Looking for redemption                  

Fearing for my soul                          

The key to my salvation                  

Hidden like the Dead Sea scrolls    

Did he walk on water                      

Did he raise the dead                                  

How could he feed five thousand  

With only fish and bread                

 

Did they really happen                      

The stories we’ve been told   

Or was he just a charlatan                

Peddling nuggets of fool’s gold                     

 

Did he come from elsewhere          

Was he human or divine                 

Did he uproot the tree of Eden      

Was he angelic or serpentine         

Some say he was an alien               

With some ecstatic dream               

Or maybe just some sick delusional              

with a power-hungry scheme        

 

Should I decide to follow                 

For the comfort I would feel                       

Although my soul is hollow             

Just like spinning a prayer wheel  

Surely they can’t all be wrong        

I’m totally confused                         

But I don't want to be an atheist   

With no belief to lose                       

 

Did they really happen                      

The stories we’ve been told   

Or was he just a charlatan                

Peddling nuggets of fool’s gold                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking for redemption

Praying for relief

The route to true salvation

Simply beggars all belief

I am a man of science                      

Trained to require proof

Blind Faith is not an option

Belief not shatterproof

 

Tell me they really happened            

These stories we’ve been told  

Say he wasn't just a charlatan                      

Peddling nuggets of fool’s gold         

 

This road is never ending

This fog will never rise

I take one step after another

Stumbling over buried lies

Don't know where I’m going

Can’t say where I’ve been

Is all this blind meandering

part of some celestial scheme

 

Maybe Buddha has the answer

Or the Gods of the Hindus

Or maybe it’s Mohammad

Or Yahweh of the Jews

I know that they can’t all be right

I’m totally confused

I close my eyes and pray but I

Don't know which God to choose

 

Did Jesus really rise up from the   

dead so we’d be saved?                  

Did Mohammad really meet           

Archangel Gabriel in that cave?      

Did Moses really raise his arms        

and separate the sea?                     

Did Buddha really find enlightenment

under that tree?                               

 

Did they really happen                      

These stories we’ve been told

Or were they all just charlatans        

Peddling nuggets of fool’s gold         

 

Were they all just charlatans

These holy men of old

Or was one of them the real deal

Bearing nuggets of pure gold