Sacrificial Goat

Horns gnarled atop your head Fulfill the purpose for which you've been bred Hooves cloven adorn your feet Your flesh torn into unholy meat For the damned you must be dead Better you than better me instead For you there has been watchful eye It make it easy 'cause my truth is your lie Be sentenced by truth or be sentenced by liar Either deal yields trial by fire And in all honesty It was never your fault to be Never the less bear my shame 'Cause to the mob it's all the same For your sins it's silence you must keep Forced to your knees at dusk For altars reap No last rites No seeing the light this time You've stood out I've culled you now To be the bearer of my shame You lived your life for me Was that so hard to see Now die for the same