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I Want My God and I Want My Guns

from Three Cheers for the Firing Squad (EP) by Swamp

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Written and Recorded 2010-2011 at Architoa Studios in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Lies! O victimless reapers;
Weave in to night their cunning and sick illusion of Christ.
Dire! O visionless dreamers;
Blinded and sleepless.

Anxious anticipation;
And when death takes you,
You’ll wish that life had been more precious
(to you, won’t you?)

Fire! We’ve burnt all your steeples;
Engulfed in purifying flame.


Pray! No one is listening.
Gray! Deadly and glistening;
Dull glassy eyes judge human lives.
Slay! Your God commands it.

(Take me home)

Hypocrisy!

I want my God and I want my guns
To cling to.
Pilgrims to the church of the atomic bomb:
Bearing their crosses,
Armed to the teeth.
I want my God and my guns
To cling to.
(Religiously)
I want my God and my guns
To cling to.
(Desperately)

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from Three Cheers for the Firing Squad (EP), track released May 13, 2011
Lyrics and Music by Stephen Hoffman

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Swamp Portland, Oregon

Formed in early 2010, Swamp is a four member one-man-band consisting of the collective figments of the various musical imaginations of Stephen Hoffman, slowly and painstakingly integrated into a coherent musical form through excessive amplification, anal-retentive drum programming, and the lyrical genius gleaned from hours of extended screaming matches with mirrors. ... more

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