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Released: October 20, 1990
Note: Many consider it the best Megadeth album to date. After the dissappointing So Far, So Good, So What!!!, Mustaine and Ellefson parted with Chuck Behlar and Jeff Young, and picked up Marty Friedman on guitars and Nick Menza on drums.
Written by: Dave Mustaine, 1990
Fools like me,who cross the sea
A country that's divided
The end is near, it's crystal clear
Holy wars
Upon my podium, as the
Written by: Dave Mustaine, 1990
They killed my wife, and my baby
Fill the cracks in,with judicial granite
Written by: Dave Mustaine, 1990
Possibly I've seen to much
Foreign life forms inventory
Possibly I've seen to much
Written by: Dave Mustaine, 1990
Going to war, give'em hell
He once had to be all he could be
Written by: Dave Mustaine, 1990
Possessed with hellish torment
Written by: Dave Mustaine, 1990
Written by: Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson, 1990
Hypnosis guides my hand
Written by: Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson, 1990
You'll grow to loathe my name
Who's to say, what's for me to say...be...do
Can't say what's on my mind
Written by: Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson, 1990
Awakened in the morning
Pretending not to notice
Now I can only laugh
Written by: Dave Mustaine, 1990
High priest of holocaust, fire from the sea
Eradication of earth's
Holy Wars...
Note: A General Schwarzkopf Mix was done by Sascha and KMFDM
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand
And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?
Surely will not stand
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand
Part of the master plan
Don't look now to Israel
It might be your homelands
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 holler
Than-thou-could-be-messenger of God
The Punishment Due
Note: I think this song is about when Dave went to another country and caught a bootleger selling Megadeth stuff. When he tried to bust the guy and ask him why he was doing it, the guy told him it was because Megadeth material wasn't allowed in his country.
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
With hopes to enslave me
First mistake...last mistake!
Paid by the alliance,to slay all the giants
Next mistake...no more mistakes|
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't
Thinkin' 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
Hangar 18
Note: Menza probably had a big influence on Dave writing this song due to his belief in aliens.
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
Hangar 18 I know too much
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
Take No Prisoners
Note:
Get it right, terminate them
The Panzers will, permeate them
Break their pride, denigrate them
And their people, retrograde them
Typhus, detriate them
Epidemic, devastate them
Take no prisoners, cremate them
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 heaven 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
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 your country
Ask what your country can do for you
Take no prisoners, take no shit
Five Magics
Note: I heard Dave believes in witches and that this was about one, who may have been a family member.
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
Wizardry
Sorcery
Thermatology
Electricity
Magic if you please
Master all of these
Bring him to his knees
I master five magics
I master magics '5'
Hunting the abyss lord
Only one will stay alive
He who lives by the sword
Will surely also die
He who lives in sin
Will surely live the lie
Poison was the Cure
Note:
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
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
Loves a tidepool
Taste the waters life's abundant
Taste me
Lucretia
Note:
I 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 any way hey|
Drift into a deeper state
I stalk the cobwebbed stairways
Dirt grits beneath my feet
The stair creaks, I precariously sneak
I slipslide 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
Tornado of Souls
Note: This is known as the Megadeth "love song." Dave called some girlfriend of his and told her "it's over!"
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 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
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 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
Dawn Patrol
Note:
In perpetual writhing
The primordial ooze
And the sanity they lose
To more air pollution warnings
Still we sleepwalk off to work
While our nervous systems jerk
How history had forebode us
With the green house in effect
Our environment was wrecked
As I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles
In the dark of dawn patrol
Rust in Peace...Polaris
Note:
I am your ruler,land, sea and air
Immense in my girth, erect I stand tall
I am a nuclear murderer I am Polaris
Ready to pounce at the touch of a button
My system 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 warning,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
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
Population loves Polaris
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