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The best years of his life is what he gave to you
Never late a day, he's been faithful and so true
Putting out the tombstones and digging down the graves
For over thirty years now and I can't believe that you have the nerve to say
That now you're gonna have to cut his pay
'Cause one of your priests did such an awful thing

Lightning bolt, oh lightning bolt, why won't you strike them down?
For what they did they deserve to be a black spot on the ground
And if there is a god living up there in the clouds
I can't imagine a better time to show his wrath than now
Somehow these monsters all seem higher than the law
They're not gonna see any punishment at all

He didn't give a damn about your god or your church
He was just an honest man looking for some honest work
And in his little finger he's got more purity
Than a whole church load full of your child molesting priests
It seems that you're making him pay for the guilty sins
Thirty years and that's the thanks he gets

Well it's hard to imagine there could be a greater sin
Than using your trust for abusing a kid
As hard as it may seem, well I think that there is
And you're committing it by protecting these old evil men
And if there really is a Judgement Day
You'll have a whole lot to explain
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Cover art for Lightning Bolt lyrics by Ghost Mice

Pedophiles suck, but I do feel sorry for them. I'd hate to have that kind of urge and then society hates me.

Cover art for Lightning Bolt lyrics by Ghost Mice

this songs about chris dad getting a pay cut at work because of a child molesting priest and the church had to cut down everyones salaries to pay the childs family from a lawsuit

Cover art for Lightning Bolt lyrics by Ghost Mice

I know its a bit more accuesatory than most of their songs, but it was Chris' dad who got the pay cut after a life of loyalty, and so naturally he's very pissed about it.

Cover art for Lightning Bolt lyrics by Ghost Mice

Chris' dad is a race car driver and grave digger? That guy has a weird life

i've always thought that in "figure 8" his dad was only a metaphorical racecar driver. there are also more songs about being a grave digger than about racecars.

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Cover art for Lightning Bolt lyrics by Ghost Mice

nah it was originally a ghost mice song on debt of the dead. on the AJJ split, they both covered songs of the other band (gm covered survival and ajj covered this one)

Cover art for Lightning Bolt lyrics by Ghost Mice

This song is too accusatory for Ghost Mice.

Cover art for Lightning Bolt lyrics by Ghost Mice

this isn't ghost mice... this is Andrew Jackson Jihad from a ghost mice, jihad split

awww an avid ghost mice/andrew band liker

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na, it is ghost mice, ajj just covered it. so really not that avid...

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You are very very mistaken. Ajj Covers this on the split, unless you are going to tell me that Survival was originally done oby ghost mice on the Ghost mice/ajj split

No this was not the case.

Lightning Bolt was originaly on Debt of the Dead

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