Corrupted Text

[Verse 1]
Telling lies to cause wonder
One of the oldest pastimes of mankind
Try to distract the mind from thinking
Too deeply about the cares that weigh us down
Recounting marvelous tales and strange delusions
Unlimited thirst for fantasy
Disbelieving the facts they see
In exchange for an exhausted false reality

[Verse 2]
Impelled on by groundless hope
Naively expressed as evidence
Astonished listeners rеtell fanciful legends
Might as wеll be fairy tales of little girls
Staring out to Neverland
Textual distortion in their hands
A false translation misunderstood
Echoes of corrupted text

[Breakdown]
Staring into the sun
Focused on the need for meaning
Dreaming yet not asleep
Mind seared by false teachings

[Bridge]
The wisps of dreams from another world
Steeped in delusion, weighing their lives down
What can’t be proven lacks claim to truth
Steeped in delusion, entrancing sacred ruse!

[Verse 3]
Ignore their claims that contradict reason
Guard and revere respect for truth
Zealots emboldened to say that by their faith alone
The words in doubt are proven true
When they can't even understand the language
The ancient text was written in
Well-intentioned, and yet misled
Platonic passed off as Christian

[Verse 4]
What’s in a vision is not really true
A figment of imaginings
Symbolic but not real, reciting vague words
As if they had deep meaning
Unknown, the text originally written by the men
Foundational concepts redefined
A clever ancient lie shrewdly misinterred
Echoes of corrupted text