DISTORTED DAYDREAMS - Christ compleX Lyrics

Swing back and forth like a pendulum
Take cyanide or capsicum
You're jumping further to more conclusions
Cause you don't know the depth of your own delusions
Enlist all the insects to build your web of lies
Let us be the ones that get tangled in like flies
Let gods be the catalyst to pave your streets with gold
And throw out the new and in with the old
Yeah, throw out the new and in with the old

Blank hearted messiah of mine
With your fingers in the threads of time
History bows to the odorous clouds
Of compassion crucified
Weak-willed, walking the line
Make love, not war, and we'll be just fine
History's made by the count on the graves
Blank hearted messiah of mine

Save me from the rapture you built up inside my mind
Climbing up to heaven with a dagger in my side
Falling down to hell with a halo round my neck
But no angel born in heaven's worth a statue to erect
Stick us in the trenches that may one day be our tomb
Like a crippled baby boy pulled straight out of the womb
Tattered torn remains of a holy promised land
Life and death in the palm of your hand

Black hearted messiah of mine
Snipping each strand in the threads of time
History's blind to the ladders we climb
Cause the rich with stakes are doing just fine
Kicked off the horse while in his prime
Is the safest bet for a newsman's line
Admire the brilliance and the resilience
Of western civilization's decline

Clouds in the sky rain blood in the gutter
Death to the child and fear for the mother
Kindest of ways to show that you care
Centrism supreme, split that hair
Boom go the bombs of the new regime
And this propagandist pyramid scheme
Oh, march in time like the good boys should
Do what is useful, not what is good