Favorite Anti-Christian songs?

[Guest bdp]

Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) - The The

 

Are you ready for Jesus?

Uh huh

Buddha?

Yeah

Muhammad?

Ok

Well, I like this

Let's Go

 

They're 5 miles high as the crow flies

Leaving vapour trails against a blood red sky

Moving in from the East towards the West

With Balaclava helmets over their heads, yes

 

But if you think that Jesus Christ is coming

Honey you've got another thing coming

If he ever finds out who's hi-jacked his name

He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave

 

Islam is rising

The Christians mobilising

The world is on its elbows and knees

It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

 

It's war, she cried

It's war, she cried

This is war

Drop your possessions all you simple folk

You'll fight them on the beaches in your underclothes

You'll thank the good Lord for raising the Union Jack

You'll watch the ships sail out of harbour

And the bodies come floating back

Watch the ships sail out of harbour

And the bodies come floating back

 

But if you think that Jesus Christ is coming

Honey you've got another thing coming

If he ever finds out who's hi-jacked his name

He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave

 

Islam is rising

The Christians mobilising

The world is on its elbows and knees

It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

 

"Get the gun, get the gun, get the gun"

"Stay away from the gun, stay away from the gun"

 

If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today

He'd be gunned down cold by the CIA

Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass

Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart

But God didn't build himself that throne

God doesn't live in Israel or Rome

God doesn't belong to the yankee dollar

God doesn't plant the bombs for Hezbollah

God doesn't even go to church

And God won't send us down to Allah to burn

God will remind us what we already know

That the human race is about to reap what it's sown

 

Islam is rising

The Christians mobilising

The world is on its elbows and knees

It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

 

The world is on its elbows and knees

It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

The world is on its elbows and knees

It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

The world is on its elbows and knees

It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

 

Armageddon days are here again

Armageddon days are here again

Armageddon days are here again

Armageddon days are here

 

and Marily Manson did do a cover version of 'Personal Jesus.'

 

bdp

[pandora]

I love Tori Amos.  Did you know she is a PK?  (PK = preacher's kid)

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Yep, which makes her lyrics all the more insightful. Her songs were a great comfort to me when I was in the transition phase.

 

She's mellowed out a bit and I don't like the new stuff as much, but her music is still beautiful in a twisted sort of way.

[LloydDobler]

First one I love is 'Prayer' by Disturbed. It's so fitting of the realities of faith. The chorus just drips with mockery and I love it. It's as if to say 'cmon mother fucker is that the best you've got?' ala LT. Dan in Forrest Gump.

 

Another dream that will never come true

Just to compliment your sorrow

Another life that I've taken from you

A gift to add on to your pain and suffering

Another truth you can never believe

Has crippled you completely

All the cries you're beginning to hear

Trapped in your mind, and the sound is deafening

 

Let me enlighten you

This is the way I pray

Living just isn't hard enough

Burn me alive inside

Living my life's not hard enough

Take everything away

 

Another nightmare about to come true

Will manifest tomorrow

Another love that I've taken from you

Lost in time, on the edge of suffering

Another taste of the evil I breed

Will level you completely

Bring to life everything that you fear

Live in the dark, and the world is threatening

 

Let me enlighten you

This is the way I pray

Living just isn't hard enough

Burn me alive, inside

Living my life's not hard enough

Take everything away

 

Then there's King's X, which used to be a christian band and still has christian members. They struggle with deconversion as evidenced by their lyrics still:

 

'Lies in the sand'

 

There's a man, who says there is a light in the sky

All my friends say he's telling a lie

But he speaks with such passion, that I have to think about it.

 

And his hands, well they tremble as he points it out

But I can't see what it's all about

And the voices of many are singing along it seems

 

Is it all something new? And will I see it too?

Or is this just continuing man?

Throughout all history, claiming they all can see,

but the evidence falters just short of my hand...

 

And there are lies in the sand.

 

There's a man, who says he was a satanic beast

And the many were there at his feet

And he scared all the people, 'cause he was just what we want.

