A thousand tears, a thousand eyes   My friends and I, we cry   Religion has raped us   Forever we rehearse the song   That strips our throats to blood   We bare our souls in transparency   But our velvet tongues will never please their ears   But are you holding on?   I'm holding on   Look at us dying   A field of human crucifixes, weathered and fading   Heaven hears nothing as the priests are wailing   And they're crushing our souls   We feel our lives   Sifting through our hands   But we're holding on   Look at my face   Look at God in my eyes   We stand