Built To Fall

Mystical, hysterical
Radical, tyrannical
Cynical, the pinnacle
The pitiful in their pretty wool
The gravitas, the lives we've lost
Sign your cross to pay the cost
You bend the knee quite shakily
And break my heart so tenderly

The ringing bells that tell the tales
Empires rise, empires fail
Charity, catastrophe
The past decree, let the bastards be
Hold me now and hold me down
Cut me with your thorny crown
And bleed me out, let the children shout
So they can see what we're all about

Walls were built to fall
Our gods and alcohol
I refuse the call
Walls were built to fall

Mystery, conspiracy
Surrounding me in groups of three
The trinity that sits with me
And pours my tea in symmetry
Breaks my bread and keeps my stead
They watch the blood fall from my head
And gather like a shadow grows
Upon my pillow, fills my nose

Until no longer breath I feel
The horse, it bucks and breaks the wheel
Laughter rise like clouds of dust
We turn to heroin, to lust
And rush the pope with veils and sheaths
Scream heresy, bring forth the beast
And lead us to our vaunted fate
With bones as beggars dirty plates

Fill the streets with rotten meats
With a fallen angel wings defeat
Bleary eyes terrorize
The blindness of our mortal lies
Injurious, spurious, incurious
In God, we trust
To once again cut down our foes
We fill our pails as darkness grows

Walls are built to fall
Our gods and alcohol
I refuse the call
Walls were built to fall

I sit in Bodhisattva robes
The serpent with the servant rose
And hung him in his filthy clothes
The swollen holes sung songs for those
Who never had a chance to rise
The golden light of dawn's demise
The wind, it lashes, shakes the steel
Impales the pines with pain, we feel

Idolatry, the policy
The coliseum, spawned by greed
The common creed, the prophecies
The dying mother's final pleas
My child, my child
Why can't we know the promised land
Where we were told
Would keep up safely from the cold?
Forbidden cities paved with gold

But as I keep you at my breast
And guide you to eternal rest
With feral faith, I'll stalk the key
And face the feckless Pharisee
To keep your name in full, I'll fight
I'll follow you into the light
Forever in my mournful state
I'll rush my death to crash the gate

Walls were built to fall
Gods and alcohol
I refuse the call
Walls were built to fall
Walls were built to fall