Dear Father lyrics

A childhood innocence was drowned in your tears

The demons that you fought are feeding your fears

The poisoned secrets of your life stand revealed

The truth destroys you which no longer conceals

Dear Father, forsaken

You knew what you were doing

In silence, your violence

Has left my life in ruins, yeah!

In ruins, yeah!

You preyed upon my flesh then prayed for my soul

Belief betrayed by lust of faith that you stole

Indoctrination by a twisted desire

The catechism of an evil messiah

Dear Father, forgive me

I know just what I'm doing

In silence, this violence

Will leave your life in ruins, yeah!

In ruins, yeah!

Preacher of theocracy

Hiding your hypocrisy

Under a false sanctity

Holy phony empathy

You have taken my life

Now it's your turn to die!

Can you sleep at night?

When you close your eyes, do you think of all the pain from your lies?

Or do you deny, you're responsible for the victims of the sins you devised?

What you gonna tell them, when they ask you well then?

Is your conscience brewed in your heart?

There is no exception, when you seek redemption

For all the lives that you've torn apart!

Your molestations of the cross you defiled

A man once holy, now he spies and reviles

You took possession when confessing my sins

And now you have to face whatever death brings, yeah!

Dear Father, forsaken

You knew what you were doing

In silence, your violence

Has left my life in ruins, yeah!

In ruins, yeah, yeah, yeah!

In ruins, yeah!

• Artist:Black Sabbath
• Album:13 (2013)