 Genius Lyrics
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Megadeth – Architecture of Aggression
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This song was inspired by the massive bombing of Iraq on January 16, 1991 that initiated Operation Desert Storm. The sound samples at the end of the song are the voices of CNN
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Megadeth – Architecture of Aggression (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Architecture of Aggression (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – High Speed Dirt (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Public Enemy (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Verse 1] / Public enemy number one / Jailbreak and a smoking gun / You won't believe the things I've done / And the killing is just for fun / Public enemy number one / A stolen
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Megadeth – Trust (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Lost in a dream, nothing's what it seems / Searching my head for the words that you said / Tears filled my eyes as we said our last goodbyes
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Megadeth – Hangar 18 (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Welcome to our fortress tall / I'll take some time to show you around / Impossible to break these walls / For, you see, the steel is much too
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Megadeth – Psychotron (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Intro] / Psychotron... / [Verse 1] / Assassin in stealth, assailant from Hell / Impervious to damage / Computer on-board, engaged in a war / Non-stop combatant / [Pre-Chorus
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Megadeth – Ashes In Your Mouth (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / People have round shoulders from bearing heavy loads / And the soldiers liberate them, laying mines along their roads / Sorrow paid for valor is
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Megadeth – Skin o’ My Teeth (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Peace Sells (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Verse 1] / Endangered species, caged in fright / Shot in cold blood, no chance to fight / The stage is set, now pay the price / An ego boost, don't think twice / Technology, the
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Megadeth – She-Wolf (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Intro] / The mother of all that is evil / Her lips are poisonous venom / Wicked temptress knows how to please / Priestess roars, "Get down on your knees" / [Verse 1] / The rite of
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Megadeth – This Was My Life (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Symphony of Destruction (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / You take a mortal man / And put him in control / Watch him become a god / Watch people's heads a'roll / A'roll, a'roll... / [Chorus 1] / Just
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Megadeth – Foreclosure of a Dream (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Captive Honour (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Verse 1] / Madness comes and madness goes / An insane place with insane moves / Battles without, for battles within / Where evil lives and evil rules / [Verse 2] / Breaking them
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Megadeth – Keeping Score... (Interview)
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[Interview]
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Megadeth – Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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Part 1: Holy Wars / [Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land / Killing for religion, something I don't understand / Fools like
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Megadeth – Lucretia (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Verse 1] / Sitting up late at night / I tiptoe through the darkness / Cold as Hell, black as spades / Aware of my immediate surroundings / In my place, I escape / Up into my
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Megadeth – Hangar 18 (Live at the Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Welcome to our fortress tall / I'll take some time to show you around / Impossible to break these walls / For, you see, the steel is much too
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Megadeth – Wake Up Dead (Live at the Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Verse] / 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
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Megadeth – Intro/Rattlehead (Live at Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Intro] / Well, here I come / [Verse 1] / 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 fuckin' care / [
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Megadeth – Never Say Die (Live)
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[Verse 1] / People going nowhere, taken for a ride / Looking for the answers that they know inside / Searching for a reason, looking for a rhyme / Snow White's mirror said "
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Megadeth – Five Magics (Demo)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Bestow upon me knowledge / Wizard, all-knowing, all-wise / I want to rule this kingdom / Make sweet the breeze, now defiled / Dethrone the evil
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Megadeth – Anarchy In The U.K. (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Intro] / Right now! / [Verse 1] / I am an antichrist / And I am an anarchist / Don't know what I want, but I know how get it / I want to destroy, possibly? / [Chorus 1] / 'Cause I
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Megadeth – Strange Ways
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This was originally included on the Best Buy version of 2004’s The System Has Failed.
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Megadeth – Ashes In Your Mouth (Live at the Cow Palace, San Francisco)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / People have round shoulders from bearing heavy loads / And the soldiers liberate them, laying mines along their roads / Sorrow paid for valor is
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Megadeth – Sweating Bullets (Countdown to Extinction: Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Black Friday (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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Part 1: Good Mourning / [Intro] / Good mourning / [Verse 1] / Hey, I don't feel so good / Something's not right / Something's coming over me / What the fuck is this? / Whoa! / Part
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Megadeth – Breakpoint (Session Take)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Make the rules for me to live by / Rules you break and just let it slide / You try to find you inside of me / Be as great as you want me to be
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