Bruce Cockburn - Gospel of Bondage lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - Gospel of Bondage lyrics]
Tabloids, bellowing raw delight
Hail the return of the Teutonic Knights
Inbred for purity and spoiling for a fight
Another little puppet of the New Right
See-through dollars and mystery plagues
Varied detritus of Aquarian Age
Shutters on storefronts and shutters
In the mind we kill ourselves to keep
Ourselves safe from crime
That's the gospel of bondage
The gospel of bondage the gospel of bondage
We're so afraid of disorder we
Make it into a god
We can only placate with state security laws
Whose church consists of secret courts
And wiretaps and shocks
Whose priests hold smoking guns
And whose sign is the double cross
But God must be on the side
Of the side that's right
And not the right that justifies
It'self in terms of might
Least of all a bunch of neo nazis
Running hooded through the night
Which may be why He's so
Conspicuously out of sight
Of the gospel of bondage
The gospel of bondage the gospel of bondage
You read the Bible in your special ways
You're fond of quoting certain things it says
Mouth full of righteousness and
Wrath from above but when do we hear
About forgiveness and love?
Sometimes you can hear the
Spirit whispering to you
But, if God stays silent
What else can you do
Except listen to the silence?
If you ever did you'd surely see
That God won't be reduced to an ideology
Such as the gospel of bondage
The gospel of bondage the gospel of bondage
Hail the return of the Teutonic Knights
Inbred for purity and spoiling for a fight
Another little puppet of the New Right
See-through dollars and mystery plagues
Varied detritus of Aquarian Age
Shutters on storefronts and shutters
In the mind we kill ourselves to keep
Ourselves safe from crime
That's the gospel of bondage
The gospel of bondage the gospel of bondage
We're so afraid of disorder we
Make it into a god
We can only placate with state security laws
Whose church consists of secret courts
And wiretaps and shocks
Whose priests hold smoking guns
And whose sign is the double cross
But God must be on the side
Of the side that's right
And not the right that justifies
It'self in terms of might
Least of all a bunch of neo nazis
Running hooded through the night
Which may be why He's so
Conspicuously out of sight
Of the gospel of bondage
The gospel of bondage the gospel of bondage
You read the Bible in your special ways
You're fond of quoting certain things it says
Mouth full of righteousness and
Wrath from above but when do we hear
About forgiveness and love?
Sometimes you can hear the
Spirit whispering to you
But, if God stays silent
What else can you do
Except listen to the silence?
If you ever did you'd surely see
That God won't be reduced to an ideology
Such as the gospel of bondage
The gospel of bondage the gospel of bondage