[Feat. Bruce Fitzhugh]
Sixteen, Oh holy day
Your time has come and passed
The rapture weave been waiting for
Has
come to us at last
Sixteen for every fake
Sixteen to every whore
Wipe that dirt from off your face
Sixteen is at your
door
Oh, voiceless, wasted
You soaked your heart in gasoline
Now light it up and burn
[Chorus:]
The same cycle
ever-turning you is calling
Itas calling
The scene is begging for a grave tonight
It always, it always will
You take the
name of love divine
And drag it through your blood
Now turn to face what you have made
And mourn what you have done
Oh,
voiceless, wasted
You soaked your heart in gasoline
Now light it up and burn
Voiceless, wasted
I came this far to drag you
down
And watch you take your turn
[Chorus]
Farewell to false pretension
Farewell to hollow words
Farewell to fake
affection
Farewell, tomorrow burns
[Chorus]
[Having played in bands for well over a decade, Iave learned a lot of things
about many of the people involved in aChristiana music. I put the word Christian in quotes, because unfortunately, many of the things that
I have witnessed lead me to believe that there are a lot of people involved in Christian music that should not be adopting the term
aChristiana at all.
For many of us in bands, this is a common tale. For others, it may be news. And donat get me wrong here- Iam
not saying that since these people are Christians, they cannot fail. They can and will fail, and that is to be expected. However, there is
a level of failure, as a Christian, as a human, without remorse or repentance that begs to be questioned.
aSixteena is in regard to
the minute. Some people are fortunate enough to have fifteen minutes of fame. For these aChristiansa that I speak of, living Godless,
perverse lives, I beg for minute sixteen. I beg for the end of their undeserved fame, for the end of spiritual fraudulence, and the end of
their time in this scene.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against
the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and
that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
-Malachi 3:5]