Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Precious Puritans, artist - Propaganda. Album song Selected Songs, in the genre Рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 03.03.2016
Record label: Humble Beast
Song language: English
Precious Puritans |
Hey Pastor you know it’s hard for me when you quote Puritans |
Oh, the precious Puritans |
Have you not noticed our facial expressions? |
One of bewilderment, and heartbreak, like «Not you too, Pastor» |
You know they were chaplains on slave ships, right? |
Would you quote Columbus to Cherokees? |
Would you quote Cortez to Aztecs, even if they theology was good? |
It just sings a blind privilege, wouldn’t you agree? |
Your precious Puritans |
They looked my onyx and bronze skinned forefathers in they face |
Their polytheistic, God-hating face |
Their shackled, diseased, imprisoned, face |
And taught a Gospel that said that God had multiple images in mind when He |
created us in it |
Therefore destined salvation contains a contentment |
In the stage for which they were given |
Which is to be owned by your forefather’s superior, image bearing face |
Says your precious Puritans |
And my anger towards this teaching screams of an immature doctrine |
And a misunderstanding of the Gospel |
I should be content in this stage, right? |
Isn’t that what Paul taught, according to your precious Puritans? |
Oh you get it, but you don’t get it |
Oh that we can go back to an America that once were |
Founded on Christian values |
They don’t build preachers like they used to |
Oh the richness of their revelation |
It must be nice to not have to consider race |
It must be nice to have time to contemplate the stars |
Pastor, your color-less rhetoric is a cop out |
You see my skin, and I see yours |
And they are beautiful, fearfully and wonderfully, divinely designed |
Uniqueness |
Shouldn’t we celebrate that rather than act like it ain’t there? |
I get it |
Your Puritans got it, but |
How come the things the Holy Spirit showed them |
In the Valley of Vision |
Didn’t compel them to knock on they neighbor’s door |
And say «you can’t own people!» |
Your precious puritans were not perfect |
You romanticize them as if they were inerrant |
As if the skeletons in they closet was pardoned due to they hard work and |
tobacco growth |
As if abolitionists were not racists and just pro-union |
As if God only spoke to white boys with epic beards |
You know Jesus didn’t really look like them paintings |
That was just Michaelangelo’s boyfriend |
Your precious Puritans |
Oh they got it but they don’t get it |
There’s not one generation of believers that has figured out the marriage |
between proper doctrine and action |
Don’t pedestal these people |
Your precious Puritan’s partners purchased people |
Why would you quote them? |
Step away |
Think of the congregation that quotes you |
Are you inerrant? |
Trust me, I know the feeling |
Same feeling I get when people quote me like if they only knew |
See I get it, but I don’t get it, huh |
Ask my wife |
And it bothers me when you quote Puritans, if I’m honest |
For the same reason it bothers me when people quote me |
They precious Propaganda |
So I guess it’s true that God really does use crooked sticks |
To make straight lines |
Just like your precious Puritans |