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Shift the Focus

from Solarcaine for Followers by Shane Smith

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Originally "O Steve Rogers" on Helements of Armory 2 (out-of-print)

Dispensationalist Premillennialism is one of the scariest things modern Christianity has ever introduced. Meant to be scary via the late Larry Norman. Meant to be uplifting by Lahaye and Jenkins.

That opening line's supposed to be a reference to "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" by Norman.

lyrics

Demons wine and dine souls
temp them with shifted love
that's not the middle of the road
instead your new corruption
when the Exodus begins again
and seven years of pain set in
don't think of it as here today,
gone tomorrow - it's not that way

heavenly joy is surreal to me
sexual energy flows aplenty
you're enriched with the Spirit
hormonal kind of transcendence
you think you feel pent up
during the rave-up, but the snub
towards people not of His persuasion
seven years without libidinous occasion

if Heaven is unfiltered
like the water from a river
you'll be submissive
we need to shift the focus

things aren't much better aboard
trying to turn you into a new soldier
a new body with energy soaring
but as pathetic as a sterile sinner
God won't let you get relief
or rather, his seraphim in charge of training
smashing down Applebee's, pent-up, no release
your misery turns you to slowly rely on Him

if Heaven is unfiltered
like the water from a river
you'll be submissive
we need to shift the focus

demons wine and dine Souls
break Syd's mind with open windows
you're now the slave of a new order
one Schulberg said Will Rogers was forever
any change is unwelcome during the charge
selfish is the new Golden Rule in our
contemporary one-way-truth society
isn't that what Premillennialism is, you son of a bitch?!

if Heaven is unfiltered
like the water from a river
you'll be submissive
we need to shift the focus

Jerry and Tim, this is what you've wanted now
N-I-C-O-L-A-E

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from Solarcaine for Followers, released September 15, 2015
Shane Smith - vocals, guitars, keyboards

Samples:

"O Superman" by Laurie Anderson (Big Science - Warner Bros., 1982)

Inspiration:

"Amen, Brother" by the Winstons
"Hot Metal Doberman's" and "Flypaper" by Brainiac (Bonsai Superstar - Grass, 1994)
"Mr. Blues" by Moby Grape (Moby Grape - Columbia, 1967)

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