This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Just like the spread of disease, ya, ya
Debt and guilt or guilt and decree
The masters that we please
Yet if we seek help for infirmities
We are made twice the sons of hell as before
Reach out your hand
Reach out your hand
Only to be plagued by disease
Reach out your hand. Reach out your hand
Only to be plagued by disease
While religion tries to blame what we cannot see
I accept that part of the problem is me
It was never a sacred mandate to accept conformity
Through select revelations that we choose to believe
Another blind guide replacing divine eyes
Familiarity is the great deception
Disguised by authority, sealing out subversion
Whitewashed tombs have hidden the truth
For we unknowingly worship icons of ordinary life
Reach out your hand to find forgiveness
Only to be plagued by disease
The horrors of beliefs and customs
Camouflaged by commonality
Reach out your hand, reach out your hand
Reach out your hand, reach out your hand
I still believe that there is hope for us
But I believe we must look outside
The sanctuaries of oppression
That have brought our world so much pain
Yeah
Another blind guide replacing divine eyes (eyes)
Whitewashed tombs (whitewashed tombs) have hidden the truth
Reach out your hand to find forgiveness
Only to be plagued by disease (plagued by disease)
Reach out your hand to find forgiveness (reach out your hand)
Only to be plagued by disease
Reach out your hand, reach out your hand
Debt and guilt or guilt and decree
The masters that we please
Yet if we seek help for infirmities
We are made twice the sons of hell as before
Reach out your hand
Reach out your hand
Only to be plagued by disease
Reach out your hand. Reach out your hand
Only to be plagued by disease
While religion tries to blame what we cannot see
I accept that part of the problem is me
It was never a sacred mandate to accept conformity
Through select revelations that we choose to believe
Another blind guide replacing divine eyes
Familiarity is the great deception
Disguised by authority, sealing out subversion
Whitewashed tombs have hidden the truth
For we unknowingly worship icons of ordinary life
Reach out your hand to find forgiveness
Only to be plagued by disease
The horrors of beliefs and customs
Camouflaged by commonality
Reach out your hand, reach out your hand
Reach out your hand, reach out your hand
I still believe that there is hope for us
But I believe we must look outside
The sanctuaries of oppression
That have brought our world so much pain
Yeah
Another blind guide replacing divine eyes (eyes)
Whitewashed tombs (whitewashed tombs) have hidden the truth
Reach out your hand to find forgiveness
Only to be plagued by disease (plagued by disease)
Reach out your hand to find forgiveness (reach out your hand)
Only to be plagued by disease
Reach out your hand, reach out your hand
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The Plague Lyrics as written by Douglas Thomson White Doogie White
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i think offtehdeepend pretty much hit the nail on the head.... and i think the part about "reach out your hand only to be plagued by disease" is talking to catholics and how they think if they tell the priest about their sins that he will forgive them and in reality this is no better than telling a random person you meet on the street your sins....... (in other words it has no effect) and the "horrors and beliefs camouflaged by commonality" is talking about all the rituals of catholicism that people practice so often that it becomes second nature and they never really stop to think about what theyre doing and how the bible never says anything about them (such as praying to saints..... john was rebuked by an angel for trying to worship him but the angel said to worship God) tim mentions "whitewashed tombs" and i have no doubt that that phrase is talking about the false teachers that call themselves christians but really are spiritually dead... as Jesus said in Matthew 23, "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean."
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