War?

System of a Down

Dark is the light, the man you fight
With all your prayers, incantations
Running away, a trivial day
Of judgment and deliverance
To whom was sold, this bounty soul
A gentile or a priest?
Who victored over, the Seljuks
When the Holy Land was taken

We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens

Was it the riches of the land
Powers of bright darkness
That lead the noble to the East
To fight the heathens?

We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
Yeah, we will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
Yeah, we will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens

We must call upon our bright darkness
Beliefs, they're the bullets of the wicked
One was written on the sword
For you must enter a room to destroy, destroy, destroy
Now international security
No call of the righteous man
Needs a reason to kill man
History teaches us so
The reason he must attain
Must be approved by his God
His child, partisan brother of war
Of war
We don't speak anymore of war
We don't speak anymore of war
We don't speak anymore of war
We don't speak anymore of war

We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
Yeah, we will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens
Yeah, we will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens


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War? Lyrics as written by Daron V. Malakian Serj Tankian

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    i love this song, i totally agree with the message in it, and system does not say question everything, they themselves have beliefs, if you dont believe me(which obviously you dont since you dont believe in anything) than check out their song science

    Kdog30001on April 19, 2002   Link

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