Cross of Babylon

Caught in the crossfire, Sentenced to faith

Coercive deliverance, A despotic fate

Shouldering burdens from one to the next

No hour of penance can lay you to rest

Forgo saturated establishment lies

The proliferation of truth they disguise

From out of the darkness of hope it is lost

In belief you are trapped like the open deceiver

To be heard you must plead like the weakened disciple's run

On your knees you are taught to beseech you deliverer

Only time that is lost as the darkness encroaches

Cross of babylon - Burning skies of blackened wisdom

Cross of babylon - Secrecy and mass derision

Cross of babylon - Harbinger imagination

Cross of babylon - Soldier of annihilation

Forced euphemistic perversion of truth

Engendered malignance no hope of rebuke

Trapped confrontation, Insidiously

Killing for peace in the land of the free

Judgement abundance, Provoking consent

The failures of greed not the failures of man

In wounds of sorrow, Or pitiless death

Beyond sight of mercy,and bold existence

In deceit you are sworn like the brutal dictator

To be seen you must plead to the prejudice seeker's gun

On your feet you are taught to destroy your ideals

Only life that is lost as the darkness approaches

Cross of babylon - Burning skies of blackened wisdom

Cross of babylon - Secrecy and mass derision

Cross of babylon - Harbinger imagination

Cross of babylon - Soldier of annihilation