Songtexte Holy Wars...The Punishment Due - 2004 Digital Remaster - Megadeth

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 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