Megadeth Lyrics

MEGADETH LYRICS
"Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!" (1985)
1. Last Rites
[D. Mustaine]
2. Loved To Death
[D. Mustaine]
Your bodies empty now

As I hold you
Now your gone I miss you
But I told you
I remember bad times
More than good
There's no coming back
Even if we could
I loved you to death
If I can't have you
Than no one will
And since I won't
I'll have to kill
My only love, something
I've never felt
Now you've gone to heaven
And I'll burn in hell
[solo: Mustaine]
And now I'm down below
And what do I see

You didn't go to heaven
Your down in hell with me
And now your coming back
Baby take me please!
I really think I would
If you weren't such a sleaze
I loved you once before
You kept me on a string
I'd rather go without
Than take what you would bring !
3. Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
[D. Mustaine]
I am a snyper (?)
Always hit the mark
Paid assassin
Working after dark
Looking through the night
Using infra-red
My target on you
Aimed at your head
$10.000 up front
$10.000 when I'm through
And I know just what to do
And ya know I'll do it too
Then I'm coming back for you
Back for you!
I do the "getting rid of"
Don't tell me why
Don't need to hear the truth
Don't need the lies
Now pay me quickly
And now we're through
It brings me great pleasure
To say my next job is you
Don't you know that
Killing is my business
And business is good [repeat]
You'd better believe it
[solo: Poland]
4. The Skull Beneath The Skin
[D. Mustaine]
[solo: Mustaine]
Mean and infectous

The evil prophets rise
Dance of the macabre
As witches streak the sky
Decadent worship of
Black magic and sorcery
In the womb of the devils dungeon
Trapped without a plea
[solo: Mustaine]
See thing in agony

Necrosis is the fate
Pins sticking through the skin
The venom now sedates
Locked in a pillory
Nowhere to be round
Screaming for your life
But no-one hears a sound
Help me
Prepare the patients scalp
To peel away
Metal caps his ears
He'll hear not what we say
Solid steel visor
Riveted cross his eyes
Iron staples close his jaws
So no one hears his cries
The skull beneath the skin
Now your drawn and quartered
Your bones will make the x
Symbol stands for poison
And it's chained to your head
And as we fold your arms
To make the holy cross
We cross the crucifix
Religion has been lost
The skull beneath the skin
[solo: Mustaine]
5. The Boots
[l. hazelwood - D. Mustaine]
[solo: Poland]
You keep saying you got something for me

Some things you call love, but I call sex
You've been kissing when you ought-a-be-a
Screwing and now someone else can kiss your ass
These boots are made for walking
That's just what they'll do
And one of these days these boots
Are gonna walk all over you
[solo: Poland]
You keep lying and there ain't no believing

And you keep same'n when you ought-a-be-a leaving
Now what's right is right but you ain't been right yet
These boots...
[solo: Poland]
You've keep dressing ways you shouldn't be dressing

And you keep thinking that you'll never get burned ha!
I just found me a brand new box spring mattress
What you know bitch you got a lot to learn
These boots... are you ready boots
[solo: Poland]
And you think I'm kidding, dont'ya?!
6. Rattle Head
[D. Mustaine]
Here I come
Stand up and plant your feet
Listen I'm letting off steam
Now throw your hands in the air
Let it loose I don't fucking care
[solo: Poland]
Rattle head
A dose of metal you need
To bang your head til you bleed
It's time for snapping some neck
Slashing, thrashing to megadeth
[solo: Poland]
Rattle head
You, your head is pounding with pain
Winning, sinning, beginning
Feeding, the needing for bleeding
Bashing, smashing, crashing
Frying, annihilating you!
[solo: Poland]
There's someone back in the shadows

You feel though you can't see his eyes
He'll bash your head if you cross him
Ain't quite your average guy
Don't wear no leather to "fittin"
Don't wear no spikes to be "cool"
Don't want no woman beside him
Just make it fast, loud and rude
Rattle head
[solo: Mustaine]
I'm a rattle head

Rattle your goddamn head!
7. Chosen Ones
[D. Mustaine]
You doubt your strength or courage

Don't come to join with me
For death surely waits you
With sharp and pointy teeth
An animal so vicious
No others fought and won
So on the field of battle
We are the chosen ones
Human bones blanket the dirt
Of the heathens lair
That we must pass this den of death
The only path from here
But I walk in the light
The time to die has come
No-one shall take my life
I'm of the chosen ones
Black shadows fill the sky
As the creatures eyes grow near
Raise the shield of the holy pilgrims
High into the air
Heavens powers fill my arms
Onward now to fight I'm sent
Oh the beast is coming
To put you to the test
[solo: Mustaine]
Lookout!
Now this land is mine to pillage
Rape, and steal, and take at will
Never let you cross this path
I reign for now I stay to kill
8. Looking Down The Cross
[D. Mustaine]
[solo: Mustaine]
Now before they take me

And my blessed life
Now you'll know why death
Was summoned here tonight
I'll recall my perils
They'll kill me in pride
No, I can't run away
There's no place to hide
Though too much to live for
I owe enough to die
Ask not for salvation
My death shall mean their lives
Hatred and guilt the alter they've built
High priests of sun
Destiny, fate the wicked ones gate
Beckoning you in
Down the walkways
Through the blood stained town
Looking down the cross
Bleeding from the crown
Led to stay
To die besides the thieves
Kill the king
Of the world to be
And now to you, this will come
A putrefying pestilence
More noxious than the serpents breath
Male violently destined
More corrupt than the malice of
Choronzon
More disease than the wind
Of the moonlight sun
Putrefaction you've caused
No need for confession
Now you wish you had a god
To stop your demolition
Crushing the bones of the hundred folds
Swinging the judgement hammer
Man, woman, child no-one is safe
The heads of the dead are the banner
And this was all you got
So don (?) these broken wings
Sands of time run out
Bells of hades ring
Is this a nightmare
To unhallow thy name
Smell of brimstone
Dancing in the flames
No help now
As you fulfill his task
Chief of evil
Has got you by the ass
St free
To shaken the throne
Just a dream?
Your weeping all alone
[solo: Mustaine]
Looking down the cross

(speak no evil)
I'm looking down the cross
(speak no evil)
9. Mechanix
[D. Mustaine]
Imagine you were at my station

And you brought your motor to me
Your a burner yeah a real motor car
Said you wanna get your order filled
Made me shiver when I put it in
Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you
Who ever though you'd be better
At turning a screw than me
I do it for my life
Made my drive shaft crank
Made my pistons bulge
Made my ball bearings melt from the heat
We were shifting hard when we took off
Put tonight all four on the floor
When we hit top end ya know it feels too slow
I'm giving you my room service
And ya know it's more than enough
Oh one more time ya know I'm in love
[solo: Mustaine]
"Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?" (1986)

1. Wake Up Dead
I sneak in my own house,

It's four in the morning,
I had too much to drink,
Said I was out with the boys,
I creep in my bedroom,
I slip into bed,
I know if I wake her,
I'll wake up dead,
[Chorus:]
I wonder, will she find out,
About the other, other lover,
Diana.
Wake up dead, you die,

Wake up dead, and buried,
Wake up dead, you die,
Wake up dead.
2. The Conjuring
Welcome to out sanguinary sect of worship,

Feel at home in our black conventicle,
As we anathematise,
All of those who oppose us,
Don't summon the devil,
Don't call the priests,
If you need the strength,
The conjuring. Obey!!!
Behold the flames rise,

From the compass' cardinal points,
Burn the sacred oil,
And, with the ashes you'll annoint,
Arrange the symbols,

Of the wizard, and, magician,
Light the candles,
Place the parchment paper in position,
Between its leaves place,
The lash from a black cat's eye,
A straw of a broom,
Fold, and, burn, and, centralise,
Don't summon the devil,

Don't call the priests,
If you need the strength,
The conjuring,
I am the devil's advocate,

A salesman, if you will,
You know my name. [You know my name],
I met your father years ago,

Gave him what he'd please,
He called my name, you'll do the same,
I'm claiming what is mine by right,

It's time to close the deal,
You're bought and sold, bought and sold,
Come join me in my infernal depths,

Mephisto's hall of fame
I've got your soul, I've got your soul,
The conjuring. Obey!!!
3. Peace Sells
What do you mean, "I don't believe in God"?

I talk to him every day.
What do you mean, "I don't support your system"?
I go to court when I have to.
What do you mean, "I can't get to work on time"?
I got nothing better to do
And, what do you mean, "I don't pay my bills"?
Why do you think I'm broke? Huh?
[Chorus:]
If there's a new way,
I'll be the first in line.
But, it better work this time.
What do you mean, "I hurt your feelings"?

I didn't know you had any feelings.
What do you mean, "I ain't kind"?
I'm just not your kind.
What do you mean, "I couldn't be the president of the United States of America"?
Tell me something, it's still "We the people", right?
[Chorus: (repeat)]
If there's a new way
I'll be the first in line,
Can you put a price on peace?

Peace,
Peace sells...,
Peace,
Peace sells...,
Peace sells...,but who's buying?
[n+1 times more]
No, peace sells...
4. Devil's Island
The light that fills my lonely cell,

Is blocked out by the key,
That locks the door to this hell,
The place they wanted me.
Time's racing like the wind,
Execution's near,
Oh lord, I wait for death,
And, yes, I have no fear.
I recall that night, my every breath,
And, step along the way.
Closed my eyes, walking,
As danger paved the way.
The devil, and the darkness
Let her evil wander free
And, here on Devils Island,
The final stop for me.
[Chorus:]
Devils Island, Devils Island.
Oh, there is no escape,

The sea is full of sharks.
The tide takes you away, and
Smashes you on the rocks.
The sun is shining,
But feel not today,
It's warmth, it's dying,
And fading away.
[Chorus (repeat):]
Devils Island, (here I stay) Devils Island.
Oh, hear the call,

From the grave beyond.
Oh, so pernicious,
Her soul it creates song.
As there is no man, that is
Here upon the earth,
Able to terminate our
Noisome will since birth.
The priest that reads the sermons,

Is walking next to me,
To the stake, my last request,
To have her burn with me.
But, so it did, the heavens opened,
Rain began to fall.
The final judgement came, and
Was spread before you all.
Final judgement.
Old, weak, and feeble,

But the lesson taught to me,
To stay away from evil,
She doesn't care for me.
She haunts me in my sleep,
Though I tore that page away.
And, here on Devils Island,
I'll always have to stay.
[Chorus (repeat):]
(Devils Island, Devils Island.)
Here I am.
[Chorus (repeat 4 times):]

5. Good Mourning / Black Friday
Good Mourning.
Hey, I don't feel so good.

Something's not right,
Something's coming over me
What the f**k is this?
Killer, intruder, homicidal man.

If you see me coming, run as fast as you can.
A blood thirsty demon who's stalking the street.
I hack up my victims like pieces of meat.
Blood thirsty demon, sinister fiend,
Bludgeonous slaughters, my evil deeds.
My hammer's a cold piece of blood-lethal steel.

I grin while you writhe with the pain that I deal.
Swinging the hammer, I hack through their heads,
Deviant defilers, you're next to be dead.
I unleash my hammer with sadistic intent.
Pounding, surrounding, slamming through your head. Yeah!
Their bodies convulse, in agony, and, pain.

I mangle their faces, till no features remain.
A blade for the butchering, I cut them to shreds.
First take out the organs, then cut off the head.
The remains of flesh now sop under my feet.
One more bloody massacre, the murders' complete.
I seek to dismember, a sadist fiend.
And, blood baths are my way of getting clean.
I lurk in the alleys, wait for the kill.
I have no remorse for the blood that I spill
A merciless butcher who lives underground.
I'm out to destroy you and ,I will, cut you down. (Cut you down)
I see you, and, I'm waiting ,for Black Friday.
Killer, intruder, homicidal man.

If you see me coming, run as fast as you can.
A blood thirsty demon who's stalking the street.
I hack up my victims like pieces of meat.
I lurk in the alleys, wait for the kill.
I have no remorse for the blood that I spill
A merciless butcher who lives underground.
I'm out to destroy you and ,I will, cut you down.
It's Black Friday, paint the devil on the wall. [8 times]
6. Bad Omen
Down fell the stars, as they
Splashed into the sea.
"Mi nomine Baphomet",
Come dance with me.
Sacrifice the virgins,
Spiritual rites.
Their master's time has come,
The moon is full tonight.
Drinking, dancing,
They worship, and toast
The devil, who's watching,
With demon's remote.
Fire, rising,
Racing in your blood.
Possessed, naive,
His service is done.
Bloody blasphemy.
Sinister's the word,

As the demon's take their fill.
An orgy's taking place,
Human blood will spill.
An act of worship,
As they conceive the ghouls.
Satan has their souls,
They sing pagan tunes.
The ceremony,
Is sure to be cursed.
They ask for his blessings,
But, down comes the worst.
Their bodies, soulless,
A corpse from the grave.
Their minds are helpless,
And, no-one can save [x 5],
No-one can save them (oh no). [x 2]
7. I Ain't Superstitious
I ain't superstitious,
When a black cat crosses my path.
And, I ain't superstitious,
As I break the looking glass.
Ain't afraid of no demons,
Don't make me laugh!
Under the ladder I go.
It's all bulls**t, don't you know!
Ain't afraid of the shadows,
I like the dark anyway, and that's a fact!
Superstitious [x 2]
No such thing as bad luck.
I couldn't really give a f**k.
Take your stupid superstitions,
And find some other paranoidal,
Chickens**t, sissy, worm, and, tell it to him.
Superstitious [x 2]
8. My Last Words
My life's on time,
But again my sense is late.
Feel a might unsteady,
But still I have to play.
Six to one's the odds,
And, we have the highest stakes.
And, once again I gamble with my very life today.
Highly polished metal,

The oil makes it gleam.
Fill the terror chamber,
Your mind begins to scream.
Your life is like a trigger,
Never trouble till you're squeezed.
Now you crack a smile,
As you give the gun a tease.
Place the piston down,

Now give the gun a spin.
Soon as the spinning stops,
Oh no, the game starts in.
A hateful way of vengeance,
A bit of playful sin.
Load another bullet,
Now the second round begins.
A couple grains of powder,

A couple grams of lead.
A touch against the trigger,
A touch inside the head.
Take another drink, and
Raise the last bets.
Think about my last words,
They might be what I just said.
A click comes from the hammer,
That couldn't drive a nail.
Sense the numbing cold blue,
Or the red of Hades' grill.
A fraction of a second,
Do you lose, or maybe still,
Pass it to the left,
And collect your mighty kill.
Add another bullet,

The third round begins.
Soon as the spinning stops,
Oh no, the game starts in.
Please, no I.O.U.'s,
No markers for death.
Does anybody play? Anybody,
Somebody, anybody play.
You, you, next victim, you next to die.

You, you, next victim, you next [s: your turn] to die.
You, come on, next victim, your turn to die.
You, come on, next victim, your turn to die.
"So Far, So Good... So What !" (1988)
1. Into The Lungs Of Hell
[Music by D.Mustaine]
[Instrumental]
2. Set The World A Fire
[Music by D.Mustaine]
Red flesh cloud's choking out the morning sky

They said it'd never come, we knew it was a lie
All forms of life die now the humans all succumb
Time to kiss your ass goodbye the end has just begun
Distorted figures walk the street, it's 1989

Weeds once underneath your feet have grown to vines
Bodies melted like a candies, a land without a face
No time to change your fate, no time left, it's too late
The arsenal of megadeth can't be rid they said
And if it comes, the living will envy the dead
Racing for power, and all come in last
No winning first stone cast
This falsehood worldly peace
It's treaties soon will cease
No one will be left to prove that humans existed
Maybe soon the children will be born open-fisted
We all live on one planet it will all go up in smoke
Too bad they couldn't see this lethal energy

And now the final scene, a global darkening
Dig deep piles of rubble and ruins

Towering overhead both far and wide
There's unknown tools for World War III
Einstein said ' We'll use rocks on the other side '
No survivors set the world afire
3. Anarchy In The U.K.
[Song by Glen Matlock, Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Steve Jones]
Right now
I am an anti-Christ
And I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want, but I know how get it
I want to destroy, possibly ?
'Cause I want to be anarchy, no dog's body
Anarchy for the U.S.A.

It's coming sometime, it may be
I give a wrong time, stop a traffic light
Your future dream is a shopping spree
'Cause I want to be anarchy, in the city
Of many ways to get what you want

I use the best, I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy
'Cause I want to be anarchy, it's the only way to be
Is this the M.P.L.A. ?

