"Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" - Serj Tankian

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This is a slide show consisting of Battlefield 2, Counter-Strike Source, Call of Duty 4 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas screenshot. The song is called "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" by Serj Tankian; which is on the solo album of his "Elect the Dead". Note: This is not the music video for "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition".

Official Lyrics (Thanks to OblivionXXI):

"Come lay it down, wont you,
Come burn it down, cant you,
Lay it down, the guns above the ground
Come lay it down, wont you,
Come burn it down, cant you,
Lay it down, the guns above the ground

Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From the creation came love,
You don't know what this love is all about,

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Life affirming and our spiritual trust

Lay it down, wont you
Come burn it down, cant you
Lay it down, the guns above the ground

Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From the creation came love,
You don't know what this love is all about,

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition

Buddha, Mohammad and the Hindu
Lost 100
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
People still ask when will Armageddon begin,

Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter,
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter,
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter,

Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From the creation came love,
You don't know what this love is all about,

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,

Do we ever have enough
When we see that blue dove
Do we ever have enough
When we see that blue dove
We want to go where no ones been
No ones been

Come lay it down, wont you
Come burn it down, cant you
Lay it down, the guns above the ground
Wont you"

And here is the meaning for this song:
'This song is talking about how people use religion to fuel and justify war. This is very common, especially within wars, which involve Islam. Also war has always been part of human nature. However, I think we're missing key points in this song. Such as the lines: "Buddha, Mohammad and the Hindu / Lost 100". This is just an odd mixture of religions; Buddhism is a religion that rarely gets into conflict and I don't know much about Hinduism but I'd expect they wouldn't either. Mohammad refers to Islam it doesn't really fit with the other two religions. Then there the "Lost 100" which doesn't make much since in the context, I mean well over 100 Islamic people have died as a result of current conflict.

Another line of interest is, "People still ask when will Armageddon begin" followed with "Dragging my feet any longer through this pussy littler". I think that these lines are implying that we're all still wondering with the end will come. But this is the end, it seems he is saying look at this shit we've gotten in. and then questioning, why are we still going through with this shit. Maybe hinting that we should pull out of Iraq.

Now onto the subject of the prophet referred to as, "Nlelith." I think that it could be a pun for Neolithic, maybe a metaphor for the first human, our roots. Also if you think of prophet as God; then from God, came a king, for a king came servants or poor people. I'm not sure how "the swing", creation or love has to do with it though. Also if you noticed that "creation" isn't capitalized, I don't think that it's referring to Creation, as in the creation of the universe or Geneses.' - adombomb from Songmeanings.net

Channel: Music
Uploaded: October 21, 2007 at 8:58 am
Author: SlAyErPaTh117

Length: 00:04:30
Rating: 4.64
Views: 113858

Tags: Serj Tankian Elect the Dead Praise Lord and Pass Ammunition Call of Duty CSS Rainbow Six Vegas Battlefield

Video Comments:
demonicdevilonmyown (January 2, 2009 at 4:31 pm)
oh and i love reading youtube arguments...lol
demonicdevilonmyown (January 2, 2009 at 4:26 pm)
i cannot find the original freakin vid. it pisses me off
Halofreak654 (January 3, 2009 at 2:03 am)
they took it off due to 'third party copyright laws' i loved it!
OblivionXXI (December 11, 2008 at 5:14 pm)
Lmao! I've just noticed this comment.

But i live in england, And yh i'm flattered but yh, Lolz
DSMThornz (November 13, 2008 at 6:42 pm)
YOU R A GENEUS AS WEL AS A AWESUM SPELLAR
kaczkakris (October 29, 2008 at 9:52 pm)
All of these fake wars are about oil. We went in to take the world's largest oil fields.
DSMThornz (November 13, 2008 at 6:41 pm)
It's not that simple. Nothing is. And I like how you just state facts without giving reasons. It's typical. Also, they have diesel fuel. WE have the natural gas here in America. I'm not saying we didn't go in there for oil, but I am saying that that couldn't have been the only reason and I also haven't heard ANYTHING about us taking all of the oil from there. Being anti-establishment is such a trend nowadays.
ghstrcnadvncdwrfiter (November 27, 2008 at 10:26 am)
yeah,I mean I think people just act like that to be trendy or get with the fad. Hey, idiots, isn't "fad" a little close to "facism"...lol
angifrog (December 31, 2008 at 3:18 am)
Why trust the government now anymore though they've given us all the reasons to hate them. Plus maybe its because people are realizing that no one gives a fuck about any other person especially the "establishment" dont rely on what people tell you cause you'll get fucked over.
DillyDallyer102 (December 2, 2008 at 11:14 pm)
i believe that going to war had a lot to do with getting oil, but we will never know what all the motives were. There are secrets in the higher parts of the government that we as civilians can't even imagine. you can bet that everytime the news covers a BS story like a cat stuck in a tree the media could be covering something far more important i.e.- the true reason we went to war with iraq (Which isn't 9/11) but secrests like these will never be known