The Ocean Collective - Anthropocentric lyrics

As the symbols of
The metaphysics of the hangman are
Taken off the walls of our living rooms
Humanity emancipates
Christ statues fall and die of age
Just like us: inorganic decay
The myths of the martyrs have waned -
No longer do we mourn their loss
Their children dance and play their games
In the shadow of the great old white cross

Wealth heals all wounds and alleviates
Any kind of pain
The shroud of collective oblivion
Coats any individual scars
The widows of the skeptical have passed
Away before they ever could retaliate
And, those who baptized the world with
The sword have long been buried
And have not arisen from their graves

The guardians of righteousness have
Lost their immaculity
The rise of the enlightenment
Has defeated Christianity
But, it's legacy of fear
And submissiveness prevails
In many brave man's heart and soul:
The saddening conception that humanity cannot
Choose it's own destiny
With our lives based on
The hope for salvation
The humanist paradigm is nothing
But a charade
Condemned to inertia a passive race
We wait and contemplate

And, even in these days and
Age some people still believe
That Earth is at the center
Of God's own universe
And that man was made the 7th day
Evolution is a myth
And that even bones of ancient
Creatures are no evidence
Of the fact that we are not
The end of the chain
And they won't leave their
Ship that is sinking
They refuse to leave their
Ship that is sinking

And, while they spoke of grace and love
Forgiveness from above
They nailed thousands of non-believers to
Their crude symbol of love
And, they won't leave their
Ship that is sinking
They refuse to leave their
Ship that is sinking

The myth that man is the
Crown of God's creation
Breeds the excuse to deplete the Earth today
The myth that man is the
Crown of God's creation supports our present
Anthropocentric misconception

And, even in these days and
Age some people still believe
That Earth is at the center
Of God's own universe
And, they won't leave their
Ship that is sinking
They refuse to leave their
Ship that is sinking

The myth that man is the
Crown of God's creation
Breeds the excuse to deplete the Earth today
The myth that man is the
Crown of God's creation supports our present
Anthropocentric misconception