Holy Wars

The song "Holy Wars... The Punishment is Due" by Megadeth deals with controversial topics within 
our society. It talks about war and people dying for the cause of religion, it says: "Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land, killing for religion". It doesn't talk about a specific group of people or a specific event, but it talks about our society in general. It hints towards the division of Ireland and the Holy Wars ISIS, Al Qaeda have caused. It talks about how religion can disturb unity and how it has been the cause of many conflicts in the past: "A country that's divided surely will not stand my past erased, no more disgrace". When he talks about a country that is divided, he is talking about Ireland. Northern Ireland separated from Ireland because of conflicts between Catholics and Protestants. The song describes the effect of the wars on normal people's lives, and how many of them flee while they can. They have to leave their homeland and end up going from one place to another: "Don't look now to Israel, it might be your homeland". They have to leave overseas and have their lives be drastically changed. This means that once wars start, some people will never actually be able to go back home, since conflicts can persist for long periods of time and violence may still be showing there. It talks about how families get split apart and how children lose their mothers, and wives and husbands are separated by death: "They killed my wife and my baby". Even though this isnt a new song, we can still see the message of this song up to this day. People are still being forced to flee from their homes and restart their lives somewhere else because of war. We prominently see this with ISIS. 
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4ui9q7eDM

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  1. IndigoplumMay 7, 2017 at 2:06 PM

    I do believe that songs often have a message that relates to the lyrics. How do we know this song is relating to Ireland though? Also, never thought you would be the type of person to listen to this kind of music lol. Love you Britney <3

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    1. UnknownMay 7, 2017 at 2:22 PM

      The reason that I know that this relates to Ireland is because I had read a couple of interviews in which he talked about the meanings of the lyrics of the song, and he mentioned the division of Ireland and because he is also of Irish descend. Also, I have only heard a couple of their songs haha

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