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Songs of Sacrilege: Hallelujah by Black Veil Brides

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This is the latest installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series, which I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent toward 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 Hallelujah by Black Veil Brides.

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They worship the screen, the digital shrine
Demanding purity while rotting inside
The saints are all sinners with halos for show
The sins are forgotten the moment you let go
I pray for my failure, I beg for my blood
But heaven stays silent, the gates remain shut

Hallelujah, my soul
Been crucified for letting go
Hallelujah, I know
Some day you’ll praise what you hate
And suffer exemplary

They mark the forgotten, they spit on the weak
Brave new saviors tell you just how to think
They worship a screen, a digital shrine
Demanding purity while rotting inside, but saints always sin

Hallelujah, my soul
Been crucified for letting go
Hallelujah, I know
Some day you’ll praise what you hate
And suffer exemplary

I was the outcast, the ghost of my muse
The artist who’s buried beneath the accused
Now I’m a fire they’ll never contain

Hallelujah for my soul
Hallelujah, just let go
Hallelujah, praise the son
Hallelujah, broken one

Hallelujah, my soul
Been crucified for letting go
Hallelujah, I know
Some day you’ll praise what you hate
And suffer exemplary

Hallelujah for my soul
Hallelujah, just let go
Hallelujah, praise the son
Hallelujah, broken one

Bruce Gerencser, 68, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 47 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.

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Songs of Sacrilege: Shadows Die by Black Veil Brides

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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.

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Lyrics

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)