Dream Theater - In the Name of God lyrics

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?

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