Million Dead - Father My Father lyrics
[Million Dead - Father My Father lyrics]
Father my father, what have you left for me?
What am I to make of this convoluted legacy?
You raised me, ingrained me
Led me to believe
That the world had some structure
A bedrock of honesty
With this naïve outlook in mind
Imagine then my profound surprise when my
Eyes were opened to the reality
A world built on half-truths
And Christian hypocrisy
Where left hands are wrung to
Deplore all our poverties
While right hands dig shallow graves
To bury the meek what have we learned?
"Do as we say, not as we do
And don't ask" x8
Like the students at the Sorbonne in '68
I've got a conundrum
I and the letter of the law are agreed
But the spirit's not with us in working
Until "Everyone has everything they need"
I know what I must look like
Some kind of revolutionary
But, I'm just trying to
Set some things straight
To salvage that honesty
Father, I've tried to follow you in what
You say and what you do
Father I've always followed you
I'm everything you wanted me to be
What am I to make of this convoluted legacy?
You raised me, ingrained me
Led me to believe
That the world had some structure
A bedrock of honesty
With this naïve outlook in mind
Imagine then my profound surprise when my
Eyes were opened to the reality
A world built on half-truths
And Christian hypocrisy
Where left hands are wrung to
Deplore all our poverties
While right hands dig shallow graves
To bury the meek what have we learned?
"Do as we say, not as we do
And don't ask" x8
Like the students at the Sorbonne in '68
I've got a conundrum
I and the letter of the law are agreed
But the spirit's not with us in working
Until "Everyone has everything they need"
I know what I must look like
Some kind of revolutionary
But, I'm just trying to
Set some things straight
To salvage that honesty
Father, I've tried to follow you in what
You say and what you do
Father I've always followed you
I'm everything you wanted me to be