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
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 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
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 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
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 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