Once upon a time, I was in a band called The Vengeful & Godless.  It’s not a time I like to revisit much, as there was a lot of pain in my life then, but I stumbled across these lyrics I wrote back then (2003? 2004?). While the poetry and the meter are a bit crude, there is a raw quality to the anger and indignation of them, and the theme still resonates with me. Because of that, I felt them worth sharing.

The Light Bringer and The Rogue:

The story says he wanted to keep us ignorant

Make us mentally frail and call it innocence

Knowledge was right there, but he’d threaten punishment

against anyone bold enough to reach for it

He would cast man out of paradise

Just as he had done with the angel of light

Our ignorance was key to his tyranny

But the serpent came to man and set us free

Knowledge and progress these were Lucifer’s gifts

To man kind, yet we call this angel villainous

What utterly backward morals have we

To worship a god who’d keep our minds empty

The constant and vigilant enemy

of knowledge, right and ascendancy

Yahew, Allah, god all-mighty,

still a mythical rogue from every angle I see

An Azagthoth, a blind idiot god

An allegorical phantom purveyor of fraud

The patron saint of stupidity

Whose malicious streak puts to shame Loki’s

He whom only thunder hath made greater

was only made great by the thunder of the church

and just as the mythical knowledge bringer suffered

Galileo and Bruno would suffer on earth