For The Love Of God
Wrap yourself in cotton wool and call it Sunday best
Splendid clothes for little sheep no different East or West
Let's go sing a hymn or two to put our minds at rest
Let's go start to sin again just after we’ve confessed
It’s just not right
It’s just not right
Let's formulate a method to make sure they keep our rules
Let's dictate, indoctrinate in churches and in schools
Let's threaten them with hellfire at the age of four or five
Let's breed neurotic vegetables who’re scared to be alive
It’s just not right
It’s just not right
Don’t ever dream that you’ll be more than second best
You just can’t win - It’s just the way they set the test
They only want to hear what puts their minds at rest
It’s just not right
It’s just not right
So I can get to Heaven but I’ll have to earn my way ?
I must trade in my principles or there’ll be Hell to pay
I offer up my intellect and let you take control
To fuck my head with promises of how to save my soul
It’s just not right
It’s just not right
So talk to me about spacetime and the singularity ?
It may not mean that much to you - It means a lot to me
Guess its just confuses things the way that you perceive
Guess its just the reason why I never could believe
It’s just not right
It’s just not right
(Vocal Boo Boo on Recording :))
And somewhere down the line from cradle to the grave
You realise that you just took but never gave
That’s when you cry “Hey Jesus Christ I’m just a sinner -
Won’t you save me ?”
It's funny how each enemy keeps God upon their side
To vindicate the slaughter and to justify the pride
To put a bullet through your brain - To claim that’s its divine
To kill and maim in Jesus’ name is just and good and fine
It’s just not right
It’s just not right
So take a look around your world and see what it has caused
This misinterpretation of your fundamental laws
From Bethlehem to Babylon - From Belfast to Beirut
We overcome and undermine and trample underfoot
It’s just not right
It’s just not right
Don’t even try to think that you can mask the pain
In faith - A mind disease for those without a brain
Say “Hallelujah ! Jesus ! Mary !
Won’t you save me once again ?”
Wrap yourself inside your faith
Your God will keep you nice and safe
A drug to keep your mind disguised
Oblivious - anaesthetized
Faith is just a mask of fear
Deep down you know that nothing’s clear
So say a prayer and make your deal
It may just help - If Hell is real
For the love of God ?
For the love of God ?
For the love of God ?
For the love of God ?
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