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Persecution Complex
03:23
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If you need lawful protection
To carry out your ill intentions
Your words and actions do more harm than good.
You're not holy you're sick
You fein persecution
Yet you hold all the power.
You claim to be oppressed
When you are the oppressor.
The victimizer
So often plays the victim
No sympathy when the boot strikes
Nobody cries for the viper
Tread on them
Not on me
I'll kiss the ground
Before thee
Tread on them
Not on me
My way is righteous
They are wrong
Shut up
For far too long you've enabled the problem
Turned blind eyes to injustice
It doesn't matter cause it doesn't affect you
perpetuate the violence.
No sympathy
For those who have fought tooth and nail far too long
To make others feel inhuman like they do not belong
To maintain the status quo
Even though it only kills
God's wrath exists for people like you.
Nobody's taking your rights away
It isn't your right
To invalidate existence
Or cast judgement yourself.
You're not carrying out God's will
Your bastardizing his word.
You turn people away from him
For your will be done on earth.
God doesn't hear you for the blood on your hands
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Lesser Angry Gods
03:01
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I do not bow
To lesser angry God's
So when you tell me
I'm going to hell
I do not take you seriously.
I do not fear your disapproval.
If you're your own God
And give yourself authority.
That's really cute but my God's
So much bigger than you.
And he'll be the one to cast
our final judgment.
You can't nullify the Blood of Christ.
To try and do so is blasphemy.
The unforgivable sin
I do not recognize your judgement.
You're out for blood.
When Jesus came to give his.
I do not answer to you
I do not bow to you
You can't redeem
How could you?
Who will redeem you?
I do not fear your disapproval
You will not cast my final judgment.
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We are a factory
That produces fear.
A fear that infects
Grown throughout the years.
You decide the sin
And then point your fingers.
You gnash your teeth
You speak out in anger.
And people die
We are a power house
And our disdain
Works it's way into the fabrics
Of culture.
Ends up in the minds of religious zealots.
Who take their guns and perform God's mission.
Violence becomes acceptable.
When the victims an abomination.
We paint the target, we aim the gun.
Then people die from our own infection.
It is clear that we have a problem.
A cancer growing now for far too long
I believe in the separation
The separation of church and Hate.
Hell hath no fury
Like the self righteous
Hell hath no fury
Like the scared and misguided.
Hell hath no fury
Like the self righteous
Hell hath no fury like those
Who wield the sword
And hold it to necks.
Another victim of our infection
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Christofascist
02:49
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We've existed for so long
Within systems of coercion
Intimidation and violence
And toying with emotions.
Your influence has been effective
But have you done any good?
You've aligned yourselves with
The heavy handed aggressors
Uphold the state
And the violence it creates
Uphold your leaders
Like they're some sort of Gods
Uphold the systems
Deny the oppression
And sleep well at night
While you're enemies suffer
Pledging allegiance
Every morning in school
To a country built on backs
Of enslaved people.
That continues to give power
To the selfish and greedy
While we're lead to believe
We are God's chosen country.
Suppress the voices
Of the heathens.
Democracy is only for the chosen.
Asylum for Nazis and call it free speech.
Extinguish any hope for the revolutionary.
Breast fed by fear mongers
Enemies demonized
Taught to fear
Those who challenge authority
Lick the fascist's boots clean
Obey your true masters
as they trample thee
Manipulate your emotions
Tell you it's God's will
So you follow blindly
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5. |
Moment of Silence
07:50
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It seems that I may
Have turned into the thing I most hate
Am I still close to you?
I once died
and was made brand new
By the love experienced from you
But now
Here I am.
Plagued with words.
Of anger and spite
things I thought
I left behind.
I know that you are mercy and love
I know thats what is expected from me.
How can I worship the same God
That calls others to be so cruel?
Maybe they aren't really listening,
Maybe they aren't really hearing you.
But who am I to say that their convictions are wrong?
These conflictions they tear me apart.
And so
Here I am
Plagued with words
Of anger and spite
Things I thought
I left behind.
It's hard to worship in the world these days.
With all the quarreling all the disdain
It's hard to worship and lord I pray
For a moment of silence to heal this heartache.
It's hard to worship through all this noise
To really listen and know your voice.
It's hard to worship and lord I pray
For a moment of silence to heal this heartache.
I'm dissociating again.
I'm pushing myself away again.
Bring me back.
Bring me back into your embrace.
I need courage and I need to face.
This world so full of injustice.
But I need to see clearly the road,
That you have laid out for me,
Lord please show and guide me,
I've never felt the need
To pray so strongly for something.
Lord help me stay righteous
Let your words be spoken through me.
Let me be a light into this world.
And cast out the darkness.
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Brimstøne Huntersville, North Carolina
Christian leftist hardcore/ metal/ punk solo project or of North Carolina
Mark 12: 28-31
Micah 6: 8
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