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In the False Church

from Songs for Friends by Physick

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lyrics

Darkness in the temple---
some lamps are burning low.
“He’ll come any second!”
They’ve been saying that for years.
And while they sleep,
their nightmares are awake . . .
And they try to run
on their legs of gum.
If only they’d just wake up.
But the watchmen’s trumpets are snoring.
From the once Puritan North
and to the Bible-belt South,
the church is lukewarm
in Jesus’ mouth.
Neither hot to restore,
nor cold to refresh---
the church: of the world,
in the flesh.
Pay her wage as she has paid:
with mourning and poverty
and pestilence and plague.
All of the nations have drunk her wine;
she played the harlot
when she should have been mine.
And who will mourn Babylon’s whore
when she gets what’s coming
from the Angel of the Lord?
From a safe distance, the merchants cry,
“Who will buy our idols
when the fake church dies?”
[Lamentations 5:14--22]

credits

from Songs for Friends, released July 1, 2011
lead/backing vocals, classical/electric guitars, upright bass, piano, synth: Phil Hodges
outro/spoken vocals, acoustic/electric drums, e. guitars, e. bass: Michael Minkoff
trumpet: Justus Stout

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Physick Sugar Hill, Georgia

Physick consists of composer and multi-instrumentalist Phil Hodges and lyricist producer Michael Minkoff.
Difficult to label, Physick's music richly rewards those who are willing to hear it on its own terms.

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