Through the confusion you see an illusion:
In this world, sex and leprosy
God never said a word to me
Your ‘eternal soul’
Reduced to flesh in disease
Run the race alone between the soil and the sky
An echoing silence to answer your cries
I have one question to ask him
I know I’ve only got so much time
Went out in the desert
Dragged myself through Hell
Bent every muscle, every nerve to the cause
Only to come face to face with:
Everyone gets what they deserve
Everyone gets their just desserts
Everyone gets what they want
Everyone’s going to die
God wants some suffering, God hates your lies
God grinds under heel when you try to survive
“So relieved to discover God loves you”?
Nailed to the cross of your hate for this life
--That’s your faith! Do you feel deserted?
You dragged yourself through Hell
Believed every word, but in Death
Only come face to face with
Yourself.

The Kingdom of Heaven is Flesh
To the ends of the earth and no more
Every shudder, every shivering night
Until the maggots come to carry you home
When your heroes are slaughtered, your lovers are raped
World of shit--no one gets out alive--no escape
It’s not hard to believe, is it--
That in death you will be “saved”
Went out in the desert, dragged myself through Hell
I have a growing suspicion that there’s no secret to tell

Reap what you sow in blood red sex
Deathblood red and needle tracks
As your illusions kick the last nail in
You plead for mercy, plead to Just Stop Wanting
[But I:] Once waited to return to clay
Now transfigured in Fire I pray
If nothing else is left for me
To exalt in pain
I choose to bleed
Bleed
Born Again, out in the desert
Walking in God’s steps
Whispered the secret to me:
Silence as sure as Death
I went out in the desert
Dragged myself through Hell
Knocking down Heaven’s door
I only come face to face with
Myself.