Tritagonist - V. Sideshow Attraction Lyrics

I sought sanctuary and an inland refuge
Found the Lord's house, a township by a plateau's edge
Preaching of a God who loves and exhorts to beat swords
Into plowshares. I found a home among their ranks
With skinny bones fed, soon they demanded fealty
And unquestioned loyalty. Mythic as jackal-opes
They spoke of distant soldiers beating plows into swords
Demanding allegiance in kissing their earthly lords' rings
What good is mixing tares with wheat
If the plateau becomes the valley of shadowy death
Will we continue to listen to unholy deceit
When the Lord's the giver of our breaths
Is it time to move forward from this
Sideshow attraction freak show
Here's a Fiji Mermaid, an angel to believe
They praised while an Elephant Man stole the pulpit
Denounced their conceit, and preached truth
They rejected his message and mocked his tone
He couldn't fit the image of blue collar priests
What good is a peanut treat
To he whose words he won't sell
Is he a word monger though his lexicon's complete
When compared to vipers' brood producing sons of hell
Is it time to move forward from this
Sideshow attraction freak show
A generation wooed by gold dust
Sprinkles birthed from ceiling rafters
But show a Nazarene King as a carpenter
Stripped bare and he's no longer gilded
In their eyes. Can't you, his pupils
See how dashing his pupils shine
What good is it to lust after golden streets
If the city is absent from its handsome King
Or whether bread or word, children have none
To eat, the righteous turned into tyrants
No psalms to bring
Is it time to move forward from this
Sideshow attraction freak show
Only smoke and mirrors this plateau offered, hoping
To control dogma in a pillar of fire of willpower, as if
To blow the wind backwards. Yet fire and smoke consume
The chaff they want, just like the Lord: fully uncontrollable
What good is it to fear the sting of defeat even if vipers label us falsely in apostasy
Fear not, children: he's with your every heartbeat, leading towards victory, the truest orthodoxy
It is time to move forward from
This sideshow attraction freak show