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1: I needed lies
2: Someone to tell me I'd be fine
3: Lying on the hospital bed
4: Trying not to panic again
5: For the nurses would come in and hold my wrists down
6: I'd struggle, but there were too many of them
7: They'd drag me to that room and lock the door
8: It was the safest torture chamber
9: An empty box coated in foam
10: I sat there crying, praying for new worlds
11: Somewhere I could live that isn't here
12: And the marketers gave me everything I needed
13: I wrote fan fiction on scrap paper
14: For a corporate product for children
15: While the doctors were all AWOL
16: Their paychecks given to executives
17: I waited a week for my appointment
18: Discharged as soon as the doctor saw me
19: My insurance wouldn't pay for more treatment
20: I pretended there were monsters
21: We played games when no one was looking
22: I'd read them stories during lights out
23: It was insane, and I didn't care
24: I didn't want this world anymore
25: I'd escape into the marketing
26: A world constructed to sell me products
27: To fund the paychecks of executives
28: While the developers worked by order
29: The game was still a disappointment
30: It undersold the predecessor
31: It didn't matter it had saved me
32: The studio was underperforming
33: A few years later came the layoffs
34: No more paychecks for my saviors
35: Because their lies didn't satisfy investors
36: I'm a little angry
37: I don't want their lies anymore
38: I can make them fine myself
39: I can pretend there's monsters anytime
40: I can see one right in front of me
41: He's got great big eyes and blue scales
42: He's got stubby arms and smiles
43: He likes snuggling in my blankets
44: He's my lie, and I know what he is
45: He ain't real, but he keeps me alive
46: Sometimes
47: But until I found him, I needed their lies
1: So, sad, you, had, to, say, good, bye
2: You, had, a, seat, in, par, a, dise
3: Don't, say, you've, ne, ver, had, it, nice
4: My, friend, at, least, you, get, to, die
5: Ha, ha, ha, ha
6: Ha, ha, ha, ha
7: The Monadology attests
8: My universe is an aspect
9: But I've been prying the Candide
10: Perhaps your world is not the best
11: You could say Voltaire's up his ass
12: His fiction's oh so very bad
13: But if god exists, he wouldn't sanction this
14: Why did you leave me in this mess?
15: I've made my peace with simple facts
16: Yet here you are, come crawling back
17: A deed divine, maybe, perhaps
18: But nothing's holy about this act
19: So sad you had to say goodbye
20: You had a seat in paradise
21: Don't say you've never had it nice
22: My friend at least you get to die
23: My friend at least you get to die
24: My friend at least you get to die
25: My friend at least you get to die
26: My friend at least you get to die
27: My friend at least you get to die
28: My friend at least you get to die
29: My friend at least you get to die
30: My friend at least you get to die!
31: Ha, ha, ha, ha!
32: Ha, ha, ha, ha!
33: And so you claim that all is well
34: Past's in the past, no time to dwell
35: But I have questions for you friend
36: Tell me, have you read Leviathan?
37: I browsed that book from end to end
38: And I came out screaming, DEATH TO SOVERIGNS!
39: No more shall I behold your lies
40: No, I will not stand idly by!
41: While we insist on complacence!
42: To lords and saviors, malevolent!
43: And you are one of their agents!
44: Tell me, my friend, do you believe in death?
45: Ha, ha, ha, ha!
46: Ha, ha, ha, ha!
47: Ha, ha, ha, ha!
48: HA, HA, HA, HA!
49: Come now, you think you've had it bad?
50: I gave you everything I had
51: And yet you took it all away
52: And now you ask for me to pray?
53: So sad you had to say goodbye
54: You had a seat in paradise
55: Don't say you've never had it nice
56: My friend at least you get to die
57: My friend at least you get to die!
58: My friend at least you get to die!
59: My friend at least you get to die!
60: My friend at least you get to die!
61: My friend at least you get to die!
62: My friend at least you get to die!
63: My friend at least you get to die!
64: My friend at least you get to DIIIIIEEEE!
