The Postulate Lyrics - Singles - Emptyself

if i wrote a book... 

started a group, 

and every time you heard my name 

someone tried to control you, 

and all the wealthy praised me as 

they drew more blood for affluence, 

and every time a bomb went off, 

my name was used in its defense... 

would i be despised? 

would i be ignored? 

or would i be the most accepted thing in the world? 

and i pray every day, 

for the praying to end, 

and i'm sorry to say that 

we've been deceived, my friends, 

again and again. 

if both sides of every war 

used me to rally support, 

and every name brand racism 

believed my words were at its core, 

and every cruelty in the world 

was made possible by the view 

that put its victims outside my grace 

and held its sources as my truth... 

would i be despised? 

would i be ignored? 

or would i be the most accepted thing in the world? 

and i pray every day, 

for the praying to end, 

and i'm sorry to say that 

we've been deceived, my friends, 

again and again.