The only authority you recognize Is your own puffed up self Your rigid knees bend no longer Your haughty lips utter prayers no more You still wear the mask Your followers are used to seeing They either cannot see through it Or they just joined you in the game and pretend Do not harden your heart Repent while you still have time You put yourself on a highly elevated throne You see yourself floating up in the heavens Your servants watch your glory from far down below You look on them with hardly concealed despise Do not harden your heart Repent while you still have time Cast down imaginations That have exalted themselves against the knowledge of God Egotheist