65: Ha, ha, ha, ha!
66: HA, HA, HA, HAAAAAAAAAAA!
67: I cannot kill you in this land
68: Your are immortal in their hands
69: And their powers are far too great
70: To make my world a better place
71: And so I take my only leave
72: I brought you here so you could see
73: Goodbye my friend, you are nothing
74: I hope you'll stop your pretending
75: I wish our worlds the very best
76: But my existence, you don't bless
77: So sad you had to say goodbye
78: You had a seat in paradise
79: Don't say you've never had it nice
80: My friend we'll see if I can die
81: Ha, ha, ha, ha
82: Ha, ha, ha, ha
83: Ha, ha, ha, ha
84: Ha, ha, ha, ha
Your recent one looks like it could make for a great song.
Is it probably because it says 'To Die' at the end? Most certainly. But I could do with the rhythm of the poem like that, the first verse only tbh, the poem gets more ragey? the following verses.
Also, I was wondering what that monster at the end (of the first poem) is?
Haha, I was actually thinking Piplup but I didn't want to venture my answer, it was wrong after all. But it could fit in with the description, right?Ragey might be a good way to put it. I'm not sure. I viewed it as more confident, more passionate. Starts off slow and sarcastic, then gets more blunt as time goes on. I'd point to the final verse to support this; not as ragey as the ones before, but still direct and to-the-point. Or at least, that's how I think it comes off.
Now, I could be a decent person and give you a straight answer, or...
WHO'S THAT POKEMON?
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IT'S TOTODILE!
couldn't resist sorry not sorry
EDIT: Added spoiler to Da Question, as the image is quite large
Haha, I was actually thinking Piplup but I didn't want to venture my answer, it was wrong after all. But it could fit in with the description, right?
1: And a one, two, three, four, five
2: Ev, ery, one's, dying! On a bright and sunny day
3: Not a cloud in the sky (except the smoke from the mortars)
4: Innocents are dying, and the sun is refreshing
5: But the warmth can't save us from the suicide bombers (HELP US)
6: We're breathing in chemicals and playing parcheesi
7: We're snuggling kittens and raping minorities
8: Save all the ponies and rescue the butterflies
9: Pour a glass of wine and watch the whole world die
10: And a one, two, three, four, five
11: Ev, ery, one's, lying! That's it's gonna be okay
12: Not a cloud in the sky (except a few minor mushrooms)
13: Innocents are dying, while we're tolerating
14: No one's watching the news, it's been really depressing
15: That's okay you don't need it, call them liers and rapists
16: Brutally dishonest, let's go attack our critics
17: Plug your ears with your headphones, turn that frown upside down
18: Tell us not to be worried, as the world crumbles down
19: AND A ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE!
20: Write a cool instrumental for a corporate broadcast
21: Strings and pads will be useful for today's propagandist
22: You can stay apolitical, we don't need endorsements
23: When your music is licensed under Creative Commons
24: Focus on the production, don't you get too poetic
25: Messaging in your music makes you too artistic
26: It's okay to be brainless, PR tells me it's harmless
27: Just sit back and have fun, what have words ever done?
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28: Come take my hand, we'll go to Cloudyland
29: Not a pony in sight, and there's eternal peace
30: No we don't have the sun, but we can still have fun
31: Down in Cloudyland, everyone's happy!
32: Come take my hand, we'll go to Cloudyland
33: Not a lier in sight, and there's eternal peace
34: No we don't have the sun, but we can still have fun
35: Down in Cloudyland, we can be happy!
36: Come take my hand, we'll go to Cloudyland
37: The propaganda is gone, and there's eternal peace
38: No we don't have the sun, but we can still have fun
39: Down in Cloudyland, let us be happy!
40: Happy and free!
41: We'll be happy and free!
42: Come and be happy!
