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Bloodlines

Far from educations superstition In the barren fields they planted their tyranny Where the pagan made a cross of stars In the green lands of their mysticism Yet still by ancient tongue they have spoken Be they a black tooth the rule of pontiff And by tax and gold brought their destruction And lay it on the bloody wrists of Jesus Here they hammered sacrifice Hard they tortured the thorns of Christ And here by fat they stole the command Broken heart to the inquisition's hand Depart now your Isis and Diana Succumb to this a worship of stone To the virgin pray For your sisters have no salvation Dammed they say be Magdalene Eve Such sinful opression shall walk with thee Let shame beset and be thy burden Never hence by our decree will you stand again in union In barren lands they did sequester their tyranny And hidden amongst you a scar so bitter in time And by foul and twisted philosophy Come with promise and redemptions prejudice To break you from your bloodlines Where once the pagan made a cross of stars And by the heavens wrote their mysticism To be humbled at the feet of woman Life so tenderly given to raising up the son of man

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