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The road of sin is bright and sweet
Its path is full of food to eat
The spacious way is paved and smooth
With tail-wind soft and gentle
The hungers of your heart are met
By willing hands that you can let
Heap pleasures fair upon your plate
Before you read the menu
The happy smiles and laughter hide
The pain and anguish kept inside
You do not see the hurt you cause
To those upon the altar
The fun you take at great expense
Amounts to theft and violence
The bill is never paid up front
But on unwilling credit
See that selfish act just done?
The hurts involved touch more than one
For as you gather more and more
It leaves your neighbour wanting
But do not think I speak alone
Upon a mountain top of stone
Condemning you as sinner, when,
I've trod the path you've taken
Turn back! I cry, with shaken look
Both confidence and joy forsook
I've seen a glimpse of what this way
Repays to those who take it
It's pain, and death, and grief, and fear
And loss of all you hold so dear
E'en deeds you thought were generous
Are only disappointment
So turn around. The road, it will
Turn upward: hard, headwind, uphill!
How else do you expect to find
The path to God most holy?
And though you may be bounced about
By trav'lers on a downward route
Whatever they may take from you
Will be replaced in Heaven
Remember that these folks you pass
Consumed with trinkets made of glass
Are just like us, who often trade,
The golden for the glitter
