I've been working for my whole life to get to the other side And try to achieve true righteousness All the scourges and whips I cracked The flesh I ripped off my back It only led me to emptiness Here I am, a broken man who's done all that a man could do And found that it's only filthy rags Monasteries, religious schools, indulgences, laws and rules It all added up to nothing and darkness and d**h Vanity, Heartache, and emptiness Efforts all fading away The flesh and defeat that it brings ‘Till You guide me and show me things That my eyes have never seen before As I burst forth from the belly of the beast Never fight it anymore For the burden on my life has been released Nail it to the door
Nailed these ninety-five things I've learned They'll say that I must be burned For God has no place for heretics All the things that they try to sell It's trickery straight from Hell To turn it into a den of thieves See these madmen peddling the wares of dead men's souls Collecting on a debt already paid so long ago There's fire in my spirit, and fire in their eyes For now they'll want to burn me alive Yet freedom rings Unworthiness is all I bring The blood of Christ is all I claim This grace revealed everything That my eyes have never seen before As I burst forth from the belly of the beast Never fight it anymore For the burden on my life has been released Nail it to the door