A lie for a lie, a truth for a truth.

And the Mercy Seat is calling,

And to think how I have fallen,

So unjustly, like a martyr on the cross, Christ

Was crucified for want of sin,

And anyway I'm still suffering,

At least he got to leave,

I hear the Mercy Seat a-screaming,

And the bodies dragged still steaming,

A lie for a lie, a truth for a truth,

And eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,

So can you offer any proof,

Or is condemnation fixed?

Through the corridor I shuffle weeping,

But even now I can't stop believing,

That my gods will not forsake me,

Oh! Please won't you just fucking take me

Down to hell, don't let them take my freedom,

It's still God's, and he's never far away.