Witch Hunt

Petra opens “Witch Hunt” with a bracketed note pointing to 1 Timothy 4:7 and Titus 3:9, then sets about satirizing the church's habit of chasing the newest controversy. A “new bandwagon in town” invites everyone to hop on, and the line about Don Quixote needing “another windmill to attack” sets the tone: busy, loud and aimed at the wrong target.

The refrain makes the charge direct: “Another witch hunt looking for evil wherever we can find it,” done as a break “from all our gospel labor.” The second verse says where the energy goes: “We're up in arms instead of down on our knees,” with people “walkin' over dollars trying to find another dime,” and “never mind the souls.” The song ends with the hunt closing in, “And we won't stop until somebody gets burned.”

The cited passages warn against “godless myths and old wives' tales” (1 Timothy 4:7) and “foolish controversies” (Titus 3:9), and 2 Timothy 2:23 gives the same advice about quarrels that breed nothing. Heavy on sarcasm, the lyric's real request is for prayer and evangelism to come before outrage.