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Holy Wars The Punishment Due

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Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
Em                                              D  
Brother will kill brother, Spilling blood across the land
A                                          C  
Killing for religion, Something I don't understand
Em                                                 D  
Fools like me, who cross the sea, And come to foreign lands
A                                                      C  
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs, Do you kill on God's command?
  Em                              D  
A country that's divided, Surely will not stand
    A                                         C  
My past erased, no more disgrace, No foolish naive stand
     Em                                                 D  
The end is near, it's crystal clear, Part of the master plan
A                                      C  
Don't look now to Israel, It might be your homelands
Em  
Holy wars

Em                                                         D  
Upon my podium, as the Know it all scholar
Em                                                                             D  
Down in my seat of judgement, Gavel's bang, uphold the law
Em                                                                            D  
Up on my soapbox, a leader, Out to change the world, Down in my
Em                                                              D         Em  
Pulpit as the holier, Than-thou, could-be-messenger of God

Em                    D  
Wage the war on organized crime
A                                        C                        D  
Sneak attacks, repel down the rocks, Behind the lines
Em                                            D  
     Some people risk to employ me,  Some people live to destroy me
A                            C        D  
 Either way they die.  They  die

G    Bb    G    Bb    G    Bb    G  F#m  F  Em  

e --0---0---0-- x2

      Em                                  D  
They killed my wife and my baby,  With hopes to enslave me
A                        C      D  
  First mistake... last mistake
Em                          D  
Paid by the alliance,  to slay all the giants
A                     C            D  
  Next mistake... no more mistakes!

G    Bb    G    Bb    G    Bb    G  F#m  F  Em  

Em                                D  
Fill the cracks in, with judicial granite
  A                                     C  
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't Thinkin' it
Em                                                             D  
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
  A                                      C  
I know what I said, now I must    scream
         Em      D  
of the ov-er-dose
          A                  C  
And the lack of mercy killers
        Em                    D  
Mercy killings, mercy killers
          A  
Killers killers killers
C                                     D                         Em  
Next thing you know they'll take my thoughts away.