Holy Wars...The Punishment Due

Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
This is a 2 part song.First part "Holy Wars" ends with an acoustic bridge by marty friedman at 2:26.After 2:26 is "The Punisment Due" and when it ends song finish.

The lyrics deal with the Northern Ireland conflict. In an interview with the UK magazine Guitarist, Mustaine says that he was inspired to write the song in Northern Ireland, when he discovered bootlegged Megadeth T-shirts were on sale and was dissuaded from taking action to have them removed on the basis that they were part of fund raising activities for "The Cause" (i.e. the Provisional Irish Republican Army)."The Punishment Due" is based on the popular Marvel comic book character, the Punisher.

Lyrics
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 disgrac

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

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