"Six-Inch Pen and the Harlot Queen" (Key of A – steady outlaw gospel beat) Verse 1 I woke up early in the cold gray dawn, Found out I’d been nothin’ but a pawn, In the Queen’s big game on her debt-board street, Signed my life away for the chains on my feet. Verse 2 Six-inch pen, she pulled me close, Scarlet dress and a smile that knows, Seeded a child with a paper face, No covenant blood, just a debtor’s place. Chorus Six-inch pen, you led me wrong, Wrote me into Babylon’s song, But I’m breakin’ out, I’m leavin’ her bed, Tearin’ my name from the Book of the dead. Verse 3 Harlot Queen of Revelation’s crown, Keeps her pawns in a paper town, Sells their birth for a legal name, And calls that bondage “the rules of the game.” Verse 4 I was her subscriber, I paid my due, Thought I was free, but I never knew, That ink in my hand was a serpent’s bite, Tied me to darkness, kept me from light. Chorus Six-inch pen, you led me wrong, Wrote me into Babylon’s song, But I’m breakin’ out, I’m leavin’ her bed, Tearin’ my name from the Book of the dead. Bridge Now I’m walkin’ to the Lamb, I’m leavin’ that place, Early withdrawal from the Queen’s embrace, My s-permanent spot in her ledger’s gone, I’m a freeborn man in the Savior’s song. Outro Goodbye Queen Mother, goodbye debt-bought child, I’m covenant-clean, I’ve been reconciled, No more pen, no more pawn, no more chain— I’m walkin’ out free in the Lamb’s good name.