Subject: Religion
BIBLE BELT GUN SHOW
Who knew putting up a fight
Meant putting on a show
One too many times in court
And now you've got to go
All crowd around the golden calf
Commander-dolt-in-chief
As he's led away in handcuffs
To their shock and disbelief
chorus:
Bible Belt gun show
It keeps them entertained
The politics that fools and tricks
The bored and addled brained
Bible Belt gun show
You showed them who's in charge
How fast you go from cult hero
To fugitive at large
Bible Belt gun show (Jesus in camo)
Bible Belt gun show (scripture meets ammo)
Bible Belt gun show (backwoods G.I. Joe)
Bible Belt gun show (Jehovah to bravo)
It was one long heart attack
From Clinton through Obama
Subjecting every tortured soul
To all your needless drama
Lashing twisted tongues
Grotesque legal contortions
Ratchet up the crazy
To unheard of proportions
Condemn the un-American
And make your little speech
As you peddle your religion
Borrowed from the Middle East
Guns going into Starbucks
On family Christmas cards
Popping up in campaign ads
Like victims in graveyards
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You got the nurses, the teachers
The school boards on the run
What was it you were saying
Mister good guy with a gun?
You claimed it's for your self-defense
Claimed it's for protection
As you crowd around the ballot box
To shoot out an election
Got you foaming at the mouth
At their Pavlovian bell
A little neural programming
And you're angry as all hell
Boycott the social sites
Boycott the NFL
Drive those lizard-brain resentments
Into every gun they sell
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RECYCLE & REPAIR
When it comes to Evolution
They sow the seeds of doubt
But when the subject turns to God
They know Him inside out
And so they stand self-righteously
Refusing to be moved
God is not up for debate
But the Big Bang must be proved
Cue the quantum flux
And cosmic permutations
Countering the text
Of ancient incantations
chorus:
All the living left for dead - hope springs eternal still -
If a god won't resurrect us the Cosmos surely will
No fate to fear forever, no permanent despair
The Universe will rectify, recycle and repair
By way of healing recipes hatched in stewing galaxies
Pulling life out of thin air and exotic atmospheres
Religion claims monopoly
On all of resurrection
But the forces that give rise to life
Remain a burning question
Creationists insist that it's
Intelligent design
But if it's not, the matter moves
To just the work of Time
Elemental forms
Spur physical attractions
Activating bonds
Spark chemical reactions
(chorus)
bridge:
Perhaps in their own way each side is correct
And maybe in truth we are wasting our breath
Religion and science might both intersect
In no better way than transcendence of death
(chorus)
The Universe will rectify, recycle and repair
By way of secret recipes born in stewing galaxies
Breathing life out of thin air and exotic atmospheres
VIEWER DISCRETION
Tripping over themselves they granted a god
Unlimited access to our souls
Promising Heaven but delivering Hell
Confession of sins as the camera rolls
It's Judgment Day come rule on Earth
But uncensored and more televised
This world they've created is Heaven x-rated
And viewer discretion is advised
chorus:
Inundated by conspiracies online
In a useless Information Age
Strangulated via digitized grapevine
Killing time in a cold-blooded rage
They cling to a stage where a god can judge us
Without our approval or defense
Where according to some what would Jesus do
Is pass judgment under false pretense
And it's Judgment Day, make no mistake
Now in session and secularized
This world they've created is Heaven x-rated
And viewer discretion is advised
(chorus)
Secret conversation
Lurid escapade
(And the camera...)
Useless information
Picked up and relayed
(And the camera rolls)
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