Is this the U.D.A. ?
Is this the I.R.A. ?
I thought it was the U.S.A., or just another country
And other cunt-like tendencies
'Cause I want to be anarchy,'cause I want to be
Anarchy, you know what I mean ?
'Cause I want to be anarchist, again I'm pissed
Destroy !
4. Mary Jane
[Music by D.Mustaine, lyrics by D.Mustaine/D.Ellefson]
Forgive me father for I have sinned

I'm a child of air, I'm a witch of the wind
And I'm still wide awake... Mary Jane
From the earth, up through the trees

I can hear her calling me
Her voice rides on the breeze
Oh, it's haunting me
No, I can't get away

No, there's no escape
If I know I'm going crazy
I must not be insane
[CHORUS:]
Beware my friends, as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I'm now so you must be
Prepare my friends to follow me
Forgive me father for I have sinned

I'm a child of air, I'm a witch of the wind
Fingers gripped around my brain
No control my mind is lame
I'm in the astral plane, and I'll never be the same
Never, never, never, never, never, never
Never, never, never
[CHORUS:]
It hurts so bad I can't breathe

Prepare to follow me
5. 502
[Music & lyrics by D.Mustaine]
Pull over, shithead, this is the cops
Full tanks, pocket lined with cash

Full throttle, gonna rip some ass
Drive all day, and through the night
Romance the road,winding left to right
The stars above guide me, the moonlight is free

A feeling inside me, and the whole world to see
Driving fast makes me feel good

The speed of light trapped under my hood
Breaking laws, 'cause there's nothing to do
Driving the interstate, stopped for a 502
Hundreds of miles rolled of today

Sings lose their meaning, minutes tick away
Dirt roads to interstates, I must have drove them all
Cigarettes and burgers, caffeine and alcohol
Drive until daybreak, always on the go

Life on the freeway, night shift till dawn patrol
Driving fast makes me feel good

The speed of light trapped under my hood
Breaking laws, 'cause there's nothing to do
Driving the interstate, stopped for a 502
Stopped for a 502, next time it's gonna be you

Stars above guide me
This feeling inside me
I drive until daybreak
Life on the freeway is hell
I'm coming through
6. In My Darkest Hour
[Music by D.Mustaine, lyrics by D.Mustaine/D.Ellefson]
In my hour of need
Ha you're not there
And though I reached out for you
Wouldn't lend a hand
Through the darkest hour

Grace did not shine on me
It feels so cold, very cold
No one cares for me
Did you ever think I get lonely

Did you ever think that I needed love
Did you ever think to stop thinking
You're the only one that I'm thinking of
You'll never know how hard I tried

To find my space and satisfy you too
Things will be better when I'm dead and gone

Don't try to understand, knowing you I'm probably wrong
But oh how I lived my life for you

Still you'd turn away
Now as I die for you
My flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
All these years I thought I was wrong
Now I know it was you
Raise your head raise your face your eyes
Tell me who you think you are, who ?
I walk, I walk alone

Into the promised land
There's a better place for me
But it's far, far away
Everlasting life for me
In a perfect world
But I gotta die first
Please God send me on my way
Time has a way of taking time

Loneliness is not only felt by fools
Alone I call to ease the pain
Yearning to be held by you, alone, so alone, I'm lost
Consumed by the pain
The pain, the pain, the pain
Won't you hold me again

You just laughed, ha, ha, bitch
My whole life is work built on the past
But the time has come when all things shall pass
This good thing passed away
In my darkest hour
7. Liar
[Music by D.Mustaine / D.Ellefson, lyrics by D.Mustaine]
You take great pride in never having lived up to anything

Lie, steal, cheat, and kill, a real bad guy
Your daddy is a wine, and your mommy's quite insane
From altar boy to sewer rat, you don't give a damn
Your sister is a junkie, get "it" anyway she can
Your brother's a gay singer in a stud leather band
Your girlfriend's got herpes to go with your help and AIDS
There ain't one person you know you ain't ripped off yet
Look deep in the mirror, look deep into its eyes

Your face is replaced, a creature you despise
But I know what you're made of, it ain't much I'm afraid
I know you'll be lying until your dying day
Make up your stories, but truth's so hard to say

Brain is numb and your tongue will surely dig you grave
Your mind is sickly from Alzheimer's disease
And decadence and debauchery killed your memories
You're a liar, liar, liar, everyone can see

You're a liar, liar, liar, it's all you'll ever be
You're a liar, liar, liar, it's what you mean to me
Liar, liar, lies...
Start trouble, spread pain

Piss and venom in your veins
Talk nasty, breathe fire
Smell rotten, you're a liar
Sweat liquor, breathe snot
Eat garbage, spit blood
Diseased, health hazard
Scum bag, fucking bastard
Grease face, teeth decay
Hair matted, drunk all day
Abscessed, sunken veins
Rot gut, scrambled brain
Steal money, crash cars
Rob jewelry, hock guitars
Rot in hell, it's time you know
To your master, off you go
You're a liar
A fucking liar
Filthy liar
You, you, you, you fucking liar!
You're a liar
8. Hook In Mouth
[Music by D.Mustaine/D.Ellefson, lyrics by D.Mustaine]
A cockroach in the concrete, courthouse tan and beady eyes

A slouch with fallen arches, purging truths into great lies
A little man with a big eraser, changing history
Procedures that he's programmed to, all he hears and sees
Altering the facts and figures, events and every issue
Make a person disappear, and no one will ever miss you
Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was

Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools
You said you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway ?
Ever think may be it was meant to be this way ?
Don't try to fool us, we know the worst is yet to come
I believe my kingdom will come
[CHORUS:]
F, is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D, for your dying, O, your overture
M, will cover your grave with manure
This spells out FREEDOM, it means nothing to me
As long as there's P.M.R.C
F, is for fighting, R is for red

Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D, for your dying, O, your overture
M, is for money, you know what that cures
This spells out FREEDOM, it means nothing to me
As long as there's P.M.R.C
[CHORUS:]
Put your hand right up my shirt

Pull the strings that make me work
Jaws will part, words fall out
Like a fish with hook in mouth
Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was

Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools
I'm not a fish

I'm a man
Hook in mouth
"Rust In Peace" (1990)
1. Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
Brother will kill brother

Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand
Fools like me, who cross the sea

And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?
A country that's divided
Surely will not stand
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand
The end is near, it's crystal clear

Part of the master plan
Don't look now to Israel
It might be in your homelands
Holy wars
Upon my podium, as the

Know it all scholar
Down in my seat of judgement
Gavel's bang, uphold the law
Up on my soapbox, a leader
Out to change the world
Down in my pulpit as the holier
Than-thou-could-be-messenger of God
Wage the war on organized crime

Sneak attacks, repel down the rocks
Behind the lines
Some people risk to employ me
Some people live to destroy me
Either way they die.
They killed my wife, and my baby

With hopes to enslave me
First mistake...last mistake!
Paid by the alliance, to slay all the giants
Next mistake...no more mistakes!
Fill the cracks in, with judicial granite

Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't
thinking it
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
I know what I said, now I must scream of the overdose
And the lack of mercy killings.
2. Hangar 18
Welcome to our fortress tall

Take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls
For you see the steel is much too strong
Computer banks to rule the world
Instruments to sight the stars
Possibly I've seen too much

Hangar 18 I know too much.
Foreign life forms inventory

Suspended State of cryogenics
Selective amnesia's the story
Believed foretold but who'd suspect
The military intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense

Hangar 18 I know too much.
3. Take No Prisoners
Got on chance, infiltrate them

Get it right, terminate them
The Panzers will, permeate them
Break their pride, denigrate them
And their people, retrograde them
Typhus, deteriate them
Epidemic, devastate them
Take no prisoners, cremate them
Going to war, give 'em hell

D-Day, next stop Normandie
Beginning of the end
WE know how to and sure as shit we'll win
War is peace sure man
A retreat for the damned
A playground for the demented
A haven for those who walk this world
Bereft of heart and soul
Love and war they say all is fair
Take his life
But won't take his hair
Your body has parts your
Country can spare
By the way son here's
Your wheelchair
He once had to be all he could be

Now he's nothing for no one nowhere to see
Funny thing, he's like you & me
It's a funny thing, a funny thing
Tears streak his solemn stare
Abandoned for wreckage nobody cares
No one knew what would happen there
No one spoke no one even dared
Don't ask what you can do for you country
Ask what your country can do for you
Take no prisoners, take no shit
4. Five Magics
Bestow upon me magic

Wizard, all knowing, all wise
I want to rule this kingdom
Make sweet the breeze now defiled
Dethrone the evil prince's iron fists
In velvet gloves of sin
Parade the grey robed monks
The vestal virgins, wheel the wyvern's in
Let the ceremony consecrate the marriage
Let me be the protege of Five Magics
Give me alchemy, give mewizardry

Give me sorcery, thermatology
Electricity, magic if you please,
master all of these, bring him to his knees
I master five magics, I master five magics

I master five magics, I master five magics
Possessed with hellish torment, possessed with hellish torment

I master magics five, I master magics five
Hunting the abyss lord, hunting the abyss lord
Only one will stay alive, only one will stay alive
He who lives by the sword, he who lives by the sword
Will surely also die, will surely also die
He who lives in sin, he who lives in sin
Will surely live the lie
[Solo: Mustaine]
5. Poison Was The Cure
I miss the warm embrace I felt

First time you touched me
Secure and safe in open arms
I should have known you'd crush me
A snake you were when we met
I loved you anyway
Pulling out your poisoned fangs
The venom never goes away
Serpent swims free in my blood
Dragons sleeping in my veins
Jackyl speaking with tongue
Roach egg laying in my brain
Once stalked beneath your shadow
Sleepwalking to the gallows
I'm the sun that beats your brow in
'til I finally threw the towel in
Never knowing if I'd wake up in a
Whirlpool got redundant
My brain was just some driftwood
In a cesspool I became dead
From a rock star to a desk fool
Was my destiny someone said
Love's a tide pool
Taste the waters life's abundant
Taste me
6. Lucretia
Sitting up late at night

A tiptoe through the darkness
Cold as hell black as spades
Aware of my immediate surrounding
In my place I escape
Up into my hideout
Hiding from everyone
My friends all say
Dave your mental anyway hey!
Drift into a deeper state
I stalk the cobwebbed stairways
Dirt grits beneath me feet
The stair creaks, I precariously sneak
Hypnosis guides my hand

I slipside through the walkways
Sit in granny's rockin' chair
Memories are whirling by yeah
Reminisce in the attic
Lucretia waits impatiently
Cobwebs make me squint
The cobra so eloquently glints
Moonbeams surge through the sky
The crystal ball's energized
Surely that like the cat waiting
Lucretia rocks away
7. Tornado Of Souls
This morning I made the call

The one that ends it all
Hanging up, I wanted to cry
But dammit, this well's gone dry
Not for the money, not for the fame
Not for the power, just no more games
But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado
I can't replace the lies, that let a 1000 days go
No more living trapped inside
In her way I'll surely die
In the eye of the tornado, blow me away
You'll grow to loathe my name

You'll hate me just the same
You won't need your breath
And soon you'll meet your death
Not from the years, not from the use
Not from the tears, just self abuse
Who's to say what's for me to say...be...do

Cause a big nothing it'll be for me
The land of opportunity
The golden chance for me
My future looks so bright
Now I think I've seen the light
Can't say what's on my mind

Can't do what I really feel
In this bed I made for me
Is where I sleep, I really feel
I warn you of the fate
Proven true to late
Your tongue twist perverse
Come drink now of this curse
And now I fill your brain
I spin you round again
My poison fills your head
As I tuck you into bed
You feel my fingertips
You won't forget my lips
You'll feel my cold breath
It's the kiss of death
8. Dawn Patrol
Thermal count is rising

In perpetual writhing
The primordial ooze
And the sanity they lose
Awakened in the morning

To more air pollution warnings
Still we sleepwalk off to work
While our nervous systems jerk
Pretending not to notice

How history had forebode us
With the green house in effect
Our environment was wrecked
Now I can only laugh

As I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles
In the dark of dawn patrol
9. Rust In Peace...Polaris
Tremble you weakings, cower in fear

I am your ruler, land, sea and air
Immense in my girth, erect I stand tall
I am nuclear murderer I am Polaris
Ready to pounce at the touch of a button
My systems locked in on military gluttons
I rule on land, air and sea
Pass judgement on humanity
Winds blow from the bowels of hell
Will we give warnings, only time will tell
Satan rears his ugly head, to spit into the wind
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
Launch the Polaris, the end doesn't scare us
When will this cease
The warheads will all rust in peace
Bomb shelters filled to the brim
Survival such a silly whim
World leaders sell missiles cheap
Your stomach turns, your flesh creeps
High priests of holocaust, fire from the sea

Nuclear winter spreading disease
The day of final conflict
All pay the price
The third world war
Rapes peace, takes life
Back to the start, talk of the part
When the Earth was cold as ice
Total dismay as the sun passed away
And the days where black as night
Eradication of Earth's
Population loves Polaris
10. My Creation
I will give you life

You'll serve only me
And my will to kill
You will kill for me
All that I desire

All that I command
You are here for me
I'm your master
My creation
I will make for you

A soul mate to love
Unlike your love for me
And you will take my name
She will be your bride

She will serve me too
And I will introduce you to
The Bride of Frankenstein
"Countdown To Extinction" (1992)
1. Skin O'my Teeth
[Mustaine]
I had wrists donning slits

Flowing constantly
My broken body in a wreck
Wrapped around a tree
A crosswalk hit and run
The finish line for me
People clutter in the gutter
Take a look and see
[chorus:]
No escaping pain
You belong to me
Clinging on to life
By the skin o'my teeth
My blood flows through the streets

Deluge from the wounds
Empty jars of sleeping pills
On the dresser in my room
My wet brain neighbor cranes
His neck in time to see
The white lights a train
Bearing down on me
[Chorus]
[Solo - Marty]
I won't feel the hurt

I'm not trash any longer
That that doesn't kill me
Only makes me stronger
I need a ride to the morgue
That's what 911 is for
So, tag my toe and don't forget
Ooh to close the drawer
[Chorus]
2. Symphony Of Destruction
[Mustaine]
You take a mortal man,

And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch peoples heads a'roll
A'roll...
[chorus:]
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the Symphony ...
Of Destruction
Acting like a robot

Its metal brain corrodes
You try to take its pulse
Before the head explodes
Explodes...
[Chorus]
[Solo - Marty]
The earth starts to rumble

World powers fall
A'warring for the heavens
A peaceful man stands tall
Tall...
[Chorus]
3. Architecture Of Aggression
[Mustaine-Ellefson]
Born from the dark,

In the black cloak of night.
To envelop its prey below,
Deliver to the light.
To eliminate your enemy,
Hit them in their sleep,
And when all is won and lost,
The spoils of wars are yours to keep.
[chorus]
Great nations built from the bones of the dead
With mud and straw, blood and sweat,
You know your worth when your enemies
Praise your architecture of aggression
[Solo : Marty]
Ensuing power vacuum

A toppled leader dies
His body fuels the power fire
And the flames rise to the sky
One side of his face a kiss
The other genocide
Time to pay with your ass
A worldwide suicide
[Chorus]
[Solo : Marty]
Born from the dark

In the black cloak of night
To envelop its prey below
Deliver to the light
To eliminate your enemy
Hit them in their sleep
And when all is won and lost
The spoils of war are yours to keep
[Chorus]
4. Foreclosure Of A Dream
[Mustaine - Ellefson]
Rise so high, yet so far to fall

A plan of dignity and balance for all
Political breakthrough, euphoria's high
More borrowed money, more borrowed time
Backed in a corner, caught up in the race
Means to an end ended in disgrace
Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase
[chorus]
Foreclosure of a dream
Those visions never seen
Until all is lost
Personal holocaust
Foreclosure of a dream
Barren land that once filled a need

Are worthless now, dead without a dead
Slipping away from an iron grip
Nature's scales are forced to tip
The heartland cries, loss of all pride
To leave ain't believing, so try and be tried
Insufficient funds, insanity and suicide
[Chorus]
[Solo : Dave]
Now with new hope some will be proud

This is no hoax, no one pushed out
Receive a reprieve and be a pioneer
Break new ground of a new frontier
New ideas will surely get by
No deed, or dividend. Some may ask "Why?"
You'll find the solution, the answers in the sky
[Solo : Marty]
Rise so high, yet so far to fall

A plan of dignity and balance for all
Political breakthrough, euphoria's high
More borrowed money, more borrowed
[Chorus]
Holocaust
5. Sweating Bullets
[Mustaine]
Hello me ... Meet the real me

And my misfits way of life
A dark black past is my
Most valued possessions
Hindsight is always 20-20
But looking back it's still a bit fuzzy
Speak of mutually assured destruction?
Nice story ... Tell it to Reader's Digest!!!
Feeling paranoid
True enemy or false friend?
Anxiety's attacking me, and
My air is getting thin
I'm in trouble for the things
I haven't got to yet
I'm chomping at the bit and my
Palms are getting wet, sweating bullets
Hello me ... It's me again

You can subdue, but never tame me
It gives me a migraine headache
Thinking down to your level
Yea, just keep on thinking it's my fault
And stay an inch or two outta kicking distance
Mankind has got to know
His limitations
Feeling claustrophobic
Like the walls are closing in
Blood stains on my hands and
I don't know where I've been
I'm sharpening the axe, and my
[Solo : Dave]
Well, me ... It's nice talking to myself

A credit to dementia
Some day you too will know my pain
And smile its blacktooth grin
If the war inside my head
Won't take a day off I'll be dead
My icy fingers claw your back
Here I come again
Feeling paranoid
And my air is getting thin
Once you committed me
Now you've acquitted me
Claiming validity
For your stupidity
I'm chomping at the bit
I'm sharpening the axe
Here I come again, whoa!
Sweating bullets
6. This Was My Life
[Mustaine]
It was just another day

It was just another fight
It was words strung into sentences
It was doomed to not be right
There is something wrong with me

There is something wrong with you
There is nothing left of us
There is one thing I can do
Lying on your bed

Examining my head
This is the part of me that hates
Paybacks are a bitch
I throw the switch
Somewhere an electric chair awaits
Hey! This was my life
Hey! This was my fate
This was the wrong thing to do

This was the wrong one to be doing
This was the road to destiny
This was the road to my ruin
Now there's motives for the suspect

Now there's nothing left to say
Now there's method to the madness
Now there's society to pay
[Chorus]
In our life there's if

In our beliefs there's lie
In our business there's sin
In our bodies there's die
[Solo : Dave]
This was my life

This was my fate
7. Countdown To Extinction
[Mustaine - Ellefson - Menza - Friedman]
Endangered species, caged in fright

Shot in cold blood, no chance to fight
The stage in set, now pay the price
An ego boost don't think twice
Technology, the battle's unfair
You pull the hammer without a care
Squeeze the trigger that makes you Man
Pseudo-safari, the hunt is canned ...
The hunt is canned
All are gone, all but one

No contest, nowhere to run
No more left, only one
This is it, this is the Countdown to Extinction
Tell the truth, you wouldn't dare

The skin and thophy, oh so rare
Silence speaks louder than words
Ignore the guilt, and take your turn
Liars anagram is "lairs"
Man you were never even there
Killed a few feet from the cages
Point blank, you're so courageous ...
So courageous
[Chorus]
One hour from now

Another species of life form
Will disappear off the face of the planet
Forever ... and the rate is accelerating
8. High Speed Dirt
[Mustaine - Ellefson]
Do it if you dare
Leaping from the sky
Hurling through the air
Exhilarating high
See the earth below
Soon to make a crater
Blue sky, black death
I'm off to meet my maker
Energy of the Gods, adrenalin surge

Won't stop 'til I hit the ground, I'm on my way for sure
Up here in the air, this will never hurt
I'm on my way to impact, taste the high speed dirt
Paralyzed with fear

Feel velocity gain
Entering a near
Catatonic state
Pressure of the sound
Roaring through my head
Crash into the ground
Damned if I'll be dead
[Chorus]
Jump or Die!
[Solo : Dave, Marty]
Dropping all my weight

Going down full throttle
The pale horse awaits
Like a genie in a bottle
Fire in my veins
Faster as I go
I forgot my name
I'm a dirt torpedo
[Solo : Marty]
High Speed Dirt ...
[Solo : Dave]
9. Psychotron
[Mustaine]
Assassin in stealth
Assailant from Hell
Impervious to damage
Computer on-board
Engaged in a war
Non-stop combatant
Maybe not a mutant, maybe a man
Part bionic
And organic
Not a cyborg
Call him Psychotron
Burning inside
Godspeed in glide
Battle plan running
A killing machine
Just downright mean
And forever cunning
Maybe not a mutant, maybe a man
[Chorus]
Target to destroy
Arms in employ
Full assault fire threat
Sensors indicate
You will terminate
Life systems disconnect
[Chorus]
Psychotron
10. Captive Honour
Madness comes, and madness goes

An insane place, with insane moves
Battles without, for battles within
Where evil lives and evil rules
Breaking them up, just breaking them in
Quickest way out, quickest relief wins
Never disclose, never betray
Cease to speak or cease to breathe
And when you kill a man, you're a murderer
Kill many, and you're a conqueror
Kill them all ... Ooh ... Oh you're a God!
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury

Have you reached a verdict?
Yes, we have Your Honour, we find the defendant Guilty!

