Inversion If Not Emasculated Lyrics

If Not Emasculated Lyrics


someone must have thought our representatives 
were the beasts and wife
abusers 
"take the sons of this generation 
and clothe them in colorless
dresses" 

Jesus entered the temple marketplace 
felt his fists grow
tighter 
walked up to the nearest salesman 
flipped the blasphemed table
over 

"make him sensitive"
"make him soft and spineless"
"how will
he be safe if not emasculated?"

someone must have thought the way to
peacefulness 
was to exalt the feminine 
now we're heroless, children
motherless 
and how closer is the vision? 
 
Jesus gathered the broken
fishermen 
Who will go with me? 
Who will fight with me? 
Who will die
with me? 
Who will lead with me? 
Who will be a man with me?