Stop lying.

You feel some emotion you think is greater than yourself
and call it God.
oh, what if others want to feel it too?

make up a dogma of sin and retribution
instead of the simplicity
that your founder taught.

but what if they follow?
most people can trick themselves
into feeling something they really don't, you know.
self-deception is inherent in humanity.
if we saw the truth, we would tear out our eyes
and drive ourselves mad to forget it.

and when those few see the truth and stay intact,
we burn them and stone them,
and crucify them on long wooden posts.

if you can't trick yourself,
it's because you aren't trying hard enough.
You haven't accepted Him the right way,
you haven't prayed to Her the correct fashion.
it's all your fault, you see.

should we put them criss-cross through the belly,
or womanly, into the throat?

of course we aren't trying hard enough,
even when we did so hard we burst,
losing friends and family,
the loving god wants us to do that.
the loving god wants us to kill ourselves
in His name.

we're just poor pathetic sinners
god have mercy
god have mercy
even though we don't deserve to pray
god have mercy
god have mercy

we only beg, that we may recieve your peace
for when you are dying from lack of love,
and poisoned by absence of joy,
our free will and free minds are such little things
to sacrifice on a burning bush.

am i here? or am i an illusion?
when will I find peace?
not here
not now
not ever.