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Moment of Silence

by Brimstøne

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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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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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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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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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A personal commentary on how the church abuses it's power and inflicts harm on society. This is about my struggle with calling myself a Christian within a system that can be so harmful.

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released April 16, 2021

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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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