Blasphemy

Album: That's the Spirit (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • This cynical song is about people that will not let go of their beliefs, even though they don't actually believe them. Oli Sykes explained to Kerrang: "What they preach contradicts what they know to be true, but they won't turn the back on it – maybe because they feel responsible to carry it on. It makes no sense to me!"
  • Sykes explained that the lyric, "You've got hell to pay but you've already sold your soul," is "basically trying to explain the mindf--k of people who tend to believe in something, because they're scared of the unknown. If these powers that be existed, they'd know you were full of s--t anyway."

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