Churches, altars, Castle thrones
Instruments to maintain compliant drones
Divinely inspired
then criminally conspired
Encoded in sacred Tomes
Keep them illiterate and barely fed
and priests to interpret for their daily bread
Sacrilege to invent
to insure that they repent
any impurities in their head
These Kings, they ruled by rights divine
Fruit of all labors that they may dine
upon the finest that the land can give
No concerns for how others live
Came the rival gods, and with them new priests too
and scribes to write the version approved for public view
This god, that god, from which authority to derive?
Do you believe it really matters to people only half alive?
The state, their courts, their shiny network screens
Declaring a new gospel as they tell us what it means
Not for you to decide what is or isn’t true
It is their very function to explain it all to you
Sullen, then grown angry, they know they’ve been eclipsed
now that all the folks at home have their own copy of the script