Music and Creativity

Inquisition

Lyrics and music by Ed Perrone (BMI)
Copyright © 2006 Ed Perrone. All rights reserved.
From the album, Holy Wars (2006)

All the witches are in chains and you peek out your window
Watch the priests drag them down the street to the burning ground
See the torches, feel the flames, and you hear them screaming
Hide your face, close the curtain, it’ll all go away.

Hear the righteous ones preach that it’s all for the good of the people
Send the sinners back down to the devil where they belong
But your heart says those sinners are really …

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If Jesus Met Mohammed

Lyrics and music by Ed Perrone (BMI)

Copyright © 2006 Ed Perrone. All rights reserved.

From the album, Holy Wars (2006)

If Jesus met Mohammed
What do you think they’d say?
Would they chat about the weather
Just to pass the time of day?
Would they wander down by the schoolyard
And watch the children play?
If Jesus met Mohammed
One fine day.

If they both ran into Moses
Hangin’ out at the traffic light
Would he say, “Hey, guys, I’m buying,
Let’s go out and have a bite”?
Would they laugh about the good times?…

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Holy Wars

Lyrics and music by Ed Perrone (BMI)
Copyright © 2005 Ed Perrone. All rights reserved.
From the album, Holy Wars (2006)

They’re taking me away
Because they didn’t like the things I had to say
My thinking’s out of line
And so they tell me that salvation can’t be mine
Ah-ah

They’re pounding at the door
My brain is frozen, I’m just staring at the floor
With scriptures in their hand (weapons!)
They spread their message all across the godless land
Ah-ah

And they tell me Jesus saves the sinners’ souls
But who will save me from his …

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