You Lost Your Job

from Secular by ampersandman

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The book of Job is one of the most interesting books in the bible, since it covers the theodicy problem: How can God allow for such bad things to happen, especially to good and innocent people?
While the answer of the Bible ("That's some divine shit you wouldn't understand. Keep worshipping me, petty human!") is not satisfactory to me, it sure has kept many people believing that God IS great and good, despite all counter-evidence.
This is the alternative story of Job, getting really angry with God and, instead of accepting everything, ultimately turning away from Him for being the scumbag that He is. Which leaves him with nothing but loss and pain. I don't find the "happy end" of the story too comforting, because the loss of a child in my opinion is the worst thing that can happen to a person, and Job lost all ten of his. They can't be just replaced.

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What is it I've done?
I've been living life just the way you want
I have sung your praise
every night and day
and then suddenly
you just smash me down

And now I just can't see
what I've done
and now I just can't see
what you want

If my gratitude don't mean shit to you
I could steal back just like they stole from me

Are we just your playthings?
Do you torment us whenever you are bored?
Why do you create just to take away?
Do you care about anyone at all?

Why should I keep praying?
Your name be cursed!
If there is hell, it can't be worse

When I asked you why, you just replied
"What do YOU know, I am GOD and I fucking can!"

I woke up in the bloody sheets
Now pain is all I know
and everything that mattered is gone
yes everything that matters is gone

There's a silence around this house
where my children used to run
and every one of them is gone
yes everything that matters is gone

I scratch my rash in an empty bed
and curse the day I was born
no reason left to hold on
when everything that matters is gone

yes everything that matters is gone

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from Secular, released January 29, 2020

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I put my pants on just like the rest of you -- one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make songs that no one cares about.

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