Listen To My Voice

Gary Numan

Listen to my voice
And please try to understand

The one you call Messiah is a lie
You are just a game and It has won
You are not the plan
And your beginning to annoy
You will never see
You will never know eternal peace
The places promised by your faith

The God you love is gone

He lies broken by your shame

The thing that took His place already died
Send black Angels for you
It will send Angels
I am just a voice

Only you are pure enough for truth
That no-one else will hear

And then tear away belief
You must write 'The Book'

Only you can save the light of man
It will send Angels
Send black Angels for you






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    Deliciously blasphemous! I love Gary Numan.

    hahacharadeon May 27, 2007   Link
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    Ignorantly blasphemous! I love Gary Numan too.

    So now that we've read what Gary has to say about "The Book", let's see what "The Book" has to say about Gary... :)

      22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
  23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
  24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
  25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
  28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
  29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
  30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
  31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
  32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

  -- Romans 1, New American Standard Bible
    Lord Hasenpfefferon December 04, 2011   Link

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