Megadeth, neboli zkomolenina slovíčka "Megadeath" by se tedy dalo volně přeložit jako "masová smrt", skupina vždy zpívala na témata válka, rasismus, politika... atd. Zároveň patří do tzv. "Velké Trash-metalové Čtyřky" tj. METALLICA, MEGADETH,...

Píseň: Holy Wars... The Punishment Due

Interpret:
Megadeth
Album:
Rust In Peace
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 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 


...The Punishment Due 


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