Father Knows Best

from No More Hiding by Ancient Filth

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Father knows best. The great protector and all knowing judge. Our king! Our savior! The one to keep us in line. The one who shames us into following along. If he wasn't there to watch over us and protect us what would we do? Would we kill? Would we steal? Chaos would ensue?
Nature is dirty and ugly. We need to separate us out from the natural order of things. He can organize us better than ourselves. Give up our authority to his power. But if we didn't, we would have to live like the animals. Daddy, I'm not ready to be like them. We need a system that puts value on all this terrible terrible world. Your structure saves us. It keeps us safe. It keeps reminding me I'm the problem. I want to give in. I want to survive. I want it to make sense.
I want you to be my morality for me. Control control control me. You know that I cannot see.
It's the great lie of civilization, the lie of the father, the lie of the system. You're a violent selfish child. God you’re the devil soul stealing fraud. Claim there is only one way to live and it sounds like fear is your way. Father! Father! Save me! Father! Father! You know what's right for me.
Might makes right, protect me. Father! Father! Save me!

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from No More Hiding, released September 20, 2023

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