I was there when He made them: The man and the women, naked and ignorant and blind.
They were there just to please Him, they had no higher reason,
Than to worship and praise the divine.
And for them I took pity. They were without committee, without any will to devise.
With the snake as my proxy I challenged God’s moxie and showed them how to open their eyes
Give my regards to Michael; tell him I’ll see him in Hell
When he comes to deliver my shackles and chains that were forged long before I fell.
Well I rallied the cherubs and I called to the seraphs, “Let power be shared and divided.”
But the riot was wrangled and the protest was strangled. By a tyrant my fate was decided.
I was sentenced for labor by the almighty slaver. He handed me down a pitch fork.
Now I shovel the shit down in the deep pit, and they blame me when things don’t work.
Give my regards to Gabriel; tell him I don’t understand
How a god with such infinite mercy and grace can have such disregard for the damned?
If you live to be old and you fear for your soul there’s a man with a plan to redeem
And all it will cost is to carry your cross for a portion of grace to receive.
But don’t believe what you’re told, things are not what they seem
In the realm of the holy regime.
You can have your own mansion, the wards in expansion,
but once you’re there you never can leave.
Give my regards to Jesus, if ever he comes around
When they send me away, to that lake full of fire, think of me when the trumpets resound.
Give my regards to Prometheus; I would gladly lend him my flame.
No I don’t want the glory and I don’t want the fame, just a reallocation of blame.
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