4th century BC
Plato
- Idealism — forms over particulars
- The Republic ethic: “God is not the author of evil”
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
There was a covering once, there was a robe of skin,
There was a borrowed name, there was a costume in.
There were the words that the religious tongues had said,
There were the prayers the moralists had prayed in dread.
But the throne came down and the glass came down,
And the rendering ran without the costume around.
The robe was paper. The name was on loan.
The page was rendered. They stood there alone.
[Pre-chorus]
And the gaze that the elect saw as the sun -
Was the gaze the uncovered could not outrun.
Same Father. Same throne. Same light.
The covering was the difference between glory and night.
[Chorus]
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
The robe was a rumor and the rumor slipped!
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
The page was rendered and the soul was stripped!
The fire is the gaze without the covering on!
The fire is the Father and the costume gone!
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
Every covering they wove - was stripped!
[Verse 2]
The pastor had a robe of forty years of light,
The moralist had a robe of every Sunday night.
The decision-day man had a robe of raised hands,
The tribe had a robe of the gatekeeper's stand.
And every robe was paper at the rendering hour,
And every covering folded at the Father's power.
Only one robe held - the Lamb's woven blood,
And the rest were ash before the Father's flood.
[Pre-chorus]
And the gaze that the elect saw as the sun -
Was the gaze the uncovered could not outrun.
Same Father. Same throne. Same light.
The covering was the difference between glory and night.
[Chorus]
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
The robe was a rumor and the rumor slipped!
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
The page was rendered and the soul was stripped!
The fire is the gaze without the covering on!
The fire is the Father and the costume gone!
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
Every covering they wove - was stripped!
[Final Chorus]
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
The robe was a rumor and the rumor slipped!
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
The page was rendered and the soul was stripped!
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
The Father's gaze and the costume ripped!
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
The pastor and the prophet of the tribe were stripped!
STRIPPED! STRIPPED!
Every covering they wove - was stripped!
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