In The Name Of God

album: "Train of Thought" (2003)
[Lyrics by John Petrucci]




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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?

[Chant:]
Mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord
he is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored
he hath loosed the fateful lightning
of his terrible swift sword
his truth is marching on.

glory, glory, hallelujah
glory, glory, hallelujah
glory, glory, hallelujah...