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Why We Have A Hell

from If Every Day Were Like This One by John Callaghan

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Giving and forgiving
Get, don't forget why we have a Hell
It's for you and your kind to dwell
I won't say
But if I had my way
You'd be brought to task
I won't act but you're kind to ask
Stand on the mountain of bodies you've made
Find the sky is a screen where illusion is played
"Raise your head, have it struck from your neck" is your threat
So while you get the world all we get is upset
With no life after this one are karma and wrong
Heavy phrases that weigh down the ignorant throng
Who wear fear as their shackles, content as their stocks
As if already punished for leaving their box
Prayers and betrayers
Caring and despairing, sinners and saints
Humane, restrained and the faint-hearted
When you pray what is it that you say?
Is it "God, please be real"?
So you pray like you check the mail
Some dynamism in the system holds back decay
But too much and the friction will wear it away
So we withdraw at your advent and scowl in your wake
But we'll never confront you for security's sake
Can we cope with the fact people do what they can
And there's no cosmic justice or balance or plan?
So just 'cause it seems like there's evil and Hell
Doesn't mean there's a Heaven or goodness as well
Passive and aggressive
We grind our teeth as we go slowly mad
Hell's the vengeance we never had
Easy to resent and envy you
We keep it to ourselves
We want you here but we're in Hell
Could it be?
Is this purgatory created for ourselves?
Every wannabe in their own Hell
Taken and forsaken
We choose to care and so we have a Hell
It's for us and our kind to dwell

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from If Every Day Were Like This One, released May 15, 2020

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John Callaghan is an unusual songwriter / performer of thoughtful and spiky electronica from Birmingham (UK).
More of his songs can be found at bleep.com/artist/153 (the stuff on Warp Records, basically, including "I'm Not Comfortable Inside My Mind").
He is 173cm tall, weights 73kg and has a blood pressure of 110/60Hg. ... more

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