State of Decay Lyrics

STATE OF DECAY

WORDS AND MUSIC: POPE

© 2005 POPENOTES MUSIC (ascap)



IF GOD WERE YOUR FATHER

YOU WOULD LOVE ME

FOR I PROCEDED FORTH

AND CAME FROM GOD



NEITHER CAME I OF MYSELF

BUT HE SENT ME

WHY DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND

MY SPEECH?

BECAUSE YOU CAN'T

HEAR MY WORD

YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL

AND THE LUSTS OF YOUR FATHER



YOU SHALL DO



HE WAS A MURDERER

FROM THE BEGINNING

AND ABODE NOT IN THE TRUTH

THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM

WHEN HE SPEAKS A LIE

HE SPEAKS HIS OWN

FOR HE IS A LIAR

AND FATHER OF IT

AND BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH

YOU BELIEVE ME NOT



WHICH OF YOU

CONVINCE ME OF SIN?

AND IF I SAY THE TRUTH

WHY DO YOU NOT BELIEVE?

HE THAT IS OF GOD

HEARS GOD'S WORDS

YOU THEREFORE HEAR THEM NOT

BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT OF GOD

SAY WE NOT WELL

THAT YOU ARE A SAMARITAN

AND HAVE A DEVIL?

I HAVE NOT A DEVIL

BUT HONOUR MY FATHER

AND YOU DISHONOUR ME



I SEEK NOT MY OWN GLORY

THERE IS ONE THAT SEEKS AND JUDGES

NOW WE KNOW, YOU HAVE A DEVIL

ABRAHAM IS DEAD, AND THE PROPHETS

AND YOU SAY 'IF A MAN KEEP MY SAYING

HE SHALL NEVER TASTE OF DEATH'

ARE YOU GREATER THAN OUR FATHER ABRAHAM

WHO IS DEAD? AND THE PROPHETS ARE DEAD

WHOM MAKEST THOU THYSELF?



IF I HONOUR MYSELF

MY HONOUR IS NOTHING

IT IS MY FATHER

WHO HONOURS ME

OF WHOM

YOU SAY

'HE IS

YOUR GOD'



YET YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN HIM

BUT I KNOW HIM

IF I SAY I KNOW HIM NOT

I'D BE A LIAR LIKE YOU



BUT I KNOW HIM



AND I KEEP HIS SAYING

YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM

REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY



HE SAW AND WAS GLAD



YOU ARE NOT YET FIFTY YEARS OLD

AND YOU HAVE SEEN ABRAHAM?

VERILY, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU

BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS I AM

THEN THEY TOOK UP STONES

TO CAST AT HIM

YET JESUS HID HIMSELF

AND LEFT THE TEMPLE

(JOHN 8: 42 - 59)



IF I HONOUR MYSELF

MY HONOUR IS NOTHING

IT IS MY FATHER

WHO HONOURS ME

OF WHOM

YOU SAY

'HE IS

YOUR GOD'