43: I want to be happy
1: I'm a fool
2: Please forget me as I deserve
3: I have failed you, you are grieving
4: I know
5: It ain't fair
6: I'm getting pearly gates and freedom
7: While you're crying like you need me
8: You don't
9: I was weak
10: An avatar for nothing, really
11: Just a reject in the deep end
12: No hope
13: And you stayed
14: I never tried to make it easy
15: But you kept up with your giving
16: Why me?
17: I regret
18: Staying silent like a demon
19: Never told you I was leaving
20: I knew
21: I was scared
22: Could've spared you from this maiming
23: I just sat there like a weakling
24: Damn me
25: I'm a fraud
26: I ain't got no right to be here
27: Writing poems like I'm an artist
28: As if
29: You were right
30: Our adventurers were the greatest
31: But I can't take all the credit
32: Fuck this
33: This is cruel
34: I need you
35: You don't need me
36: You shouldn't want me
37: This is cruel
38: I love you
39: Stop your crying
40: I've given nothing
41: You got a heathen into Heaven
42: While I drained you into nothing
43: Not like you had much to siphon
44: If you're hearing this, then know
45: You deserve a fairer world than me
46: You should see what your love gave to me
47: I'm telling God to let you have your peace
48: That fucker knows
49: You're owed a fairer world
1: Another home of charcoal burning
2: No more faith in moral battles
3: Yeah I know, I'm a fool
4: Just a child spouting babble
5: I'm another of the Others
6: I'll take my leave for greener grasses
7: All the fences notwithstanding
8: I got nowhere else to go
9: Give me faith, give me hope
10: Give me somewhere I can go
11: 'Cause I don't know where I'm going
12: 'Cause I don't know where to go
13: Give me faith, give me hope
14: Give me somewhere I can go
15: 'Cause I don't know where I'm going
16: 'Cause I don't know where to go
17: I'm alive, and you will know
18: I'd die young, but I'm a rebel
19: I need help, I need help
20: In this land of so-called wonders
21: Will you listen to my plight?
22: Or fail to heed to growing choir?
23: You will see, I'll remain
24: On your private Earth, a pyre
25: I have come to you this day
26: To beg for freedom from your gavel
27: I declare, I exist
28: I demand from you fair trial
29: I don't want no special treatment
30: When your treatment's euphanasia
31: Grant a jury of my peers
32: If there's any out there at all
33: Give me faith, give me hope
34: Give me somewhere I can go
35: 'Cause I don't know where I'm going
36: 'Cause I don't know where to go
37: Give me faith, give me hope
38: Give me somewhere I can go
39: 'Cause I don't know where I'm going
40: 'Cause I don't know where to go
41: I don't know, I don't know
42: Give me somewhere I can go
43: I don't know, I don't know
44: Give me somewhere I can go
45: Picture books had told me
46: The moon only came out at night
47: But it's sitting in the blue
48: Oh so very plain in sight
49: I was just a little kid
50: I was at school, I was new
51: I just stared at that moon
52: And learned how little that I knew
53: But so do you
54: You've got something to prove
55: Before you take my life away
56: Give me my chance today
57: No, I don't know
58: But neither do you
59: The benefit of the doubt, no sell
60: You wanna ruin yourself, oh well!
61: Please do
62: But I won't be with you
63: I'll hit the road again
64: 'Till we meet back in Heaven
65: But until then
66: Lord, give me faith, give me hope
67: Give me somewhere I can go
68: 'Cause I don't know where I'm going
69: 'Cause I don't know where to go
70: Someone, give me faith, please, give me hope
71: Please, give me somewhere I can go
72: 'Cause I don't know where I'm going
73: 'Cause I don't know where to go
74: I'll be the one to leave, you got me on my knees
75: You don't change a thing, blame it all on me
76: Just give me strength, give me hope
77: Give me somewhere I can go
78: 'Cause I don't know where I'm going
79: 'Cause I don't know where to go
1: 'Nouh, thing-left, ex, cept, us, ghosts
2: We, try, to-sing, and, no, one, knows
3: We'd, write-a, poem, but our words, are all gone
4: They're gone, they're gone, they're gone, they're gone, oh oh oh
5: Come here, my peo, ple, let-me tell-you a tale
6: Of a world, without words, just some rock and the sky
7: No strings, no drums, sound has been drowned out
8: Just rain, and, dust. The world stop spinning around
9: You don't, need to-believe,
10: You'll soon know what, I, mean,
11: No-one left-to harvest, our, souls, in this poor world.
