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  • Songs of Sacrilege: Curse Your Branches by David Bazan

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    This is the one hundred eighty-second 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 Curse Your Branches by David Bazan.

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    [Verse 1]
    Red and orange
    Or red and yellow
    In which of these do you believe?
    If you’re not sure right now, please take a moment
    Cause I’ll need your signature before you leave

    When I sleep, I’m usually dreaming
    But more and more, there’s only one
    Where every hired gun I’ve ever fired
    Is making love to you, while I look on

    [Chorus]
    All fallen leaves should curse their branches
    For not letting them decide where they should fall
    And not letting them refuse to fall at all

    [Verse 2]
    Digging up the root of my confusion
    If no one planted it, how does it grow?
    And why are some hellbent upon there being an answer
    While some are quite content to answer “I don’t know”?

    [Chorus]
    All fallen leaves should curse their branches
    For not letting them decide where they should fall
    And not letting them refuse to fall at all

  • Songs of Sacrilege: When We Fell by David Bazan

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    This is the one hundred eighty-first 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 When We Fell by David Bazan.

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    [Verse 1]
    With the threat of hell hanging over my head like a halo
    I was made to believe in a couple of beautiful truths
    That eventually had the effect of completely unraveling
    The powerful curse put on me by you

    [Chorus 1]
    When you set the table
    And when you chose the scale
    Did you write a riddle
    That you knew they would fail?

    Did you make them tremble
    So they would tell the tale?
    Did you push us when when we fell?

    [Verse 2]
    If my mother cries when I tell her what I have discovered
    Then I hope she remembers she taught me to follow my heart
    And if you bully her like you’ve done me with fear of damnation
    Then I hope she can see you for what you are

    [Chorus 2]
    What am I afraid of?
    Whom did I betray?
    In what medieval kingdom
    Does justice work this way?

    If you knew what would happen
    And made us just the same
    Then you, my lord, can take the blame

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Hard to Be by David Bazan

    This is the twenty-seventh 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 Hard to Be by David Bazan, an indie rock singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington.

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    You’ve heard the story
    You know how it goes
    Once upon a garden
    We were lovers with no clothes

    Fresh from the soil
    We were beautiful and true
    In control of our emotions
    ‘Til we ate the poison fruit

    And now it’s hard to be
    Hard to be
    Hard to be a decent human being

    Wait just a minute
    You expect me to believe
    That all this misbehaving
    Grew from one enchanted tree?

    And helpless to fight it
    We should all be satisfied
    With this magical explanation
    For why the living die

    And why it’s hard to be
    Hard to be
    Hard to be a decent human being

    Childbirth is painful
    We toil to grow our food
    Ignorance made us hungry
    Information made us no good
    Every burden misunderstood

    So I swung my tassel
    To the left side of my cap
    Knowing after graduation
    There would be no going back

    Because it’s…