Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Countdown to Extinction: Live)

Part 1: Holy Wars

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]

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 homeland

Holy wars...

Part 2: The Punishment Due

[Verse 2]

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

[Verse 3]

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!

[Verse 4]

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!

[Guitar Solo & Instrumental Shift]

[Verse 5]

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