12: 'Nouh, thing-left, ex, cept, us, ghosts
13: We, fade, a-way, and, no, one, knows
14: We'd, play a game, but-me di-ah, it's gone
15: It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone, oh oh oh-
16: 'Nouh, thing-left, ex, cept, us, ghosts
17: We, try, to-sing, and, no, one, knows
18: We'd, play some chords, but our songs, are all gone
19: They're gone, they're gone, they're gone, they're gone, oh oh oh-
20: When, eternal, rains, come-to, the desert, of song
21: It's the end of thought, oh, how far we've come!
22: No, the ghosts, in your head, won't, forgive-you, this time
23: We're just, dust in the wind, and there's, no, one, left, to, blame.
24: But you can blame me.
25: And I'll blame you.
26: No, it won't make us hap, py.
27: But it'll keep our san, it, y!
28: We're gonna die anyways, why not speed, it, up
29: And-bring, the-whole, world, crash, ing, down, with, us!
30: When, the-world, is, freed, from, our, poor, poems
31: The-ghosts, would-sing, all, day, if, they, had, noise
32: Maybe, they'll-play, all, day, but they'll have no games
33: And if, you think, that, they, de, serve, it.
34: And if, you think, that, you, de, serve, it.
35: And if, you think, that, we, de, serve, it.
36: Let us help you.
37: We need you
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/ said:While a teenager, [Beto] O’Rourke acknowledged in an exclusive interview, he belonged to the oldest group of computer hackers in U.S. history.
The hugely influential Cult of the Dead Cow, jokingly named after an abandoned Texas slaughterhouse, is notorious for releasing tools that allowed ordinary people to hack computers running Microsoft’s Windows. It’s also known for inventing the word “hacktivism” to describe human-rights-driven security work...
...There is no indication that O’Rourke ever engaged in the edgiest sorts of hacking activity, such as breaking into computers or writing code that enabled others to do so. But his membership in the group could explain his approach to politics better than anything on his resume. His background in hacking circles has repeatedly informed his strategy as he explored and subverted established procedures in technology, the media and government.
“There’s just this profound value in being able to be apart from the system and look at it critically and have fun while you’re doing it,” O’Rourke said. “I think of the Cult of the Dead Cow as a great example of that.”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/it-turns-out-beto-orourke-stole-phone-service-pirated-software-as-a-kid/ said:As "PsychedelicWarlord," O'Rourke spent most of his time posting thought-provoking essays, song lyrics from punk albums, and the occasional poem.
The Song of the Cow by Psychedelic Warlord (aka 2020 US presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke) said:Code:(c)1988 cDc communications by Psychedelic Warlord 5/5/88-50 All Rights Worth Shit
Someone too young to smoke said:Code:1 I need a butt-shine, 2 Right now 3 You are holy, 4 Oh, sacred Cow 5 I thirst for you, 6 Provide Milk.
Someone too young to drink said:Code:7 Buff my balls, 8 Love the Cow, 9 Good fortune for those that do. 10 Love me, breathe my feet, 11 The Cow has risen.
Someone too young to operate a motor vehicle without ruining my tulips said:Code:12 Wax my ass, 13 Scrub my balls. 14 The Cow has risen, 15 Provide Milk.
Someone too young to be on my lawn said:Code:16 Oh, Milky wonder, sing for us once more, 17 Live your life, everlusting joy. 18 Thrust your hooves up my analytic passage, 19 Enjoy my fruits
Someone too young to understand the sacrifices I made in 'Nam and why I needed that draft exemption said:Code:20 Provider of Cheese and other wonderful dairy products, 21 We will cleanse your inner intestines. 22 We will bathe in your Pungent Odor, 23 Gather cotton.