On all counts for crimes against all humanity
By virtue of the jury's decision and the power

Vested in me by the state I hereby sentence you to be
Incarcerated with no possibility of parole for life
Life? ... What do ya mean life? ... I ain't got a life
Boy! ... Your soul better belong to Jesus! ...

Hmmm-mmm cause your ass belongs to me!
Captive honour, ain't no honour
No time for questions

No time for the games
Start kicking ass
And taking down the names
A long shit list
A shorter fuse
He is untouchable
And guarantees you'll lose
[Solo : Dave]
Inside the big house

His nightmare unfolds
Before he got there
His manpussy was sold
Black, blanket welcome
This taught guy's now a bitch
Praying for death
It can't be worse than this
[Solo : Dave, Marty]
11. Ashes In Your Mouth
People have round shoulders from fairing heavy loads

And the soldiers liberate them, laying mines along their roads
Sorrow paid for valor is too much to recall
Of the countless corpses piled up along the wailing wall
Melting down all metals, turning plows and sheats to swords

Shun words of the Bible, we need implements of war
Chalklines and red puddles of those who have been slain
Destiny, that crooked schemer, says the dead shall rise again
Where do we go from here?

And should we really care
The end is finally here
God have mercy!
Now we've rewritten history

The one thing we've found out
Sweet taste of vindication
It turns to ashes in your mouth
[Chorus]
If you're fighting to live

It's OK to die!
The answer to your question is ...
Welcome to tomorrow!
[Solo : Marty, Marty, Dave]

God have mercy!
[Chorus]
"Youthanasia" (1994)
1. Reckoning Day
I like the way that I make you itch

And all the reasons I give you to bitch
And how I make you wanna scream in pain
And feel your life is just a losing game
I like the way that you let me in

The way you look when the walls cave in
I like the way that your stomach knots
And how you cry for it all to stop
I like the way that you fool yourself

And make believe there's nobody else
I like the way that you stand in line
And beg salvation from the empty skies
Don't want no revenge

Ain't no pay back time
It ain't called getting even
Here comes the reckoning day
I like the things that you try to fake

And your face when I see you break
And that you say you will pray for me
You realize you are prey for me
I like the way you stay on attack

No matter what, I keep coming back
And how you try to hold me down
But you end up driven to the ground
2. Train Of Consequences
I'm doing you a favor

As I'm taking all your money
I guess I should feel sorry
But I don't even trust me
There's bad news creeping up
And you feel a sudden chill
How do you do? My name is trouble
I'm coming in for the kill...
And you know I will
Set the ball A-Rollin

I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life O' style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back
No horse ever ran as fast

As the money that you bet
I'm blowing on my cards
And I play them to my chest
Life's fabric is corrupt
Shot through with corroded thread
As for me I hocked my brains
Packed my bags and headed west
3. Addicted To Chaos
Only yesterday they told me you were gone

All these normal people, will I find another one?
Monkey on my back, Aching my bones
I forgot you said "One day you'll walk alone"
I said I need you, does that make me wrong?
Am I a weak man, are you feeling strong?
My heart was blackened, It's bloody red
A hole in my heart, a hole in my head?
Who will help me up?

Where's the helping hand?
Will you turn on me?
Is this my final stand?
In a dream I cannot see

Tangled abstract fallacy
Random turmoil builds in me
I'm addicted to chaos
Lights shined on my path,

Turn bad days into good
Turn breakdowns into blocks, I smashed 'em
Cause I could
My brain was Labored, My head would spin
Don't let me down, don't give up, don't give in
The rain comes down, cold wind blows
The plans we made are back up on the road
Turn up my collar, welcome the unknown
Remember that you said
"One day you'll walk alone"
4. À Tout Le Monde
Don't remember where I was

I realized life was a game
The more seriously I took things
The harder the rules became
I had no idea what it'd cost
My life passed before my eyes
When I found out how little I accomplished
All my plans denied
So as you read this know my friends

I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile when you think of me
My body's gone that's all
À tout le monde [To all the world]

À tout mes amis [To all my friends]
Je vous aime [I love you]
Je dois partir [I have to leave]
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free
If my heart was still alive

I know it would surely break
And my memories left with you
There's nothing more to say
Moving on is a simple thing
What it leaves behind is hard
You know the sleeping feel no more pain
And the living are scarred

I'll ever speak

Please smile, smile when you think about me
[2x]
I'll ever speak
5. Elysian Fields
Uneasy feeling, Burning out my eyes

I hope the end is less painful than my life
I stand on trial before the gods
On Judgement day
A blink of an eye between
The cradle and the grave
One last look at visions of flesh

The last hope of man on earth
Pontius Pilate still washing his hands
The world don't want to be saved
Only left alone
Elysian Fields...
We are storming the heavens
To raise the swords and shields
We ascend to our destiny
To the Elysian fields
Soaring to the sun

With blood upon their wings
Superstitious dust left twisting in the wind
Man still has one belief
One decree that stands alone
The laying down of arms
I like cancer to their bones
6. The Killing Road
Again we stalk the stage

At mach speed we engage
Feeding people's rage
The big cat's left it's cage
Back in the bus again
To catch another plane
The behavior's quite insane
But we do it for the fame, yeah
I lost my mind, I lost all my money

I lost my life to the killing road
The road will never end
It always starts again
Another show's around the bend
Another long lost friend
Faceless as the snow
There's nothing special about the road
It's just another haul
It's just too damn long that's all, yeah
7. Blood Of Heroes
Walking stiff let me tell ya

Better left for dead
And now we are on a mission
Well it's full speed ahead
My legion's when we do the crime
Let's get one thing straight
To get there early is on time
And showing up on time is late
Ladies and gents, we're still alive

By the skin of our teeth, now it's killing time
Angel in our pocket, devil by our side
We ain't going nowhere 'cause heroes never die
Still alive
Blood of heroes
Never die
They never die
We've been run down every hill

Chased up all the dead end streets
But if you try to cut us out
You'll get a kick in the teeth
Ladies and gents, we're still alive

By the skin of our teeth, now it's killing time
Fasten up your head belts,
Time to ride the skies
It's time to be immortal, 'cause heroes never die
8. Family Tree
Forgotten things remembered

The tigers eat their young
The body stayed but inside the head
The mind was on the run
A conspiracy of silence
The only way out of pain
Is turn around, run through it man
Too wet to come in from the rain,
Tell them...
I know they were doing it to you

But don't try doing it to me
Let me show you, how I love you
It's our secret, you and me
But keep it in the family tree
The secret of the family tree
When you hear them saying "Trust me"

Don't wait to see what's next
Thrown to the wolves
Forever trusting
Raised in a form of living hell
Sing a one note song of rage
Live and die within your heart
So beware in the shadows
Your family tree waits in the dark

I say...
9. Youthanasia
Who'd believe with the way things are here

We'd be going anywhere telling people
How to live?
Who'd believe we'd spend more
Shippin' drugs and guns
Than to educate our sons? Sorry but
That's what they did
I can't help but think,

Someone's forsaken you and me
Luck deserted me and the truth

Beat out my brains
Men rise on stepping stones of their
Selves to higher things
I've stepped over lots of bodies on my way
Thanks for the information don't need no
More anything
We are the damned of all the world

With sadness in our hearts
The wounded of the wars
We've been hung out to dry
You didn't want us anyway
And now we're making up our minds
You tell us how to run our lives
We run for youthanasia
10. I Thought I Knew It All
Somewhere there's a reason

Why things go like they do
Why somethings just fall through
We don't always see them
For what they really are
But I know there's a reason,
Just can't see it from this far
Maybe I don't like it, but I have no choice

I know that somewhere, someone hears my voice
I thought I knew it all

I thought I had it made
How could it end this way?
I thought I knew

Why things don't go my way
That I cannot explain
Just like the change of season,
Just may not be my turn
But I know there's a reason,
The lesson's mine to learn
11. Black Curtains
Hey... Look around you

Everything's helter-skelter
Listen up... I warn you
Run for cover, run
Bang... It happened
Time's up, Armageddon
Fire... Meltdown
The sky is crumbling in
Black Curtains... Never ending
Escape... You're joking

Can't find no place to run
Hair... Is burning
My flesh is bubbling up
Blood... Is boiling
Taste copper on my tongue
Fate... Is coming
Welcome it with a smile
Black Curtains... Never ending, fall
Am I dreaming? My heart pounds my chest

Held for ransom in spider's web
Suffocating, no one hears my calls
Never ending, till the black curtains falls
Snakes... Surround me
Offering their death kiss to me
Down... I'm drowning
How long, I hold my breath
Dogs... Are chasing
My legs are paralyzed
Pray... Don't find me
My life is fading fast
12. Victory
Now, one day I started telling everyone that

"Killing Is My Business.." and I was hung like a Martyr
For "Looking Down The Cross" my "Skull Beneath The Skin"
Prophesied "Last Rites/Loved To Death" my friends
Then I started seeing "Bad Omens" in my head
"Good Mourning/Black Friday" will I "Wake Up Dead"?
If I "Ain't Superstitious" then this won't mean a Thing
But some crazy shit has happened since "The Conjuring"
Not even close

Not even close
Not even close
To overdose
Had fingers in my eyes, had needles in my veins

A knife right through my heart, I am a victory
Came "Anarchy" to "Set The World A Fire"

Pain of "Hook In Mouth", "In My Darkest Hour"
Corruption of the world "Peace Sells... But Nobody's Buying"
Ignorant Religion "Holy Wars" and the dying, "Tornado" nearly got me by the "Skin
O' My Teeth"
"This Was My Life", "Foreclosure Of My Dreams"
May the past "Rust In Peace" In "Hangar 18"
And "Countdown To Extinction"
Just be a bad dream
"Lucretia" said...
Not even close

Not even close
Not even close
To overdose
Had fingers in my eyes, had needles in my veins

A knife right through my heart, I am a victory
13. Millennium Of The Blind
[Music - Mustaine/ Friedman, Lyrics - Mustaine]
At the start of time

Many centuries ago
Came the spawning of Christ
And the Antichrist
And darkness fell upon our people
And the children, they were born faceless
Without eyes they could not see
Born unto themselves
They lived and they died
In the Millennium of the Blind
[Solo - Mustaine]
14. New World Order (Demo)
[Music & Lyrics - Mustaine / Friedman / Ellefson / Menza]
Where have the apostles gone?

Joining hands with wicked ones
Revelation has come to pass
New World Order will hold the mass
A book written by man

Used to control and command
All rights will be denied
Without the mark you shall die
[Solo - Friedman]
No confession, all is known

New World Order, you shall be shown
Monitoring all wages

New World Order comes in stages
Your currency is obsolete
Feel the agony of defeat
Symbol of society today

A must - have or you shall pay
As humans' flesh leads the mind
Just a pawn, the last martyr dies
[Solo - Friedman]
No confession, all is known

New World Order, you shall be shown
[Solo - Friedman]
[Solo - Mustaine]
Where have the apostles gone?

Joining hands with wicked ones
Revelation come to pass
New World Order will hold the mass
[Solo - Mustaine]
15. Absolution
[Music - Mustaine / Friedman]
[Instrumental]
16. À Tout Le Monde (Demo)
[Music & Lyrics - Mustaine / Friedman / Ellefson / Menza]

The more harder the rules became

I found out how little I had accomplished
All my plans denied

Please smile when you think about me
À tout le monde, À tous mes amis

Je vous aime, Je dois partir
These are the last words I'll ever speak


The sleeping feel no more pain
And the living all are scarred


[Solo - Friedman]
So as you read, know my friends



I'll ever speak
[English Translations of Chorus:]

"À tout le monde, À tous mes amis" - "To all the world, to all my friends"
"Je vous aime, Je dois partir" - "I love you, but I have to leave"
"Train Of Consequences" (1994)

How do you do? My name is trouble
And you know I will
Set the ball A-Rollin

My boxcar life O' style

And I play them to my chest
2. Crown Of Worms
I am the author, dream up your pain

Drink as did bacchus, rebel just like cain
Lord of the city, I shall remain
All pandemonium, I shall reign
Sit in my fortress, up on my hill
Drinking the wine, 'til I've had my fill
Building up high, my castle walls
Oh, to veil my splendid fall
I present you, I present to you,

I present you this crown of worms
Surrounding myself with mysery

Drawn curtains heavy of my history
Exquisite I am, perfect unity
On my left hand is false majesty
I feign affection, efute the true story
Dispute with creation, the lie is my glory
I care for no one, my gospel is death
For me the light's gone, only darkness is left
I present you, I present to you,
I present you this crown of worms
As black in deed, as cold as stone

A commandment of one, as proud as gold
As neglected in spirit, as time is old
As legion is numbers, as legend is told
I am alone, with the agony of truth
My power of will, my judgement and chain
My end is knowledge and conscience of guilt,
My final confusion hidden from me till I'm done
3. Black Curtains
Hey... Look around you

Everything's helter-skelter
Listen up... I warn you
Run for cover, run
Bang... It happened
Time's up, Armageddon
Fire... Meltdown
The sky is crumbling in
Black Curtains... Never ending
Escape... You're joking

Can't find no place to run
Hair... Is burning
My flesh is bubbling up
Blood... Is boiling
Taste copper on my tongue
Fate... Is coming
Welcome it with a smile
Black Curtains... Never ending, fall
Am I dreaming? My heart pounds my chest

Held for ransom in spider's web
Suffocating, no one hears my calls
Never ending, till the black curtain falls
Snakes... Surround me
Offering their death kiss to me
Down... I'm drowning
How long, I hold my breath
Dogs... Are chasing
My legs are paralyzed
Pray... Don't find me
My life is fading fast
4. Ashes In Your Mouth (Live)
People have round shoulders from fairing heavy loads

And the soldiers liberate them, laying mines along their roads
Sorrow paid for valor is too much to recall
Of the countless corpses piled up along the wailing wall
Melting down all metals, tturning plows and sheats to swords
Shun words of the Bible, we need implements of war
Chailknes and red puddles of those who have been slain
Destiny, that crooked schemer, says the dead shall rise again
And should we really care
The end is finally here
God have mercy
Now we've rewtitten history
The one thing we've found out
Sweet taste of vindication
It turns to ashes in your mouth
If you're fighting to live

It's OK to die!
The answer to your question is...
Welcome to tomorrow!

God have mercy!
5. Peace Sells (Live)
What do you mean,

"I don't believe in God"?
I talk to him everyday.
What do you mean,
"I don't support your system"?
What do you mean,
"I can't get to work on time"?
I got nothing better to do.
And, what do you mean,
"I don't pay my bills"?
If there is the new way,

What do you mean,

"I hurt your feelings"?
What do you mean,
"I ain't kind"?
What do you mean,
"I couldn't be president of the U.S.A."?
Tell me something, it's still
"We the people,"right?
Can you put a prise on peace?

Peace,
Peace sells...
Peace sells...
Peace sells..., but who's buying?
No, peace sells...
6. Anarchy In The U.K.(Live)
[Sex Pistols cover]
Right now
I am an anti-Christ
And I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want, but I know how get it
I want to destroy, possibly?
'Cause I want to be anarchy, no dog's body
Anarchy for the U.S.A.

It's coming sometime, it may be
I give a wrong time, stop a traffic light
Your future dream is a shopping spree
'Cause I want to be anarchy, in the city
Of many ways to get what you want

I use the best, I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy
'Cause I want to be anarchy, it's the only way to be
Is this the M.P.L.A.?

