Album Cover Holy Wars… The Punishment Due

Holy Wars… The Punishment Due

Megadeth

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Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land

Killing for religion, something I don′t understand

Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign landsAsk the sheep for their beliefs, "Do you kill on God's command?"

A country that′s divided, surely will not stand

My past erased, no more disgrace, no foolish naïve stand

The end is near, it's crystal clear, part of the master plan

Don't look now to Israel, it might be your homeland

Holy wars

Upon my podium as the "know-it-all" scholar

Down in my seat of judgement, gavel′s bang, uphold the law

Up on my soapbox, a leader out to change the world

Down in my pulpit as the "holier-than-thou-could-be-messenger" of God

Wage the war on organized crime

Sneak attacks, rappel down the rocks behind the lines

Some people risk to employ me, some people live to destroy me

Either way they die, they die

They killed my wife and my baby, with hopes to enslave me

First mistake, last mistake

Paid by the alliance to slay all the giants

Next mistake, no more mistakes

Fill the cracks in with judicial granite

Because I don′t say it, don't mean I ain′t thinking it

Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away

I know what I said, now I must scream of the overdose

And the lack of mercy killings

Mercy killings, mercy killings, killings, killings, killings

Next thing you know, they′ll take my thoughts away