Megadeth | Lyrics | Holy Wars...The Punishment Due

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 lands
Ask 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 naive stand
The end is near it's crystal clear part of the master plan
Don't look now to Israel it might be your homelands

Holy wars

Upon my podium as the know it all scholar
Down in my seat of judgment 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, repel 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 thinkin' 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

Unless you know to take my thoughts away