 

Is it all something new? And will I see it too?

Or is this just continuing man?

Throughout all history, claiming they all can see,

but the evidence falters just short of my hand...

 

And there are lies in the sand.

 

There are things that will surely seem as they are not

And I might not know all that I've got

But the bluffing is easy, and I haven't seen your hand...

 

That one makes me weep most of the time. I so badly wanted to believe.

[Ophy]

As for Tori, there's a song on her newest CD called "Marys of the Sea". The one of the best lines in it (talking about Chrisitanity) says, "Hey! You built a rock that's on sand".

 

Her newest CD (The Beekeeper) is her best one in a LONG time... check it out. Plus, there are lots of juicy religion references.

[Ouroboros]

Hi Ophy, and welcome to the site!

 

Hope to see many posts.

[Mr. Neil]

There's this one Black Sabbath song called "I Witness". Really a weird song that, had they not explicitly written an anti-religious verse, I would have no idea what it was about.

 

I Witness

 

Across the desert of the burning dark,

A darkness which illuminates you,.

There's a place you've always wanted to be,

Whose pleasures always did escape you.

It's always been so out of reach,

Nothing so near ever felt so far.

And now it's here within your grasp,

A never ending burning says it all.

 

As you drive into the darkness,

In front the future, behind you history.

Caught alone in the dark night,

Do you think that's the way it's supposed to be?

You don't believe your eyes,

Cos all you see is lies. Oh yeah!

 

You better run from the holy man.

The eyes that will are set upon you.

Listen not to verse and prayer,

Songs that thrill and voices tempt you.

The inner flame has fear of death,

Never has light ever seemed so dark.

Pilgrims of sabbocracy,

Hear the hounds of Heaven as they bark!

 

As you drive into the darkness,

In front the future, behind you history.

Caught alone in the dark night,

Do you think that's the way it's supposed to be?

You don't believe your eyes,

Cos all you see is lies.

 

I witness a time and a place that never dies,

Still frozen in time.

This darkness, the only place that I can hide,

I witness a dream.

[Merlinfmct87]

Well, I think everyone here knows NIN cold, so I won't quote them. Did come across this little gem last night... It's by Dire Straits, song title is "Industrial Disease" off the "Love over Gold" album.

 

Warning lights are flashing down at quality control

Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole

There’s rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town

Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down

There’s a meeting in the boardroom they’re trying to trace the smell

There’s leaking in the washroom there’s a sneak in personnel

Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze

’goodness me could this be industrial disease?

 

The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post

They’re refusing to be pacified it’s him they blame the most

The watchdog’s got rabies the foreman’s got fleas

And everyone’s concerned about industrial disease

There’s panic on the switchboard tongues are ties in knots

Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots

Some blame the management some the employees

And everybody knows it’s the industrial disease

 

The work force is disgusted downs tools and walks

Innocence is injured experience just talks

Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees

That these are ’classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze’

On itv and bbc they talk about the curse

Philosophy is useless theology is worse

History boils over there’s an economics freeze

Sociologists invent words that mean ’industrial disease’

 

Doctor parkinson declared ’I’m not surprised to see you here

You’ve got smokers cough from smoking, brewer’s droop from drinking beer

I don’t know how you came to get the betty davis knees

But worst of all young man you’ve got industrial disease’

He wrote me a prescription he said ’you are depressed

But I’m glad you came to see me to get this off your chest

Come back and see me later - next patient please

Send in another victim of industrial disease’

 

I go down to speaker’s corner I’m thunderstruck

They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks

Two men say they’re jesus one of them must be wrong

There’s a protest singer singing a protest song - he says

’they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees

They wanna have a war to keep their factories

They wanna have a war to stop us buying japanese

They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease

They’re pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind

They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind

They give you rule brittania, gassy beer, page three

Two weeks in espana and sunday striptease’

Meanwhile the first jesus says ’I’d cure it soon

Abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons’

The other one’s on a hunger strike he’s dying by degrees

How come jesus gets industrial disease

 

Good satire... lots of double entendre's here.

