Catharsis - What the Thunder Said lyrics

Welcome to the holy day This is the day that it all comes true It will burn like a furnace Every day of your life, recognize yourself for what you are When the mouth of hell opens up before me, come suffering: Wash me of my impurities, teach me what it is to want more Everywhere I turn, the despisers of the body, the despisers of the soul Angels bleed from out their wounds, demons out from mine Remind me what's at stake, drive me day and night In this forsaken slaughterhouse, God forgot but I have not I still know exactly what I want On the edge of humanity, health and sickness to each side of me For the first time I could see I meant nothing to either one� Time is running out for you, all the things you desire are hostile to you Your submission and your "holy lies" I'll never stoop to understand You sacrificed yourselves: you raised your temples to the skies Plucked your tongues, sewed shut your eyes Raised disease upon a throne Sacrificed the flesh, now nothing left for you but the bones In the pit of mortality, health and sickness casting lots for me For the first time I could see I meant nothing to either one Desperate, starved in every way, bloodstained bread they brought for me I had nothing, and God help me, I took it while I could CONTROL Nailed to my sacraments, to the marrow of my bones Making my way alone down this road paved with thorns Struggling to carve a path through the pollution that surrounds Unburied d**h-defying Unbowed