Sin and you will go to hell.
This place called hell
Have you been there
This place called heaven
Have you been there
How do you know it's heaven or hell
How does anyone know it's heaven or hell
How do you go places when it's all bones and ashes that remain
The good will prevail over the bad.
What is good
What isn't
What is bad
What isn't
Who gets to choose
Who gets to decide
Who calls the cards
The gods are watching.
Or are they
Whose gods
Yours or mine
Aren't they
The same gods whose hands smell of blood
The same gods who speak of justice with a pistol in one hand and a dagger in the other
The same gods who wage wars and kill newborns in the name of godliness
These gods, are they gods
Or, just demons who had better stories to tell
Do you really know
Can you really tell
The cowards will never know what bravado is.
Who are you
Are you the brave
Who are you
Are you the coward
Can you tell the brave from the coward
Bravado lies in trading lives to win wars
Bravado lies in the scent of napalm
Bravado lies in the lives spent in the name of heroics
Is that what you call bravado
Are they the brave
Or, just cowards who had more lives to spare
Do you really know
Can you really tell
Let there be peace.
Peace
Where do you find peace
When do you know it's peace
The bloodshed in the name of peace
All for a good reason
The blasphemy in the name of peace
All for a good reason
The brute in the name of peace
All for a good reason
So much for a cause
So much for the sake of peace
Is that your idea of peace
Is this peace
Or, just another hymn of the beasts
Will you ever know
There are no virtues
There are no vices
The vices are the virtues
The virtues are the vices
There is no heaven
There is no hell
There is life
There is but life
There is nothing more
There is nothing less
There is but just life
And then there is death
The good and the bad are flip sides
The gods and the demons, our own fiction
The brave are the cowards
The beasts are the saints
The idea of peace is nothing but an idea, a lie of an idea
The lies of ideas
The lies of truths
The lies within the lies
The lies of a lifetime
This place called hell
Have you been there
This place called heaven
Have you been there
How do you know it's heaven or hell
How does anyone know it's heaven or hell
How do you go places when it's all bones and ashes that remain
The good will prevail over the bad.
What is good
What isn't
What is bad
What isn't
Who gets to choose
Who gets to decide
Who calls the cards
The gods are watching.
Or are they
Whose gods
Yours or mine
Aren't they
The same gods whose hands smell of blood
The same gods who speak of justice with a pistol in one hand and a dagger in the other
The same gods who wage wars and kill newborns in the name of godliness
These gods, are they gods
Or, just demons who had better stories to tell
Do you really know
Can you really tell
The cowards will never know what bravado is.
Who are you
Are you the brave
Who are you
Are you the coward
Can you tell the brave from the coward
Bravado lies in trading lives to win wars
Bravado lies in the scent of napalm
Bravado lies in the lives spent in the name of heroics
Is that what you call bravado
Are they the brave
Or, just cowards who had more lives to spare
Do you really know
Can you really tell
Let there be peace.
Peace
Where do you find peace
When do you know it's peace
The bloodshed in the name of peace
All for a good reason
The blasphemy in the name of peace
All for a good reason
The brute in the name of peace
All for a good reason
So much for a cause
So much for the sake of peace
Is that your idea of peace
Is this peace
Or, just another hymn of the beasts
Will you ever know
There are no virtues
There are no vices
The vices are the virtues
The virtues are the vices
There is no heaven
There is no hell
There is life
There is but life
There is nothing more
There is nothing less
There is but just life
And then there is death
The good and the bad are flip sides
The gods and the demons, our own fiction
The brave are the cowards
The beasts are the saints
The idea of peace is nothing but an idea, a lie of an idea
The lies of ideas
The lies of truths
The lies within the lies
The lies of a lifetime
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