Idols Gone lyrics

I have lived and found the value

Of those who would sit in judgment

As if delegated to pronounce

By some great authority unnamed

For prerequisites so spate

Lend them advantage to pontificate

Through their gyrating aspersions

Do not detract from diversions

At times we are all prone to fumble

Or unattentively occasionally stumble

But some would rather point and prod

Than admit or recognize they are not God

Time has claimed them at last

Bit by bit their age has passed

Yet no legacy good was left behind

No one at their showing, save aligned

Whispered words yet impeaching

Challenge acts and words preaching

Now nothing save the grave to mute all

The earth blankets where misdeeds fall

Oh, but to be just a good person

True kindness and compassion

They are the qualities of saints

No position or title forgo such traits

But what once was important to retain

To recall collectively the follies slain

Now are eraser as if chains that sullied

They fall to the ground ecstatically muddied

So freedom is granted by time's peise

The harbinger of death's justice

Where wagging tongues are silenced

And control and guilt are distressed

Those idols, self-adored, e're dissenter

Shall no longer sit in splendor

In temples of offerings to intrigue

Their worship no more a modest collegue