Kneeling at the altar of your own design Chanting hollow prayers to ease your mind You speak of righteousness while casting stones Building walls of faith from broken bones The book becomes your sword, the cross your shield But mercy's just a word you'll never yield In shadows of the temple, darkness grows While light abandoned dies where judgment flows Tell me, where's the love you claim to hold? When your heart's grown bitter, dead and cold Blinded by the light you think you see Drowning in your false divinity God's name on your lips, but hate in your soul Playing the saint while losing control Blinded by the light, you've lost your way In the name of heaven, you've chosen to stray Neither faith nor doubt defines our worth Neither prayer nor silence saves this earth The measure of a soul lies in its deeds Not in the holy book that someone reads Your God of wrath was born from human rage While love lies bleeding, trapped within a cage I choose to free it from your chains of guilt And watch compassion rise from what you've spilt So rise up from the ashes of your creed Plant gardens where you once sowed poisonous seed The divine lives not in temples made of stone But in the kindness that we've always known Your prophets built their towers reaching high While forgetting those who suffer and who cry I'll walk my path with conscience as my guide No need for gods to stand here by my side Blinded by the light you'll never see Lost within your own hypocrisy Heaven's just a word you've weaponized While humanity's been sacrificed Blinded by the light, your faith's a lie In the name of love, you've learned to die When the silence falls and judgment ends Will your God forgive what you defend? Or will you find that all along you've been Blinded by the light Blinded by the light Blinded by the light within