Heretics And Killers

Album: Kezia (2005)
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  • They called me the man with the blood of Christ honesty
    But tonight I drink with heathens and the finest of our blasphemies

    In wine there's truth but in silence there's surrender
    A screaming for the silence in stunned suspicious terror
    Built a temple in my life and used God to seal the pillars
    After twenty years of fighting young heretics and killers
    I watch my temple fall to pieces at the first signs of oncoming weather
    Fell to my knees just like Jesus in the cave, knew I would die
    But my lips could only; I am not your son, so why have you forsaken me?
    There's a hole in my heart but it just makes me unholy
    Crucified that night and walked away with alter-egos
    Like the prison priest who preached his dead and buried gospel

    While my faith is in ruins my duty breathes strong
    I'm a parrot in a cage saying prayers to belong to a textbook
    Of my crying, lying, dying history; a time so full of life that I was anything but me Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Varrick from Plano, TxMr. Chase from Ottawa Canada is a mislead imbecile. If he would listen to the words more the music, then he would know that the song explains that a priest regardless of how many years of service he gives to the lord can still fall. The song basically says that whether your a preacher, minister, or a priest; you are no different from the regular sinner. In the lyrics it reads "my faith is in ruins, but my duty still runs strong." meaning the "priest may question his faith or God's Direct Orders but still does what he is told to do regardless.
  • Chase from Ottawa, CanadaThis song is the second song by the prison priest in the album. In the first song he was finding out how god died. In this song he is realizing what a waste his life was. He's been worshiping god his whole life and now he's dead, god is not supposed to be able to die. Everything in his beliefs was a lie.
    Bible = Textbook of a crying lying dying history.
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