![[YOUTHANASIA]](Youthanasia.jpg)
Released: October 31, 1994
Note: Youthanasia is Megadeth's second best selling record. It has the same lineup as on the previous 2 records, and the music is somewhat in the same style as of that found on Countdown to Extinction.
Music by: Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman
I like the way that you let me in
I like the way that you fool yourself
Don't want no revenge
I like the things that you try to fake
I like the way you stay on attack
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Set the ball a rollin
No hourse ever ran as fast
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Who will help me up?
In a dream I connot see
Light shined on my path,
Music by: Dave Mustaine
So as you read this know my friends
If my heart was still alive
Moving on is a simple thing
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Elysian Fields...
Soaring to the sun
Music by: Dave Mustaine
I lost my mind, I lost all my money
The road will never end
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Ladies and gents, we're still alive
Still alive
Music by: Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson and Nick Menza
I know they were doing it to you
Let me show you, how I love you
When you hear them saying "trust me"
Your family tree waits in the dark
Music by: Dave Mustaine
I can't help but think,
Luck deserted me and the truth
We are the damned of all the world
Music by: Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson, Marty Friedman and Nick Menza
Maybe I don't like it, but I have no choice
I thought I knew it all
Somewhere there's a reason
Music by: Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman
Black curtains...never ending
Escape...you're joking
Black curtains...never ending, fall
Am I dreaming? my heart pounds my chest
Snakes... surround me
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Had fingers in my eyes, had needles in my veins
Came "Anarchy" to "Set the World Afire"
Reckoning Day
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson, 1992
Note:
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
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
And make believe there's nobody else
I like the way that you stand in line
And beg salvation from the empty skies
Ain't no pay back time
It ain't called getting even
Here comes the reconing day
And your face when I see you break
And that you say you will pray for me
You realize you are prey for me
No matter what, I keep coming back
And how you try to hold me down
But you end up driven to the ground
Train of Consequences
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note: A song about beating the odds.
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
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
As the money that you bet
I'm blowing on my cards
And 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
Addicted to Chaos
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note: This song is about a former drug counselor of Mustaine's that overdosed himself.
All these normal people will I find another
One?
Monkey on ny back, aching in 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
Where's the helping hand?
Will you turn on me?
Is this my final stand?
Tangled abstract fallacy
Random turmoil builds in me
I'm addicted to chaos
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"
A Tout Le Monde
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note: This video was banned by MTV because the line "Moving on is a simple thing" was thought to promote suicide. The video is not available on any home video.
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
I found out how little I accomplished
All my plans denied
I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile when you think of me
My body's gone that's all
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/must leave
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free
I know it would surely break
And my memories left with you
There's nothing more to say
What it leaves behind is hard
You know the sleeping feel no more pain
And the living are scarred
Elysian Fields
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson, 1994
Note:
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 best hope of man on earth
Pontius Pilate still washing his hands
The world don't want to be saved
Only left alone
We are storming the heavens
We raise the swords and sheilds
We ascend to our destiny
To the Elysian Fields
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
Is like cancer to their bones
The Killing Road
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note:
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
This behavior's quite insane
But we do it for the fame, yeah
I lost my life to the killing road
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
Blood of Heroes
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note:
Better left for dead
And now we are on a mission
Well it's full speed ahead
My legion'd 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
By the skin of our teeth, now it's killing time
Angel in our pocket, devil by our side
We ain't going nowhere cuz' heroes never die
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, 'cuz heroes never die
Family Tree
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note:
The tigers eat their young
The bodies 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...
But don't try doing it to me
It's our secret, you and me
But keep it in the family tree
The secret of the family tree
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
I say...
Youthasasia
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note:
We'd be going anywhere telling people
how to live?
Who'd belive we'd spend more
Shippin' drugs and guns
Than to educate our sons? sorry but
That's what they did
Someone's foresaken you and me
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
With saddness 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
I Thought I Knew It All
Lyrics by: Dave Ellefson, Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note:
Why things go like they do
Somewhere there's a reason
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
I know that somewhere, someone hears my voice
I thought I had it made
How could it end this way?
I thought I knew
Why things don't go my way
Somewhere there's a reason
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
Black Curtains
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note:
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
Can't find no place to run
Hair...is burning
My flesh is bubbling up
Blood...is boiling
Taste copper on my toungue
Fate...is coming
Welcome it with a smile
Held for ransom in a spider's web
Suffocating, no one hears my calls
Never ending, till the black curtain falls
Offering their death kiss to me
Down...I'm drowning
How long, I hold my breath
My legs are paralyzed
Pray...don't find me
My life is fading fast
Victory
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine, 1994
Note:
For "Looking Down the Cross" my "Skull Beneath The Skin"
Prophisized "Last rites/Loved to Death" my friends
Then I started seeing "Bad Omens" in my head
"Good Morning/Black friday" will I "Wake up Dead"?
If I "Aint Superstitious" then this won't mean a Thing
But some crazy shit has happened since "The Conjuring"
A knife right through my heart, I am a Victory
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, yea
"Tornado" nearly got me By the "Skin of My Teeth"
"This Was My Life","Forclosure of My Dreams"
May the past "Rust in Peace" in "Hangar 18"
And "Countdown to Extinction" Just be a bad dream
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