Propaganda - Forgive Me For Asking Lyrics
Question: and this is embarrassingYou ever been scared you had no idea what you were talking about?Yeah, me tooHonesty perplexedI've lied and so have you, ChristiansLyingLike you never had questions?Like you've never had a momentWhen your inner dialoguesWere all of a sudden in third person like,"Are you really buying this?"You're lyingLike your eyes are one-hundred percent always satisfied by your spouseAnd you don't need accountabilityNeither of which is biblical, by the wayYour eyes are never satisfiedUs, overgrown primates with egos, lyingYou quote the devil when you declare yourself okayYou get it but you don't get itLike you've never planted your Chuck Taylors firmly in the sinking sandYou're lyingWe for centuries sing hymns of grace,And this is why it's amazingAnd if it's not, you don't understandOr you're lyingWhich is why your friends don't believe youThere is just as much Jesus' blood on your hand as there is hisYou sure you understand the cross?Forgive me for askingAnd Muslims excuse my boldness but what if you're lying, too?Like you don't ever have questions?As if you've never wondered why Allah's ears only hear directionally,And if you accidentally point it slightly north easterly then you've blasphemed?As if the thought has never crossed your mindThat the Jihad has interpreted the Quran correctlyAnd you are what we Christians would call 'lukewarm'?Which makes you much more like my evanjellyfish churchianity would allow me to admitAnd you call me on it; I'll deny it, just don't believe meBecause I'm lyingI strain at gnats; I focus on silliness; I act like God has joined a political party just like youAs if you've never thought,"What if I was paralyzed and I can't make my pilgrimage to MeccaYet I follow the text better than my whole family?Is there enough mercy for me?"I know it's wrong for me to front like I understand your theologyAs well as I think I understand mine,But I know we can agree on this:Something is deathly wrong with usAnd you, smarty pants, don't frontLike the little you know about our universeYou ready to draw conclusions about it's origins?Maybe we don't know as much as we think we doScience still can't explain yawningLike you never took your world view to it's furthest conclusions?That if human behavior is just what protoplasm does at this temperature,Then there is no need for humanitarian effort,Because these atrocities weren't wrong,It's just the universe weeding out bad genesThem is fingernail-on-chalkboard words, ain't 'em?You're lyingMaybe I'm wrong, maybe you're rightMaybe we'll find out the day after the world endsYeah, I guess we're all a little inconsistent,So maybe we can just show each other some graceYou ever bury yourself in self-righteous guilt?Are there fresh tally marks on the walls of your brain's prison,Hoping that the count of good deeds outnumber the bad ones?Are your miserable failures your badges of honor?And when you count those tallies,And the day the good outnumber the bad,Pat yourself on the backYou have joined the rest of humanityYou, too, are lyingLike you never thought,"Someone might catch me in my contradiction"Yeah, me tooYou ever think to yourself,"I have no idea what I'm talking about"?Yeah, me too
