Another Christ is on the cross The nails are words The nails are lies To make it crawl And make it scream And make it real And make it bleed And make it bleed And make it bleed And make it dream Imitation of Christ Imitation of Christ This you who lie and scream You fall to dust You fall to dust In walls of words Your words are blind You speak and you are dumb and blind The word that is your god Is you who fall so low and fall so far Imitation of Christ Imitation of Christ Fly to the moon dear Sew it on a stool Tie on the carpet all the cowboys fall See the cowboys fat and reeling Dancing underneath the ceiling Leave the bar the theatre's closing Make a wall of your religion Imitation of Christ Imitation of Christ Mary mary Mother mother You and me and God the father Jesus is a woman too He looks like all of me and you Your money talks and All your friends Will laugh at her pathetic tits Imitation of Christ Imitation of Christ Imitation of Christ Imitation
see the people dead in cars see their bodies bleed i know he's so dead and gone i think that is free his body is upon the wall his teeth are sharp and white we cut his eyes with razorblades and out of him comes foul white light in the eastern carpet store he is made of dreams put his picture on the wall just where the mirror gleams his body is upon the wall his teeth are sharp and white we cut his face with razorblades and out of him comes foul white light his power's all around his feet there's flowers in his heart if you take the needles out his body falls apart his body is upon the wall his teeth are sharp and white we cut his hands with razorblades and out of him comes foul white light make a god of politics make a god of police worship it with automobiles worship it with screams his body is upon the wall his teeth are sharp and white he cuts his feet with razorblades and out of him comes foul white light make a god of useless drivel sew it at the seams float it down the river where the sewage is the sea his body is upon the wall his teeth are sharp and white he cuts his teeth with razorblades and out of him came stupid light that's flowers