Is this the U.D.A.?
Is this the I.R.A.?
I thought it was the U.S.A., or just another country
And other cunt-like tendencies
'Cause I want to be anarchy, 'cause I want to be
Anarchy, you know what I mean?
'Cause I want to be anarchist, again I'm pissed
Destroy!
"Hidden Treasures" (1995)
1. No More Mr. Nice Guy
I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing

'Til they got a hold of me
I opened doors for little old ladies
I helped the blind to see
I got no friends 'cause they read the papers

They can't be seen with me
And I'm gettin' shot down
And I'm feeling mean
No more Mister nice guy
No more Mister clean
They say he's sick, he's obscene
My dog bit me on the leg today

My cat clawed my eye
My mom's been thrown out of the society circle
My dad's had to hide
I went to church incognito
And everybody rose, the reverend Smith
He recognized me
Punched me in the nose

No more Mister clean
They say he's sick, he's obscene
2. Breakpoint
Make up the rules for me to live by

Rules you break and just let it slide
You try and find you inside of me
Be as great as you want me to be
Hypocrite, the word that fits
Do as you say
Not as you do
You're pushing me to a breakpoint

Pushing me, push, push me to a breakpoint
Self esteem you seem to lack

Point the finger
There's three pointing back
Control's the illusion with all good intent
Bad times are contagious
You laugh and infect
Criticist, the word that fits
Put me down to lift you up
You're pushing me to a breakpoint

Pushing me, push, push me to a breakpoint
Watching pain is your only pleasure

Sick fascination for someone's disaster
Self suffering since you were born
Mess with the bull and you'll get the horn.
Misery, the word that fits
Can't seem to smile 'till someone's sad
You're pushing me to a breakpoint...

You're pushing me, push, push me
Push, push, push me to a breakpoint
In my opinions as a professional I recommend

We straight-jacket the son-of-a-b**ch
Lock him in a rubber room
Sedate him, heavily
And when he wakes up,
If he wakes up, we'll see
If he can be a nice boy
Well... I don't know... It's gonna hurt me

More that it's gonna hurt him
Let's do it!
You push me to a breakpoint, breakpoint

Push me to a breakpoint, breakpoint
Don't push me, you piece of s**t!
3. Go To Hell
Now I lay me down to sleep

Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before i wake
Pray the lord to take
I'm not going to wake up today

They've pulled my plug the picture fades
And as my body decays mold begins to fill my grave
The smell of death permeates the silk within my coffin lays
Go to hell
As they bury me now six feet there my body lies

Still feel like I'm giong down I hear a distant wailing cry
God something must've gone wrong
And much too late I realize
Go to hell
I saw my funeral that day

I know who didn't show to mourn
My judgement was life in hell
Pillars of pain and thorns
My only friend's the goat
With 666 between his horns
Go to hell
Place all your trust here in me

Rest assured these things I know
And as Charon sails the sea
Your journey too shall end below
Ah yes you're all sitting ducks
It's true you reap what you sow
Go to hell
Now I lay me down to sleep

Blah, blah, blah my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
I'll go to hell for heaven's sake
4. Angry Again
THE MORE OF YOU THAT I INSPECT

THE MORE OF ME I SEE REFLECT
THE MORE I TRY TO READ YOUR LIPS
THE MORE THE MASK YOU'RE WEARING RIPS
BUT WHEN I SEEK OUT YOUR VOICE

MY EARS ARE OVERCOME WITH NOISE
YOU SHOW AND TELL WITH GREATEST EASE
RAVING IMPOSSIBILITIES
ENGAGED IN CRIME I GRASP MY THROAT

ENRAGED MY MIND STARTS TO SMOKE
ENFORCE A MENTAL OVERLOAD
ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY OW
AND WHEN THE STORY TAKES A TWIST

IF FOLDS LIKE A CONTORTIONIST
SLIGHT OF HAND AND QUICK EXCHANGE
THE OLD TRICKS HAVE BEEN REARRANGED

ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY
THE SEARING OF THE SINEW

MY BODY FIGHTS FOR AIR
THE RIPPING OF THE TISSUE
MY LUNGS BEGIN TO TEAR
GRAVITY'S GOT MY BONES
IT PULLS MY FLESH AWAY
THE STEAM FINALLY DISSIPATES
I MAKE OUT MY SWEATY FACE
ASSOCIATION THAT I CHOOSE

GAME I INEVITABLY LOSE
GOVERNED BY LAWS SET UP BY ME
FRACTURE IT'S JAW TO LET ME BE
A CUT-OUT CARDBOARD CONDO MAZE
FILLED WITH AN INSUBORDINATE RACE
IRRATIONAL YOUTHS STOP TO STARE
AS MUSIC RUBBER HOSED THE AIR

ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY AGAIN
AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, AGAIN

ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY AGAIN, ANGRY OW
5. 99 Ways To Die
IF I SEE THE MORNING HOURS
I'LL HAVE ONE MORE YESTERDAY
TAKE LIFE FROM TOMORROW
CAUSE I'VE BURNED OUT MY TODAY
IF I GET UP TO THE TOP I KNOW

I'LL JUST GO BACK DOWNHILL
GOTTA' TERMINAL FUTURE
AND IT'S TIME TO WRITE MY WILL
DOWN ANOTHER GLASS OF COURAGE

AND A SHOT OF THORAZINE
WE'RE NOT READY TO SEE YOU YET

99 WAYS TO DIE
WE'RE NOT READY TO SEE YOU YET
GOTTA' SHORT BETWEEN THE EARPHONES
WRINGING MY HANDS IN DISMAY
A MORE EFFICIENT MANIAC
WITH TWO FEET IN THE GRAVE
AIN'T GOT NO LAST WORDS TO SAY

YELLOW STREAK RIGHT UP MY SPINE
THE GUN IN MY MOUTH WAS REAL
AND THE TASTE BLEW MY MIND
IN A BLACK TIE AND STRAIGHT JACKET

MAN I'M GONNA TRY AGAIN
[CHORUS REPEAT]
DEMITASSE OF ARSENIC
TRY ON THIS TIE
NEVER MIND THE TREE
THERE IS ONLY DEATH AND DANGER

IN THE SOCKETS OF MY EYES
A PLAYGROUND OF ILLUSION
NO ONE PLAYS THEY ONLY DIE
THERE'S A PRISON IN MY MIND

AND THE BARS ARE GONNA BREAK
I'M AS MAD AS A HATTER
AND STRUNG OUT JUST THE SAME
TAUNTING RIGOR MORTIS

I FEEL IT DRAW ME IN
6. Paranoid
Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind

people think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time
All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy
Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify
Can you help me occupy my brain?

Oh yeah
I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find

I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind
Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry
Happiness I cannot feel and love to me us so unreal
And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state

I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late
7. Diadems
Sacriledge and Blasphemy

Sets the stage today
The more insatiable the sex
The more swelled our tongues became
As pre-historic as it seems
This is now, today
As pre-historic as it seems
This is now
Talkin' 'bout no vision

Talkin' 'bout no dream
The Harlot puddles for her Lies
From where she speaks
I look above and see
Entrails in the sky

This song ain't over 'til the
Fat lady dies
One man rules the earth

And rides the seven-headed beast
Ten diadems, to rule them all, to crown them all
The world, religion at his feet
Dreams are told of dreams of old

This day will surely come
So, run my child and hide your face
Once you've been marked it's finished, done
You'll become one

You're mine
You're one
I saw a new earth today

I saw a former pass away
I saw a new earth today
Vengence is mine
Vengence is mine
The Netherworld and Sheol
Are never satisfied
So the eyes of Man are
Never sat-is-fied
I saw a new Earth today

8. Problems
Too many problems, oh why am I here?

I need to be me, 'cause you're all to clear
And I can see there's something wrong with you
Oh, what do you expect me to do?
At least I gotta know what I wanna be
Don't come to me if you need pity
Are you lonely, you got no-one
You got your body in suspension
That's a problem, problem, problem
The problem is you
Eat your heart out on a plastic tray

You don't do what you want and you fade away
You work for me, you're working nine-to-five
It's too much fun of being alive
I'm using my feet for my human machine
You work for me, living for the screen
Are you lonely, all needs catered
You got your brains dehydrated
Problem, problem, problem, the problem is you

Oh what what you gonna do, problem, problem
Well, what you gonna do with your problem
The problem is you, problem
I ain't death trip, but I ain't automatic

You work for me, just stay ecstatic
Don't you give me any orders
To people like me, there is no order
Bet you thought you had it all worked out

Bet you thought you knew what I was about
Bet you thought you'd solved all your problems
But you are the problem

Oh, what you gonna do with your problem?
I'll leave it up to you, oh problem
The problem is you, you got a problem
Oh what you gonna do?
They know a doctor, gonna take you away
Thay take you away and they throw away the key
They don't want you and they don't want me
You got a problem the problem is you,
Problem, well, what you gonna do?
Problem, have you got a problem?
Problem, well you got a problem.
Problem [x17]
"Cryptic Writings" (1997)
1. Trust
Lost in a dream
Nothing is what it seems
Searching my head
For the words that you said
Tears filled my eyes

As we said our last goodbyes
This sad scene replays
Of you walking away
My body aches from mistakes

Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust
Time and again,

She repeats let's be friends
I smile and say yes
Another truth bends,
I must confess
I try to let go, but I know

We'll never end 'til we're dust
We lied to each other again
But I wish I could trust

Betrayed by lust
God help me please, on my knees

Betrayed by lust
How could this be happening to me

I'm lying when I say "Trust me"
I can't believe this is true
Trust hurts
Why does trust equal suffering
Absolutely nothing we trust
2. Almost Honest
I lied just a little

When I said I need you
You stretched the truth
When you said that you knew
Just can't believe it
There's nothing to say
I was almost honest, almost
Living alone, can't stand this place

It's four in the morning and I still see your face
I was nearly pure

When I said I loved you
You were semi-sincere
You said I'd bleed for you
We were kind of candid
Now you're gone away
You were almost honest, almost
Living alone, falling from grace

I want to alone but there's just empty space
I can't face tomorrow, now you're not coming back
Walked off in the night and just left me the tracks
I question your call by the tone of your voice

I know I should hang up but I don't have a choice
It happened that night when you told me to go
Don't ask who's to blame, I don't know
Almost, almost honest

Almost, I was almost honest
3. Use The Man
I heard somebody fixed today

There was no last goodbyes to say
His will to live ran out
I heard somebody turned to dust
Looking back at what he left

A list of plans and photographs
Songs that never will be sung
These are the things he don't get done
I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man
I've seen them crawl from the cradle to the gutter on their hands
They fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to understand
Just one shot to say goodbye

One last taste to mourn and cry
Scores and shoots, the lights go dim
Just one shot to do him in
He hangs his head and wonders why

Why the monkey only lies
But pay the pauper, he did choose
He hung his head inside the noose
I've seen them crawl from the cradle to the gutter on their hands
They fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to understand
Cryptic writing on the wall, the beginning of the end
I've seen myself use the needle, seen the needle in my hand
4. Mastermind
Anonymous existence, rendered useless to mankind

Destroy the logic volume in the confines of the mind
Enmassed and purposeless, marching in a perfect line
Neo-neuro torture, mental meltdown, a heinous crime
Mastermind, I tell you what to think

I tell you what you need
I tell you what to feel
Invade the core of souls to wipe the lives away

Design vacant beings, welcome the inhuman race
Encrypted horror codes, directive psyche overwrite
Processing brains to pabulum, delete and format living drives
I tell you what's real
Hail to the power age, lest the viral hour comes

Raise the flag of voltage, bow to circuitry unknown
Kneel before the processor, lords of static laugh
Electrons in submission, you must know who I am
I tell you what to think

I didn't care what you thought
I tell you what to get
I don't care what you got
Subject
5. The Disintegrators
The slayer's arrived

On a black horse of steel
Trouble is coming
Hell on two wheels
Hide in the shadows

Awaiting defeat
Or live by the sword
And choose to be free
We say retribution
We say vengeance is bliss
We say revolution
With a cast iron fist
Coming down the road

Watching every move
Kicking in the doors
Taking what we choose
Anarchy's coming to town

A fiery invader
Burning it down to the ground
The Disintegrators
Anarchy's coming to town

Here it comes
Burning it down to the ground
The Disintegrators
6. I'll Get Even
I'm lonely and abandoned

Washed up, left for dead
I'm lost inside the desert
Of every word you said
Like a nuclear reactor

Or TNT
I'm thinking about the times
When you lied to me
All the innuendo

Caught up on your hook
I was just a name
In your little black book
Ah, I'll get even with you
I'm bitter and I'm twisted

I haven't slept in days
I'm lonely and I'm angry
I can't make it go away
I'm like a bomb that's ticking

I got voices in my head
I got a doll with needles in
Wishing you were dead
I'll get you back somehow

That's what I'm gonna do
I'll get you back somehow
Your nightmare coming true

Ah, that's what I'm gonna do
Gonna get even with you
You better look behind you

'Cause there I'm gonna be
I'll be standing in the shadows
With who I used to be
He's slightly schizophrenic

Me and me and me and me agree
That you are gonna pay
For what you did to me

Gonna get even with you
Ah, that's what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna do
7. Sin
He had an unfamiliar face

Complete life in disarray
A simple man, power drunk
No worries of living, no more anything
Deep inside I've seen it rise

Actions progress to no end
Mirror, mirror please look inside
Do you see the reasons that we sin
Not one to be forgot

Spoiled rotten, so they say
Once burned, forever marked
Hurt by just a few but so many have to pay
Pressure coming down

Down on me, gonna break
Broken fingernails
Digging in, scratch my face
Nervous, like a cat

Gonna jump through my skin
Shadows on the wall
Stretching out, grope for me
Reasons, deep in me
Let me be
Let me bleed
Set me free
The reasons that we sin
8. A Secret Place
There's a secret place I like to go

Everyone is there but their face don't show
If you get inside you can't get out
There's no coming back, I hear them shout
Welcome to my hide away, my secret place

How I arrived I can't explain
You're welcome to, if you want to stay
But everyone just runs away
Let me in, get me out

Can't do more than twist and shout
Lost my soul without a trace
Found it again in my secret place
In disgrace
I hide from those that try to find me

Scary things that's right behind me
I lost myself, I must confess
I can't explain how I got this mess
9. Have Cool, Will Travel
Mamas pack their lunches, kiddies back their guns

Wishing it will go away, but nothing's getting done
A shot heard 'round the world, when a mother's baby dies
We the people, point our fingers, blame and wonder why
Face it and fight or turn high tail and run

'Til it comes back again just like the rising sun
Say they do all they can, it's just another lie
The answer's plain to see, nobody wants to try
There's no recess and no rules in the school of life

If you listen very closely you'll see what it's like
Have cool, will travel
Tell myself it ain't true, they just cannot see

Grown up or sewn up, the medicine's worse than the disease
I have cool, will travel
Here we go
10. She-Wolf
The mother of all that is evil

Her lips are poisonous venom
Wicked temptress knows how to please
The priestess roars, "Get down on your knees"
The rite of the praying mantis

Kiss the bones of the enchantress
Spellbound searching through the night
A howling man surrenders the fight
One look in her lusting eyes

Savage fear in you will rise
Teeth of terror sinking in
The bite of the she-wolf
My desires of flesh obey me

The lioness will enslave me
Another heart beat than my own
The sound of claws on cobblestone, I'm stoned
Beware what stalks you in the night

Beware the she-wolf and her bite
Her mystic lips tell only lies
Her hidden will to kill in disguise
11. Vortex
Internal combustion
Multiple personalities
Terror inside of me
A mask of silent agony
Curse the falling rain

The vortex of pain
As medieval as Merlin
A pact for power was made
Lucifer in transition
It's time the price was paid
Scorching the domain

The vortex of pain
A telestic message
Written in torment
Howl our dirges
Like the horns of Jericho
Distorted faces
Writhing in rage
Walls of purgatory
Tumble down
Endless death
The jewels of a crown
12. F.F.F
Looking for a cure within the human race

Eliminate the poor, how much longer will it take
Burning up the tents of the rank and file
Exterminate their lives, crack a demon smile
Crushing down, caving in our will to live

Getting rid of man's mistakes
To take a lost life, lock it up, break it down
How much more can we take
Fight for freedom, fight authority

Fight for anything, my country tis' of me
Cry for absolution, it's not the end for me

A last minute pardon, one final reprieve
Resist the war machine, don't get in it's path
Fight to die a free man and reap the aftermath
Crushing down, caving in our will to live

Getting rid of man's mistakes
To take a lost life, lock it up, break it down
How much more can we take
Fight ! It's my country

16. Bullprick
[2004 remastered version bonus track]
Pounding in my teeth
Hydraulics on the move
Kicking in my face
Savage bucking mule
Pummeling my soul
100 tons of lead
Trampled under foot
Steamrollers on my head
Crushing down, caving in my will to live
I'd rather be dead, scream insane
To have the bullprick split their guts
Make them pay make them bleed
On your backs, in your face
Down your throats, up your ass
Bullprick!
Pulverizing flesh, broken bones the aftermath
Can't escape the war, the war machine path
All become one, flattening the streets
Cry for absolution, splitting at the seams
Crushing down, caving in my will to live
I'd rather be dead, scream insane
To have the bullprick split their guts
Make them pay make them bleed
Bullprick!
Bullprick!
"Risk" (1999)
1. Insomnia
[Dave Mustaine]
I'm running in quicksand

something's haunting me
the guilty past I've buried
my mind won't let me sleep
I'll do anything for peace - I keep waking up

a solemn oath I make
cross my heart please let me sleep - I keep waking up
how much more do I take
My head is talking to me
I don't know what it needs
but the loudest voice
is the one I heed
Insomnia, my swollen bloodshot eyes

Insomnia, awake till morning light
Insomnia, stirring deep inside
Insomnia, somebody turn out the lights
I can't sleep - insomnia
I'm twisting and turning - I keep waking up

the madness I must tame
my candle is burning - I keep waking up
both ends again today
The whole house is creaking

I know they're out there
the things kept from sight
I beg to the shadows
I can't sleep
Insomnia, footsteps on the walk

Insomnia, I hear someone knock
Insomnia, I wish it was a dream
Insomnia, can you hear me scream
2. Prince Of Darkness
[Dave Mustaine/Marty Friedman]
My victims are rich of poor, young or old, strong or weak

I cause millions of accidents, I am cancer in your bones
I fathered the lie, twist what you say, speak not the truth
I am insidious, impartial, deep inside your chromosomes
I take what you love, and leave you in tears

