The Great Denial Lyrics


"Finally your priest has gone leaving Marie to carry on the work, the relic floats

above a pool in the floor in which live three carp. As Marie watches the relic

drops into the pool, it becomes alive and with a swish of its tail it disappears

into the depths, She is taken aback as an image of a man standing in seawater

close to the shore is imprinted on her mind, he leans forward and brings out

of the water a fish exactly the same as the relic, it moves in his hand but then

becomes quite rigid and takes on the form of a lamp again. She realizes who the

man is and thinks to herself Yes, John is a fisher and would be a fisher of men."

Now the story's ending the priest has left her tending

His passions and his dreams

We did what we could to carry the word to the good

We put up a hell of a fight

Our plan to spread the word

Was sadly never heard, dismay

But John's holy word is passed on

To true believers to this day, they say

Barren without issue I am the last of my line

Sadly the world will continue to follow a lie

Though living my life full of pride...

..it's hard to face

This great, this great denial

Now I must tend that which I can't comprehend

What part this old relic plays in our story

My mind full of pictures shows me it's true path to glory

Inside the tower is a pool full of power

Sometimes shallow sometimes deep

My vision tells me to set the fish free

And with a swish of its tail it swims deep

In the depths of the pool there is a man standing in golden light

His cohorts cry John you're a fisher of men so right

The vision so strong fades away

I'm overwhelmed but I must face the rest of the day

Proven but that's not to say

It's right, not a great, a great, a great denial

People have worshipped Christ for 2000 years or more

A moral usurper of that we can be sure

They pray out of habit but surely there must be more

They pray with a poisoned mind

A thousand thoughts run through my mind

What we could have achieved with time

We tried so hard to give them more

Our money and our will to help the poor

We gave them stature and the right

To worship whatever deity they like

We hoped they'd take a different road

But in hindsight though they'll worship who they're told

Now that our tale's been told

I'm feeling so very old

Too old to continue this fight

They were given a choice to stand with what's right

But they eschew all, despite the warnings of the past

The warnings of the last to see

Browbeat into silence, the real truth ignored, denied

A messiah deemed a savior, in reality

An emperor without any clothes

John's the true savior

His ring adorns the finger of the pope

One day the truth will be known

But until there will only be

The great, the great denial

Step into the future there's something you have to know

A new world arises scales will fall from their eyes and show

A new world order based on the truth not a tome

Decreed by a failing Rome

Footnote:

The ring worn by modern Popes is the Ring of John, the fisher of men.

So in fact people who worship the Pope are in fact

Worshipping John and not Jesus Christ