There is a winter happiness, a celebration known –
an air of joy and gladness that chills me to the bone.
A little boy would grow up to say “they know not what they do”
On the day they said “Tang Na” he thought it was me and you.

“Tang Na Mo! Tang Na Mo!” They watched him suffer then
and so in turn, he watches over the suffering of men.
“Tang Na Mo! Tang Na Mo!” Haven’t we suffered long enough?
Two thousand years of sorrow just seems a little rough.

Do you really sit there watching everyone you know die
or are they all believers in a poorly fabricated lie?
I’m hell-bound for the acts I failed to do and things I cannot know.
Get off your ass and help us out. Until then, Tang Na Mo.

[note: this parody was written in the early 90's]

There’s a place by the seas
where the people dream of peace
rather than one whole world that kills each other.
Take a knife, go outside
there’s no place that they can hide,
kill them all and forget that they’re your brothers.
There are people dying;
If you care enough, kill the living.
Save a lot of space…kill the human race.

Kill the world — make it a better place
for you and for me and the anti-human race.
There are people dying;
If you care enough, kill the living.
Make a better place for you and for me.

Need a change of the pace?
Send a killer to this place.
Bring them all, we’ll have fun in here together.
Kill for love, kill for hate,
we shall blame their deaths on fate.
Kill the world with a soul light as a feather.
Now the world is crying;
If you care enough, kill the living.
Make a better place…kill the human race.

Kill my friend, I’ll kill yours.
Kill them all with brutal force.
Destroy all who oppose the main objective.
Take a knife, bring a gun,
then together we’ll have fun.
Kill for death, claim destruction as your motive.
We’ve had people frying,
you can go ahead burn the living.
‘Til there’s not a trace…
kill the human race.

We used to go out to the movies
then for a while we didn’t talk
because you said I killed your sister
when I delivered a fancy clock.

The explosion gave me powers –
now I can glow electric red
but half the city hates me, dear,
and the other half is dead.

I tried to save you from that rooftop –
I heard you screaming as you fell.
If only you had yelled for me sooner…
And YOU’RE pissed off? Man, what the hell?

The remnants of my heart were shattered
As you condemned me with your dying breath,
though what is one more victim slain
by one who caused so much death?

I am confused by all of this –
Having chosen to be evil, killed a lot –
Forced to help ungrateful people
just to advance the story’s plot.

I spent four hours killing reapers
and beating Sasha in a fight
only to later do her bidding for evil karma
something about that just doesn’t seem quite right.

Here’s something you must comprehend –
I have CHOSEN TO BE EVIL, not merely misunderstood.
The only way this game makes any sense
Is if I played Cole McGrath as “Good.”

I can tell from that frown that the world has got you down –
all this anxiety and stress has got you all depressed
but my friend, it’s not too late — soon you will be feeling great

if only you had faith like Bill and put your trust in God
’cause it’s your own free will that makes this whole thing odd
You know he’s the boss but that’s a line he will not cross
though if you just ask him for a hand, I’m sure he’d understand
if only you had faith like Bill and chose to follow God.

There are some things you can’t avoid like finding yourself unemployed
and though the kids don’t get enough to eat, you shouldn’t sit there in defeat
’cause my friend, it’s not too late — soon you will be feeling great

You’ve found you can no longer hide from famine, rape, and genocide
It’s your fault you have it rough ’cause you don’t worship hard enough
but my friend, it’s not too late — soon you could be feeling great

Your heart must have sunk when you heard your child was run over by a drunk
and God could have kept him from harm — that dead child in your arms
but my friend, it is too late — life would have been just great