They say he acted alone for a Europe white and free A sick and twisted man from an otherwise sane society The image of Aryan blond, almost iridescent With a manifesto quoting from the Crusades to the present But he stood on many shoulders, of this we can be sure A millenia of xenophobes who slaughter to be pure Since before the First Crusade, when a mighty Christian band Hacked and stabbed and burned their way to the Holy Land
They say he acted alone but in his mind he was another Of those who came before him, his mighty Christian brothers Who rode, covered in armor, and served their masters well They vowed to chastity, they vowed to kill the infidel They marauded west and east in the name of Christendom They killed Jews, pagans, Muslims, fellow Christians by the thousand In the name of Jesus, from the Jordan to the Rhine The red cross on their chest plates, their terrifying sign
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They say he acted alone, no one said this of the Pope Whose victims were left burning or hanging from a rope The Lord's own Inquisition for six centuries The ethnic cleansing of a continent, a Christian tyranny European Jews and European Muslims Fled the Christian Caliphate to be protected by the Sultan For five hundred years they prospered beneath the Turkish sky For those left behind: convert or die
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They say he acted alone but he's living in a country Where the xenophobic right is the second-biggest party And he's living on a continent that is over-run With Prime Ministers who tell us multiculturalism is done They talk of their traditions, they swell with Christian pride For their civilization built on holocaust and genocide Anders Breivik pulled the trigger but he didn't write the play That script was being written a thousand years ago today
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They say he acted alone and they want us to believe That moderating rhetoric is the best we can achieve but moderating rhetoric will bring us nowhere near To the understanding that the problem is right here European empires, European greed European Christians, poison European seeds European racists running European states European tolerance for European hate
In the shadow of the Knights TemplarTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
