Countless pointing fingers   A nameless crowd too swollen to analyze   Takes a rise out of the stranger   Don't know where he's come from   Bum fuck raises birds of paradise   They surmise - very wise   One night they witnessed   How he lit his back door winds   Fire turned the night into day   And they prayed, fell on their knees   And turned their glances off his face,   They know they've been chosen to obey      Pardon me   Raise a graven image   I'm the new messiah for the world   You can't see the splendor of my nimbus   But I'm the new messiah for the world   For the blind      The word shall spread like wildfire   Here you got a new messiah holding sway   Delightful game   Don't you give away: I'm no redeemer   But bring me grapes and diamonds right away   And a maid to lay...      One day oblivion will swallow up my fame   The common run of mankind will forget my name   Forget my name   Like a phoenix rising someone else is gonna reign   'Til then you know that you are to obey - me      Pardon me   Raise a graven image   I'm the new messiah for the world   You can't see the splendor of my nimbus   But I'm the new messiah for the world   I'm a new messiah for the world      Wooooh...      Gluttony and ecstasy, there's velvet on my dais   Lions, ladies, rotaries they never spare with praise   A million pointing fingers   Have turned to clapping hands   Now I'm off to Betty Ford,   See you in hell my friends      Pardon fucking me, who the fucking fuck is Jesus   Motherfucking new messiah   For the fucking world       Pardon me   Raise a graven image   I'm the new messiah for the world   You can't see the splendor of my nimbus   But I'm the new messiah for the world   I'm the new messiah for the blind   For the blind