Judge me for what I am The passage of death Who don't pay their sins You wage nothing You gain nothing Everybody's down from here on in Heed my words hear me calling Citizens watch Their stealing our freedom Promises left to die And long forgotten The government's lost Tantamount to treason Tedious the way we fall in Avenging the cause A rebel with a reason For the lies Yet war keeps callin more home I been forsaken For I am a patriot Judge me for what I am The passage of death Who don't pay their sins You wage nothing You gain nothing Everybody's down from here on in Need my trust To tie the blindfold Bled for my nation saluted the flag Seeds of hate Beneath numbered the tombstones Crowding more Pledge my religion in ruins and rags Heed my words hear me calling Bled for my nation saluted the flag Promises left to die And long forgotten Pledge my religion in ruins and rags Out of my mind so easily I've left behind so many dreams Judge me for what I am The passage of death Who don't pay their sins You wage nothing You gain nothing Everybody's down from here on in Heed my words hear me calling Citizens watch Their stealing our freedom Promises left to die And long forgotten The government's lost Tantamount to treason Tedious the way we fall in Avenging the cause A rebel with a reason For the lies Yet war keeps callin more home I been forsaken For I am a patriot Out of my mind so easily I've left behind so many dreams Spiritual blindness poisons me Not living on living on my knees Out of my mind so easily I've left behind so many dreams Spiritual blindness poisons me Not living on or dying on my knees