Crooks and Crimes

We’ve been leaning on you
Leaning for years
You’ve been stealing from us
Stealing for years
Creating the veils
Creating the tears
To deepen the shadows
And hide all the fears
Dark secrets we were never meant to find
Transfer them out of sight
Transfer them out of mind
Crooks and crimes

Limbo’s forgotten now
You gave science a break
But a whiplash smile
At Galileo’s wake
Slammed on the desk
Prayers forced in school
Each morning broken
His love is all
You’ve been picking the teams
To set up the fights
Croziers drew the boundaries
And women out of sight
Crooks and crimes

Pennies from heaven and alms for the meek
Holy protection money you pay every week
Centuries of gold now you can tap online
Ring in donations 666
Or 999.