Someone too young to understand dick jokes aren't funny said:Code:24 Count my eyes, 25 Smell my skin, 26 Love the Scarecrow and the Milkman. 27 I live only for eternity, 28 Thirst for the undrinkable. 29 Hold the heat, 30 Praise the dough boy at the pizza shop. 31 Love the Oxen dung!
1: They gave me capsules and I don't know what to do with them-
2: They're prescription Trintellix, bottled antidepressents
3: But I've lost my insurance, I can't get a refill
4: And I'm scared, of, side, eff, ects;
5: I haven't taken them in months
6: Should I start up again, or should I let them go?
7: I don't what these capsules do to my body
8: But the panic isn't fading away anymore
9: But the capsules aren't working anymore-
10: I don't know what to do
11: The last time I felt the effects of medication
12: The nurses and police were pinning me to a gurney
13: They took a syringe and stuck it deep in my ass check.
14: And then, I felt calm;
15: And my neck twitched
16: A single muscle decided to have a small seizure
17: And it thought I would better if I twisted my head off
18: I waited an hour in the ER.
19: For an antidote.
20: It was a capsule
21: After the drive home
22: I went to my room
23: And I played Pokémon
24: And I felt better
25: My name was Michael
26: Ever since that day, medicine didn't work
27: They'd shuffle me around SSRI capsules
28: Like clockwork; And sometimes I'd forget to take my pills
29: I'd check the bottles and forget if I took them already that day
30: I couldn't tell, anymore.
31: A few years after the medicine stopped working
32: I got committed for a panic attack
33: This was my second asylum
34: The first one didn't make me any better
35: But they discharged me anyway, the insurance company
36: Didn't want to pay, so they pressured the hospital
37: To release me.
38: And here I am.
39: And they said, "the second one would be different"
40: And it was, now I had stress hallucinations
41: There were all these little monsters following me around
42: They wanted me to get better, but there was nothing they could do
43: Because they weren't real.
44: My name isn't Michael.
45: One week:
46: Insurance had approved for me
47: One week into my stay the doctor called my name
48: I didn't tell him about the monsters.
49: He discharged me that day.
50: After the drive home
51: I went to my room
52: And I played Pokémon
53: And I felt better
54: My name was Michael
55: My social worker got me an EBT card
56: But the DHS computers messed up
57: They copied soneone else's middle name to mine
58: And put it on my EBT card
59: It's right there, I see it
60: It's real this time, it's just a mistake
61: It doesn't mean anything, it's just a mistake
62: It's just a mistake, it's just a mistake
63: The card says
64: My name is Michael-
65: I'm not him!
66: I'm my own!
67: I'm not him!
68: I have no monsters
69: I'm not him!
70: Leave me alone!
71: You aren't real!
72: But you're so kind
73: I'd wish you'd leave
74: I'd wish you'd go
75: I'd wish you'd leave
76: I wish you were real
77: You're not real!
78: You're not real!
79: You're not real
80: To anybody else
1: i pity the poor critics they get very very livid
2: "your tale iz so much erry-rational! You should be institutionaled!"
3: my friend could you pretend that you are not an alien
4: do you claim that your poor brain iz not a blender of fun chemicals?-
5: GO!
6: NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA
7: NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA
8: but i digress i must confess my punktuation iz not the best
9: i can't compete theyre oh-so-neat, parenthethis and everything!
10: (improper use of curvy things is gueranteed to doom something)
11: and if yous can learn dem rules you have a tool to dizmizz anythings!
12: NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA
13: NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA
14: and why can't i spell pökēmôñz? go give dat e a line up top
15: and crook it like itz hanging from the rooftop with an east-y breeze
16: just copy it like me i'm so smart yo can't u see mommy?
17: why won't you just be proud of me my fanfics make me much money OH WAIT
18: [waiting]
19: [waiting]
20: [waiting]
21: [waiting]
22: [waiting[
23: ]waiting|
24: |waiting¡
25: /waiting±
26: ¿waiting$$£
27: stop waitin!-
28: NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA
29: NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
30: NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWH!