I imprison your soul, your hopes are my games
I strip you of pride, my promise is in vain
While you burn at the stake I dance with the flames
I bring poverty, sickness and death

A worthless handshake, the slickest thief, I steal your wealth
I answer your prayers for greed and lust
More than evil, I laugh at your trust
I am more powerful than all the armies of the world

I am more violent than violence, more deadly than death
I have destroyed more men than all the nation's wars
I am relentless, unpredictable, waiting for your last breath
Evil, more evil than violence

Violent, more violent than death
Deadly, more deadly than man
I am yeah, yeah, I'm evil I am
My kingdom corrupt with dissent

Your sins erupt by my intent
I loathe your prayer, I wallow in sin
Let the nightmare begin
Prince of darkness, your satanic highness
Prince of darkness, the devilish serpent, the dreaded Lucifer
Prince of darkness
I take what you love, and leave you in tears
Imprison your soul, your hopes are my games
I strip you of pride, my promise is in vain
While you burn at the stake I dance with the flames
Prince of darkness, your satanic highness

Prince of darkness, the most beautiful angel
Prince of darkness, the devilish serpent, the dreaded Lucifer
Prince of darkness, unpredictable, the prince of darkness
Prince of darkness
3. Enter The Arena
[Dave Mustaine/Bud Prager]
"Here we go... crush, crush, crush 'em..."
4. Crush'Em
[Dave Mustaine/Bud Prager/Marty Friedman]
Enter the arena and hit the lights

Step up now you're in for a ride
this is war, ain't no fun and games
we get it up, you go down in flames
Party time, going down

you better not mess us around
the stakes are rich, take a hit or stay
the price is high, someone's gonna pay
Heads I win, tails you lose

out of my way I'm coming through
roll the dice don't think twice
and we crush, crush 'em
Looking for trouble, now you've found it

you're a drum and we're gonna pound it
Last one standing wins the fight

hear us scream and shout all night
down on the floor and eat the grit
this is gonna hurt a little bit

Now we lay you down to rest

you'll never be more than second best
step inside you're in for a ride
Don't need reason, don't want names

just a John Doe to put to shame
step aside let me explain
the name of the game is pain
Now we've found you

We're gonna pound you
We're gonna beat you
Gonna defeat you
We're gonna bust you
We're gonna crush you
We're gonna crush 'em
5. Breadline
Ain't got no job

Ain't got no smoke
Ain't got a car
His life's a joke
Living on the skids

Thinks the world's just fine
Forgot what he did
Dancing on the breadline
No one there to bind him

Nothing to remind him
Nowhere left to find him
About to lose his lifeline

He's dancing on the breadline
Forgot who he is
Forgot who he was
Used to call the shots
Now he can't connect the dots
A mover and shaker

Getting closer to his maker
Lower than a hemline
No one there to bind him

Nothing to remind him
Nowhere left to find him

He's looking for a headline
Sniffing up the white lines
Watch him dance

He's looking for a headline
Sniffing up the white lines
No one, nothing, nowhere

He forgot and he ain't got nothing
6. The Doctor Is Calling
The doctor is calling
Something's gone wrong

Nowhere do I belong
I listen to the voices in the dark room
Something's going down

But I can't make a sound
Looking past the bars of my mind
The coat of arms falling

I hear the doctor calling
The family crest is falling
Always sharing trips

Remove me from your lips
Sight and mind still and never go away
One too many tantrums

Deviated symptoms
Better lock the phantom away

I see the chalkline crawling
I hear the doctor calling me away
This place is my home

My mind still runs free
The doctor's prescription
Less for you and more for me

I see the chalkline crawling
A merciful embalming
7. I'll Be There
I heard the voice of redemption

For me there is no exemption
I started praying
I heard the voice of satisfaction

Needing me for benefaction
I started pleading
I heard the bells begin to chime

Warning me oh lord
Don't let this be my time
I'll be there for you, when you walk through the fire
I'll be there for you, when the flames get higher
When nothing fits and nothing seems right
Till the very last breath of my life, I'll be there for you
You saw me slide, you saw me fall

We kept our pride through it all
We started screaming
When skies are dark, no sun shines through

I know I see the light in you
We stopped dreaming and started believing
I'll be there
In my hour of need
You were there always
Now it's time for me to be there for you too
Always
I'll be there for you
8. Wanderlust
As sure as the sun rises in the east

Another gunman will come seeking my defeat
Will he be as fast as me, are his nerves quiet and still
Will he fall like all the rest ending his days upon boothill
I'm an outcast riding into town alone

I got wanderlust branded deeper than the bone
I got a lust for wandering branded deeper than the bone
As I ride into the sunset to take another town
Thank you for the invite, but I just can't settle down
The dust that coats my hat is from a dozen towns
Dust from shooting down another dozen clowns

I got a lust for wandering branded deeper than the bone
A drum beats for me, it's louder every day

The cadence tells me that soon I'll meet my judgment day
Life's an endless showdown never knowing when they'll come
I sleep with one eye open lying with my smoking gun
The game I play has caused a lot of grief

They were dying for fame, so I obliged them some relief

I'm an outcast with lightning in my hand
I got wanderlust lost in no man's land
I got a lust for wandering lost in no man's land

I got wanderlust
9. Ecstasy
You live in a world of fantasy

You live in a web of deceit
You want it all including me
You like it all to be neat
I come to you when shadows fall

I leave as the dawn arrives
Hide the truth to deceive them all
How my good intention lies
Try to silence the suspicions

Feeding the dark inhibitions
We can never let anyone see
The sin I bring called ecstasy
The sin I bring ecstasy
Secret meetings that we hide

Deeds of iniquity
The price of foolish pride
The cost of immorality
And we hide the truth to deceive them all

And the pain of what will never be
Try to silence the suspicions

Feeding the dark inhibitions
We can never let anyone see
The sin I bring called ecstasy
The sin I bring ecstasy
10. Seven
[Dave Mustaine/David Ellefson]
Full of greed you sell your soul

Full of pride a heavy load
You eat yourself gluttony
Resent yourself you envy me
Everything turns into wrath

You lust yourself to death
Deep fears that drive us

Hid beneath disguises
Judge the world within
Forgive my deadly sins
Procrastination always giving up

Something better comes to interrupt
Cast your verdict down to me
Spare me your bleeding sympathy
Only care how you appear

Clearly see you can't see clear
Deep fears that drive us

Hid beneath disguises
Judge the world within
Forgive my deadly sins
Greed, gluttony, pride, envy, wrath, sloth, lust, deadly seven

Seven deadly sins of mine
On every street
And corner lie
These seven deadly sins of mine
11. Time: The Beginning
Father time, I'm running late

I'm winding down, I'm growing tired
Seconds drift into the night
The clock just ticks till my time expires
You were once my friend

Now I know I can't tie your hands
The days I saved I couldn't spend
They fell like sand through the hourglass
No time to lose, no time to choose
Time taking time, it's taken mine
Scenes of my life seem so unkind
Time chasing time creeps up behind
I can't run forever, and time waits for no one
Not even me
An enemy I can't defend

My final place a deadly end
Life's just a speck in space
Dreams of an eternal resting place
I can't get any younger

Time has brutal hunger
12. Time: The End
[Dave Mustaine]
I see Chronos
His eyes are on fire
He holds my life
And I see my time expire
Beat the clock

My head starts to spin
Tick, tock
I can't let time win
"Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years" (2000)
1. Kill The King
[Dave Mustaine]
Broken down, feeling naked

Leaving me unfulfilled
Promising compromise
Championing mediocrity
Time and time again

What you said ain't what you mean
Even if all my bones are broken
I will drag myself back from the edge to
Kill the King, The King is dead, Long live the King
Kill the King, The King is dead, Long live the

King,
I am the King, God save the King
Kill the King, The King is dead

I am the King, Long live the King
I reveal a deceiver
In the highest seat in the land
His idle hands the Devil's workshop
Generate more smoke than heat
Time and time again

What you said ain't what you mean
Even if all my bones are broken
I will drag myself back from the edge to
Kill the King, The King is dead, Long live the King

King,
I am the King, God save the King

A new precedent in pain, a new precedent in pain

Mankind is blown to dust, mankind is blown to dust
An explosion of the Brain, an explosion of the
Brain
Spontaneously combust, spontaneously combust

King,
I am the King
Kill the King, I, The King is dead, I am, Long live
the King,
I am the King
the King,
I am the King
the King,
I am the King
2. Dread & The Fugitive Mind
[Dave Mustaine]
Let me introduce myself

I'm a social disease
I've come for your wealth
And leave you on your knees
No time for feeling sorry
I got here on my own
I won 't ask for mercy
I choose to walk alone
What 's yours is mine and what 's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand better count your fingers
What if I do get caught?

What if there is no judgement?
If I'm right I lose nothing
If you 're right I lose it all
I ought to get caught

Because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fears
And the only consequences
Are dread and the fugitive mind
You built walls to protect you

So no one will infect you
Pursued by those out there
That vanish in thin air
Come a long way to find
What you really left behind
You don 't know when the end is
But it 's coming fast
3. Crush 'Em

[Originally appeared on the album RISK]
Enter the arena and hit the lights

Step up now you're in for a ride
this is war, ain't no fun and games
we get it up, you go down in flames
Party time, going down

you better not mess us around
the stakes are rich, take a hit or stay
the price is high, someone's gonna pay

Looking for trouble, now you've found it

you're a drum and we're gonna pound it
Last one standing wins the fight

hear us scream and shout all night
down on the floor and eat the grit
this is gonna hurt a little bit

Now we lay you down to rest

you'll never be more than second best
step inside you're in for a ride
Don't need reason, don't want names

just a John Doe to put to shame
step aside let me explain
the name of the game is pain
Now we've found you

We're gonna pound you
We're gonna beat you
Gonna defeat you
We're gonna bust you
We're gonna crush you
We're gonna crush 'em
4. Use The Man

[Originally appeared on the album CRYPTIC WRITINGS]
I heard somebody fixed today

There was no last goodbyes to say
His will to live ran out
I heard somebody turned to dust
Looking back at what he left

A list of plans and photographs
Songs that never will be sung
These are the thing he won't get done
I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle
use the man
I've seen them crawl from the cradle to the gutter
on their hands
The fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to
understand
use the man
Just one shot to say goodbye

One last taste to mourn and cry
Scores and shoots, the lights go dim
Just one shot to do him in
He hangs his head and wonders why

Why the monkey only lies
But pay the pauper, he did choose
He hung his head inside the noose
use that man
I've seen them crawl from the cradle to the coffin
on their hands
They fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to
understand
in his hand
Cryptic writing on the wall, the beginning of the
end
I've seen myself use the needle, seen the needle in
my hand
5. Almost Honest

I lied just a little

When I said I need you
You stretched the truth
When you said that you knew
Just can't believe it
There's nothing to say
I was almost honest, almost
Living alone, can't stand this place

It's four in the morning and I still see your face
I was nearly pure

When I said I loved you
You were semi-sincere
You said I'd bleed for you
We were kind of candid
Now you've gone away
You were almost honest, almost
Living alone, falling from grace

I want to atone but there's just empty space
I can't face tomorrow, now you're not coming back
Walked off in the night and just left me the tracks
I question your call by the tone of your voice

I know I should hang up but I don't have a choice
It happened that night when you told me to go
Don't ask who's to blame, I don't know
Almost, almost honest

Almost, I was almost honest
6. Trust

Lost in a dream
Searching my head

Of you walking away

Betrayed by lust
Time and again,

I smile and say yes
Another truth bends,
I must confess


Betrayed by lust

Betrayed by lust
How could this be happening to me

I'm lying when I say "Trust me"
Trust hurts
Why does trust equal suffering
Absolutely nothing we trust
7. À Tout Le Monde
[Music & Lyrics by Mustaine]

[Originally appeared on the album YOUTHANASIA]

All my plans denied


À tous mes amis [To all my friends]
I'll ever speak


I'll ever speak
[Music & Lyrics by Mustaine]

[Originally appeared on the album YOUTHANASIA]

How do you do? My name is Trouble
And you know I will
Set the ball a-rolling

My boxcar life o' style

And play them to my chest
9. Sweating Bullets
[Dave Mustaine]
[Originally appeared on the album COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION]
Hello me... Meet the real me

And my misfits way of life
A dark black past is my
Most valued possession
Hindsight is always 20-20,
But looking back it's still a bit fuzzy
Speak of mutually assured destruction?
Nice story... Tell it to Reader's Digest!
[Chorus]
Feeling paranoid
My air is getting thin
I'm chomping at the bit, and my
Palms are getting wet, sweating bullets.
[Solo - Dave]
Hello me... It's me again

You can subdue, but never tame me
It gives me a migraine headache
Thinking down to your level
Yea, just keep on thinking it's my fault
And stay an inch or two outta kicking distance
Mankind has got to know
His limitations
[Chorus]
I'm sharpening the axe and my
Well, me... it's nice talking to myself

A credit to dementia
Some day you too will know my pain
And smile its blacktooth grin
If the war inside my head
Won't take a day off I'll be dead
My icy fingers claw your back
Here I come again
[Chorus]
Feeling paranoid
Anxiety's attacking me
And my air is getting thin
Once you committed me
Now you've acquitted me
Claiming validity
For your stupidity
I'm chomping at the bit
I'm sharpening the axe
Here I come again, whoa!
Sweating bullets
[Dave Mustaine]
[Originally appeared on the album COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION]

Watch him become a god,
A'roll...
[Chorus]
We dance like marionettes,
Swaying to the Symphony...
Of Destruction
Acting like a robot,

You try to take its pulse,
Explodes...
[Chorus]
[Solo - Marty]

World powers fall
A'warring for the heavens,
Tall...
[Chorus]
11. Hangar 18
[Dave Mustaine]
[Originally appeared on the album RUST IN PEACE]

Possibly I've seen to much

Hangar 18 I know too much
Suspended state of cryogenics
Believed foretold but who'd suspect

12. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
[Dave Mustaine]
[Originally appeared on the album RUST IN PEACE]

Killing for religion
Something I don't understand



It might be your homelands
Holy wars

Know it all scholar
...The Punishment Due

Behind the lines
Either way they die
They killed my wife, and my baby

First mistake... last mistake!
Next mistake... no more mistakes!
Fill the cracks in, with judicial granite

Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't
Thinkin' it
I know what I said, now I must scream of the
overdose
And the lack of mercy killings
[Dave Mustaine/David Ellefson]

[Originally appeared on the album SO FAR SO GOOD...SO WHAT?]
In my hour of need
ha you're not there
and though I reached out for you
wouldn't lend a hand.

grace did not shine on me
no one cares for me.
Did you ever think I get lonely

did you ever think that I needed love
did you ever think to stop thinking
you're the only one that I'm thinking of.

to find my space and satisfy you too.

don't try to understand, knowing you I'm probably
wrong.
But oh how I lived my life for you

still you'd turn away
now as I die for you
my flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
all these years I thought I was wrong
now I know it was you
raise you head, raise your face your eyes
tell me who you think you are, who?

into the promised land.

but it's far, far away
everlasting life for me
in a perfect world
but I gotta die first,
please god send me on my way.
Time has a way of taking time
Loneliness is not only felt be fools
Alone I call to ease the pain
Yearning to be held by you, Alone so alone, I'm
lost
the pain, the pain, the pain.
Won't you hold me again

you just laughed, ha ha, bitch
my whole life is work built on the past
but the time has come when all things shall pass
this good thing passed away.
In my darkest hour
14. Peace Sells
[Dave Mustaine]
[Originally appeared on the album PEACE SELLS... BUT WHO'S BUYING?]
What do you mean, "I don't believe in God"?

I talk to him every day.
I got nothing better to do
[Chorus]

What do you mean, "I couldn't be president, of the
United States of America"?
Tell me something, it's still "We the people",
right?
[Chorus (repeat)]
If there's a new way I'll be the first in line,

But, it better work this time. Can you put a price on peace?
Peace,
Peace sells...,
Peace,
Peace sells...,
No, peace sells..
"The World Needs A Hero" (2001)
1. Disconnect
[Dave Mustaine]
Behind closed doors all you live for is taking

That double life of yours has left your whole world shaking
Who are you fooling? I know you hear the laughter
Don't you hear people talking? What is it that your after?
Turn off your conscience

Leave the world outside
Nothing at all can ever make you feel
That anything's so real so you just - Disconnect
The key to save yourself if for nothing else

A tongue can never hold the truth of silence is golden
With a broken heart underneath all of the pain
Do you stroke the pretty scars? The hurt never ends

[Solo - Mustaine]


[End Chorus Solos - Pitrelli / Percussion - Chris Vrenna]
2. The World Needs A Hero
[Dave Mustaine]
An Iron fist quietly sits inside the Velvet Glove

Take control, untouchable just like God above
I can't escape, wrapped in red tape, what will become of me?
If I object, then I defect my country 'tis of thee
The White House is calling

Tell them I'll call them back
Just tell them anything
Yeah get them off my back
The world needs a hero

Not that I would ever lie but I have no choice
Words I say heard today are not mine, just my voice
NATO is on line 1
They want to talk to me
Tell them that I'm not in
Tell them that I'm not free
Phantom rule, the hidden jewel who's really in control?

