Which Way Are You Goin'? Lyrics

Lyric discussion by nelliewilson 

Cover art for Which Way Are You Goin'? lyrics by Jim Croce

The song is about the arrogance, apathy, hypocrisy, and fundamentalism of religious ideology.

(Apathy) "Will you stand and watch while all the seeds of hate are sown? Will you stand with those who say 'let his will be done'?"

(Hypocrisy) "Do you say what's wrong for him, is not wrong for me?"

(Arrogance) "You walk the streets, righteousness but you refuse to understand"

(Hypocrisy, Anti-Abortion but Pro-Death Penalty) "You say you love the baby"

(Fundamentalism) "Now its let him live in freedom, if he lives like me"

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