Genius Lyrics
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Megadeth – Devils Island
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This song expresses the thoughts of a prisoner on Devil’s Island about to be executed. In the song, the prisoner’s life is spared by God right before he is about to be killed, but
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Megadeth – Devil’s Island (Live at Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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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 – Keeping Score... (Interview)
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[Interview]
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Megadeth – Anarchy/Problems (Session Take)
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[Part 1: Anarchy] / [Intro] / Right now / [Verse 1] / I am an Antichrist / I am an anarchist / I know what I want and / I know how to get it / I wanna destroy passerby / [Chorus
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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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Megadeth – The Skull Beneath The Skin (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Intro] / Whoa! / [Verse 1] / Mean and infectious, the evil prophets rise / Dance of the Macabre, as witches streak the sky / Decadent worship of black magic
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Megadeth – The Conjuring (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Welcome to our sanguinary sect of worship / Feel at home in our black conventicle / As we anathematise all those who oppose us / [Chorus] / Don't
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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 – She-Wolf (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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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 – 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 – Angry Again (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Almost Honest (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Wake Up Dead (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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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 – Good Mourning / Black Friday
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“Good Mourning” was an instrumental that I wrote. “Black Friday” was inspired by a great drummer named Dijon Carruthers whose father was Ben Carruthers from the movie The Dirty
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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 – Symphony of Destruction (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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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 (Ft. Sean Harris) – It’s Electric (Live at Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Verse 1] / I'm gonna be a rock 'n' roll star / Gotta groove from night to day / Gotta blow my honey jar, yeah / Gotta blow my blues away / I'm gonna make a stand / I'm gonna make
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Megadeth – Return to Hangar (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Welcome to an empty fortress / A mighty wreck that once was proud / Ate alive by oxidation / Abandoned by a crew of cowards / Navigation systems
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Megadeth – Hangar 18 (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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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 – Burn!
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“Burn!” is, obviously, about the fire. The song is about somebody who’s got a questionable past, and rather than doing the obvious, what most people do, lying about it, he just
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Megadeth – Skin o’ My Teeth (Live at the Alpine Valley, East Troy, Wisconsin 5/23/92)
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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 – 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 – 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 – Take No Prisoners (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Verse 1] / Got one chance, (infiltrate them) / Get it right, (terminate them) / The Panzers will (permeate them) / Break their pride (denigrate them) / And their people (
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Megadeth – Peace Sells (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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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 – 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 (Live from the Cow Palace, San Francisco)
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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 – 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 – High Speed Dirt (Live at the Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI, 23/5/92)
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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 – 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 – A Secret Place (Live at Woodstock, New York, 25/7/99)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – The Conjuring
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This song describes some kind of ritual, probably inspired by Mustaine’s involvement with witchcraft at this stage in his career. The last several verses are from the point of view
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Megadeth – Ashes in Your Mouth (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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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 valour is
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Megadeth – Kill the King (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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[Verse 1] / Broken down, feeling naked / Leaving me unfulfilled / Promising compromise / Championing mediocrity / [Pre-Chorus] / Time and time again / What you said ain't what you
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Megadeth – Peace Sells (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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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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