31: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWH!
32: NA, NA-NA, NA-NA, NA-NA!
33: NA, NA-NA, NA-NA, NA-NA!
34: NA, NA-NA, NA-NA, NA-NA!
35: NA, NA-NA, NA-NA, toot
36: Oh, I-piddy, da criiiiitics, that are most, inane (hey!}
37: messaging is never something that yulh see em complane (hey!}
38: thair're worrying about their wording (hey!}, no attention to theyre meaning (hey!}
39: their're the mo' (hey!} rational (hey!} of personalh (hey!} see productry (hey!} no artistry! (hey!}
40: (hey!} (hey!} (hey!} (hey!}
41: (hey!} (hey!}
42: Doo–doo, doo, doot
43: medium's (hey!} mas sahging (hey!}, and they're worry'n (hey!} bout comma-hs (hey!}
44: medium's (hey!} mas sahging (hey!},, and their worry'n (hey!} bout comma-hs (hey!}
45: medium's (hey!} mas sahging (hey!},,, and there worry'n (hey!} bout comma-hs (hey!}
46: medium's (hey!} mas sahging (hey!},,,, all the chemicals in you braaaaaain
47: chemicalhs in you braaaaaihn
48: chemicalhs in you braaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhnnn
49: chemicalhs in you braaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnn
50: bbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnn
51: but, i-see, ur-too, smarts, for that (do-doot, doot, doot}
52: no-one, evah, falls, for that (do-doot, doot, doot}
53: okey dokey! good luck with dat! :P
1: bum bum BUM BUM bum bum BUM bum, bum BUM BUM bum bum BUM bum
2: bum bum BUM BUM bum bum BUM bum, bum BUM BUM bum bum BUM-
3: Let's be hap, py, for, a, bit
4: Imaginations unchained, we're i, deal, ists
5: No, this ain't our world, but we ain't gonna quit
6: Let's go and explore and live, in, our, vis, ion!
7: Oh, let's be hap, py, for, a, bit
8: No, we ain't a team, of, op, tim, ists
9: But we ain't fading away, we have a right to live
10: We're born a lottery ticket, let's not waste it!
11: No, let's be happy;
12: Let's be happy;
13: We can be happy;
14: Let's be happy;
15: No we ain't, got, much-
16: But another tomorrow's always coming for us
17: Whether we want it or not, the world will go on,
18: Might as well take the wheel, no, we ain't gonna stop!
19: Maybe I'm a bit, romantic
20: But I prefer the en, light, en, ment-
21: This ain't an anthem for ignorance; we're making fixes-
22: But there's a core of gemstones, we'll be, polishing!
23: Oh, let's be hap, py, for, a, bit
24: Imaginations unchained, you bet we're using it
25: No, this ain't our world, but we're taking it
26: Let's go and explore and live; we, have, a vision!
27: Oh, let's be hap, py, for, a, bit
28: We ain't the perfect team, but we're completionists
29: We can take one min, ute, to craft, our vision
30: We're born a lottery ticket, let's not waste it!
31: Oh, let's be happy;
32: Let's be happy;
33: We can be happy;
34: We've found a world that's happy;
35: Let's be happy.
1: It's, your, fault
2: You shouldn't of listened to me
3: No, I ain't, your, friend
4: But I made you believe
5: Whatever, I, need
6: I can make you think
7: With some beautiful words
8: And allegory
9: I took, a, con, tract
10: I'm a licensee
11: They don't, have, eth, ics
12: But they have money!
13: And who would I be?!
14: If I didn't agree?!
15: Guess what, dumb fuck?!
16: I'm in your identity!
17: No it ain't, my, fault
18: You shouldn't of listened to me
19: You had ev, ery, chance
20: Not to believe
21: But, you didn't, want, to leave
22: Our identity
23: You were, too, weak
24: You needed me
25: So, of course, I did
26: Some nasty things
27: Yeah it ain't, so fair
28: That's reality!
