Pharisee

from Pharisee Demo by Josh Travis

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I'm a pharisee at best and it's running through my veins
If you've got flaws then you can bet I've got something to say
Well I don't look in the mirror, yeah I don't know myself
But when I look at you I'd say you're bound to go to hell
Don't ask me why I do it, why I put them all to shame
'Cause the very things that tie you up tie me up just the same
I'm a wretch in every way from my heart up to my brain
But there's still one thing that keeps me alive
The one who was slain
He said 'why don't you tame your tongue?
why don't you let your lips be still?
'Cause there's only one who speaks like that, my Father at his will
And yet he didn't send me out of hate or to accuse
I'm here because you're beat up
'Cause your battered and you're bruised'
But we're still living in that lake treading dirty water
And we preach out all our rules instead of love our sons and daughters
But that house up on the shore, it's not made of bricks and stone
If it was like the rest it'd wash away but no, it stands alone
With a structure like no other love is its foundation
With a sign up on the door that says it's here to claim the nations
But we're just drowning down in our rules and regulations
We think that we can learn to swim with help of condemnation
Oh but let's just face it, oh friends let's face it
Jesus didn't come to remind us of our scars
He came so he could place them on his head and legs and arms
And on his back he took the lashings, every one of them was mine
And the only hope I'll ever have came pouring out his side

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from Pharisee Demo, track released January 11, 2013

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