[Groove Intro] . ! . ! . ! . ! . ! . ! [Verse 1] They preached the gathering in haste Sacrifice and come Sell everything you have back home And bring the money when you run [Verse 2] They bought the land for pennies Sold it back for ten times more And every dollar that you carried in Went walking out their door [Pre-Chorus] Where did the money go? Where did the tithes all flow? [Chorus] Down the great throat From whence there's no return Down the great throat Where all your savings burn They swallowed up the widows They swallowed up the poor Down the great throat And still they wanted more [Break] . ! . ! . . [Verse 3] We looked for property belonging To the church we built with blood We found the temple standing And nothing else but mud [Verse 4] The deceitfully-gotten gains Absorbed into the night In a very short time you're worse Than before you saw the light [Chorus] Down the great throat From whence there's no return Down the great throat Where all your savings burn They swallowed up the widows They swallowed up the poor Down the great throat And still they wanted more [Bridge - accounting] Ten thousand miles you traveled Ten thousand miles to Zion You sold your mother's ring You came here to be lions But they were selling you a dream At tenfold what it cost And every cent you gathered Was gathered up and lost [Final Chorus - bitter] Down the great throat One great throat swallows all Down the great throat The mighty and the small You can tithe until you're empty You can sacrifice your life But the great throat keeps on swallowing Your children and your wife [Outro - fading, sardonic] No return... No return... [End]
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