Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses)

One by one, the young will fall

Indoctrinating process growing

Some too weak to fight at all

Who controls their future?

God above, or God below

Questions no one can answer

Live the truth, or die to know

It's my agnostic vision

Jews killing Muslims, and Christians killing Jews

The circle is unending, and all sides always lose

If faith is blind devotion, then death is the result

When history is rotten

The young and pure grow dead and cold

I don't need a book for saving

Fellowship or days of praying

Organizing means dilution

And results in persecution

Through it all I keep a vision

Understand what I believe in

Truth is not the faith you follow

It's far more than you can ever know

Religion, the burden we carry forth

Mankind, addicted--the drug spreads on

Paranoia eats all reason

Driving their crusading mission

Zealotry from Rome to Mecca

Millions more become infected

God cannot be mass-projected

Or beaten out through forced confessions

It's for all of us to ponder

Not for dogmas chains to hold us down (down, down, down, down)

Wake up, and put the past where it belongs

Just beat them back till they are gone

'Cause their doctrines lead to misery

Their prophets preaching fantasy

How can they hold themselves above the rest?

From holy birth to martyrs death

The moral quest for life beyond

It's just a pipe dream for the paranoid

The empty words of holy books

Will mislead all those that read

Buried in the lines of text

Are the myths that feed their needs

Born from the flesh, just like all earth down below

Which came from a life form we can never know

Pray for a world that only God above can save?

The church is the reason why they lost their way

Crusades and Inquisitions, holy wars, Jihad

They are the willing victims of a grand facade

Above it all, the lies are told

The masses follow without question

First to die, or last to go

I know my convictions

Flesh and blood, and spirit life

The trinity of my perception

Dead awake, or sleeping dead

We will find out in the end