Accountability Or Prejudice? 50.1 [EXPLICIT]

[Verse] The lines are blurring in the dusty desert air A heavy silence that a free man shouldn't bear I’ll stand against the hate for any sacred name But I won’t let a crown hide behind a holy flame. [Verse] They’re building walls out of the prayers of the devout To keep the light of truth and honest questioning out If I point a finger at the hand that holds the pen They tell me that I’m striking at the souls of better men. [Chorus] Is it accountability or is it prejudice you see When I ask the leaders what they’re doing to be free Don’t wrap a nation’s choices in a cloth of ancient grace Just to hide the mirrors and the lines upon your face. [Verse] A country ain't a temple and a law is not a prayer And power shouldn't vanish into incense and into air To critique the scepter isn't to defile the stone But they’ve claimed the altar just to fortify the throne. [Bridge] They say to speak a word against the way the borders bleed Is to plant a garden full of dark and hateful weed But the spirit and the state were never meant to be the same So don’t you dare go shielding all your choices in His name. [Chorus] Is it accountability or is it prejudice you see When I ask the leaders what they’re doing to be free Don’t wrap a nation’s choices in a cloth of ancient grace Just to hide the mirrors and the lines upon your face. [Instrumental Break] [Verse] So I’ll keep on asking while the sun begins to set For the things they’ve done and the things they haven't yet Truth is not a burden and the light is not a sin Even when it’s shining on the house they’re living in.