This is the thirty-fourth installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please send me an email.
Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Shadows Die by Black Veil Brides,an American rock band based in Hollywood, California.
Tear down the cross,
Splinters and shards.
Remembered this Trojan horse
Rode to the land we enter.
We’ll burn away
And free our fallen brothers
From shackles made
Of steel and bones of soldiers.
Yeah!
Let shadows die
So I can feel alive.
A church of lies
Can’t tell me what is right.
Our little victories and desires won’t live on
Let shadows die
So I can feel alive, feel alive
I feel alive, yeah
In fear and faith
The candles light our freedom.
By tainted night we live this war of wisdom.
The streets are stained
With blood that ran their kingdom
And feed the beast that lies beneath our treason.
Let shadows die
So I can feel alive.
A church of lies
Can’t tell me what is right.
Our little victories and desires won’t live on.
Let shadows die
So I can feel alive, feel alive
F.E.A.R. round up these rebels
These deviants, these so-called Wild Ones
We will litter the streets with their bones
And annihilate the dangerous and obtuse ideas poisoning your children,
Endangering your freedom, giving rise to the destruction of the benevolent future we have prepared for you.
You belong to the shadows, and the shadows are where you will remain safe.
Do not disobey.
Let shadows die
So I can feel alive.
A church of lies
Can’t tell me what is right.
Our little victories and desires won’t live on.
Let shadows die
So I can feel alive, feel alive
(I feel alive)
