 Genius Meanings
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Megadeth – High Speed Dirt
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This is a skydiving song. Dave Mustaine has talked about skydiving in many interviews and official video releases, and was filmed on a jump for MTV. The footage was included with
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Skin o' My Teeth
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This song talks about escaping death. It covers the many crazy things that happen to rockstars that nearly kills them such as drug overdose and automobile accidents.
Dave Mustaine
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Megadeth – Sweating Bullets
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“Sweating Bullets” is the third single from the album, Countdown to Extinction. The song lyrics are from a first-person outlook of someone suffering from schizophrenia and being
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Megadeth – Go to Hell
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This song was originally written for the 1991 movie Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey and was later released on the Hidden Treasures album along with a couple of other Megadeth songs from
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Megadeth – Symphony of Destruction
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The lead single from Countdown to Extinction, peaked on the UK Charts at #15, and initially had heavy rotation on MTV (before the video was pulled and edited because of controversy
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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 – 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 – Breakpoint
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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 – 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 – Psychotron
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Dave Mustaine has stated that this song is about the Marvel Comics cyborg Deathlok.
Mustaine has written about Marvel characters on other albums too.
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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 – 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 – 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 – Crown of Worms
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As a huge Diamond Head fan, I jumped at the chance to work with a band that influenced me and my old bandmates as much as they did. I met with Sean Harris and Brian Tatler (guitar
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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 – 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 – This Was My Life
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This song is about Mustaine having wanted to kill someone he had an affair with, but didn’t because he knew he’d then go to jail. This is a confession of the madness he felt at the
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Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction
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The title track is about animals being hunted until gradually there is only one of their kind left.
The idea and title came from a Time magazine story that drummer Nick Menza had
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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 – 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 – Captive Honour
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This song is mainly about the horrible living conditions in modern US prisons and how anyone who is incarcerated can potentially be turned into a sex slave once inside. The band
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Megadeth – Ashes in Your Mouth
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This song is about general hopelessness for the future of humanity. The song says that since man has always turned to war in the past, war is the only thing that we can expect in
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Megadeth – Chosen Ones
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This song is about Tim the Enchanter, a character from the comedy movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
In the movie, Tim leads the knights of Camelot to a cave where the
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Megadeth – Foreclosure of a Dream
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The second of four singles released from the smash hit Countdown to Extinction, “Foreclosure of a Dream” tackles themes of government waste, harsh economic realities and political
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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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Best guitar solos?
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heres the ones i can think of off the top of my head[and youtube playlist] (no order)
Stairway to Heaven
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Sweet Child O' Mine
Any Jimi Hendrix Song(Voodoo Child (Slight Return) etc. etc.)
Into the void[black sabbath]
The little things give you away[LP]
Free Bird
Bohemian Rhapsody
Crazy Train
Hotel California
Bulls on Parade[RATM]
Lifes Been Good[Joe Walsh]
Ball and biscuit[Jack white is a genius]
Bad Brains – ‘Banned In DC’
Van Halen – ‘Eruption’
Muse – ‘Stockholm Syndrome’
Sympathy For The Devil
The Bends
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