Seven Spirits Burning - Kill the Messenger (Official Music Video)

Off Seven Spirits Burning’s album YOUR MIND HAS BEEN POISONED, out now -- || Follow Seven Spirits Burning || Instagram: Facebook: Spotify: Apple: Contact: sevenspiritsburning@ Seven Spirits Burning is: Levi Remijnse: vocals Gideon van der Stelt: drums Jonathan Remijnse: guitars Bernhard van der Poel: guitars Sjoerd Peters: bass Mastering: Ignacio “Nacho“ Molino Mixing: Roelof Klop Music production: Seven Spirits Burning Music video: Apollo AV Club --- I’ll show the world an intelligent man Who knows and understands The academic paradigms The knowledge of post-modern times Hiding away my hardened heart Forever in denial The love the goes beyond all reason Seeing me, knowing me Foreground the ratio Background the self-loathe Put labels on God’s vision So I can keep my distance My low self-esteem can not be seen What will my peers think of my appearance When my heart reaches the surface The more I know The more I doubt I’ve never felt so insecure The more I’m sure The more I’m lost I thought I’d make it on my own But Jesus is so simple What have you added to the cross If all the joy you had is lost And you have turned your wonder into the greatest doubt Why aren’t you able to receive The love designed to set you free From a destructive mind There was a time God set me on fire Tasting fulfillment of my deepest desires Behind the smokescreen of knowledge hides an insecure boy Who can’t accept love and tries to avoid grace God cursed me with a brain to ask too many questions Not one of them has relevance Not one of them is making sense So I give up and become a passive observer Satan’s got me where he wants Mortified, Paralyzed Foreground the ratio Background the self-loathe The more I know The more I doubt I’ve never felt so insecure The more I’m sure The more I’m lost But Jesus is so simple What have you added to the cross If all the joy you had is lost And you have turned your wonder into the greatest doubt Why aren’t you able to receive The love designed to set you free From a destructive mind Did you ever understand Him Or see Him face to face Cause if you’ve met Him, you would never Turn away from grace Love is a person (not a theology) Christ is the substance (your scholars won’t save you) I’ve lost myself But I don’t want to be found I won’t be confronted with the person I despise You won’t kill the messenger You need me and you know it Don’t kill the messenger