Here are some thoughts and feelings...

As this world nears what could be one of the toughest battles of all history... we as Christians need to remember to keep all of our trust in the founder of life. This is just a reminder to keep praying for the world and everything thats going on. It says in the Bible to pray even for your enemys. So keep praying and God will take control and make good out of the events of these past few weeks.

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is it all worth it for the images you put across
glorifiying twisted jewels of this modern Babel
Building self-sufficing towers of dust
and feeding the ever-fattening beast of cultural self

is there anything beneath that shell of glittering makeup
or is the fashion clad hero hollow?
making a mockery in the name of this shapeless freedom
screaming out in pleasure at the pain of their shallow existence

let meaning fill the skin which nothingness left empty
as breath and regeneration fill the body you left void
open up your eyes to see true life and not this facade of earth
before you find your pointlessnes buried with you in the dirt

hungry flames fed by the green-backed creature of status
lives and lies are bought and sold on the market of hollywood
teenage icons scatter shallow chemistry among disillusioned youths
such desires are pleasing to the mind yet empty to the soul

make the spinning heads stop turning to look ahead
there must be more than rootless oaks in the sand
bring to front that ancient concept we call morals
and restore order before its too late

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You light your candle to shine your way through the darkness of this world
But the fire it gives is fading thin by the mask that binds you tight
Your reverence lost in a sea of worries that complicate your worth
Quiet pride cant get you into heaven, worship is of the heart

Arise from the dead o sleeper, awake for the time has come
When true worshippers will worship in Spirit and in Truth

I saved you from sirens of conformity, they draw you back again
You gladly hop back in the mold desiring meaningless existence

The mask it cries and so do I you kill your soul under a black sky
I try to help you push away you drive the nails deeper into your own flesh
Pain is pleasure, rules give freedom, so the twisted logic goes
You sit in your opened cell and sob refusing to be freed

Wake from your stupor with this kiss like the fabled tales of old
And fly away on freedoms wings you didnt know you had

It rips me bloody to see your state and what youve done to yourself
My injured voice falls deaf you have left me stranded in paradise
Free I glide I see you hide afraid of having joy
Dont you remember the mold you destroyed when you were with me
I reason to you you spit on me from your tower of veneration
Your robotic heart doesnt give you grounds to trample nonconformity

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Under the rose-red sign we hung our harps
Its electric buzz contrasting the soft night
There we wept for the sea
As the sky cried down upon us
The gray and white smile back
As do the ashes of a world burning
We cry as love is bought and sold
Where a life is just a speck on a beach

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you
forget he who seizes your futures
and dashes them against the rocks.
for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
but we have broken the bonds of normality
true rebellion is of the heart and mind

lift up your eyes and gaze in awe
as our time flickers away
I raised my head and then I saw
The state in which we lay