 

Merlin

[Guest Hida Bukkorosu]

The Great Disappointment by AFI... my interpretation of the lyrics is they're about deconversion anyway...

 

I can remember a place I used to go

Chrysanthemums of white, they seemed so beautiful

I can remember, I searched for the amaranth

I'd shut my eyes... to see

 

Oh, how I smiled then, so near the cherished ones

I knew they would appear... saw not a single one

Oh, how I smiled then, waiting so patiently

I'd make a wish... and bleed

 

While I waited I was wasting away

While I waited I was wasting away

 

I can remember... dreamt them so vividly

Soft creatures draped in white, light kisses gracing me

I can remember when I first realized

Dreams were the only place to see them

 

While I waited I was wasting away

While I waited I was wasting away

While I waited I was wasting away

Hope was wasting away

Faith was wasting away

I was wasting away

 

I never, never wanted this

I always wanted to believe

I never, never wanted this

How could I have become?

I never, never wanted this

But from the start I'd been deceived

I never, never wanted this

How could I have become?

 

I never, never wanted this

I always wanted to believe

I never, never wanted this

I never, never wanted this

But from the start I'd been deceived

I never, never wanted this

 

Inside a crumbling effigy

But you promised

So dies all innocence

But you promised me

 

While I waited I was wasting away

While I waited I was wasting away

While I waited I was wasting away

Hope was wasting away

Faith was wasting away

I was wasting away

[Fweethawt]

How 'bout this timely classic from

Lady Pitchu and the Bitchslaps.

 

Jesus loves me

this I know

for the bible

tells me so.

 

Songs like this

have been designed

just for fucking up

my mind.

[Guest JP1283]

Is AFI anti-Christian? My brother and his wife listen to them all the time, and they're Christians.

[Ophy]

Hi Ophy, and welcome to the site!

 

Hope to see many posts.

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Thanks for the welcome, HanSolo. I've been a ghost on the message boards for a little while, and finally got around to joining. My kind of people around here...

 

Another Tori Amos "blasphemous" song is called Icicle. It's actually about masturbating in church.

 

Icicle, icicle where are you going?

I have a hiding place when spring marches in

will you keep watch for me

I hear them calling

gonna lay down

gonna lay down

 

greeting the monster in our Easter dresses

Father says bow your head like the Good Book says

well I think the Good Book is missing some pages

gonna lay down

 

and when my hand touches myself

I can finally rest my head

and when they say take from His body

I think I'll take from mine instead

 

getting off, getting off, while they're all downstairs

singing prayers, sing away, he's in my pumpkin p.j's

lay your book on my chest

feel the word

feel the word

feel the word

feel it

 

I could have

I should have

I could have flown

you know I could have

I should have

I didn't

So?

[DeathWorship]

"The Arrival Of Satan's Empire" by Dark Funeral

 

The unholy war, when Satan's demons are smeared in blood.

Feathers fall from angel wings, from the sky.

Father Satan gather your legions, it is time to claim your throne.

The arrival of your dominion, so long been gone.

So gather now my legions, it is time to fight for our lord.

Hail Satan, scream the masses, smeared in angel's blood.

 

Lords of war, the wings of twelve, open all the gates.

Fly high into the canopy; bring to me the head of god.

Hell lord, unholy father.

Your wish is my command.

I will cut the liar throat; Christian blood will fall to the ground.

 

Demon legions, fly through the gates.

Into the darkened sky.

Held up high, the spears of evil.

As they run, through angels flesh.

They scream out in pain, as they see their kingdom fall.

Angel tears fall to the ground, as Satan again will reign.

 

Lords of war, the wings of twelve, open all the gates.

Fly high into the canopy; bring to me the head of god.

Hell lord, unholy father.

Your wish is my command.

I will cut the liar throat; Christian blood will fall to the ground.

[Guest WhatIsTruth9]

Terrible Lie--NIN

 

Hey god, why are you doing this to me?

Am I not living up to what I’m supposed to be?

Why am I seething with this animosity?

