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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 – Symphony of Destruction (Live in Buenos Aires)
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[Intro] / (Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!) / (Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!) / (Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!) / [Verse 1] / You take a mortal man / (
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Genius Ukrainian Translations (Український переклад) – Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction (Український переклад)
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[Переклад пісні видалено автором]
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Arch Enemy – Symphony of Destruction
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You take a mortal man / And put him in control / Watch him become a god / Watch peoples heads aroll / Aroll... / Just like the pied piper / Led rats through the streets / We dance
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Nightwish – Symphony of Destruction
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You take a mortal man / And put him in control / Watch him become a god / Watch people's heads a-roll / Just like the Pied Piper / Led rats through the streets / We dance like
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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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Hellsongs – Symphony Of Destruction
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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 / You take a mortal man / You put him in control / Oh, watch him
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Megadeth – Capitol Punishment
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[Samples from the other songs on the album]
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Megadeth – Sweating Bullets (Live Trax II)
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Return to Hangar (Live in Buenos Aires)
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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 – 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 – Hangar 18 (Live in Buenos Aires)
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Dogs of Chernobyl
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[Verse 1] / It was springtime / The minutes simply drifting away / Then everything stopped in the world / [Pre-Chorus 1] / (Fallout) Radioactive clouds / (Fallout) Hides the
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Megadeth – Coming Home to Argentina (Live in Buenos Aires)
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[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 will miss you / But I
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Megadeth – Post American World
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“Post American World” opens the second side of the album Dystopia with ambient sounds that embark on abrasive heavy guitar riffs.
The lyrics discuss the possible future decline of
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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 – 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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