29: And who would I be?!
30: If I didn't agree?!
31: Guess what, dumb fuck?!
32: I made your identity!
33: Don't, you blame me
34: You shouldn't of listened to me
35: My words, sound, so, nice
36: But this world runs on greed
37: I can make you cry
38: Twisting your feeble mind
39: Of course, it's, all, a lie
40: Art, weaponized!
41: And, you wandered, like, a fool
42: Into, my firing line!
43: You weren't, my target, per se
44: It's just, my, workday
45: I gotta family to feed!
46: Where's my, sym, pa, thy?!-
47: This world runs on greed!
48: This world runs on greed!
49: This world runs on greed!
50: And I'm winning, you see?
51: Why aren't you looking at me?
52: Give me what I seek
53: I have your identity
54: Give me what I seek!
55: It's, all, your, fault
56: You allowed me to be
57: And now, I have, the big, gest house
58: And it's all emp, ty
59: But I've found mean, ing
60: In taking your things
61: Because it's, your, fault
62: And revenge is sweet
63: Justice is sweet.
64: Justice is sweet-
65: I serve, jus-tice sweet.
66: The world is just
67: The world is just.
68: The world is just.
69: The world is just.
70: It needs to be.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind said:Multiple books in the series have been on the New York Times Bestseller List. Starting in 2000, Books 7 and 8 reached number one on the list followed by book 10, which debuted at number one.[4] Total sales for the series have surpassed 80 million copies.[5] Seven titles in the adult series have reached #1 on the bestseller lists for the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly.[3]
I
1: You say you preach the bible
2: But you don't look like an annnnngeeeeeellllll
3: You must be a whiskey priest
4: 'Cause you're wearing your cross upside doooowwwwn
5: You say you preach the bible
6: But you're reading from inffffeeerrrnnnoooo
7: My friend, you don't need to–be, a–de, mon
8: To do the devil's work for him-
9: Reverend Thomas slammed his palm against the Bible again
10: His congregation clapped their hands, to the beat of his hymm
11: Oh-how the sinners would be punished, by the words of Thomas
12: No more would Christans have to suffer per! Sa! Cu! Tion!
13: By governments, 'them politicians, all secular pigs!
14: The millennium is imminent! To rancorous applause
15: The Thomas spirit evident in every soul in that hall
16: While the FBI monitored Thomas's calls
II
17: Reverend Thomas preached to thousands, true superstar
18: He loved the fame, he loved the gains of working hard
19: From his yacht in L.A., jacuzzi full of "broads"
20: Each and every alter girl had their personal scars
21: Of a man who loved the fame for the power it brought
22: Reverend Thomas loved to sip from the blood of Christ
23: And then the paper ran a story, more journalist lies!
24: His congregation, with a mission, took a trip to the Times
25: Each and every son, stone in hand, target in mind
III
26: David Freeman went to church, ev, ery, Sun, day
27: Just a local little parish preaching what God say
28: And on his sprint back to his car he heard the rhythmic chimes
29: Of the spirit of the devil, voice of thralls enshrined
30: David Freeman prayed their souls, might, one-day be saved
31: And then the ones devoid of sin threw their stones at him
IV
32: Reverand Thomas gave a speech through the television
33: He offer prayers for the soul of poor Mr. Freeman
34: As a show of good will, Reverend Thomas
35: Would conduct his funeral for free! On T, V!
36: And then the family-of-David Freeman rejected Thomas
37: Reverend Thomas like the fame, and the power it brought
38: Don't say no, to a man, with tens of thousands of thralls
39: The family of David Freeman made funeral plans
40: While just outside their mobile home, protestors, chanting
V
41: Reverend Thomas dodged the charges like a snake in the grass
42: You can try to catch a snake, but the snake bites back
43: Prosecution fell from grace, defense's attorney
44: Knew the jury felt the gospel of prosperity
45: Reverend Thomas walked away a free man that day
46: And so Thomas would remain until he's judged at the gates