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Odd Thomas - Television Evangelist
(from the album The Divine Use of Animosity & Ridicule)
© copyright 2006, Odd Thomas

[Chorus]

I'm your television evangelist
we're comin' through your idiot box
more crooked than LA cops
I'm your television evangelist
we're looking fresh up on your screen
Armani suits and gold rings
I'm your television evangelist
I wave my coat in the air
with tattooed lips and pink hair
I'm your television evangelist
I get paid for fake tears
deviously scamming them for years

its a billion dollar industry
a spiritual conspiracy
the pick pocket plan for the promised land
a catholic simile
a representation of crooked christian revelations
so called prophets profitin a non-profit organization
church catastrophe
blasphemy
sheep getting seduced by the serpent's seductive flattery
attracted to the peaceful picture that pumps in your coaxial cable
misconception of direction and notion of bein more stable
donation for a blessing?
start second guessing
if you don't know the answers than ask the questions
learn for yourself, develop an understanding
if it's God's plan for when the fall from the breath of a physical man
flashes from a fashion
wine glasses
filled with deadly sips
14 karat gold con-silhouettes and tattooed lips
lusting for the loot using life as a gimmick
mimicking TBN to exploit the children of the immanent
It's capital gain
and a righteous plane
and I might just aim
these lyrics to point the blame
pass points to fan the flame
alms for the fame
go for the blood stain
master card to break the chains
offering plate for the pain
I'm alert
to the tricky broadcast network
and how they flirt
with the notions to get finance's smartest new converts
they don't love 'em that's why they take advantage of them
they tempting sheep using guilt as a means to govern them
you're just a Benny Henn heretic
trying convict to get chips
they tryin'a get rich off the sick
it's monetary gain derived from mind control
"give a donation of 20 dollars, and I'll pray for your soul"

[Chorus]