歌曲 | Altar To the Unknown God |
歌手 | Theocracy |
专辑 | As the World Bleeds |
Build a fire and fan the flame | |
Sacrifice without a name | |
Offerings on the altar to the unknown god | |
Multitudes of gods cover our landscapes and our lives | |
Images of deities and halls of sacrifice | |
Philosophers and scholars and sophisticates we are | |
Our gods are our religion and religion is our god | |
A stranger came to town one day | |
And fearlessly proclaimed | |
“The unknown god you worship | |
On this altar has a name” | |
He said, “This god is not an image | |
Or a statue of the dead | |
In Him we live and have our being | |
As your own poets have said” | |
Build a fire and fan the flame | |
Sacrifice without a name | |
Offerings on the altar to the unknown god | |
Dance around the altar blaze | |
Brings the works your hands have made | |
Place them on the altar to the unknown god | |
He dwells not in temples | |
Built by human hands | |
He needs no assistance | |
Or service of man | |
The nameless you worship | |
Is greater than all | |
Your idols of death | |
Never answer your call | |
All nations He formed | |
From the flesh of one man | |
He marked out their times | |
And the boundaries of lands | |
Your life and your breath | |
He bestows with the day | |
So seek Him and find Him | |
For He is not far away | |
Fire upon the altar | |
Burns the sacrifice | |
Sacrificial lamb was slain to pay the final price | |
Come, ye heavy laden | |
Sinner’s mercy cry | |
The unknown God your call upon is nigh | |
Gather ‘round the altar | |
Stoke the holy fire | |
Purifying flames of righteousness | |
Are rising higher | |
Come ye hungry, eat the bread of life | |
And drink the wine | |
Altar to the living God divine | |
No image of stone or of silver and gold | |
No effigy mankind has raised to behold | |
The day and the hour of judgment is set | |
He’s proven Him by the resurrection of the dead | |
Build a fire and fan the flame | |
Sacrifice without a name | |
Offerings on the altar to the unknown god | |
Stand before the altar blaze | |
Bring the lives His hands have made | |
Place them on the altar to the one true god | |
Your unknown god | |
Is the one living God |
Build a fire and fan the flame | |
Sacrifice without a name | |
Offerings on the altar to the unknown god | |
Multitudes of gods cover our landscapes and our lives | |
Images of deities and halls of sacrifice | |
Philosophers and scholars and sophisticates we are | |
Our gods are our religion and religion is our god | |
A stranger came to town one day | |
And fearlessly proclaimed | |
" The unknown god you worship | |
On this altar has a name" | |
He said, " This god is not an image | |
Or a statue of the dead | |
In Him we live and have our being | |
As your own poets have said" | |
Build a fire and fan the flame | |
Sacrifice without a name | |
Offerings on the altar to the unknown god | |
Dance around the altar blaze | |
Brings the works your hands have made | |
Place them on the altar to the unknown god | |
He dwells not in temples | |
Built by human hands | |
He needs no assistance | |
Or service of man | |
The nameless you worship | |
Is greater than all | |
Your idols of death | |
Never answer your call | |
All nations He formed | |
From the flesh of one man | |
He marked out their times | |
And the boundaries of lands | |
Your life and your breath | |
He bestows with the day | |
So seek Him and find Him | |
For He is not far away | |
Fire upon the altar | |
Burns the sacrifice | |
Sacrificial lamb was slain to pay the final price | |
Come, ye heavy laden | |
Sinner' s mercy cry | |
The unknown God your call upon is nigh | |
Gather ' round the altar | |
Stoke the holy fire | |
Purifying flames of righteousness | |
Are rising higher | |
Come ye hungry, eat the bread of life | |
And drink the wine | |
Altar to the living God divine | |
No image of stone or of silver and gold | |
No effigy mankind has raised to behold | |
The day and the hour of judgment is set | |
He' s proven Him by the resurrection of the dead | |
Build a fire and fan the flame | |
Sacrifice without a name | |
Offerings on the altar to the unknown god | |
Stand before the altar blaze | |
Bring the lives His hands have made | |
Place them on the altar to the one true god | |
Your unknown god | |
Is the one living God |