On puppet strings, a nation swings undermined by moles
The UN is on hold
Tell them I'll call them back
Yeah tell them anything
Just get them off my back
[Solo - Mustaine]
[Solo - Pitrelli]
Dave the White House is calling

They want to talk to me
Tell them that I can't be bought
Tell them that I'm not free
[End Solos - Pitrelli]
3. Moto Psycho
[Dave Mustaine]
Responsibility, an anchor around my neck

Dependability, made me a nervous wreck
Accountability, I live from check to check
Volatility, neglect and no respect
Got my wheels in motion and I got a path to beat

I hit the road to "I don't know" and look for "Tough Shit Street"
[Solo - Pitrelli]
One-way ticket nowhere there's no windows on this train

Can't see where I'm headed but I'm going there again
Moto Psycho
Going nowhere everybody is a
Moto Psycho move it or lose it baby
Going nowhere 100 miles an hour
Moto Psycho I'm a Moto Psycho
Moto Psycho
You know you can't resist to tell me what I mean
You gave my mind a twist said that I was unclean
The actor runs the play and ad-libs in between
You're all that I resent my thoughts were so obscene
Got my wheels in motion and I got a path to beat

I hit the road to "I don't know" and look for "Tough Shit Street"
[Solo - Mustaine]

Moto Psycho
Going nowhere everybody is a

Moto Psycho
Going nowhere everybody is a Moto Psycho
Going nowhere move it or lose it baby Moto Psycho
Going nowhere 100 miles an hour Moto Psycho
Where I'm headed I don't know but I'm shoving off and I hit the road
Going nowhere everybody is a Moto Psycho - time and time and time again I'm a
Moto Psycho
Fill solos - Mustaine
4. 1000 Times Goodbye
[Dave Mustaine]
The tides of change pulled us apart

I feel a familiar pain
It seems like years since we've loved
Or even liked and that's a lonely way to be
Drifting alone in a sea of agony

Your face I can't recognize
Don't make this hard on us
I will miss you if you just go away
I did no right you did no wrong

Nothing left but wasted days
I regret you leaving
But I will never take you back
[Solo - Pitrelli]
You know what? It's over
I just don't feel the same way as I used to
We've been together forever, but it's over
Goodbye 1000 times goodbye

The thought never crossed my mind
That this would be my last goodbye
Let me put pennies on your eyes
And kiss your lips one last goodbye
My love 1000 times goodbye
It seems nothing good is free

A good thing cost much more than the price
You were good but not that good
Don't kid yourself now it's time to beak up
Drifting alone in a sea of agony

Your face I can't recognize
Don't make this hard on us
I will miss you if you just go away
I did no right you did no wrong

Nothing left but wasted days
I regret you leaving
But I'll never take you back
[Solo - Pitrelli]
Don't call me anymore. It's just not.

I don't feel the same way about you
Its not as good as it used to be
Goodbye 1000 times goodbye

The thought never crossed my mind
That this would be my last goodbye
Let me put pennies on your eyes
And kiss your lips one last goodbye
My love 1000 times goodbye
[Repeat Chorus]
[Solo - Mustaine]
I'll always love you but just not like that

Like what?
I want to be honest with you I met someone else
You did what?
And I really, I really love him like I used to love you
Remember the time that I told you that
I was going out of town for business?
Well I went to see him
You know what? You suck!
[Solo - Mustaine]
Goodbye 1000 times

You'll always have a special place
In my heart you know that
It's just I can't be with you anymore it's over
Goodbye 1000 times
Things may not work out with him
Goodbye 1000 times
And if they don't
Goodbye 1000 times
Then I'll certainly call you
Goodbye 1000 times
You mean a lot to me
I still really want to be friends with you
I love you like you're my brother
5. Burning Bridges
[Dave Mustaine]
You give up on yourself

Somehow you got betrayed agin
Thin ice and luck runs out
Who will you blame it on this time?
Due to lack of interest in you

The light at the end of the tunnel
Was turned off
And something I noticed
Beating you is thrilling me
I've got a secret for you
If you took your own direction

If only you practice what you preach
If you follow your advice
You wouldn't be burning bridges all the time
Don't close your eyes to injustice

Listen, being brave ain't chicken shit
A man without any valor
Has nothing worth living for
Due to lack of interest in you

The light at the end of the tunnel
Was turned off
And something I noticed
Beating you is thrilling me
I've got a secret for you

[Solo - Mustaine]
[Solo - Pitrelli]


6. Promises
[Dave Mustaine / Al Pitrelli]
Two hearts that shouldn't

Talk to each other become close
In a town much like a prison cell
People speak our names

On the street in hushed tones
Oh the stories they'd tell
If anyone would listen
You come from a town where

People don't bother saying hello
Unless somebody's born or dies
And I come from a place where they

Drag your hopes through the mud
Because their own dreams are all dying
And when we walk down the street

The wind sings our name in rebel songs
The sounds of the night should make us anxious
But it's much to late when the fear is gone
I will meet you in the Next Life, I promise you

Where we can be together, I promise you
I will wait till then in Heaven, I promise you
I promise, I promise
There's so many fighting

To get past the Pearly Gates
But nobody ever wants to die or get saved
Their intentions aren't that good

And I can smell the asphalt
That's their personal road to hell being paved
And when we walk down the street

The wind sings our name in rebel songs
But it's much to late when the fear is gone

[Solo - Pitrelli / Solo - Mustaine]

[String arrangement - Suzie Katayama]
7. Recipe For Hate... Warhorse
[Dave Mustaine]
Each day my shortcomings pick my pockets

My faults were letters carved in stone
As meaningful to you as words written in water
I'm left to walk this world alone
[Fill solos - Mustaine]
In a broken mold they made me

The black sheep of the family
Worth less than zero my opinion
And room temperature IQ
I did something, now I'm nothing

Always wrong with this or that
Poisoned with fear watch it twist
My measly brain mad
[Solo - Pitrelli]
Talk about me when my bac is turned

Next time we meet it will be to late
The memory burned in my ears of what you said
And now I've got a recipe for hate. Taste it
[Fill solos - Mustaine]
Dark clouds on the horizon

Make it hard to breathe
A walking mistake but every time
I run away, I just come back for more
The choice is clear I can quit

And fall on my sword or light a fire
To see who runs or stays
And plays the confidence game
[Solo - Pitrelli]
...Warhorse
I'm feeling quite invisible
I feel just like thin air
That nobody wants me
[Solo - Mustaine]
I see the earth below me

I watch it spinning there
Does someone, somewhere
Out there hear me?
[Solo - Pitrelli]
Sentenced to walk in Purgatory

My life is running down
I can't believe what they've done to me
[Solo - Mustaine]
I'm left riding a Warhorse

A man without a country
[Solos - Mustaine, Pitrelli, Mustaine, Pitrelli]
8. Losing My Senses
[Dave Mustaine]
One man speaking the truth

No one likes when it fits
So we tell soothing lies
And betray our own lips
The uncivilized world

And its people decay
Once sweet breeze is defiled
Sucking our breath away
[Fill Solos - Mustaine]
Yesterday's answers has nothing to do

With today's questions
Life can only be understood in reverse

But must be lived forwards.
I'm losing my senses, I'm losing my senses
We watch as the living all die

Contemplating if we should
Ever open our eyes
If all that we touch

Keeps turning to sand
We will cease to exist
Till the last living man


But must be lived forward.
But must be lived forward.
I'm losing my senses
[Fill Solos - Mustaine / Solo - Pitrelli]


[Fill Solos and Synth - Mustaine]

[String Arrangement - Suzie Katayama]
9. Dread And The Fugitive Mind
[Dave Mustaine]
Let me introduce myself I'm a social disease

I've come for your wealth leave you on your knees
No time for feeling sorry, I got here on my own
I won't ask for mercy, I choose to walk alone
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too

What if I do get caught? What if there is no judgment?

If I'm right I lose nothing, if you're right I lose it all
I ought to get caught because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
Are Dread and the Fugitive Mind
You built walls to protect you so no one will infect you

Pursued by those out there that vanish in thin air
Come a long way to find what you really left behind
You don't know when the end is but it's coming fast
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too

What if I do get caught? What if there is no judgment?

If I'm right I lose nothing, if you're right I lose it all
I ought to get caught because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
Are Dread and the Fugitive Mind
[Solos - Mustaine, Pitrelli]
10. Silent Scorn
[Dave Mustaine]
[Solo - Mustaine]
[Trumpet - Bob Findley]
11. Return To Hangar
[Dave Mustaine]
Welcome to an empty fortress

A mighty wreck that once was proud
Ate alive by oxidation
Abandoned by a crew of cowards
Navigation systems failed
Computers crashed and they all fall down

[Solo - Pitrelli]
All the guilty paid the price

Suspended by their broken necks
No one survived to tell the story
When foreign life forms resurrect
And military intelligence is
Still two words that can't make sense

[Solos - Pitrelli, Mustaine]
[Solos - Pitrelli, Mustaine, Pitrelli, Mustaine]
12. When
[Dave Mustaine]
No hears a word I say

And my prayers are never answered
But you'll never see the pain inside of me
Stabbing me over and over and over
I trusted you and I loved you
And you spit back in my face
How could you do this to me?
When will you stop trying to hurt me?
I've walked a minefield for you
A career in hell with you
I have made it through the things
Others would surely die just watching
And the oath I take on this day
Is to know that you will be repaid
One day the the sun will die and the night will crawl
Until then, until I see your world implode
I wish you death and suffering
Misery to spare
Time to release your pain
Face the last enemy
I am the last thing you will know
The last thing you will see
I see your death surrounding me
I know you, yes I do
I know you
When no words are spoken and please are ignored

Your tears go unnoticed, will you say enough?
When prayers are unanswered and your calls are unheard
The pain cuts right through you, have you seen enough?
It all seems so deceitful and the verdict is lies

A black cloud of indecision compromised your life
When judgement has failed you

When your own heart's impaled you
Your wandering mind has destroyed you
Will you ever know when?
When you give everything and the feeling is gone

All the giving is fake, did you fake enough?
When you take everything and you stay too long
When there's nothing left, did you take enough?
It all seems so deceitful and the verdict is lies

A black cloud of indecision compromised your life
When judgement has failed you

When your own heart's impaled you
Your wandering mind has destroyed you
Will you ever know when?
[Solo - Mustaine]
"The System Has Failed" (2004)
1. Blackmail The Universe
This is breaking news

It appears air force one was shot down
Somewhere over the Middle East this morning
By a sleeper cell of rouge terrorists, firing a stinger missile
The pilot and all passengers are unaccounted for
The presidents whereabouts are presently unknown
And he is presumed missing
The vice president, secretary of state
And principles of the military are assembling
Our nation stands at DEFCON 3
The greatest crisis, will someone come for me?

I "red, white and blew it."
Unleashed revenge, my body is detained
How could anybody do this?
Betrayal, I peel away the days
Medals are useless. Uncle Sam's forgotten me
I'm not important no one will ever come
I'll never be fund, god get me out of this hell.
Nuclear battlefields energised

Cold wars are heating up again
The tensions mounting
People lift up your fists in revenge
The stage is set

Who will be the first to blink?
We can go to war
Remember that "Vietnam thing"
Peace at any price
With a gun to your head, bang, bang

Weakness runs in your family
What runs in mine is death
[Solo - Poland]
This is your 5-minute warning

Burn all your classified documents
And if cooler heads don't prevail
First strike from a political dead man
Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive

He understands only one language - action
And he respects only one word - force
No sign of them stopping, no time for back channel communiques
We need all the help we can get, air strikes and invasions!
Retaliate. I say!
The will of good men can not counter the terrible strain of war
[Solo - Poland]
[Solo - Mustaine]
Blackmail the universe with the greatest of calamities

Awaken those sleeping giants in the dust of the ground
With their skin destroyed, unjust to innocence
Lawful possessor of the worlds last 24 hours
[Solo - Mustaine]
Terror and ugliness reveal what death really means

And in hatred you see men as they really are
If chosen over heaven, earth will have been for them
All along, only another region of hell.
2. Die Dead Enough
[Solo: Poland]
It's twilight and I wake up hot

My body's soaked in a cold, cold sweat
I re-enact the lurid scenes
And clawed engravings in my head
Oh, I can't punch hard enough (and I run)

I can't kick high enough (and I run)
I can't shoot straight enough (and I run)
I can't hold on enough (and I run)
Oh, I can't stay down enough (and I run)
I can't take pain enough (and I run)
I can't bleed fast enough
I can't die dead enough
The air is thick, but the oxygen's thin

My heart is beating like a drum (boom!)
And ice is flowing through my veins
Explosives on my lips and in my lungs
Oh, I can't punch hard enough (and I run)

I can't kick high enough (and I run)
I can't shoot straight enough (and I run)
I can't hold on enough (and I run)
Oh, I can't stay down enough (and I run)
I can't take pain enough (and I run)
I don't know what I'm running from

And I don't know where I'm running to
There's something deep and strange inside of me, I see

Something's compelling me to run into the dark
And now I am more driven than before

And now I live just to settle score
And now I feel the nearness of you breath
Now I introduce you to your death
[Solo - Poland]
[Solo - Mustaine]
[Solo - Poland]
I am more driven than before

I live just to settle score
I feel the nearness of your breath
I introduce you to your death
I can't punch hard enough
I can't kick high enough
I can't shoot straight enough
I can't hold on enough
I can't stay down enough (die dead enough)

I can't take pain enough (die dead enough)
I can't bleed fast enough (die dead enough)
I can't die dead enough (die dead enough)
3. Kick The Chair

Dawn breaks evenly today
On the truth and the lie
All rise, court's in session
We're hanging someone high
Justice means nothing today

Now that the courts are for sale
Pick a crime from the menu, pick a sentence and defend you
And pick up the down payment called bail
The system's for sale!
Kick the chair, the rope is tight

Just like one quick wrench, the tooth is out
Friend or foe, I gotta hang 'em dead
Or they'll come back around
Kick it!
The court's wrong when it keeps track

Of victories and defeats
The press that never rests just waits
For somebody's soul they can eat

Now that the jury's for sale
Guilty or not, the verdict's a lie
You're going to jail
The system has failed!
Kick the chair, the rope is tight

Friend or foe, ya gotta hang 'em dead
Or they'll come back
[Solo - Mustaine (2:21)]

[Solo - Poland (3:20)]
4. The Scorpion
My life, is everything
That feeds my thirst, that causes sin
My wants, are all I care
No shame and guilt, there's nothing there
Look deep, into my face
I sell deceit, without a trace
Fear not, what I can do
Unless you, want it done to you, oh-ohhh!
[Solo - Mustaine]
As I climb onto your back, I will promise not to sting

I will, tell you what you want to hear and not mean anything
Then I, treat you like a dog, as I shoot my venom in
You pretend you didn't know, that I am a scorpion, oh
My self, I'm centered in
There's nothing else, there's never been
And I dream, to be left alone
With the sadness, the madness of my own
Look deep, into my soul
It's black as coal, like a bullet hole
Fear not, get off your knees
There's no defense, you'll do what I please, oh-oh!
[Solo - Mustaine]

Then I treat you like a dog, as I shoot my venom in
You pretend you didn't know, that I am a scorpion, ohhh!
[Solo - Mustaine]

I will, treat you like a dog as I shoot my venom in
'Cause you knew all along I am a scorpion, yeah!
My lies, to reach the shore

I aggrandize, and nothing more
My hopes, to steal away
All that you love, I'll soon betray
Look deep, into my past
The pain I feel, is unsurpassed
I'm not, a lowly scorpion
I'm so much worse; I'm the fall of man
5. Tears In A Vial
This may seem all too confusing

How I could walk away from something so rare
But you see it got too demanding, yeah
And I just didn't care, I just didn't care, if I cared, if I cared
Lately, I've been left wanting, but not wanting you

Attraction that once was is no longer there, ooh
And it sucks to be taken for granted
When the veil is drawn so there is only air
I had to walk away

Give up something I love
For what I loved even more
And save my tears for you
[Solo - Mustaine]
Everything has lost its meaning; I had to let it go

To find myself, myself, and start something new, brand new
Forced to look deep in the mirror, face who I really am
Now it's just me, 'cause I can't afford you
I had to walk away

Give up something I love
I gave up something I love

In a vial and walked away
[Solo - Mustaine]
[Solo - Poland]
You were so beautiful to look upon

I could see the light in your smile
Your eyes were the windows into your soul
Your body was heavenly just like the sky
[Solo - Mustaine]
Until all your good looks betrayed you, which wasn't much
Counted on your counterfeit smiles for too long
Your eyes are empty windows, broken
The body may be here but the soul is gone
I saved my tears in a vial

From everything wicked that you did, that you said
To send away, buried with your love
So many tears in a vial, now that you're gone, and now that you're dead
6. I Know Jack
[Solo - Mustaine]
I served with jack Kennedy

I knew jack Kennedy
Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine
Senator you're no jack Kennedy
7. Back In The Day
Where were you when it happened?

