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Be moral

Be good

Live small and understood

Say this line, erect nice walls

Don’t speak too loud or stand too tall

Don’t rattle the bars or spill the juice

Smile and wear this religious noose

I’m warning you, we’ll run you through

Don’t go too far and chase that star

Look here do this there’s nothing you’ll miss

It’s a different size when you hold the prize

Through telescopes some cold dark hope

Recycled vomit speaks again

A substitute to speak of sin

The heart of God exploding outside

But you’re sitting here in the shallow lie

What are you doing? I made you for more

To shout and to dance, be wild, explore!

Where are the people longing for me?

Why did you leave me for watered down tea?

You took fire and snuffed it, some carcass and stuffed it

That wasn’t my body you’re preserving with care

Your actions as empty as spoon feeding air

A day is soon coming when all good intentions

When all of the Hallmarks and well meaning lessons

They bow down to ashes beneath the King’s sashes

You’ll understand grace and the meaning of haste

He’s letting us go till our hearts overthrow

The bleak church games we’ve maintained

The preaching to look sane but beneath the makeup

Immoral blood erupts

Terrified of what’s inside

We can’t expose our ugly hide

So keep it nice, just wink and smile

Secretly wasted in hopeless denial

I’ll never tell my soul’s not well

Held captive by the bonds of hell

Soldiers rise let out your cries

Expose your hearts no compromise

Can’t go to war and live the lie

An airbrushed soul won’t last the night

It’s time to rise and hear the call

It’s time to leave our pretty walls

The winds are coming you can’t go running

A tree without root will get robbed with the loot

Come and see the good fruit

Step out of that soot

Remove that tight muzzle

I’ve solved your strange puzzle

Jesus Christ my only salvation

Not a cartoon stamp or a fuzzy sensation

The hero of power, the only strong tower

To outlast the day of the well meaning way

His mighty ship will sail on new waters

Of pure roads hand shaped by the Father of potters

Do we want our great answer?

Or just settle for cancer?

Do we want to be healed? Our dark hearts now revealed?

I’ll just camp out in peace signs

and drink down my fine wine

While people are dying to smiling priests lying

Through new polished teeth as they hang their white wreath

On their nice Christian package inside see the wreckage

Come on let Him salvage the things we can’t fix

Release all control of the leashes and sticks

You can’t keep these pets they’re all going to get wet

And soon they will drown when the storm comes to town

It’s time to set free all the things you won’t see

Set fire to stone

Don’t leave love alone

It’s time to worship the One on the throne

Abandon your models you’ve carved and you’ve coddled

I must choose to move from Lie to Ascension

Or else its just death

By my ten good intentions