No Closer Than a Stranger

You are a servant to your god

You are a slave to a book

You say you are just a messenger

But you'll end up hooked

This place feels like home

Walls echo, screaming no

This tough love feels

Like I'm being choked

Dependant on a whim

Bow down before him

You suckle righteousness

And siphon lies

This rope feels like home

My mouth is gagged

My hands are bound

This tough love feels like

I'm being drowned

And in a daze one day

You'll wake up old and gray

And realize you've alienated

Those who cared about you

Say you will forgive me me again

Your pride is the birth of your original sin

Say I can be saved again

Well I won't and I think you know

Because of you

This is not all for him

It's for you

The blessed father

Tainted blood of a martyr