Step Outside

We’re comfortable with the agony

Of being free to do what we’re told.

The Beast walks now among us

Spitting out silver and eating our gold.

We’d sell our souls to serve him more

But it’s already sold

Rising from the Euphrates

Are the weeds we’ve planted there

And in the mountains of the North

Our hirelings seek their share

And in the vacuum of Suburbia

There’s no one who will care.

I’ve seen the sky is falling

And for a while I cried

But New Heaven and Earth are calling

So I think I’ll step outside.

I’ve seen the shepherds lead the lambs

To the stock-house where they died

I’ve stood in that line to go be damned

But I think I’ll step outside.

We were disillusioned

But we’re illusioned once again

We’ve seen our tallest towers fall

And used that for our sin

And when the water got too deep

We didn’t learn to swim.

We sang in the temple of Dagon

Tied the champion to our poles

We’ve watched Jericho from Ai

And built walls with bigger holes

We gave our ass to Balaam:

A prophet perfect for our souls.

I see the mountains rumbling

All the cowards soon will hide

Their caves and castles crumbling

But I think I’ll step outside.

The false signs all say “no smoking”

But I can see they lied

Everyone around me’s choking

So I think I’ll step outside.

Rebellion’s out of style

Since the first rebel became king

We fight to hear the freedom bells

But chains are all that ring

And whores and love are all the same

In all the songs we sing

We hear the call to arms

From the servant of the Beast

Who speaks in evil prophesies

Of bombs and war and peace

Calling us to fight for liberty

Who sadly is deceased

I hear his blasphemous calling:

His arrogance and pride

And I think that fire’s falling

So I think I’ll step outside

I’ve been inside with all of you

That cannot be denied

But now nightmares are coming true

So I think I’ll step outside.