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What happens when life breaks down?
When there is systemic contradiction?

My name symbolized all that was corrupt to society
His name symbolized all that was pure

And I was being hailed in the embrace
Of the man who was pure
And these inviolable sanctities
Were preserved in those ten words

And it is the de-sacralization
Of all of these that has put us
In the mess that we find ourselves

Isn't it true, alas it is much worse
A person may end up believing in anything

You know, if that human acceptance
Does so much for you and me
Think of what it is when God himself
Puts his arms around you and says
"Welcome home"

What love is this?
It is God's love

And no other love can be defined
Until that love has properly been understood

What love is this?
It is God's love

What happens when life breaks down?
When there is systemic contradiction?

My name symbolized all that was corrupt to society
His name symbolized all that was pure

And I was being hailed in the embrace
Of the man who was pure
And these inviolable sanctities
Were preserved in those ten words

And it is the de-sacralization
Of all of these that has put us
In the mess that we find ourselves

Isn't it true, alas it is much worse
A person may end up believing in anything

You know, if that human acceptance
Does so much for you and me
Think of what it is when God himself
Puts his arms around you and says
"Welcome home"

What love is this?
It is God's love

And no other love can be defined
Until that love has properly been understood

What love is this?
It is God's love