won€™t look for you, praying to your ceiling,
Swallow every snake and sing of your mistakes,
Put lipstick on your mirror,
Cry into your hands
the children wear their faith like bracelets
their passion like a wreath of bones
a lumbering hydra with hardening heads
steam from its talons, liquid chrome
oh the children cling to peace
the light through the socket of your eye of glass
they hope and they perish in the fire
atrophied and situated at an impasse
bless the Lord, oh my soul!
the apple in your mouth
the worm that gnaws it down to the pit
the things you go without
born into a prison they can't escape
there's no escape, there's no escape
born into a prison they can't escape
the children stand in line and wait to take the medicine
conform their thoughts, espouse the doctrine, accept the
discipline
an animal scratches its back on a rock
against the planet's teeth, it subjugates the stone
the children, warped and genuflected
sometimes i feel broken
and there are things that i never say to anyone
like sometimes i don't feel rescued
and sometimes i don't believe you love me at all
when i allow myself the fantasy that i might have made
you proud
i feel ashamed
i honestly believe with all of my soul that you love
the whole world
just maybe not me
it's not that i feel overlooked or that you've done me
wrong
maybe at the end of the day, i just don't love myself
when i try to impress you i hate myself
and i could run better if i could stay on track
and every time i turn around, every time you welcome me
back
it's hard to love someone so big and be someone so
small
and i'm afraid that you're the one who thinks that i
don't love you at all
but i do
you rend the veil that hides your face
you speak light into the dark
you've beaten back the hoards of death
you tear their crowns apart
no more aching and crying
you lift the burden of my shame
no more breaking and dying
you remember my name
(i can see it coming:)
the ill and the affirmed leave their sickness behind
all disease is crushed in defeat
the shadows shrinking back, disappear in the light
the paralyzed rise to their feet
the broken and oppressed overflow with joy
the abused become royalty
darkness and despair are banished for good
and death can find no loyalty
the tormented see peace in the fading night
and all the brokenhearted feel their hearts begin to
mend
the lowercase gods are all crushed by the King
the hungry and the destitute will never go without
again
war and poverty are vanquished
no pain, no suffering, no dismay
evil, death and all their friends are forever washed
away
our faith in you will cry out for the day
our hope in you will not be misplaced
for now we see through a fogged piece of glass
but soon we will see face to face
you rend the veil that hides your face
you speak light into the dark
you've beaten down the hoards of death
you've torn their crowns apart
come Lord, come! let the last be first
wipe every tear from the face of the earth
put all wrongs to right
make everything new
