Like This, Like That
Breaking Chains: Unveiling the Deceptive Path to Faith
Lyrics
Two nice young gentlemen
Introduction of two polite individuals
Come and approach your door
Approaching your door, possibly for a conversation
Rehearsing lines to testify you've heard it all before
Rehearsing lines to claim familiarity with your experiences
Nice looking suits and plastic smiles
Well-dressed with fake smiles
With an official looking name tag
Wearing official-looking name tags as a deceptive facade
A lie dressed to the nines is your red flag
A lie presented in an impressive manner as a warning sign
They'll say "Follow a list of rules
Promoting a set of rules and rituals, but the listener rejects their sales pitch
And man made rituals"
-You won't buy their sales pitch
-Saying "God's like this
Describing manipulative messages about God's nature and claiming exclusive truth
God's like that
-This is how he needs you to act"
-"God's like this
-God's like that
-We got the truth and that's a matter of fact"
-"God's like this
Emphasizing hard work and fear-based consequences
God's like that
-You gotta work work work 'til you're dead"
-They'll say "God's like this
-God's like that
-If you're not good enough then he'll have your head"
-They'll say "the truth was lost along the way
Claiming a lost truth, suggesting extra books or distorted interpretations
The church fell into apostasy
-Read this extra book we made
-Or twist the one that God already gave"
-But you'll kindly decline
Rejecting the false narrative, expressing frustration and regret
You'll shut the door and cry
-Sinking to your knees your anger pointing at the sky
-Cause they don't know you were them
-You're haunted by your past
-So many years you can't get back
-Saying "God's like this
Reiterating the manipulative messages with a focus on inadequacy
God's like that
-This is how he needs you to act"
-"God's like this
-God's like that
-We got the truth and that's a matter of fact"
-"God's like this
-God's like that
-You gotta work work work 'til you're dead"
-They'll say "God's like this
-God's like that
-If you're not good enough then he'll have your head"
-You're not good enough
Highlighting feelings of unworthiness and carrying the burden of the world
You're not good enough
-You're not good enough
-Is all you've heard
-So to compensate
-You have held the weight
-Of all the world
-On your shoulders
-But that ain't the way
Rejecting the idea that good deeds can outweigh mistakes
No amount of good you do will cover your mistakes
-All is forgiven if you just believe
Emphasizing forgiveness through belief and criticizing self-righteousness
And grace is a gift
-That they soiled with their self-righteousness
-Just turn away from self sufficiency
Encouraging trust in the liberating power of faith
Trust alone in the one who can set you free
-So if you've always felt something off
Acknowledging a sense of something being wrong and questioning authority
Well you've been catching on
-You're right to think that something's wrong
-When they say
Repeating the manipulative messages, emphasizing the consequences of inadequacy
"God's like this
-God's like that
-This is how he needs you to act"
-"God's like this
-God's like that
-We got the truth and that's a matter of fact"
-"God's like this
-God's like that
-You gotta work work work 'til you're dead"
-They'll say "God's like this
-God's like that
-If you're not good enough then he'll have your head"
Stating the severe consequences if one is deemed not good enough
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