Stephen Hoffman + Band in Indianapolis, IN

I Want My God and I Want My Guns

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• Year 2011 | Album Three Cheers for the Firing Squad
• Genre Metal | Comments

  Lyrics and Music by Stephen Hoffman.
  Engineered and Produced by Stephen Hoffman
  Written and Recorded 2010-2011 at Architoa Studios in Indianapolis, Indiana.

  Lyrics:

  Lies! O victimless reapers;
  Weave in to night their cunning and sick illusion of Christ.
  Dire! O visionless dreamers;
  Blinded and sleepless.

  Anxious anticipation;
  And when death takes you,
  You’ll wish that life had been more precious
  (to you, won’t you?)

  Fire! We’ve burnt all your steeples;
  Engulfed in purifying flame.

  
Pray! No one is listening.
  Gray! Deadly and glistening;
  Dull glassy eyes judge human lives.
  Slay! Your God commands it.
  
(Take me home)

  Hypocrisy!

  I want my God and I want my guns
  To cling to.
  Pilgrims to the church of the atomic bomb:
  Bearing their crosses,
  Armed to the teeth.
  I want my God and my guns
  To cling to.
  (Religiously)
  I want my God and my guns
  To cling to.
  (Desperately)