Punish me brutally

Lock me up in shackles

Give me what I deserve.

All these years I’ve begged

Just to get what I’m owed

Only to realize

There is nothing worse.

Now learning my earnings

Are what you’ve saved me from

I’ll swear my allegiance

To your promise

That doesn’t fit on paper.

Who else has threatened death

With life

And won?

– Vagabond Prophet