Lyrics

Idols
Dave Nachmanoff

Moses came down from the mountain, and he couldn’t believe what he saw
His people were worshipping idols, and disobeying the Lord’s own law
But everything worked out somehow, so it must have been part of the plan
Moses he went back up that mountain, gave his people a second chance (he said)

CHORUS:

You’ve got to, throw down your idols, see God is one
The time has come to turn around, and to consider what you done

Down in the Simi Valley, back in 1992
We saw a travesty of justice, didn’t tell us a thing that’s new
How the system isn’t perfect, how we haven’t come so far
Since the billy clubs of Selma, left their bruises and their scars

CHORUS2:

We’ve got to throw down our idols, see that we’re one
The time has come to turn around, and to consider what we’ve done

Bridge:

A trucker beaten half to death, just because his skin was white
When are people gonna realize, that two wrongs can’t make anything right
You meet violence with violence, and it only leads to hate
Sometimes it makes me sad to thing that, we may already be much too late

(Repeat Chorus2)

Moses went up to the Pharaoh, he said “Let my people go!”
You know you can’t keep us down forever, but sometimes freedom can come so slow
Now, just like that Pharaoh, we know that change will come
But will it come with understanding, or with a plague of the first born sons?

(Repeat Chorus2)

So let’s consider what we’ve done…