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  • Songs of Sacrilege: Terrible Lie by Nine Inch Nails

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    This is the one hundred ninety-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 Terrible Lie by Nine Inch Nails.

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    [Verse 1]
    (Hey God)
    Why are you doing this to me?
    Am I not living up to what I’m supposed to be?
    Why am I seething with this animosity?
    (Hey God)
    I think you owe me a great big apology

    [Chorus]:
    Terrible lie
    Terrible lie
    Terrible lie
    Terrible lie

    [Verse 2]
    (Hey God)
    I really don’t know what you mean
    Seems like salvation comes only in our dreams
    I feel my hatred grow all the more extreme
    (Hey God)
    Can this world really be as sad as it seems?

    [Chorus]
    Terrible lie
    Terrible lie
    Terrible lie
    Terrible lie

    [Post-Chorus]:
    Don’t take it away from me
    I need you to hold on to
    Don’t take it away from me
    I need you to hold on to
    Don’t take it away from me
    I need you to hold on to
    Don’t take it away from me
    I need someone to hold on to
    Don’t tear it away from me
    I need you to hold on to
    Don’t tear it away from me
    I need someone to hold on to
    Don’t tear it away from me
    I need you to hold on to
    Don’t tear it, don’t tear it
    Don’t take it, don’t take it, don’t

    [Verse 3]:
    (Hey God)
    There’s nothing left for me to hide
    I lost my ignorance, security, and pride
    I’m all alone in a world you must despise
    (Hey God)
    I believed your promises, your promises and lies

    [Chorus]
    Terrible lie
    Terrible lie
    Terrible lie
    Terrible lie

    [Bridge]:
    You made me throw it all away
    My morals left to decay
    How many you betray
    You’ve taken everything
    My head is filled with disease
    My skin is begging you please
    I’m on my hands and knees
    I want so much to believe

    [Background whispers]:
    I give you everything
    My sweet everything (5x)

    [Outro]:
    I need someone to hold on to
    I need someone to hold on to
    I need someone to hold on to
    I need someone to hold on to
    I need someone I need someone
    I need someone to hold on to
    I need someone I need someone
    I need someone to hold on to
    I need someone I need someone
    I need someone to hold on to
    I need someone to

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Heresy by Nine Inch Nails

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    This is the eighty-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 Heresy by Nine Inch Nails.

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    He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see
    He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
    He’s got the answers to ease my curiosity
    He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity

    Your god is dead and no one cares
    If there is a hell I’ll see you there

    He flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line
    He made a virus that would kill off all the swine
    His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain
    Demands devotion atrocities done in his name

    Your god is dead and no one cares
    If there is a hell I’ll see you there
    Your god is dead and no one cares
    If there is a hell I’ll see you there

    Drowning in his own hypocrisy
    And if there is a hell I’ll see you there
    Burning with your god in humility
    Will you die for this?