Well we clutch our religions like a long dead alphabet

That we still insist on trying to spell things with

One book into which we force others to fit

Like herds of cattle endlessly reconsuming our own sick

Weigh my soul against a feather

Pay the toll to cross the river

Everything warm must someday wither

Does that cold wind make you shiver?

Weigh my soul against a feather

Pay the toll to cross the river

Everything warm must someday wither

Does that cold wind make you shiver?

Two thousand years we've had to carry dead men's baggage

Should we return these books or maybe try some new edits?

Heaven's a dangling carrot keeping us on the move

And hell's the place we put the people of which we do not approve

Weigh my soul against a feather

Pay the toll to cross the river

Everything warm must someday wither

Does that cold wind make you shiver?

One man's faith another's myth

Worldwide floods and giant ships

Magical trees and serpents' schemes

Can't you see how strange it seems?

From the guts of dead stars come all things that draw breath

Why's your head on the floor? Quick look up you're missing it

Solipsistic fairy tales feed our swelling heads

And we'll pass them to our children as long as we're afraid of death

Weigh my soul against a feather

Pay the toll to cross the river

Everything warm must someday wither

Does that cold wind make you shiver?

Teach the slaves to love the whip

With tales of floods and giant ships

Magical trees and serpents' schemes

Can't you see how strange it seems?