Truth stands for itself. Righteousness needs coercion to make it true.
Truth speaks for itself. Righteousness needs lies to make it true.
Truth only needs itself. Righteousness needs violence to make it true.
Truth perpetuates itself. Righteousness needs murder to make it true.

Truth is recognized by your senses. It’s what you can feel, not what you believe. It’s what you receive, not always what you need. It’s what you can see, not everything that you read.
Truth is recognized by your senses. It’s what you can smell, not what you can hide. It’s what’s inside, not everything you confide. It’s what you experience, not all that you’ve tried.

Righteousness is the way that I don’t like you.
So I come up with ways to differentiate, something obvious and easy to hate.
Righteousness is the way we come to hate you.
So I put you down and tell you that I’m better, I make others believe it together.
Righteousness is the way I am entitled.
So I start out rich and born with a crown, and keep finding ways to keep you sitting down.
Righteousness is greed unbridled.
So I make sure that I never have to share, and I make sure you know that I don’t care.

Truth stands for itself. Righteousness needs coercion to make it true.
Truth speaks for itself. Righteousness needs lies to make it true.
Truth only needs itself. Righteousness needs violence to make it true.
Truth perpetuates itself. Righteousness needs murder to make it true.

Truth is recognized by your senses. It’s what you can love, not what you can fear. It’s what you can contribute, not what you can smear. It’s what you know is right, not what you want to hear.
Truth is recognized by your senses. It’s plain to understand, not written in code. It’s easy to speak, it’s not stilted in prose. It’s not cultivated, it just naturally grows.

Righteousness is the way I want to fight you.
So I come up with a cause over which we do battle, and conjure more sabres that I can rattle.
Righteousness is the way I invent god.
So I can say that mine is bigger and better, I make others believe it together.
Righteousness is the way I pass the law.
So I can say that my rules are divine, and I will whip the godless heathens blind.
Righteousness is the way I declare myself king.
So I can say that my might makes right, and force everyone else to fight.

Righteousness is killing 12 journalists for drawing a cartoon of your prophet.
Truth is doing your best to make sure it never happens again.