Tradition has perpetuated: culture has mangled
A system of belief and in its web we are tangled
Two thousand year old guidance in the modern age
Morally infallible: unquestioning standard
And of the prayers that go unanswered
Mysterious ways or something less comforting?
Life after death, I don’t buy it
I’d rather be empty than full of shit
I’d rather be cynical, and unsurprised
Than realize I’ve been living a lie
If you do something out of the fear of god
Then the god is dead, it’s just a cattle prod
To keep the masses mindset where it needs to be, for
A necessary leader a play on power
Together straw men build a tower
To be torn down for the benefit of one
Life after death, I don’t buy it
I’d rather be empty than full of shit
I’d rather be cynical and unsurprised
Than realize I’ve been living a lie
My whole life
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