“Usurpers in the Pulpit,” the latest single from Sapient Rain, is live on Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.
Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine, Suno.
You can listen to “Usurpers in the Pulpit” for free on Suno.
Usurpers in the Pulpit
They pray in Megachurches
In the heartland on a hill
With Mic’d-up MAGA pastors
Pushing lies and poison pills
The preachers fret to scare you
but tell you God is on your side
The trap they set ensnares you
And takes your lost soul for a ride
After wine and half-truths whispered
And communion wafer snacks
The paid-for-MAGA pastor
Launches fascist-fueled attacks
In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds
Pals in persecution
The grievance-driven crowd
Bathed in absolution
And a bigotry allowed
The violence that awaits us
Is sectarian in its hate
Gun toting bible thumpers
To make the US Great
They’ll legislate their creed
And burn the rest in smoke and ash
Put their ten upon the wall
Tossing yours into the trash
In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds
They’d rather force you to your knees,
Than let you worship as you wish
Live your life by their decrees
And Donny T as your commish
It’s not about the Magi
Or the Christ child in the manger
But how Jesus loves America and
Beware the stranger danger
Look at who they’ve chosen
To be the leader of their flock
An impetuous empty vessel
who has never taken stock
In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds
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