Working Class Jesus Lyrics

I am your messiah

Disciples and I are here to say

Across the picket line, Satan awaits

All that's holy is on our side

We won't beg for God-given rights

Nor pray for fair pay, we'll go on strike

I don't come in peace, I'm a sword-bearer

I'll burn the bush and start a war on error

Throw money lenders out my temple

Give it to the poor, it's that simple

Haven't you heard, I'm bringing heaven to earth

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani

No love left for the enemy

So force the rich through the eye of a needle

I am the working class Jesus

Come and talk to the Redeemer

I'll help you escape mainstream media

And smite every lie they feed you

I'm revolting religiously

Against ubiquitous inequality

And right-wing antichrist ideology

The world's insane yet riddled with boredom

I'd rather live in Sodom and Gomorrah

We're born and bred to be capital's children

Father, father, I beg for an abortion

Haven't you heard, I'm bringing heaven to earth

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani

No love left for the enemy

So force the rich through the eye of a needle

I am the working class Jesus

Not being metaphorical I'm being metaphysical

Power for all, not just the individual

Forget all debt, you are now forgiven

For your saviour is risen

I'm a Jewish Palestinian radical

Watch me work miracles

Never again will the poor stand alone

These are the last days of Rome

Oligarchs are going to hell

They're going home

Haven't you heard, I'm bringing heaven to earth

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani

No love left for the enemy

So force the rich through the eye of a needle

Haven't you heard, I'm bringing heaven to earth

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani

No love left for the enemy

So force the rich through the eye of a needle

I am the working class Jesus