Weight of the World

Fighting to save your traditions Pointless endeavors and missions Talk is all I hear empty words from the heart to your mouth Impotent vision throwing stones from cathedrals Empty pews dead institutions Paying the fee, 10% Country club, now you're in, bankrupt religion We do the same thing every night every day Nothing has changed, nothing has changed Nothing A time will come when silence is betrayal A time will come when your voices will not be heard The years that we've chosen to say nothing They'll all return The guilt, the shame, the pain and the anger So we break these chains Of religion, of tradition Moved to action So we break these chains Of a system that has coaxed us to sleep Don't need religion So we break these chains Religion has never set men free Religious guilt dies with me Weight of the world Chains falling down Weight of the world Chains falling down I won't be buried I won't be buried in chains I won't be buried I won't be buried in chains I won't be buried in chains I'm free from the shame I won't be buried in chains I'm free from the shame Religious guilt dies with me Religious guilt dies He was chained Crushed, despised, denied Tortured, executed by the state Buried and lives today And for what For us to be judge, jury and executioner Judge Judge Judge Jury Execute Judge Jury Execute