Genius Lyrics
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Megadeth – Promises
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There’s one ballad, and it’s very intense in concept. It’s about prejudiced relationships, a Catholic and a Protestant that can never be together in Ireland. It could be a metaphor
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Megadeth – Promises [Unplugged in Boston]
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
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We’re in dire need of a revolution. As for the world needing a musical hero, yeah perhaps. I know that the world was riveted to the home run race between [baseball players] Sammy
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Megadeth – Trust [Unplugged in Boston]
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[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 / This sad scene replays of
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Megadeth (Ft. David Draiman) – Dance in the Rain
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“Dance in the Rain” begins with a haunting introduction accompanied by classical elements and jumps on mid-tempo riffs which become faster eventually. The lyrics point out that a
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Megadeth – Almost Honest [Unplugged in Boston]
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[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 to say / I was almost
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Megadeth – Use the Man [Unplugged in Boston]
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Time: The Beginning [Unplugged in Boston]
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[Verse 1] / Father time, I'm running late / I'm winding down, I'm growing tired / Seconds drift into the night / The clock just ticks 'til my time expires / You were once my friend
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Megadeth – Dread and the Fugitive Mind [Unplugged in Boston]
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Megadeth – Holy Wars... The Punishment Due [Unplugged in Boston]
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[Verse 1] / Wage the war on organized crime / Sneak attacks, rappel down the rocks, behind the lines / Some people risk to employ me / Some people live to destroy me / Either way
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Megadeth – She-Wolf [Unplugged in Boston]
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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 – Moto Psycho [Unplugged in Boston]
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[Verse 1] / Responsibility, an anchor 'round my neck / Dependability made me a nervous wreck / Accountability, I live from check to check / Volatility, neglect and no respect / [
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Megadeth – The Conjuring (Live)
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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 – Return to Hangar
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“Return to Hangar” is a sequel to “Hangar 18” from Rust in Peace; the captive aliens from the first song escape and kill their captors.
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Megadeth – Take No Prisoners
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“Take No Prisoners” is a blasting anti-war anthem that highlights the irony and double-standards of war.
I was finally fed up with all of the shit that I had put up with from Jeff
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Megadeth – Disconnect
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According to Dave Mustaine, this song is about having a double life and that when things don’t go right, you just go to that other place. You just disconnect and go into this
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Megadeth – Burning Bridges
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / You give up on yourself / Somehow you got betrayed again / Thin ice and luck runs out / Who will you blame it on this time? / [Pre-Chorus] / Due
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Megadeth – Losing My Senses
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[Verse 1] / 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
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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 – Dread and the Fugitive Mind
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It’s about judgment. The great paradox is if there isn’t a God and you live your life like a good person, you haven’t lost anything. If there is a God and you lived your life like
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Megadeth – Time / Use the Man (Live)
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Part 1: Time: The Beginning / [Verse 1] / Father time, I'm running late / I'm winding down, I'm growing tired / Seconds drift into the night / The clock just ticks 'til my time
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Megadeth – Moto Psycho
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“Moto Psycho” is a traffic song, basically about a guy who gets up and goes to work and comes home, gets up and goes to work and comes home, and spends half his day on the road and
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Megadeth – When
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“When” is about being loyal to someone who is just the absolute worst possible person to be with in that they just keep hurting you and keep hurting you and keep hurting you. Then
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Megadeth – Symphony of Destruction [Unplugged in Boston]
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[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 like the Pied Piper / Led
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Megadeth – Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Live in Buenos Aires)
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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 – 1000 Times Goodbye
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When you say goodbye to somebody, you really don’t know if you’ll ever see him or her again. The song is actually about getting jilted and being able to be firm on the other side
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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 – Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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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 – Time: The Beginning
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[This song is] about how we all try hard to stay young. Time is relentless. Sometimes people age overnight. Some time ago I met a girl I used to know. She had been incredibly
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Megadeth – Recipe for Hate... Warhorse
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“Recipe for Hate” is pretty much just like it sounds – being really, really fed up with shit and forcing someone to taste your recipe for hate.
—Dave Mustaine
By the time I wrote
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