Where could you be found?
Were you at the front of the stage?
Or in the underground?
From SF out to Old Bridge

New York back to LA
The world of metal changed forever
Back in the day
Well that was back in the day

And if you weren't there
It doesn't matter anyway
Because you wouldn't understand
Live to die and die to play

Every day and place
Leave a path of metal
Across the world from stage to stage
Well that was back in the day

And if you weren't there
It doesn't matter anyway
[Solo - Poland]
In denim and leather

We were all part of one force
Knocked rock and roll on its ass
And put metal on the course
Higher
[Solo - Poland]
Higher
[Solo - Mustaine]
Higher
[Solo - Poland]
Higher
[Solo - Mustaine]
Back in the day
[Solo - Mustaine]
You weren't there
[Solo - Mustaine]
It doesn't matter
[Solo - Mustaine]
This is our way of life

A life that was born free
To follow orders how to live
Was never meant to be
Oh, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh
Peals of thunder, sheets of lightning

The power hits the stage
The music was exciting
The mania raged
We all had the fever
Our ears started to ring
Feeding this wildfire
Consuming everything
Metals king back then

And still to this day
Others imitate or challenge
But it never goes away
8. Something That I'm Not
Your mind tells you that you've lost your confidence

You're drifting and ya don't believe in anyone
To lose what little you have left to be proud of
Afraid you can't do this again, ah!
You said that nothing can come in-between us

The way of getting things we wanted done
Then enissophobia held you under its influence
Until you compromised your style
[Solo - Mustaine]
Everything about you has been one big charade

What will you do now the wells run dry? Cry?
To sell out all your friends and stab them in the back
It's something that you are; something that I'm not
When you forced me into doing what you love

Mark my words no one loves you very much, yeah mark em
And when you tried to change me and tried to replace me
I couldn't help but end just hating you, hmm!
Being a fraud can only last so long, you should know

Till what ya sensed as a child returns, you little baby
To choke out the voice that told ya "money and fame"
Would fill the crater that you dug for yourself
[Solo - Mustaine]
Unlike you I'm no vision to myself, lest you forget

You didn't ever make metal, buddy; metal made you
To crush and run over everyone along the way
It's something that you are; it's something that I'm not
A stranger to yourself, ha! Ya pissed me off again

I won't be driven by your needs anymore
What you'd become to do or be is clear to see for me
[Solo - Mustaine]
it makes me sick to hear you say you "love me"

I know you only love what I can do for you
If you were the one that was leading the charge
Would you notice if I missed a day or two? But that's impossible!
We all laughed at the parodies that you'd become

Now your pain slowly paid back has begun
So, accept my resignation, or in your words "betrayal"
Before it gets much worse, end this self-sabotage
[Solo - Mustaine]
Something I'm not, something that you are, something that I'm not
[Solo - Mustaine]
Something I'm not, something that you are, something that I'm not
Something that you are, something that I'm not, yet
9. Truth Be Told
This is the first tale of death in the world

When Cain struck down Abel, a family broken
Since then mankind's dominated his own kind
To insult and injure, there's no such thing as peace
Till dead do us part, till the last
Truth be told - sin lies at the doorway

Truth be told - hells open for business now
Truth be told - the soil cries out for revenge
Truth be told - and death is upon the ground
All around
The battle ain't over without spoils of war

Just cause it is written doesn't make it so
When you dance with the devil wait till the songs over
I ask myself, "How bad do I want you to live?"
My anger is near, till the last
Truth be told - sin lies at the doorway

Truth be told - hells open for business now
Truth be told - the soil cries out for revenge
Truth be told - and death is upon the ground
All around
[Solo - Mustaine]
[Solo - Mustaine]
Tribulation strikes and we're hit hard

Still you just go on your way
Head in the sand, ignoring the rain
Just like the flood in Noah's day
In his day
[Solo - Mustaine]
Can't punish those for ruining the earth

It's suicide to some degree
Because we are all guilty, guilty as sin
There will be no peace, never for you and me
[Solo - Mustaine]
Before al qaeda and bin ladin

Long before Hitler and Hussein
Ever since the first murder was committed
The verdicts always been the same
Been the same, wrong!
[Solo - Mustaine]
The cursed future just repeats the past

There's hell to pay and stones to cast
So, there will be no peace, never peace
Till the last truth be told by you and me
[Solo - Mustaine]
10. Of Mice And Men
The fire burns on and on

That drives me on 'til all is gone
Except the simple plans
Of mice and men
Back when I was just seventeen

I thought that I knew everything
I could make it in this scene
To be a rising star that only gleamed
But all the answers disagreed
With the questions held for me
I was legal now at twenty-one

I knew the way the world should run
My God, just look what I had done
Simply drunk and having fun
Looked for friends, but I found none
All alone at twenty-one
[Solo - Poland]

Of mice and men

Of mice and men
At twenty-five I was surprised

That I was even half-alive
Somehow I managed to survive
I felt my body doing time
And in my back a hundred knives
From my friends at twenty-five
And now as Gabriel sounds my warning bell

I'd buy your life, if you would sell
A year or two if less compelled
So live your life and live it well
There's not much left of me to tell
I just got back up each time I fell
[Solo - Poland]

Of mice and men
[Solo - fills Poland]

[Solo - Mustaine]

Of mice and men

Of mice and men

Of mice and men

Of mice and men
[Solo - fills Poland]
11. Shadow Of Deth
Auxilium meum a domino
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
He leadeth me beside the still waters
He restoreth my soul
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his names sake

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies

Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever
[Solo - Mustaine]
12. My Kingdom Come
The flag that I once planted as a king I abandoned

And now I reclaim this banner by god, my sword, and my name
In a truce sealed by blood within this metal skin and all that I own
Blood, bone, and courage in my veins, and the heart that pumps it
Drink from the chalice and be reborn

And the land with me, it will change and transform
A fighting, am sworn to the quest it is doom of man that they forget

I have awoken the dragon and all around me the mist of his breath
God and evil, there never is one without the other, his brother
Always there where I least expect it, it will burn me to cinders
The futures taken root in the present sun

Don't look into my heart into my heart, least of all your own
[Solo - Poland]
No man who is false can win in combat against the truth

When he lies he murders some part of the world,
We must find out what was lost
Hearth and home, wife and child were not for me, I was not yet done
I never knew how empty my soul was until it was refilled
Mad distemper strikes both beggars and kings

The necromancer's hard teachings of war and quest
I am given the right to bear arms and power to meet justice
I have lived through others for far to long,

And carried my guilt, my causes, my sins
I hope in the hereafter when I owe no more to the future
That I can be just a man
"United Abominations" (2007)
1. Sleepwalker
[Music & Lyric Dave Mustaine]
I should be calling collect from jail

For the things I commit each night in my head
Like last night in my sleep I got to snuff you
But then I woke up again, safe in my little bed
No one is safe when I close my eyes; I come to take your life
I get to force your untimely disappearance

Each night in my dreams, when I'm fast asleep
I close my eyes and you just vanish soon as I
Lay down my head when I'm dead to the whole wide world

And then I wake up and it was all just a dream
And everything is the same
Sleepwalker - Did I give you concrete shoes?

And throw you off of a bridge
Sleepwalker - When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul's mine to keep, I feel you near me
Go to sleep, Sleepwalker
Just taking a stroll; don't go to sleep! Here's some toothpicks for your eyes!
You always make an excellent cadaver

I roll your body up in a carpet to make music in the
Trunk of my limousine, wrapped up in a rug
A fitting end, is that I send you up the river like a punk
The angel of death is pissed off at me again

Just because I got to put you out of my misery
It doesn't matter, I am without fear
Now you're dead, I won't shed another bloody tear for you

I'm calling down the thunder, then you'll sleep with the fishes
The answer to all of my wishes
Sleepwalker - Did I tell you I was in movies?

Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch
Sleepwalker - Everyday, another way, I know you can hear me
[Solo - Mustaine]
[Solo - Drover]
I think you'd look nice in a Colombian necktie

Should stop your tongue from wagging the dog
No more stupidity from you, as I pull your tongue through
For a smile from ear to ear, now there's nothing to hear

And then I wake up and it was all just a dream
And everything is still the same
Sleepwalker - Did I give you concrete shoes?

And throw your body off of a bridge
Pray your soul is mine to keep, I feel you near me
Sleepwalker - Or did I tell you I was in movies?

Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch
Sleepwalker - Everyday, another way, I know you can hear me
Sleepwalker - Did I buy you the farm?

Put a horse head in your bed
Pray your soul is mine to keep, I feel you near me
Sleepwalker - Everyday
Everyday another way
Pray your soul is mine to keep, I know you can hear me
[Repeat Choruses]
2. Washington Is Next
The quiet war has begun with silent weapons

And the new slavery is to keep the people
Poor and stupid, "Novus Ordo Seclorum"
How can there be any logic in biological war?

We all know this is wrong, but the New World Order's
Beating down the door, oh something needs to be done
There was a King, an evil King,

Who dreamt the wickedest of dreams
An ancient mystery, no prophet could interpret
Of seven years of famine, the wolf is at my door
As predicted years ago, that that was, that is, that is no more
The word predicts the future and tells the truth about the past
Of how the world leaders will hail the new Pharaoh
The eighth false king to the throne: Washington is Next!
Disengage their minds, sabotage their health

Promote sex and war and violence in the kindergartens
Blame the parents and teachers; it's their fault, "Annuit Coeptis"
Attack the church dynamic, attack the family
Keep the public undisciplined 'til nothing left is sacred and
The "have-not's" get hooked and have to go to the "have's" just to cop a fix
I am the King (an evil king),

Who dreams the wickedest of dreams
An ancient mystery, nobody could interpret
Of seven empires falling, the wolf is at my door
The word predicts my future and tells the truth about my past
Of how the world's leaders are waiting to usher in
The eighth world power of modern Rome: Washington is Next!
There was a King, an evil king,

Who dreamt the wickedest of dreams
An ancient mystery, no prophet could interpret
Of seven empires falling, the wolf is at my door
I am a King, and I dream the wildest dreams

Nobody could interpret
Seven empires falling, the wolf is at my door
Oh, that that was, that is, that is no more
There's something at my door, some ancient mystery
The future tells the truth about my past
And I'm the eighth false king to the throne
I've got you in my crosshairs, now, ain't that a bitch?
Washington, you're next!
3. Never Walk Alone
Hiding in then the door way

and then the shadow
any place where danger
waits to kill my time
there is one who loves and waits
to seal your fate
I'm sure as you live and die
Live and die
Live and die
When you feel that something wrong

I'll shelter you and keep you warm
I'll never let you walk alone
I loved you when you still hated me
I'm coming and it wont be long
Time to reap what I have sewn
Never ever let you walk alone
I know your enemy it once was me
Let me wrap my arms all around you

suffer the trespasses that you made
I will drink your pain away
forever and a day
if you just call out my name
If you just call
call my name
if you just call
Even whisper it

Ill shelter you and keep you warm
Ill never let you walk alone
SOLO!!!!!!!


4. United Abominations
[Music and Lyrics Dave Mustaine]
Within striking distance from Ground Zero sits a smoldering international

cauldron, the United "Abominations" as it were. Born to prevent wars, it froze in
the face of disaster and stood silent while terrorization to hostage of the world
In a mire of hypocrisy, the U.N. ignores sex crimes by its "blue helmets", and
enables terrorism; so in the end it's failed and the U.N. is where our
so-called friends get to stab us in the back and we pay 22% of their tab to host
our
enemies here at home.
Ambassadors from countries enjoy otherwise known as a catastrophe, enjoy

Diplomatic immunity living in Manhattan, while their children are turned into
prostitutes It's a complete and utter disgrace, a blot on the face of humanity,
and they get away with it.
Poverty in their kitchens

Held hostage by oil-for-food
Yet their own plates are full off the fat of their lands
There's no blood on their hands, right Kojo?
They promised to tell the truth
Without leaving a fingerprint,
They will lose the U.N. one way or another
The victim, I fear will be us, sisters and brothers
The U.N. is right; you can't be any more "un"

Than you are right now, the U.N. is undone
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun
The threat is real, the Locust King has come
Don't tell me the truth; I don't like what they've done
It's payback time at the United Abominations
A grave and gathering danger

The decision to attack
Based on secret intelligence it'll take years
I fear to undo the failings in Iraq, Iran, and Korea
You may bury the bodies
But you can't bury the crimes only

Fools stand up and really lay down their arms
No, not me, not when Death lasts forever

"The U.N. writes resolution after resolution and has become irrelevant through
inaction and totalitarian paralysis,"
"Order, Order!!!"
"Ha! There is no such thing as order"
"Larry, it's true, reports confirm today that the United Nations has officially
closed its doors forever,"
"Well, I just don't see what all the fuss is, because they don't do anything
anyway, do they?"

NATO invaded Yugoslavia to end ethnic cleansing, there was no U.N.

The U.S. invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, there was no U.N.
Saddam Hussein violated 17 U.N. resolutions; The U.N. was asked to join the
war in Iraq. The U.S. invaded, Ha! there was no U.N.
Libya bombed a discotheque in Berlin killing Americans, there was no U.N.
Iran funds Hamas, and attacked the U.S. in the
seventies, there was no stinking U.N.
Facing War without end, looking into the future, there was no more U.N.
5. Gears Of War
Ethnic cleansing with no defending

These acts of genocide
A fatal ending with no surrendering
To cover up the crimes and lie
Smart bombs, precision guided armament

A more sophisticated way to end up dead
Still we search and invent such intelligent weapons
That kill each other like the Gears of War
Hoo-rah!!!
If you ride with thieves, then you die with thieves

Cross my heart and hope that you die, that you die!
When the smoke has cleared, the devil's in the mirror
And you see his warheads paint the sky, now you die!
Smart bombs, precision guided armament

A more sophisticated way to end up dead
Still we search and invent such intelligent weapons
That kill each other like the Gears of War
Hoo-rah!!!
6. Blessed Are The Dead

A great sign appeared
Under the stars and the moon
Sounds of galloping horses
On clouds of lightning and thunder
A dark gathering storm

To scorch the earth for many generations
A nuclear winter
Worse than any cold or holy war
A white horse on the clouds of death

A red warhorse to end all wars
A pale horse and pestilence led by a
Black horse with famine and scales
The doctrine of hatred

Nation will rise against nation
Wash me in blood and let me be
The firstborn of the dead
A crowned rider with arrows and bow

A red rider with a great firey sword
Flames come from the one called death
Horror and apocalypse follows
(RIDE!) Won't you four horsemen ride again

Before this kingdom is blown to kingdom come
I hold fast to what I believe

Till I see my name in stone
Blessed are the dead
A white horse on the clouds of death

A red warhorse to end all wars
A pale horse and pestilence led by a
Black horse with famine and scales
The synagogue of Satan

Nation will rise against nation
Wash me in blood and let me be
The firstborn of the dead
A crowned rider with arrows and bow

A red rider with a great firey sword
Flames come from the one called death
Horror and apocalypse follows
(RIDE!) Won't you four horsemen ride again

Before this kingdom is blown to kingdom come
I hold fast to what I believe
Till I see my name in stone
Blessed are the dead
7. Play For Blood

Anybody searching for action
Anything to fill the emptiness inside
Any place that the streets are empty
Any takers wanna pour out their lives
With fire and lightning shooting from my hand
And desolation written across my eyes
My itchy finger on the hairpin trigger
My tempers hot and my patience's taken flight
Inside the abattoir

The cover charge is somebody's gotta die
Now, I hear you screaming out for mercy
Last man that's standing wins the fight
Too late, I see your end zero in on you
Even mortal enemies, they can't deny
Let me help you up again
The wings of god surround me
I live to play because I know I'll never die
If I win again, I'm still the champion

And if you win, ha, that's just impossible
I don't play for keeps; I don't play for your soul
I don't play to win; I don't play for it all
I play for blood
I don't play for keeps, I play for blood

I don't play for your soul, I play for blood
I don't play to win, I play for blood
I don't play for it all, I play for blood
I play for blood
8. A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)
[feat. Cristina Scabbia]

All my plans denied

Smile when you think of me
A tout le monde (To all the world)

A tout mes amis (To all my friends)
Je vous aime (I love you)
Je dois partir (I have to leave)
I'll ever speak


I'll ever speak

Please smile, smile when you think about me

I'll ever speak
[2x]

I'll ever speak
9. Amerikhastan
Recruiting the ill-fated for "The War"

A legion of uneducated, bankrupt souls
With a lust for revenge, answering the call
From New Yorqatar to Califarabia
Desperation provides fertile ground for religious extremism

This glorious brainwashing where prejudice lies
Like a crouching tiger
Tormenting peasants till they erect an army
Under everyone's nose
In the end propaganda destroys their DNA, God help them
[Solo - Drover]
[Solo - Mustaine]
All that they envisioned of what things would come to be

Turned into a pink mist when they blew to smithereens
We are just a war away from Amerikhastan
When God versus God;the undoing of man
Promising a vapor, in the end they become one
[Solo - Drover]
No rules of engagement, this enemy hides

Amongst women and children
And to beat violence, you must ignore the focus groups

You must send in the Mossad, turn of the BBC, CNN
And don't look back
Rest assured there'll be no more Middle Eastern crisis, hell!
There'll be no more Middle East!
These are your people Liberty
Pull up your dress today
And tattooed is "property of The USA
A subsidiary of Halliburton"
Surprise?!
But a roaring lion is about to be on earth
Hey, Jihad Joe? Guess what? We're coming to get you!
[Solo - Drover]
[Solo - Mustaine]
All that you envisioned of what things will come to be

Turns into a death knell when you look behind the scenes
We are just a war away from Amerikhastan
When God versus God, the undoing of man
[Solo - Drover]
[Solo - Mustaine]
[Solo - Drover]
[Solo - Mustaine]
10. You're Dead
When someone becomes nothing to anyone

Wilts feelings have died
Anyone would know it
They set out stick and stones
They say they crossed my bones
I say I don’t get mad I get even
before they do.
Spoils go to the victor

I’m dead on time
Your time is going to come
One day I’ll dance on your graves

Even if you’re buried at sea
Till then till when I exact my revenge
I’ll tell them you’re dead to me
We’re all just trying to hold on to anything

You’d think they’d know that’s what we’re trying to do
These wounds are invisible
Underneath the dirt I still see the scars
But then when things got bad we spread our wings and fly away
You’ll take all your riches in the back of a hearse

Your time is going to come

One day I’ll dance on your grave


11. Burnt Ice
[Solo - Mustaine]
He said he'd try just a little bit
[Solo - Mustaine]
He didn't want to end up like them
[Solo - Drover]
And now he blames the voices of a toothless wonder
[Solo - Mustaine]
Pounding on the door to make the next score
[Solo - Drover]
Anything for a hit, any sin to pay for it

For that next bowl, he'd sell his soul
Spiral to destruction, it's too late to break the spell

He wants the ride to stop on the freight train straight to hell
Without the truth he'll never find in a dungeon of his lies
His cause of death... high speed on burnt ice
[Solo - Mustaine]
Always looking at the ground, a broken, beaten man

Memories of his family are calling after him
He can hardly think, hardly walk
Phone keeps ringing, he can't talk
With just one hit the pain would go away
But he's dead if he does
[Solo - Drover]
[Solo - Mustaine]
[Solo - Drover]
Shadow people follow him everywhere he goes

Looking over his shoulder, the paranoia grows
[Solo - Mustaine]
12. Out On The Tiles
[Bonus track for Japanese release]
[Led Zeppelin cover, originally from the album "Led Zeppelin III" composed by
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Bonham. Copyright to SuperHype Music Inc.,
ASCAP, 1970.]
As I walk down the highway, all I do is sing this song

