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Eyes fill with hatred
When they fall upon me
You worship gods of violence and bigotry
Forgetting lessons learned
That prove these
The wrong ideals
Don't let me follow in the footsteps
I won't embrace these wrong ideals
This thirst for violence,
domination
it only serves your wrong beliefs
This is my indictment of your beliefs
This is m indictment of what you hold dear
Your evil consumes you
A jealous few incite ignorant followers
Invoke the name and watch the masses turn on us
For fear that I embody what you fear
This is my indictment of your beliefs
This is m indictment of what you hold dear
My eyes have seen the horrors that you
Commit in the name of your god
Your god is violence
Your god is unholy
Your god is violence
Your god is unholy
Eyes fill with hatred,
when they fall upon you
Invoke the name and watch the masses turn on us
For fear that I embody what you fear
Your god is violence
Your god is unholy
Your god is violence
Your god is unholy
When they fall upon me
You worship gods of violence and bigotry
Forgetting lessons learned
That prove these
The wrong ideals
Don't let me follow in the footsteps
I won't embrace these wrong ideals
This thirst for violence,
domination
it only serves your wrong beliefs
This is my indictment of your beliefs
This is m indictment of what you hold dear
Your evil consumes you
A jealous few incite ignorant followers
Invoke the name and watch the masses turn on us
For fear that I embody what you fear
This is my indictment of your beliefs
This is m indictment of what you hold dear
My eyes have seen the horrors that you
Commit in the name of your god
Your god is violence
Your god is unholy
Your god is violence
Your god is unholy
Eyes fill with hatred,
when they fall upon you
Invoke the name and watch the masses turn on us
For fear that I embody what you fear
Your god is violence
Your god is unholy
Your god is violence
Your god is unholy
Lyrics submitted by sheer_cold
Track duration: 04:19
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"You worship gods of violence and bigotry"
The goal of muslims is to rid this world of infidel.Because thats what their "god" tells them to do.
"My eyes have seen the horrors that you
Commit in the name of your god"
Phil was in the Marines so what do you think he saw.
My guess would be suicide bombings,women and children murdered and things like that.But its okay if your muslim thats what god tells you to do.
"Your god is violence
Your god is unholy"
"your god is violence...your god is unholy.'
this song kicks ass...first ATR guitar solo i learned how to play, it's one of the best on the whole album.
However, the song is pretty vague in its wording. So vague, in fact, that it can validly be interpreted as a rally against all religion. Not a single line in the song invalidates that interpretation. Even the line "Your god is violence" fits because it can mean that the god is the metaphorical embodiment of violence. I'm not saying that it's what the writer/singer intended, just that the meaning fits the words. Ironic to say the least.
So that makes me wonder, if the singer is as devoutly Christian as the commenters here are claiming, why did he make this song so vague that it can be turned around on his own beliefs? Is it possible that he intended this as a criticism of both materialistic evil and religion? Or did he just not see the irony when he wrote it? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it was intentional.
therefore the band is, for the most part, a Christian band, or atleast believe in God and Jesus Christ. When they say a god of violence, Phil is refering to ppl who use either allah or God, the wrong way, violently and unholyly