truth

It's swell here in Hell
while we waterboard Jesus because
he doesn't think a rich man can make it to Heaven
by killing everyone who is just looking for some truth.

We know better, don't we?
The envelope under the door says so
and we put on our spray-tan glow and go
tripping down the yellow brick road of priests' skulls.

Manson was also sincere. I fear
we are using a bent yardstick for good
when we polish the brass for a gallon of gas
so we can look for truth on that road of priests' skulls.

It's a bloodbath and we just laugh
and debate celebutante taunts for tired old men
who don't have to put it on the line for the divine
right to be wrong with other people's blood on the pavement.

Just looking for the truth
that we don't want to face. We're in disgrace
for everything we claim as anecdotal proof
of God favouring us in our endeavors.

Sonic boom doom and the groom won't make it back
from the black tarred-fields that concealed
desperate men who see no sin in sacrificing truth.
And your sons and daughters, fathers and mothers and brothers.

If our leaders really believed in the God
they invoke in mad mantras as a smokescreen
they would quake in fear as their end draws near,
not shed crocodile tears over their three-martini lunch.

The road to Hell is paved with the lies
of people who cannot even face themselves in the mirror
without a wall of self-deception to shield their fates,
sealed with kisses that are not worthy of s streetwalker.

Speak truth. Live it. And give it as legacy to our children.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.

This is the first lyric off of the new CD "truth" that will be released November 1, 2008. What do you think I have been doing for the last three weeks?