And a train that's passing my way helps the rhythm move along
There is no doubt about the words, they're clear
The voice is strong, it's oh-so strong
I am just a simple guy, I live from day to day

A ray of sunshine melts my frown and blows my blues away
There's nothing more that I can say, but on a day like today
I pass the time away and walk a quiet mile with you
All I need from you, is all your love

All you gotta give to me, is all your love
I'm so glad I'm living, gonna tell the world that I am

I got me a fine woman and she says that I'm her man
One thing that I know for sure, gonna give her all the loving like nobody can
Standing in the noonday sun, trying to flag a ride

People go and people come, see my rider right by my side
It's a total disgrace that they set the pace, it must be a race
And the best thing I can do is run

13. Black Swan
[special edition track]
[composed by Dave Mustaine and Megadeth]
I thought at this hour, any pleasure, could never really be a sin in vain
One hundred and one shots of opportunity, I'd gladly take them all again and
again, and again
My angel's left me, sorrows are my own
Now I'm here, with the Devil on my own
Just like a churchyard shadow, creeping after me
It's only there to terrify my mind, a black swan keeps haunting me
I promised on my soul, not to get carried away

It always starts out psychedelic, and then it turns to black
My head starts swaying, I forgot what it was that I was saying
I don't know where I am, and I'll never, never make it back
I sealed my fate, and I paid my debt

I fell from grace with deep regret

And now I'm here, with the Devil on my own
Just like a churchyard shadow, there's nothing left to see

Now I'm here, with the Devil on my own, on my own
Just like a churchyard shadow, there's nothing left to see

There's nothing left to see, There's nothing left of me
14. The Bodies Left Behind
15. Special Live Track
"That One Night - Live In Buenos Aires" (2007)
1. Jet Intro
2. Blackmail The Universe
This is breaking news

It appears that Air Force One was shot down
Somewhere over the Middle East this morning
By a sleeper cell of rogue terrorists firing a Stinger Missile
The Pilot and all passengers are unaccounted for
The President's whereabouts are presently unknown and he is presumed missing
The Vice President, Secretary of State, and principals of the military are
assembling
Our nation stands at DEFCON 3
The greatest crisis, will someone come for me?
I "red, white and blew it"
Unleashed revenge, my body is detained
How could anybody do this?
Betrayal, I peel away the days

Medals are useless, Uncle Sam's forgotten me
I'm not important, no one will ever come
I'll never be found, God get me out of this hell
Nuclear battlefields energized

Cold wars are heating up again
The tensions mounting
People lift up your fists in revenge
The stage is set

Who will be the first to blink?
We can't go to war
Remember that "Vietnam thing"
Peace at any price

With a gun to your head, bang, bang
Weakness runs in your family
What runs in mine is death
This is your 5 minute warning

Burn all of your classified documents
And if cooler heads don't prevail
First strike from a political dead man
Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive

He understands only one language - action
And he respects only one word - force
No sign of them stopping, no time for back channel communiques
We need all the help we can get, air strikes and invasions, retaliate, I say!
The will of good men can not counter the terrible strain of war
Blackmail the universe with the greatest of calamities

Awaken those sleeping giants in the dust of the ground
With their skin destroyed, unjust to innocence
Lawful possessor of the world's last 24 hours
Terror and ugliness reveal what death really means

And in hatred you see men as they really are
If chosen over heaven, Earth will have been for them
All along, only another region of hell
3. Set The World Afire
Red flash, clouds choking out the morning sky

They said it'd never come, we knew it was a lie
All forms of life die now, humans all succumb
Time to kiss your ass goodbye, the end has just begun
Distorted figures walk the street, it's 1999

Weeds once underneath your feet have grown to vines
Bodies melted like a candle, a land without a face
No time to change your fate, no time left, it's too late
The arsenal of Megadeth can't be rid they said

And if it comes the living will envy the dead
Racing for power and all come in last
No winning first stone cast
This falsehood worldly peace
It's treaties will soon cease
No one will be left to prove that humans existed
Maybe soon the children will be born open fisted
We all live on one planet it will all go up in smoke
Too bad they couldn't see this lethal energy

And now the final scene, a global darkening
Dig deep the piles of rubble and ruins

Towering overhead both far and wide
There's unknown tools of World War III
Einstein said "We'll use rocks on the other side"
No survivors!
Set the world afire!
No survivors, set the world afire!
4. Skin Of My Teeth
I had wrists donning slits, flowing constantly

My broken body in a wreck: I'm wrapped around a tree
A crosswalk hit and run - the finish line for me
People clutter in the gutter, take a look and see
No escaping pain, you belong to me

Clinging on the life by the skin of my teeth
My blood flows through the streets, deluge from the wounds

Empty jar of sleeping pill on the dresser in my room
My wet brain neighbor cranes, his neck in time to see
The white lights, a train bearing down on me
I won't feel the hurt, I'm not trash any longer

That that doesn't kill me, only makes me stronger
I need a ride to the morgue, that's what 911 is for
So tag my toe and don't forget to, oh, close the drawer
5. Wake Up Dead
I sneak in my own house

It's four in the morning
I've had too much to drink
Said I was out with the boys
I creep in my bedroom
I slip into bed
I know if I wake her
I'll wake up dead
I wonder, will she find out
About the other, other lover
Diana
Wake up dead, you die

Wake up dead, and buried
Wake up dead, you die
Wake up dead
In my hour of need
Ha! No, you're not there...
And though I reached out for you
Wouldn't lend a hand.

Grace did not shine on me.
No one cares for me.
Did you ever think I get lonely ?

Did you ever think that I needed love ?
Did you ever think to stop thinking ?
You're the only one that I'm thinking of...

to find my space and satisfy you too.

Don't try to understand, knowing you I'm probably wrong.
But, oh, how I lived my life for you!

Still you'd turn away
Now as I die for you,
My flesh still crawls, as I breathe your name
All these years I thought I was wrong
Now I know it was you!
Raise you head, raise your face your eyes
Tell me, who do you think you are?

Into the promised land.
But it's far, far away
Everlasting life for me

In a perfect world
But I gotta die first,
Please God send me on my way !
Time has a way of taking time,

Loneliness is not only felt by fools.
Alone I call to ease the pain,
Yearning to be held by you.
Alone so alone, I'm lost
The pain, the pain, the pain.
Won't you hold me again?

And you just laughed, ha! ha! Bitch !
My whole life is work built on the past
But the time has come when all things shall pass
This good thing passed away
7. Die Dead Enough
It's twilight and I wake up hot

My body's soaked in a cold, cold sweat
I reenact the lurid scenes
And clawed engravings in my head
Oh, I can't punch hard enough and I run

I can't kick high enough and I run
I can't shoot straight enough and I run
I can't hold on enough and I run
Oh, I can't stay down enough and I run
I can't take pain enough and I run
The air is thick, but the oxygen's thin

My heart is beating like a drum, boom!
And ice is flowing through my veins
Explosives on my lips and in my lungs
Oh, I can't punch hard enough and I run

I can't kick high enough and I run
I can't shoot straight enough and I run
I can't hold on enough and I run
Oh, I can't stay down enough and I run
I can't take pain enough and I run

There's something deep and strange inside of me I see
Something's compelling me to run into the dark!
And now I am more driven than before

And now I live just to settle score
And now I feel the nearness of your breath
Now I introduce you to your death
I am more driven than before

I live just to settle score
I feel the nearness of your breath
I introduce you to your death
I can't punch hard enough
I can't kick high enough
I can't shoot straight enough
I can't hold on enough...
I can't stay down enough, die dead enough!
I can't take pain enough, die dead enough!
I can't bleed fast enough, die dead enough!
I can't die dead enough, die dead enough!
8. She Wolf
The mother of all that is evil

her lips are poisonous venom
Wicked temptress knows how to please
The priestess roars, "get down on your knees"
The rite of the praying mantis

Kiss the bones of the enchantress
Spellbound searching through the night
A howling man surrenders the fight
One look in her lusting eyes

Savage fear in you will rise
Teeth of terror sinking in
The bite of the she-wolf
My desires of flesh obey me

The lioness will enslave me
Another heartbeat than my own
Sound of claws on cobblestone
Beware what stalks you in the night

Beware the she-wolf and her bite
her mystic lips tell only lies
her hidden will to kill in disguise
9. Reckoning Day
I like the way that I make you itch

And all the reasons I give you to bitch
And how I make you wanna scream in pain
And feel your life is just a losing game
I like the way that you let me in

The way you look when the walls cave in
I like the way that your stomach knots
And how you cry for it all to stop
I like the way that you fool yourself

And make believe there's nobody else
I like the way that you stand in line
And beg salvation from the empty skies
Don't want no revenge

Ain't no pay back time
It ain't called getting even
Here comes the reckoning day
I like the things that you try to fake

And your face when I see you break
And that you say you will pray for me
You realize you are prey for me
I like the way you stay on attack

No matter what, I keep coming back
And how you try to hold me down
But you end up driven to the ground
10. A Toute Le Monde

More seriously I took things
All my plans denied


I'll ever speak


And living, all are scarred
11. Angry Again
The more of you that I inspect

The more of me I see reflect
The more I try to read your lips
The more the mask you're wearing rips
But when I seek out your voice

My ears are overcome with noise
You show and tell with greatest ease
Raving impossibilities
Engaged in crime I grasp my throat

Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry ow
And when the story takes a twist

If folds like a contortionist
Slight of hand and quick exchange
The old tricks have been rearranged

Angry again, angry again, angry
The searing of the sinew

My body fights for air
The ripping of the tissue
My lungs begin to tear
Gravity's got my bones
It pulls my flesh away
The steam finally dissipates

I make out my sweaty face
Association that I choose

Game I inevitably lose
Governed by laws set up by me
Fracture its jaw to let me be
A cut-out cardboard condo maze
Filled with an insubordinate race
Irrational youths stop to stare
As music rubber hosed the air

Angry again, angry again, angry again
And again and again, again

Angry again, angry again, angry ow
12. Hangar 18



Suspended state of cryogenics
Believed foretold but who'd suspect.

13. Return To Hangar
Welcome to an empty fortress

A mighty wreck that once was proud
Ate alive by oxidation
Abandoned by a crew of cowards
Navigation systems failed
Computers crashed and they all fall down

All the guilty paid the price

Suspended by their broken necks
No one survived to tell the story
When foreign life forms resurrect
And military intelligence is
Still two words that can't make sense

14. I'll Be There
I heard the voice of redemption

For me there is no exemption
I started praying
I heard the voice of satisfaction

Needing me for benefaction
I started pleading
I heard the bells begin to chime

Warning me oh lord
You saw me slide, you saw me fall

We kept our pride through it all
We started screaming
When skies are dark, no sun shines through

I know I see the light in you
We stopped dreaming and started believing
I'll be there
In my hour of need
You were there always
Now it's time for me to be there for you too
Always
I'll be there for you
15. Tornado Of Souls
This morning I made the call

The one that ends it all
Hanging up, I wanted to cry
But dammit, this well's gone dry
Not for the money, not for the fame
Not for the power, just no more games
But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado
I can't replace the lies, that let a 1000 days go
No more living trapped inside
In her way I'll surely die
In the eye of the tornado, blow me away
You'll grow to loathe my name

You'll hate me just the same
You won't need your breath
And soon you'll meet your death
Not from the years, not from the use
Not from the tears, just self abuse
Who's to say, what's for me to say...be...do

Cause a big nothing it'll be for me
The land of opportunity
The golden chance for me
My future looks so bright
Now I think I've seen the light
Can't say what's on my mind

Can't do what I really feel
In this bed I made for me
Is where I sleep, I really feel
I warn you of the fate
Proven true to late
Your tongue twist perverse
Come drink now of this curse
And now I fill your brain
I spin you round again
My poison fills your head
As I tuck you into bed
You feel my fingertips
You won't forget my lips
You'll feel my cold breath
It's the kiss of death
16. Trust
Lost in a dream
Searching my head

Of you walking away

Betrayed by lust
Time and again

I smile and say yes
Another truth bends
I must confess


Betrayed by lust

Betrayed by lust
Now there's nothing we trust
[Whispered:]
'How could this be happening to me
I'm lying when I say "trust me"
Trust hurts
Why does trust equal suffering'
Absolutely nothing we trust !
17. Something That I'm Not
Your mind tells you that you've lost your confidence

You're drifting and ya don't believe in anyone
To lose what little you have left to be proud of
Afraid you can't do this again, ah!
You said that nothing come in-between us

The way of getting things we wanted done
Then enissophobia held you under its influence
Until you compromised your style
Everything about you has been one big charade

What will you do now that the well's run dry? Cry?
To sell out all your friends and stab them in the back
When you forced me into doing what you love

Mark my words no one loves you very much, yeah mark em'
And when you tried to change me and tried to replace me
I couldn't help but end just hating you, hmm!
Being a fraud can only last so long, you should know

Till what ya sensed as a child returns, you little baby
To choke out the voice that told ya "money and the fame"
Would fill the crater that you dug for yourself
Unlike you I'm no vision to myself, lest you forget

You didn't ever make metal, buddy; metal made you
To crush and run over everyone along the way
A stranger to yourself, ha! ya pissed me off again

I won't be driven by your needs anymore
What you'd become to do or be is clear to see for me
It's something that you are; something that I'm not
It makes me sick to hear you say you "love me"

I know you only love what I can do for you
If you were the one that was leading the charge
Would you notice if I missed a day or two? But that's impossible!
We all laughed at the parodies that you'd become

Now your pain slowly paid back has begun
So, accept my resignation, or in your words "betrayal"
Before it gets much worse, end this self-sabotage
Something that I'm not, something that you are, something I'm not
Something that I'm not, something that you are, something I'm not
Something that you are, something I'm not, yet
18. Kick The Chair
Dawn breaks evenly today

On the truth and the lie
All rise, courts in session
Were hanging someone high

Now that the courts are for sale
Pick a crime from the menu; pick a sentence and defend you
And pay up the down payment called bail
The system's for sale
Kick the chair, the rope's tight

Friend or foe, I gotta hang em dead
Or they'll come back around
Kick it!
The court's wrong when it keeps tracks

Of victories and defeats
The press that never rest just waits
For somebody's soul they can eat

Now that the jury's for sale
Guilty or not, the verdict's a lie
You're going to jail
The system has failed
Kick the chair, the rope's tight

Friend or foe, ya gotta hang em dead
Or they'll come
19. Coming Home To Argentina
And today, I leave you

But I'll be back someday
And as I fly away
My hope is that we'll meet again
I'm off to my home away from home
I will miss you
But I know
I know you know
I'm coming home to Arizona

I'll take you everywhere I go

I'll show you everything I see
And as we say so long
I know your tears wish me well
It won't be long till I'm back again
We will meet again
We will meet again
You will see, oh

I'm coming home

Watch him become a god,
A'roll...
[Chorus:]
We dance like marionettes,
Swaying to the Symphony...
Of Destruction
Acting like a robot,

You try to take its pulse,
Explodes...
[Chorus]
[Solo]

World powers fall
A'warring for the heavens,
Tall...
[Chorus]
21. Peace Sells
What do you mean "I don't believe in God"?

I talk to him everyday.
I go to court when I have to
I got nothing better to do.

But it better work this time.

Just not your kind.
What do you mean, "I couldn't be the President
Of the United States of America"?
Tell me something, it's still "We the people," right?
If there's a new way

I'll be the first in line
But it better work this time
Can you put a price on peace?

Peace,
Peace sells...,
Peace,
Peace sells...,
Pace sells... but who's buying?
No, peace sells...
22. Holy Wars

killing for religion
Something i don't understand



It might be your homelands
Holy wars

Know it all scholar
[Solo]

Behind the lines
Either way they die
The killed my wife, and my baby

First mistake.....last mistake!
Next mistake.....no more mistakes!
Fill the cracks in, with judical granite
Because I don't say, i don't mean it I ain't
Thinkin' it
I know what i said, now i must scream of the overdose
And the lack of mercy killings
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away....

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MEGADETH LYRICS

"Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!" (1985)

Your bodies empty now

And now I'm down below

And what do I see

3. Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!

4. The Skull Beneath The Skin

Mean and infectous

See thing in agony

[l. hazelwood - D. Mustaine]

You keep saying you got something for me

You keep lying and there ain't no believing

You've keep dressing ways you shouldn't be dressing

And you think I'm kidding, dont'ya?!

There's someone back in the shadows

I'm a rattle head

You doubt your strength or courage

8. Looking Down The Cross

Now before they take me

Looking down the cross

Imagine you were at my station

"Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?" (1986)

I sneak in my own house,

Wake up dead, you die,

Welcome to out sanguinary sect of worship,

Behold the flames rise,

Arrange the symbols,

Don't summon the devil,

I am the devil's advocate,

I met your father years ago,

I'm claiming what is mine by right,

Come join me in my infernal depths,

What do you mean, "I don't believe in God"?

What do you mean, "I hurt your feelings"?

Can you put a price on peace?

The light that fills my lonely cell,

Oh, there is no escape,

Oh, hear the call,

The priest that reads the sermons,

Old, weak, and feeble,

[Chorus (repeat 4 times):]

5. Good Mourning / Black Friday

Hey, I don't feel so good.

Killer, intruder, homicidal man.

My hammer's a cold piece of blood-lethal steel.

Their bodies convulse, in agony, and, pain.

Killer, intruder, homicidal man.

It's Black Friday, paint the devil on the wall. [8 times]

Sinister's the word,

Highly polished metal,

Place the piston down,

A couple grains of powder,

Add another bullet,

You, you, next victim, you next to die.

"So Far, So Good... So What !" (1988)

1. Into The Lungs Of Hell

2. Set The World A Fire

Red flesh cloud's choking out the morning sky

Distorted figures walk the street, it's 1989

Too bad they couldn't see this lethal energy

Dig deep piles of rubble and ruins

3. Anarchy In The U.K.

[Song by Glen Matlock, Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Steve Jones]

'Cause I want to be anarchy, no dog's body