Rage Number 1

“Crusaders end up dead or crucified,”

I heard my aging father say to me,

“Conform to all authority or die.”

I try to fight the ones in charge, I try

for their old-fashioned ways I cannot see.

“Crusaders end up dead or crucified.”

I listened to their words but then they lied,

the truth now being something they don’t see.

“Conform to all authority or die.”

My soul turns weak as I look up and cry,

“Please God show me the way, I cannot see.”

“Crusaders end up dead or crucified.”

Lord God, they use your name and then they lie.

From them I must insist my soul be free.

“Conform to all authority or die.”

They start a war and say God’s on our side –

“Thou shalt not kill” is something they should read.

“Crusaders end up dead or crucified –

Conform to all authority or die.”