Savage Numbers Video (MV)

Hobgoblins scribbling down the form of their preferred afterlife
With a promise to burn for voicing contention
As seven billion minds try to reach an aggregate faith
We frolic on the edge of oblivion
The flock disintegrates into a carnal cabal
Present tense convictions ablating epiphanies
Polarizing attitudes prevail
(And the rest can go to hell)
"The fire and the flames will burn
Both wet and dry together" - Muslim proverb
May the Buddha smile upon our folly today

God sees fit to allow 30,000 children to starve to death every day
The protocol of loss is a sophisticated kind of treachery
Laced with random acts of kindness, a deceptive ministry, indeed
"Judge us by our charity, not the millions that we bleed"

Cunning acquisition of the moral high ground
Then regression into consensual idiocy
Disparity nested in ambiguity
We are each accountable for our own
Delusions and episodic faith
Forgive and forget assumptions of propriety

So billions are damned to everlasting flames?
Condemned by being born into the wrong theocracy
The sickest of fantasies! Praying for another's misery

I find no solace in your decrepit prophecies
Your fables hold no sway over me
"I am terrified by the eternal silence of those infinite spaces." - Pascal

And in summation you will find as equations align
The absolute value of faith was a negative

Charlatans of hope breathing meaning into a drowning mind
Gasping for truth
Managing god IN ABSENTIA
My moral entrails spilled by the scathing acceptance of promises
That would wither a lesser deity than you
Two billion vote for this god
A billion favor that fraud
With mutually exclusive salvation

Still everyone is mystified by these unholy savage numbers
Yet the significance of ONE remains

The progeny of priests are these everlasting savage numbers
The sacrifice of millions for nothing
Once upon a time-like loop, love was providential
There was no god to deny us our potential

History cannot erase these savage numbers
Oh, let us pray to resurrect our sanity

Dedicated to the late, brilliant, and most rational
Thinker of our time, Christopher Hitchen