Brandi Carlile - Church & State (Live on SNL)

Brandi Carlile - Church & State (Live on SNL) with tags saturday night live, snl, saturdaynightlive, brandicarlile, brandi carlile, singer songwriter, church state, church and state, returning to myself

Brandi Carlile performs "Church & State" on Saturday Night Live, November 1, 2025.

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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

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

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

Imagine if we could

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