In the Name Of God
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How can this be? 
Why is he the chosen one? 
Saint gone astray 
With a scepter and a gun 
Learn to believe 
In the mighty and the strong 
Come bleed the beast 
Follow me it won't be long 
Listen when the prophet 
Speaks to you 
Killing in the name of God 
Passion 
Twisting faith into violence 
In the name of God 
Straight is the path 
Leading to your salvation 
Slaying the weak 
Ethnic elimination 
Any day we'll all be 
Swept away 
You'll be saved 
As long as you obey 
Lies 
Tools of the devil inside 
Written in Holy disguise 
Meant to deceive and divide 
Us all 
Listen when the prophet 
Speaks to you 
Killing in the name of God 
Passion 
Twisting faith into violence 
In the name of God
Blurring the lines 
Between virtue and sin 
They can't tell 
Where God ends 
And mankind begins 
They know no other 
Life but this 
From the cradle 
They are claimed 
Listen when the prophet 
Speaks to you 
Killing in the name of God 
Passion 
Twisting faith into violence 
In the name of God
Hundreds of believers 
Lured into a doomsday cult 
All would perish 
In the name of God 
Self-proclaimed messiah 
Led his servants 
To their death 
Eighty murdered 
In the name of God 
Forty sons and daughters 
Un-consenting plural wives 
Perversions 
In the name of God 
Underground religion 
Turning toward 
The mainstream light 
Blind devotion 
In the name of God 
Justifying violence 
Citing from the Holy Book 
Teaching hatred 
In the name of God 
Listen when the prophet 
Speaks to you 
Killing in the name of God 
Passion 
Twisting faith into violence 
In the name of God 
Religious beliefs 
Fanatic obsession 
Does following faith 
Lead us to violence? 
Unyielding crusade 
Divine revelation 
Does following faith 
Lead us to violence?
Hands Held High
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Turn my mike up louder I got to say something
Light weights step to the side when we come in
Feel it in your chest the syllables get pumping
People on the street they panic and start running
Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme, I'm dumping
Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
F*** that I wanna see some fists pumping
Risk something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they might attack you for
Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before
Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
Like this war's really just a different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor
Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank
These f***ers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the check
Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In their living room laughing like "what did he say?"
[Chorus]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
[End Chorus]
In my living room watching but I am not laughing
Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen
World is cold the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions
Ten years old it's something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me
Do you see the soldiers they're out today
They brush the dust from bullet proof vests away
It's ironic at times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
My dad he's got a lot of fear I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine
On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
both scared and angry like "what did he say?"
[Chorus]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
7 Shades of Black
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I'm on the street yeah
I want you
I'm looking for myself
I'm gonna make it
I'll take it
Like everybody else
Belle of the fawning
I'm yawning
Sister can't you spell
Above suspicion
Hey listen !
I'm digging my own hell
'Cause I want you bad, ah
'Cause I want you bad
And without peer
And without fear
I'm without anyone at all
I'm torn apart, decrying
How unjust you are 
For busting
My black heart
'Cause you don't want me no more
But just you worry
'Cause when they scratch-scratch my door
You'll hurry
Ah 1, 2, 3
This gun is loaded, devoted
You postulate the rest
Riding the seesaw
There's no law
That I have ever met
I'm just a flat punk
On dead junk
Riding a vanguard
Cut from the vaunted
I'm haunted, till death do us part
'Cause I want you bad, ah
'Cause I want you bad
Fall in hate with me with one trick
You will want it all
The yeah-yeah tears
The now and here
The without anyone at all
I'm torn without
I'm crying out for doom
'Cause you don't want me no more
But babe don't worry
'Cause when you scratch-scratch my door
I'll show you, either or?
We are the lurking
The panzers
The black as coal as night
Stealing the stealthy
And stellar
Until we get it right
Notice the yearlings
The dead things
The pretty as you please
I am the regent, the marquis
Sowing my bad seeds
'Cause I want you bad, ah
'Cause I want you bad
Fall in hate with me with one trick
You will want it all
As St. Patrick pipes on
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