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Screw the Masks

jesusTALK·2025

Screw the Masks
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Artist
jesusTALK
Album
Fed Up
Year
2025
Track
#9
ISRC
QZWFW2515930

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I see your smile but no one's home inside All polished up but I know what you hide Behind the persona just dust and decay Step out of the theatre show your real face today No more applause no more show Only what's real raw and bold Screw the masks I want you as you are No filter no shine no holy char Screw the masks no hiding from me Let the shell fall let the real us be Your holy suit tells me nothing of your heart And your smooth words just cover the scars I want to see the marks that made you now No paint no title just the truth somehow No more applause no more show Only what's real raw and bold Screw the masks I want you as you are No filter no shine no holy char Screw the masks no hiding from me Let the shell fall let the real us be We are people not roles in a concrete play We are heart blood and life not numbers in grey I'll tear the curtain till the light breaks through And you'll breathe free when the lies are through Screw the masks I want you as you are No filter no shine no holy char Screw the masks no hiding from me Let the shell fall let the real us be

About this song

Mike's intentionally hard version. The word "screw" is clearly borderline, many conservative Christians will be offended. Exactly that is the point.

Yeshua called the religious leaders in Matthew 23 "whitewashed tombs" (Matt 23:27) and "brood of vipers" (Matt 23:33). That was as offensive then as Mike's "screw the masks" today.

In the Greek original "hypocrite" is hypokritaí (ὑποκριταί), literally "actor". Theater term. Yeshua called the religious leaders theater players. That was sharp. Mike's screw the masks is the modern application.

Mike's thesis: sharp words against sharp realities are appropriate. Whoever sees hypocrisy and names it politely normalizes it. Whoever names it hard creates movement. Mike's track is provocation with theological ground.

In a context with politeness tradition, the word is doubly provocative. Mike accepts the provocation because the matter demands it. Mike's sound carries this sharpness.