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Fool's Gold

V5

Brothers and sisters Yea I said brothers and sisters Yea Can I get a witness? YEA Good Nobody's listening anyway Handed down the sickness, handed up the blame along with it Called the infection holy, called your suffering adequate Born into a house already full of smoke Baptized in the gasoline and handed back the rope They said the fire was your fault for having skin that burns Called the infection evidence of everything you earned You didn't catch the devil, baby, devil caught your zip code Moved in through the cracks they left and made himself a big home They built the wound and built the doctrine right beside it Said the wound was sin and sold you something to hide it Fool's gold paradise with a layaway plan Get your halo on installment if you just shake the man's hand I shook it I shouldn't But you did Felt the counterfeit the second that it landed Paradise was painted plywood poorly sanded They gave you the disease Then sold you the venom They built you the cage Then called it your grave You made me sick and blamed me for the fever You built the trap and cursed me for the teeth Your paradise bled from gilded lies Damned for having eyes that watched you lie So look at the devil, yeah he ain't so bad Best company I've had since I read your fine print Fuck your cross, fuck your contract, fuck your paradise We're good Step right up Step right up And get knocked The Fuck Out Contaminated every cup and called the poison providence Every rule a needle, every prayer a drug, the evidence They said the sickness was a moral failing dressed in flesh Said the fever was the devil taking inventory of your mess But the devil didn't write the lease on the house you grew up in Devil didn't put his hands on you and call it discipline. Devil didn't tell you that your body was a battleground for God Devil didn't make you feel like breathing was a firing squad I looked at everything they called corruption, sin, and shame Turned it over in my hands and found their fingerprints and name You didn't make me evil, you just made me and walked away Left the door unlocked and then got mad that I didn't stay Mad that I left Fool's gold Painted plywood Every promise termite eaten at the base They gave you the disease Then sold you the venom They built you the cage Then called it your grave You made me sick and blamed me for the fever You built the trap and cursed me for the teeth Your paradise bled from gilded lies Damned for having eyes that watched you lie So look at the devil, yeah he ain't so bad Best company I've had since I read your fine print Fuck your cross, fuck your contract, fuck your paradise We're good Step right up Step right up And get knocked The Fuck Out They don't name the damage They just bill the damage They don't treat the sickness They just charge for it They don't save the sinner They just need one And brother you've been volunteered I was the evidence they needed for the sermon I was the monster keeping congregations certain You were the product You were the warning You were the reason that they kept the lights on You were the monster they built their walls against And then they wondered why you knocked I am the sickness stamped, serialized, and sold I am the proof their paradise is bought and not bestowed I am the question mark they printed in the fine print of their creed I am the disease calling out the cancer Amen Amen Amen Amen You made me sick and blamed me for the fever You built the trap and cursed me for the teeth Your paradise bled from gilded lies! Damned for having eyes that watched you lie So look at the devil, yeah he ain't so bad Best company I've had since I read your fine print Fuck your cross, fuck your contract, fuck your paradise We're good Step right up Step right up And get knocked The Fuck Out The Fuck Out You know what the difference is between us and them? We know we're the circus Chaos curated and canonized Tune in This shit only gets worse