Hey god, I think you owe me a great big apology

 

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

 

Hey god, I really don’t know what you mean.

Seems like salvation comes only in our dreams.

I feel my hatred grow all the more extreme.

Hey god, can this world really be as sad as it seems

 

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

 

Don’t take it away from me.

I need someone to hold on to.

Don’t take it away from me.

I need someone to hold on to

 

Hey god, there’s nothing left for me to hide.

I lost my ignorance, security and pride.

I’m all alone in a world you must despise.

Hey god, I believed that promises, your promises and lies

 

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

 

You made me throw it all away.

My morals left to decay.

How many you betray.

You’ve taken everything

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

Terrible lie

 

My head is filled with disease.

My skin is begging you please.

I’m on my hands and knees

I want so much to believe.

 

Don’t take it away from me.

I need someone to hold on to.

Don’t take it away from me.

I need someone to hold on to

 

I give you everything.

My sweet everything

Hey god, I really don’t know who I am.

In this world of piss

 

 

and

 

It's Never Enough--Type O Negative

 

 

fuck you god

fuck you god

fuck you god

 

With my blood, time, sweat and tears

My goal is to dissolve her fears

fuck you god Self-imposed imprisonment

In this way feels she must repent - must repent

 

In a cell denial made

Break the lock, free her from her cage

fuck you god Realizing her days be few

Just want to make her comfortable - comfortable

 

No matter what i do

No matter what i do

It's never enough

 

No matter what i do

No matter what i do

It's never enough

 

Don't take her

 

I'll lose my mind

When it's her time

She's so scared, it's unbearable

Can't believe god could be so cruel

So cruel

 

She held me tight

Childhood fright

I'm so scared, there's no remedy

But so glad for the memories

So glad

 

fuck you god

fuck you god

fuck you god

fuck you god

 

For her one day undestroyed

I'd give my soul or life with joy

fuck you god

Angel face of saintly love

I curse christ that she suffers such - suffers such

 

No matter what i do

No matter what i do

It's never enough

 

No matter what i do

No matter what i do

It's never enough

 

No matter what i do

No matter what i do

It's never enough - never enough - never enough - never enough

[XCrispyKFC]

Minor Threat - Filler [1981]

 

what happened to you?

you're not the same

something in your head made a violent change

it's in your head

filler

you call it religion you're full of shit

was she really worth it?

she cost you your life

you'll never leave her side

she's gonna be your wife

you call it romance

you're full of shit

your brain is clay what's going on?

you picked up a bible and now you're gone

you call it religion you're full of shit

filler

[Shadfox]

I hate to break the bad news, but Tori Amos' new album was about her returning to Christianity.

[qadeshet]

My vote: Imagine by John Lennon

 

May have had more to do with my de-conversion than anything else.

[sidhe]

"Judith", A Perfect Circle

 

You're such an inspiration

For ways that i will never ever choose to be

Oh, so many ways for me to show you

How your savior has abandoned you

Fuck your god, your lord, your christ

He did this

Took all you had and left you this way

Still you pray

Never stray

Never taste of the fruit

Never thought to question why

 

It's not like you killed someone

It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side

Praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed

He did it all for you

 

Oh so many ways for me to show you

How your dogma has abandoned you

Pray to your christ, to your god

Never taste of the fruit

Never stray

Never break

Never choke on a lie

Even though he's the one who did this to you

Thought to question why

 

It's not like you killed someone

It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side

Talk to jesus christ as if he knows the reasons why

He did this all to you

He did it all for you

[DeathWorship]

this is a beautiful song, i believe everyone should listen to it..

 

Agalloch - "Kneel To The Cross"

 

Give us our bread and bury our dead

And kneel to the cross on the wall

Whether burnt at the stake or drunk at the wake

Just kneel to the cross on the wall

We've original sin, but we might just get in

If we beg to the cross on the wall

It's rattle your sabre and love your neighbours

But kneel to that cross on the wall.

