You're keeping in step
In the line
Got your chin held high and you feel just fine
'Cause you do
What you're told
But inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold

Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you wanna change it?

What if this whole crusade's a charade
And behind it all there's a price to be paid
For the blood on which we dine
Justified in the name of the holy and the divine

Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you wanna change it?

So naive
I keep holding on to what I wanna believe
I can see
But I keep holding on and on and on and on

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?


Lyrics submitted by Angie Christ

The Hand That Feeds Lyrics as written by Trent Reznor

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    In many faiths there is NO power. The clery does not get wealthy. Some even take vows of powerty. Who sees power when they see a priest OTHER than some slimy televangelists on TV raking in the dough that the gullible gladly hand over? The church does not yeild power like a government does. Funny, but most people who complain (and stereotype) the church vote democratic...wanting higher taxes and bigger govt. And it's easy to call someone dense from behind a computer screen. You would never dare say it so easily to my face.

    ThisLittlePiggyon May 09, 2012   Link

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