Gospel of the Flesh Lyrics

Far from the transcendent above
From almighty Father and the Logos thereof
Far from the purest thought and idea
Removed from the concept of divinity…

Are the things that we see
Are you and me
And what we perceive…
Is all we believe, what we can touch, what we can feel

The blood that we bleed
The lives that we lead
Mundane in the eyes of the noble breed
The joys of our bodies
The ways of our lusts
Will remain in this world as your fortunes rust

With the things that we see
Like you and me
And what we perceive…
Is all we believe, what we can touch, what we can feel

Paper is just paper and paper will burn
What paper conserves is quickly unlearned
Wood is just wood and wood will ignite
What wood has sheltered it can set alight

Paper is paper and paper will burn
Like the wisdoms we unlearned
Wood is wood and wood will ignite
The fire spread among bench rows set alight
Burn, the benches, the cross the book
Nature reclaiming what they took
BURN

They stole the knowledge
They forged their own God
They wrote it all down, abstracting deities from their objects
Corrupting the wisdom
Became their own Gods
They wrote it all down, his-story rewritten
They stole the knowledge
And thus they forgot
The divinity that resides in the human breast

Amongst what we see
In you and me
And what we perceive
Is all we believe, what we can touch, what we can feel
The things that we see / We are deprived We are deranged We are the have-nots
you and me / We have been robbed of the world inside our mind
From what we perceive / We are enslaved we are tied up into their slipknots
But all we believe is what we can see, what we can touch and what we can feel

As the flames lick the ceiling
Of their holiest inner rooms
The shadows are licked by the flames revealing
My smile and laughter as vengeance looms

BURN! Burn to the ground!
BURN! Let it burn down!
BURN! the benches
BURN! the book
BURN! the cross
And reclaim what they took
BURN!