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The song, "Church & State" was written on November 5, 2024, the night of the U.S. presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Carlile was in the studio with the Phil and Tim Hanseroth and Andrew Watt and was listening to U2's 'Bullet the Blue Sky' and wrote the "Church and State" as "a protest song, or at least reflection anthem, on what they saw going down in America."
She noted, "I got a song from Tim a couple of years ago, this beautiful concept and riff and this drop-D and all of this cognitive dissonance in the song, and I sunk my teeth into it then. And I said, whatever that is, that's a direction for where I feel like we could go musically. And then I tucked it away in the back of my mind and forgot about it until Nov. 5." The song features part of Thomas Jefferson's Thomas address to the Danbury Baptists:

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
-Wikipedia
Performed by: Brandi Carlile
From Album: Returning To Myself
Genre(s): Alternative, Alternative Rock
Released: October 23rd, 2025
Year: 2025
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Brandi Carlile - Church & State Lyrics




While the empire was failing
I was so far from home
I heard a thousand sirens wailing
So I was never on my own
And when the blackness slowly parted
I saw the ivory towers
Before the revolution started
Between the madness of the hours
And they don't see what we see
But we believe, we believe
That they're not gonna live forever
Burn tomorrow, never say
They're here today then they're gone forever
Never say never say never say
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
Imagine if we could
In the days that quickly followed
They began to turn to stone
They couldn't stand or speak or swallow
They couldn't get out of bed alone
And when the frailty overcomes them
And they begin to crawl
Reaching out their bloody hands
Guess who gets to make the call?
Well they don't see, what we see
But we believe, we believe
That they're not gonna live forever
Burn tomorrow, never say
They're here today, then they're gone forever
Never say never say never say
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
Imagine if we could
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act
Of the whole American people which declared that
Their legislature should make no law respecting an
Establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
Exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation
Between Church and State."
No, they're not gonna live forever
Burn tomorrow, never say
They're here today, then they're gone forever
Never say never say never say
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
Imagine if we could
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While the empire was failing
I was so far from home
I heard a thousand sirens wailing
So I was never on my own
And when the blackness slowly parted
I saw the ivory towers
Before the revolution started
Between the madness of the hours
And they don't see what we see
But we believe, we believe
That they're not gonna live forever
Burn tomorrow, never say
They're here today then they're gone forever
Never say never say never say
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
Imagine if we could
In the days that quickly followed
They began to turn to stone
They couldn't stand or speak or swallow
They couldn't get out of bed alone
And when the frailty overcomes them
And they begin to crawl
Reaching out their bloody hands
Guess who gets to make the call?
Well they don't see, what we see
But we believe, we believe
That they're not gonna live forever
Burn tomorrow, never say
They're here today, then they're gone forever
Never say never say never say
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
Imagine if we could
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act
Of the whole American people which declared that
Their legislature should make no law respecting an
Establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
Exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation
Between Church and State."
No, they're not gonna live forever
Burn tomorrow, never say
They're here today, then they're gone forever
Never say never say never say
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
We'll find a way
Imagine if we could
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