 Genius Meanings
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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 – Burning Bridges (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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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 – À Tout le Monde (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
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[Verse 1] / Don't remember where I was / 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
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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 – 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 – Capitol Punishment
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[Samples from the other songs on the album]
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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 – 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 – 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 – Kill the King
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Tornado of Souls (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / This morning I made the call / 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
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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 – 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 – Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Casey McMakin Demo)
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(Holy Wars) / [Verse 1] / Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land / Killing for your god, something I don't understand / Fools like me who cross the sea and come
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Coming Home
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / And today, I leave you / But I'll be back someday / And as I fly away / My hope is that we'll meet again / I'm off to my home away from home / I
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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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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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