Pre-Judged

Verse 1

Woke up this morning with a terrible thought

What if everything I ever did was already bought

Every choice I ever made was written down before

By a giant beardy fellow on a cosmic keyboard

I tried to test it out

I tried to break the script

I ate a whole pizza and I did a little skip

But the skip was in the plan

And the pizza too

So I sat there chewing crust and feeling kind of blue

Pre-Chorus

Cause if He knows the ending

Then the ending's not mine

If He wrote the sentence

Then I'm just the line

Chorus

I'm a little guy in a big machine

Punching buttons that I've never seen

Free will's a rumor that I heard in school

Turns out I'm a puppet and the puppet master's cruel

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Verse 2

My neighbor stole my lawnmower on a Tuesday afternoon

I said hey that's your decision friend you made that choice too soon

He said no no no you've got it wrong the man upstairs decides

I just moved my little pixel arms and let the wrath collide

So I can't blame the thief

And I can't blame the thief's mom

And I can't blame the devil

Cause the devil's just a pawn

Pre-Chorus

If the villain's in the blueprint

Then the villain's not to blame

We're all just action figures

In a board game with a name

Chorus

I'm a little guy in a big machine

Punching buttons that I've never seen

Free will's a rumor that I heard in school

Turns out I'm a puppet and the puppet master's cruel

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Bridge

And the war and the famine and the guy who keyed my car

All catalogued and filed before we ever left the bar

Every tear I ever cried was scripted in advance

So I guess I never had a single chance

A single chance

Guitar Solo

Verse 3

I asked a holy man about the problem of the plan

He said son don't you worry you're a tiny little man

God loves you like a player loves a character he made

And He'll judge you at the end for the moves that He portrayed

That's a loophole

That's a trick

That's a cosmic bait and switch

If He stacked the deck and dealt the hand

Then He's the one who's rich

Chorus

I'm a little guy in a big machine

Punching buttons that I've never seen

Free will's a rumor that I heard in school

Turns out I'm a puppet and the puppet master's cruel

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Outro

So save your little lecture

Save your moral speech

The script was finished long before

I ever learned to reach

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(Oh the puppet master's cruel)