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The Atrocity Exhibition Lyrics
The glorious frailty of the human mind
Leads us to deceive the mother of mankind
Nature is our master, we serve her through our deeds
She teaches us that only death is guaranteed
If there was a hell, there must I ever be
Eternal life in heaven is but a fallacy
So if death is nothing, but a path to be trod
Walk with me and let me introduce you to your God
Come see an exhibition of atrocity
An ocean of eternity
One in which the shore you'll never see
Or your God of make believe
You speak to the sky and no one answers back
And yet you wager the word of God is fact
The horrors we imagine in vivid clarity
Become a spectacle, your God's atrocities
A mirror image, reflection of your soul
Just nature's play, all her children have a role
God's an actor, the world nature's stage
Our fates are scripted like so many
letters on a page
A composition of atrocity
The story of Christianity
A fairy tale of tyranny
Recipe for catastrophe
Man's inclination
is to bend those who oppose to our will
Does your great creator think
the good are better made by ills?
Dream after dream, time after time
he who conquers endures
The grand design of the mother
We the disease, and her the cure
Unsatisfied longing for the slaughter
The mother often slays her sons and her daughters
Death is but and undress of skin and of bone
When you return to her, no sins to atone
The ending is the same for the vile and devout
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mind
Hatch out
She has predetermined our end
Nothing more she will portend
Leads us to deceive the mother of mankind
Nature is our master, we serve her through our deeds
She teaches us that only death is guaranteed
If there was a hell, there must I ever be
Eternal life in heaven is but a fallacy
So if death is nothing, but a path to be trod
Walk with me and let me introduce you to your God
An ocean of eternity
One in which the shore you'll never see
Or your God of make believe
And yet you wager the word of God is fact
The horrors we imagine in vivid clarity
Become a spectacle, your God's atrocities
A mirror image, reflection of your soul
Just nature's play, all her children have a role
God's an actor, the world nature's stage
Our fates are scripted like so many
letters on a page
The story of Christianity
A fairy tale of tyranny
Recipe for catastrophe
is to bend those who oppose to our will
Does your great creator think
the good are better made by ills?
Dream after dream, time after time
he who conquers endures
The grand design of the mother
We the disease, and her the cure
The mother often slays her sons and her daughters
Death is but and undress of skin and of bone
When you return to her, no sins to atone
The ending is the same for the vile and devout
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mind
Hatch out
She has predetermined our end
Nothing more she will portend
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This song is not aimed at religion in and of itself, but is actually aimed at the people throughout history who have used religion in a way that has caused harm or wrongdoing to humanity.
It's about all the massacres, murders and evil mankind has done throughout time. But the song... amazing stuff. The intro is so heavy.
The fact that the album is directed to religion in most of the songs involves this one, it talks about religion as an excuse for atrocities and horrible things mankind has done throughout time.
The music involved in this is MF hard to play and the cords are all messed up not to mention the fact he's playing in drop C. Yes drop C. Not sure if he's using a 7 string or not. But Gary gets a ????????for a work of art here. I'd like to know what gear he'd running and some of his settings and even the string gauge he's using cause I'm having problems getting my sound right. Gary your the man.