Hear me now for I am bound to offend True poets and artist should not have to amend For telling the truth is a painful burden They poisoned Socrates in Athens But in Salem the Protestants would have burned him If history serves as witness To the actions of the witless I think I recall Some of the greatest crimes of all Were perpetrated by the men of cloth From fascist to capitalist Faithful extremist to creationist Men betrayed the word Or they misinterpreted what they heard We know that Zeus and Hercules were merely tales of fiction And that the stories Thor and Odin were of similar tradition So tell me in this moment of musing Why does the ark seem so confusing How many animals can you fit on a boat Before the predator is at your throat How big would the fish story have to be Before you realize you have been deceived One woman and man are fore bearers of all With only two sons they must have been an incestuous cabal Then there is free will or so I recall But that can’t be the case if God knows it all In my confusion I must be mistaken For the Ten Commandments can’t be literally taken Thou shalt not covet **** or steal So I wonder how you would feel If the people who say that these are their rules Surveyed your land, said it was okay To pick and choose which laws they would obey Then they proceeded to **** and to maim Anyone who got in they way of their claim How many lies can you find in a book that man has wrote This will not win me any friends But by challenging old ideals the search for truth begins And for that I will never apologize But when they come to burn me at the stake I will probably run and hide