How can you stand on sinking sand
When you’ve been given solid land?
Your wonderless, immobile feet
Resign themselves ever to sink
All your axioms of oblivion*
Paralyzing the joy that we would sing
I won’t suffer this unholy** war of yours
Tonight we break the floor
Shatter the prison doors
Tonight we break the floor
Can’t hold back anymore
Tonight we break the floor
We drop the beat and you won’t dance
Sad songs we grieve and you won’t cry***
Fragmented, disembodied life****
No wonder you can’t sympathize
But if we don’t shout, all the stones cry out
So I’ll give you one last chance
To use your feet for what they were made for
Tonight we break the floor
Shatter the prison doors
Tonight we break the floor
Can’t hold back anymore
Tonight we break the floor
(Get up and move your feet, come on let’s go!)
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!^
Tonight we break the floor
Shatter the prison doors
Tonight we break the floor
Can’t hold back anymore
Tonight we break the floor
* - Proto-Gnosticism of the 1st century, merging dualistic Greek metaphysics into an otherwise earthy and organic Hebrew view of the human person.
** - Spirit of Antichrist, viz 1 John 4:2-3.
*** - Matt 11:17, paraphrased
**** - A second reference to Gnosticism
^ - Psalm 150
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