 

See the roof fall, hear the bells crash

As flesh and bone turn to ash

Tried to conquer the sun with a Christian frost

The corpses' stench beneath the cross

 

Give them gold and they'll save your soul

And kneel to the cross on the wall

Hail to the boss of the great unwashed

And kneel to the cross on the wall

They wail and weep, the march of the sheep

As they go to the cross on the wall

And it's ever so wrong to dare to be strong

So kneel to the cross on the wall

 

to hear it, go to www.theendrecords.com

[Ophy]

I hate to break the bad news, but Tori Amos' new album was about her returning to Christianity.

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Well, not to nitpick, but the new album isn't about her returning to Christianity. It's somewhat an exploration of certain aspects of Chrisitanity (i.e. the Gnostic gospels). On the new album, the song "Marys of the Sea" is about the gospel of Mary Magdeline, a book purportedly edited out of the bible.

 

Tori has never claimed to be a full-on athiest. She often references God and Jesus, not denying that she believes in their existance; rather denying their existance as Christianity portrays them.

[pandora]

As for Tori, there's a song on her newest CD called "Marys of the Sea".  The one of the best lines in it (talking about Chrisitanity) says, "Hey!  You built a rock that's on sand".

 

Her newest CD (The Beekeeper) is her best one in a LONG time... check it out.  Plus, there are lots of juicy religion references.

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Oh yeah. Beekeeper is great, but still pretty mellow. I like original Sin (suality). Sweet the Sting is a SEXY song!

[pandora]

Well, not to nitpick, but the new album isn't about her returning to Christianity.  It's somewhat an exploration of certain aspects of Chrisitanity (i.e. the Gnostic gospels).  On the new album, the song "Marys of the Sea" is about the gospel of Mary Magdeline, a book purportedly edited out of the bible. 

 

Tori has never claimed to be a full-on athiest.  She often references God and Jesus, not denying that she believes in their existance; rather denying their existance as Christianity portrays them.

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Exactly. Orthodox Christian she will never be.

[SpaceMonk]

Holy Smoke - Iron Maiden

 

Believe in me - send us money

Died on the cross and that ain't funny

But my so called friends are making me a joke

They missed out what I said like I never spoke

They choose what they wanna hear - they don't tell a lie

They just leave out the truth as they're watching you die

Saving your soul by taking your money

Flies round shit, bees around honey.

 

Holy Smoke, Holy Smoke,

Plenty bad preachers for the Devil to stoke.

Feed 'em in feet first, this is no joke.

This is thirsty work making Holy Smoke.

 

Yeah, Making Holy Smoke.

 

Jimmy Reptile and all his friends

Say they gonna be with you at the end

Burning records, burning books,

Holy soldiers, Nazi looks.

Crocodile smiles just wait a while,

Till the TV Queen gets her make up clean.

I've lived in filth, I've lived in sin,

And I still smell cleaner than the shit you're in.

 

Holy Smoke, Holy Smoke,

Plenty bad preachers for the Devil to stoke.

Feed 'em in feet first, this is no joke.

This is thirsty work making Holy Smoke.

 

Holy Smoke, smells good.

 

They ain't religious but they ain't no fools,

When Noah built his Cadillac it was cool.

Two by two they're still going down,

And the satellite circus just left town.

I think they're strange and when they're dead

They can have a Lincoln for their bed.

Friend of the President - trick of the tail.

Now they ain't got a prayer - 100 years in jail!

 

Holy Smoke, Holy Smoke,

Plenty bad preachers for the Devil to stoke.

Feed 'em in feet first, this is no joke.

This is thirsty work making Holy Smoke.

 

Holy Smoke, Hah.

[SpaceMonk]

I think this one was written with christians in mind, just to piss off the ones causing trouble for the band, Manowar.

The dedication in the album cover goes:

...for all the motherfuckin' bastards who have tried to stop us on our sacred ride.

Fuck you all. Eat shit. Suffer and die slowly listening to our music...

 

The Demon’s Whip – Manowar

 

(Demon's growling in background)

Black candles slowly burning, white fangs and flashing eyes.

Hell’s wind and incantations, summon living fire.

Darkest forces and your demons, black order, black king.

