Heretics And Killers

Album: Kezia (2005)
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  • They call me the man with the blood of Christ honesty
    But tonight (tonight we'll sleep as killers)
    I drink with heathens and our, our finest blasphemies
    (As we break the cryptic, as we break the cryptic)

    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)
    I fell to my knees, just like
    Jesus in the cave
    Jesus in the cave
    Jesus in the cave
    I knew I would die, but my lips could only say
    "I'm 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 I walked away with alter-egos
    Prison preacher preaches his dead and buried gospel

    With my faith in ruins my duty still breathes strong
    I'm a parrot in a cage just singing prayers to belong

    Textbook of a crying, lying, dying history
    Textbook of a crying, lying, dying history
    Textbook of my crying (crying)
    A textbook of my lying (lying)
    A textbook of my dying (dying)
    A textbook of my history Writer/s: Arif Mirabodlbaghi, Lucas Hoskin, Morgan Carlson, Rody Walker, Tim Millar
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • 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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