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Hollywood Jesus

from King For A Day by The IZM.

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I began to feel like celebrities were using religion to be controversial, garnering more attention to what some may deem blasphemy. I felt like the sacred relationship with God and man was now some sort of satire of religious history. And it made me uncomfortable. So I stopped listening to the radio. I stopped feeding into conspiracy theories. I decided to step outside of myself to see if I had become brainwashed too.

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I’m lost amid the hazes/ of flashing lights and faces/ they know I’m camera shy/ from all the rumor blazing/ I cling to prayers and scriptures/ they call religious hazing/ I fall deaf to conspirists/ and theories media-glazing/ I’m so sucked in the danger/ that I find the pain amazing/ I’m dropped into a matrix/ I trail nervous and pacing/ when his own failed to love him and he faced the crucifixion/ where were his beats and Grammys?/ fame hides its contradictions/ keep ‘em itchin/ WHO’S GONNA WANT SALVATION/ WHEN YOU GOT A HOLLYWOOD JESUS/ WHO’S GONNA SEEK REPENTENCE/ WHEN YOU THINK YOU’RE GOD IN ALL OF HIS INFINITE WISDOM/ WHO’S GONNA NEED SALVATION/ IF YOU GOT A HOLLYWOOD JESUS/ MY BROTHER I FEAR FOR YOU/ MY SISTER I FEAR FOR YOU/ black and white aesthetics/ gossip of devil worship/ be sure to give your soul up/ make sure you sign in cursive/ I’m so enamored by it/ but I don’t see the purpose/ they gotta hide in music/ we ran ‘em out the churches/ so don’t call my name, don’t call my name like I’m Alejandro/ you got your God on Twitter/ I found my own to follow/ when it’s blatant and heinous/ it’s certainly hard to swallow/ the rhythm is most alluring/ it’s tale is frail and hollow/ be not deceived by pictures/ celebrity is merely a title/ don’t ever forget they’re human/ it is we that have made them idols/ when the music died/ I sough it’s resurrection/ should you defile my message/ you’ll meet my Swif and Wesson/ keep ‘em guessin/ WHO’S GONNA WANT SALVATION/ WHEN YOU GOT A HOLLYWOOD JESUS/ WHO’S GONNA SEEK REPENTENCE/ WHEN YOU THINK YOU’RE GOD IN ALL OF HIS INFINITE WISDOM/ WHO’S GONNA NEED SALVATION/ IF YOU GOT A HOLLYWOOD JESUS/ MY BROTHER I FEAR FOR YOU/ MY SISTER I FEAR FOR YOU

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from King For A Day, released January 21, 2013
Written and produced by The IZM (Drowning Ophelia Music/BMI). Recorded and engineered by Travis Daniels for Trace Studios, Alpharetta, GA and Dave Jackson for Umbrella Coded Music Group. Mastered by Vespertine for Garden Studios, Durham, NC.

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In 2005, a dream surfaced. 6 years later, it finally came to fruition. New Jersey. Producer. Songwriter. Best friend. Lover. God lover.

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