Holy Wars... The Punishment Due [Rust In Peace 1990]

Holy Wars

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? 

 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 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

The Punishment Due

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 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