[Intro - hard mid-tempo, boom-chicka with a dark edge, trebly electric, heavy slapback]

[Verse 1 - who he was, hard and plain]
For years on end I lived inside the forums late at night
The chat rooms and the comment threads, the places men go to fight
And I came into every one of them with a sword already drawn
I could take an Arminian apart in a paragraph or two
And I did it, and I liked it

[Chorus - the sword]
I had the sharpest sword in the room
I kept it honed, I kept it bright
And the doctrine on the blade of it was true
But a true sword swung in anger
Cuts a man the same as a false one does
And I swung it, Lord, I swung it
The sharpest sword in the room

[Verse 2 - being right was the trap]
And here is the thing it took me twenty years to understand
I was right, and that was the trouble, I was right about it all
Sovereign grace and the ruin of man and the blood that bought him back
And being right became the rag I wiped the cruelty with
I looked straight at the cruelty and I called it holy zeal

[Chorus - the sword]
I had the sharpest sword in the room
I kept it honed, I kept it bright
And the doctrine on the blade of it was true
But a true sword swung in anger
Cuts a man the same as a false one does
And I swung it, Lord, I swung it
The sharpest sword in the room

[Verse 3 - the name, the wounds]
They gave me a name in those rooms, they called me Darth Gill
The dangerous one, the one to fear, and God forgive me, I was proud
I won, I always won, I never lost a single round
And every round I won I left a living person bleeding
And I never stayed to look

[Bridge - the turn, the arrangement pulling graver]
It was never the truth that did the damage, it was the man who held it
The sharpest doctrine in the cruelest hands cuts deeper than a lie
The sovereign grace I loved was turning out hard and loveless men
And I was one of them
For years and years I was one of them

[Final Verse and Outro - the album's integrity]
So before this record fills with all the blades that came for me
The doors that closed, the men who would not hear
You should know I carried the sharpest blade of all
And I swung it first, and I swung it longest
I have got no clean hand left to point with
I had the sharpest sword in the room