Modern Day Messiah Country

[Short guitar based intro] [Verse] I walked your streets in borrowed skin No crown of gold, no trumpet winds Just open eyes and quiet steps To see what would happen next I saw the broken on the ground While towers scraped above their sound You preach my name in marble halls But turn your back outside those walls You raise your hands, you bow your heads Then curse your neighbors in their bed You built a kingdom in my name But I don’t recognize the place [Pre-Chorus] You speak of love, but draw the line You twist your truth and call it mine You wear the cross, but miss the cost And never see the purpose lost [Chorus] I am not what you’ve become I never asked for what you’ve done You turned my words into a war And I don’t know you anymore You scream my name, but miss the point Turn faith to fear and call it choice If this is what you built from me… Then you’ve lost what you were meant to be [Break] [Verse] I see new gods on glowing screens Selling truths and twisted dreams You praise the voices made of lies And trade your soul for their disguise You crown your kings with empty hands And call it fate, call it a plan Divide yourselves, then feed the flame And justify it in my name You trust the noise, ignore the pain Repeat the cycle, fan the blame Machines and men both pull the strings While hate becomes your offering [Pre-Chorus] You claim the light, but choose the dark You tear apart what should be heart You build your truth on shifting man Then wonder why you cannot stand [Chorus] I am not what you’ve become I never asked for what you’ve done You turned my words into a war And I don’t know you anymore You scream my name, but miss the point Turn faith to fear and call it choice If this is what you built from me… Then you’ve lost what you were meant to be [Verse] I came to see if you had changed If love survived the years of rage But what I found was deeper scars And truth buried beneath your wars You had the chance, you had the time To lift each other, not divide But every lesson turned to stone And every kindness overthrown So I will leave the way I came No light, no flood, no righteous flame Just quiet steps beyond your sight You’re not ready for the light [Bridge] Where did the mercy go? Where did compassion fade? When did the open hand Turn into sharpened blades? I gave you more than words to keeppp A love that ran so wide and deeppp But you chose fear, you chose the lie And let that love just pass you byyyy [Final Chorus] I am not what you’ve become You’ve broken everything I was You took the truth and made it bleed To serve your power and your greed You scream my name like it’s your shield But never cared to truly heal If this is all you choose to be… Then you’ve become the enemy (Outro)