Verse 1
Father Abraham heard a voice
Left his home without a map.
Walked toward a promise in the dark,
Never looking back.
The stars above were counting sons,
The dust beneath his feet.
Every step was bought with faith,
Every road with grief.
Verse 2
Joseph dreamed what others feared,
His brothers sold him down.
The stone they cast into the pit
Returned wearing a crown.
Truth is always hated first,
Before it's understood.
The hand that saves a starving man
Is stained with brother's blood.
Chorus
We always kill the messenger,
Then build his grave in stone.
Bow before our golden calves,
Then say we serve alone.
Searching for the kingdom
While the mirror stands ignored.
Rejecting every answer
Then blaming it on the Lord.
Verse 3
Moses fled into the desert,
Forty years beneath the sky.
Fire burned inside a bush
That never seemed to die.
He led them from captivity,
Yet all they longed to do
Was trade the living mystery
For idols they once knew.
Bridge
Heaven is not built by hands.
No temple holds the flame.
The Holy One is whispering,
But we worship only names.
The prophets cried through every age,
The pattern never ends.
The righteous stand abandoned
By their own familiar friends.
Final Chorus
We always kill the messenger,
Then carve his face in gold.
Write another sacred law
To keep the blind controlled.
The witness isn't somewhere else,
He's standing in your skin.
The trial never ended—
It begins and ends within.
Outro
The heavens opened for a man
The world was throwing stones.
He saw what hate could never see...
No one dies alone.
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