Telephone Pole

from Holy Hand Grenade by Ruckus Aquinas

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Flying swiftly down the street
I'm secured here in the back seat.
Hearing judgement's flying from the front
At passersby to whom you're being blunt
About their present life
And where they'll be on the other side
And I wonder if it is just me
Who thinks we can't see what you say you see?

Cause every time you turn around the telephone pole in your eye takes the whole crowd out
And at the end of the day when the people run away you still haven't figured it out
Haven't figured it out

Eyes are fixed upon the street
I hold the wheel and you teach
The places I should go and how to steer
The fabled there I should get to from here
And the regimented rules and such
Past posted signs there is so much
You say that I must now internalize
To represent an upright moral life

But every time we turn around because of a mistake there's a part of me that just dies
And at the end of the day when I've thrown myself away it just doesn't feel right
Doesn't feel right

You think that you know better than people like me about our own lives
Which only makes sense if you believe that God only sees the world through your eyes

Throw me from the driver's seat
Unfit to run my life you screech
You use different words but the meaning
Is not lost to misunderstanding
To anybody but your heart
Housing the part of God you are
And God weeps to see the consequence
Saying "that's not at all what I meant"

You want to talk about sin - then let's talk about sin getting loaded inside a gun
And aimed at those you don't like and shot at who they are and not at what at they have done

You think that you know better than people like me about our own lives
Which only makes sense if you believe that God only sees the world through your eyes
While you were melting the gold in our souls to build your cow to the skies
Did you ever stop to think you were building a God that I would never recognize

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from Holy Hand Grenade, released February 22, 2018

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