Weight of the World - Advent

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