The cult that serves the living, accept this offering.

 

Black candles slowly burning, white fangs and flashing eyes.

Hell’s wind and incantations, summon living fire.

As the seven steps await, hear the great bell toll.

With a dead mans bones conjure, the enemy of the soul!

 

From the misery and sadness, of the molten seas of Hell,

mystic love and mystic symbols in evil dreams there dwell.

Darkest forces and your demons, black order, black king.

The cult that serves the living, accept this offering.

 

A deadly drink, a meal of hearts. Now sacrifice and die!

In darkness and destruction, behold the evil eye

…and the Demon’s whip!

 

Armies of the God’s of Hell ride across the astral plain.

Bearing curses of destruction, sworn beyond the grave.

Children of the darkness, all born but to deceive,

by the ancient code of evil grant not one reprieve.

 

In the place where evil dwells death can live when all life dies.

Wage eternal war on heaven. Immortal hate below the skies.

Your scripture and your sermons are leaves borne on the wind.

To heal the unrepentant one needs a greater sin.

 

Night winds. Oblivion. See my dark desire.

Come forth. Appear. He is living fire.

Feel the Demon’s whip!

 

(Demon's growling in background and backward voices snarling)

Armies of the God’s of Hell ride across the astral plain.

Bearing curses of destruction, sworn beyond the grave.

Children of the darkness, all born but to deceive,

by the ancient code of evil grant not one reprieve.

 

In the place where evil dwells death can live when all life dies.

Wage eternal war on heaven. Immortal hate below the skies.

Your scripture and your sermons are leaves borne on the wind.

To heal the unrepentant one needs a greater sin.

Feel the Demon’s whip!

Demon’s whip.

 

Feel the Demon’s whip!

Demon’s whip.

 

Feel the Demon’s whip!

[Guest Drumtodeath]

Tool- Eulogy

 

He had alot to say.

He had alot of nothing to say.

We'll miss him.

 

So long.

We wish you well.

You told us how you weren't afraid to die.

Well then, so long.

Don't cry.

Or feel too down.

Not all martyrs see divinity.

But at least you tried.

 

Standing above the crowd,

He had a voice that was strong and loud.

We'll miss him.

Ranting and pointing his finger

At everything but his heart.

We'll miss him.

 

No way to recall

What it was that you had said to me,

Like I care at all.

 

So loud.

You sure could yell.

You took a stand on every little thing

And so loud.

 

Standing above the crowd,

He had a voice so strong and loud and I

Swallowed his facade cuz I'm so

Eager to identify with

Someone above the ground,

Someone who seemed to feel the same,

Someone prepared to lead the way, with

Someone who would die for me.

 

Will you? Will you now?

Would you die for me?

Don't you fuckin lie.

 

Don't you step out of line.

Don't you fuckin lie.

 

You've claimed all this time that you would die for me.

Why then are you so surprised to hear your own eulogy?

 

You had alot to say.

You had alot of nothing to say.

 

Come down.

Get off your fuckin cross.

We need the fuckin space to nail the next fool martyr.

 

To ascend you must die.

You must be crucified

For your sins and your lies.

Goodbye...

[Guest SkizzikS]

I don't know if this has been posted yet.

 

Metallica "Leper Messiah:"

 

Spineless from the start, sucked into the part

circus comes to town, you play the lead clown

Please, please

spreading his disease, living by his story

Knees, knees

falling to your knees, suffer for his glory

You will

 

[Chorus]

Time for lust, time for lie

time to kiss your life goodbye

Send me money, send me green

Heaven you will meet

Make a contribution

and you'll get a better seat

[End Chorus]

 

Bow to Leper Messiah

 

Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix

blind devotion came, rotting your brain

Chain, chain

Join the endless chain

Fame, Fame

Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power

We see

 

[Chorus]

 

Bow to Leper Messiah

 

Witchery, weakening

Sees the sheep are gathering

set the trap, hypnotize

now you follow

 

[Chorus]

 

Lie.

Lie.

Lie.

Lie.

Lie.