Nailed

I’ve been working for my whole life to get to the other side

And try to achieve true righteousness

All the scourges and whips I cracked

The flesh I ripped off my back

It only led me to emptiness

Here I am, a broken man who’s done all that a man could do

And found that it’s only filthy rags

Monasteries, religious schools, indulgences, laws and rules

It all added up to nothing and darkness and death

Vanity, heartache, and emptiness

Efforts all fading away

The flesh and defeat that it brings

Till You guide me and show me things

That my eyes have never seen before

As I burst forth from the belly of the beast

Never fight it anymore

For the burden on my life has been released

Nail it to the door

Nailed these ninety-five things I’ve learned

They’ll say that I must be burned

For God has no place for heretics

All the things that they try to sell

It’s trickery straight from Hell

To turn it into a den of thieves

See these madmen peddling the wares of dead men’s souls

Collecting on a debt already paid so long ago

There’s fire in my spirit, and fire in their eyes

For now they’ll want to burn me alive

Yet freedom rings

Unworthiness is all I bring

The blood of Christ is all I claim

This grace revealed everything

That my eyes have never seen before

As I burst forth from the belly of the beast

Never fight it anymore

For the burden on my life has been released

Nail it to the door