You can see it in the movies and the paper and the TV news
Somebody's army is always on the move
There's gonna be a battle, the lines have been drawn
They got guns and tanks and planes
The wells are gone dry and the water is bad
And the air is acid rain
There's war after war and rumors of war from the east
There's a rumbling in the ground and they're talking about the beast
Good mother's cry calls
The rivers run high with the blood of too many sons
Some people say peace is on the way
But the worst is still to come
Cause the prophets wrote about it and Jesus spoke about it
And John got to take a look
And he told us what he saw and it's easy to see
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book






It's going by the book
It's going by the book
There's armies in the cities
And the missiles stand ready for flight
A pale horse rides like the wind across the night
And that rumbling in the desert
Like thunder getting closer
Are the trumpets getting ready to blow
There's gonna be a shout that will wake
The dead, we better be ready to go
Cause the prophets wrote about it
And Jesus spoke about it
And John got to take a look
And he told us what he saw
And it's easy to see
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book
It's going by the book