Does your soul crave center stage?
Have you heard about the latest rage?
Read you Bible by lightning flash

Get ordained at the thunder crash
build a kingdom with a cattle prod
Tell the masses it's a message from God

Where the innocent congregate
I manipulate


Take your notebooks, turn with me
to the chapter on authority
Do you top the chain of command

Rule your family with an iron hand
I dispense little pills of power
From my hideaway ivory tower

From the cover of Heaven's gate
I manipulate


Not it's time to fill in the space
Where we talk about a woman's place
Do you want to build a happy home?

Have you sacrificed a mind of your own?
'Cause a good wife learns to cower
Underneath the umbrella of power

From the cover of Heaven's gate
I manipulate


Yes I now that parable
That's the story of the prodigal
If you question what I'm teaching you

You rebel against the Father too
If he loved him why'd he let him go?
Well, I guess I don't really know

But I see it's getting late...