Megadeth Lyrics

Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!

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Last Rites (Music: Mustaine) Instrumental

Loved to Death (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) Your body's empty now As I hold you Now you're gone, I miss you but I told you I remember bad times More than good There's no coming back Even if we could I loved you to death If I can't have you Then no one will Since I won't I'll have to kill My only love, Something I've never felt Now you've gone to Heaven And I'll burn in Hell I loved you to death Solo - Mustaine And now I'm down below And what do I see? You didn't go to heaven, You're down here with me And now you're coming back, "Baby take me please" I really think I would If you weren't such a sleaze I loved you once before, You kept me on a string I'd rather go without Than take what you would bring I loved you to death

"'Loved to Death' is a love song. It's just that our approach to love is a little bit smuttier than everybody else's. You don't have to say 'baby, baby' in every song, or talk about how good your climax was the night before to express love, because love is a four-letter word - either you get reamed by it, or you get excited by it. That's how we look at it. Our love songs are true-to-life happenings. On our first LP, 'Loved to Death' - that was our first attempt at a love song. It's the only song where we actually do say 'love' in it. It was like boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl doesn't love boy, so boy kills girl, so no one else will have her. That, is a typical love story. I've been in love a bunch of times with people who were way out of my batting average, and I figured, 'Fuck you, I'm going to kill you, so no one else will have you.' That's our approach. It's something that people can still relate to." (Mustaine, 1987) "What I really want to say is: When you fall in love with somebody, you give them so much power to control you, you might as well give them your sac." (Mustaine, 1993)

Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) I am a sniper Always hit the mark Paid assassin Working after dark Looking through the night Using infra-red My target on you Aimed at your head Ten thousand up front, Ten thousand when I'm through And I know just what to do, And you know I'll do it too Then I'm coming back for you, Back for you! I do the getting rid of, Don't tell me why Don't need to hear the truth, Don't need the lies Now pay me quickly Nnd now we're through It brings me great pleasure to say My next job is you Don't you know that killing is my business... And business is good You better believe it Solo - Poland

This song is about a hit man, an assassin-for-hire, who kills his employer after he is paid.

Skull Beneath the Skin (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) Solo - Mustaine Mean and infectious The evil prophets rise Dance of the macabre As witches streak the sky Decadent worship Of black magic and sorcery In the womb of the devil's dungeon Trapped without a plea Solo - Mustaine See thing in agony Necrosis is the fate Pins sticking through the skin The venom now sedates Locked in a pillory Nowhere to be found Screaming for your life But no one hears a sound Help me! Prepare the patient's scalp To peel away Metal caps his ears He'll hear not what we say Solid steel visor Riveted 'cross his eyes Iron staples close his jaws So no one hears his cries The skull beneath the skin Now you're drawn and quartered Your bones will make the X Symbol stands for poison And it's chained to your head As we fold your arms To make the holy cross We cross the crucifix Religion has been lost The skull beneath this skin Solo - Mustaine

This song is partially about Megadeth's mascot, Vic Rattlehead, and how he came to be. The song explains the steel visor, the metal caps on his ears, and the iron staples that hold his jaw shut.

Rattlehead (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) 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 fucking care Solo - Poland Rattlehead A dose of metal you need To bang your head 'til you bleed It's time for snapping some neck Slashing, thrashing to Megadeth Solo - Poland Rattlehead You, your head is pounding with pain Winning, sinning, beginning Feeding, the needing for bleeding Bashing, smashing, crashing Frying, annihilating you! Solo - Poland There's someone back in the shadows You feel (though you can't see) his eyes He'll bash your head if you cross him Ain't quite your average guy Don't need no leather to fit in Don't need no spikes to be cool Don't want no woman beside him Just make it fast, loud, and rude Rattlehead Solo - Mustaine I'm a rattlehead Rattle your goddamn head!

Caption: (meg-a-deth), n. (1) a unit of measure equal to the death of a million people by nuclear explosion. (2) Megadeth, n. The world's state-of-the-art speed metal band. This song is a description of a live Megadeth concert, and what it's like to be there, baning your head, getting your ass kicked, etc. The last part of the song talks about seeing Vic Rattlehead at the concert.

Chosen Ones (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) You doubt your strength or courage Don't come to join me For death surely waits you With sharp and pointy teeth An animal so vicious No other's fought and won So on the fields of battle We are the chosen ones Human bones blanket The dirt of the heathen's lair That we must pass the den of death The only path from here But I walk in the light The time to die has come No one shall take my life I'm of the chosen ones Black shadows fill the sky As the creatures eyes grow near Raise the shield of the holy pilgrims High into the air Heaven's powers fill my arms Onward now to fight I'm sent Oh the beast is coming To put you to the test Solo - Mustaine Look out! Now this land mine to pillage Rape and steal and take at will Never let you cross this path I reign for now I stay to kill

This song is about a group of Crusaders who travel to the Middle East in order to fight the Muslims, who they consider the enemy, the monster. By the time they get there, they are vicious and evil - they are the monster. Here is an alternate explanation by Tor Laneryd: This song is about the Killer Rabbit in the movie "Monthy Python and the Holy Grail". The quote below ism what Tim the Enchanter tells King Arthur just before he leads them to the cave of the Killer Rabbit: "But follow only if you are men of valour. For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a monster, a creature so foul and cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair... therefore sweet knights if you may doubt your strength or courage come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty pointy teeth." Compare these lines to the lyrics of "Chosen Ones" and you'll notice some striking similarities.

Looking Down the Cross (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) Solo - Mustaine Now before they take me And my blessed life Now you'll know Why death was summoned here tonight I'll recall my perils They'll kill me in pride No, I can't run away There's no place to hide Though too much to live for I owe enough to die Ask not for salvation My death shall mean their lives Hatred and guilt - the alter they've built High priests of sin Destiny, fate - the wicked ones' gate Beckoning you in Down the walkways Through the bloodstained town Looking down the cross, Bleeding from the crown Led to stay, to die beside the thieves Kill the King of the world to be And now to you, this will come: A putrefying pestilence More noxious than the serpent's breath Malevolently destined More corrupt than the malice of Choronzon More diseased Than the wind of the moonlight sun Putrefaction you have caused No need for confession Now you wish you had a god To stop your demolition Crush the bones of the hundred fold Swing the judgment hammer Man, woman, child, no one is safe The heads of the dead are the banner And this was all you got So don these broken wings Sands of time have run out Bells of Hades ring Is this a nightmare to unhallow thy name? Smell of brimstone dancing in the flames No help now as you fufill his task Chief of evil has got you by the ass Set free to sit up on the throne Just a dream, you're weeping all alone Looking down the cross, speak no evil I'm looking down the cross, speak no evil Solo - Mustaine

This song is about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and His finals thoughts before He died. In the song, Dave suggests that Jesus might have been wishing for vengeance, but only spoke of forgiveness. Hence the line, "I'm looking down the cross. Speak no evil." Or, as the Bible puts it, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34) "This is a song about all the ridiculous ways that people try to reach us about God, what I think Jesus might have sung about while he was dying, and what our logo was about, see no evil, speak no evil, and hear no evil." (Mustaine, 2001)

Mechanix (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) Imagine you were at my station And you brought your motor to me You're a burner, yeah a real motor car Said you wanna get your order filled Made me shiver when I put it in Pumping just won't do, ya know, lucky for you Whoever though you'd be better At turning a screw than me? I do it for my life Made my drive shaft crank Made by pistons buldge Made my bearings melt from the heat We were shifting hard when we took off Put, tonight, all four on the floor Said you wanna get your order filled Made me shiver when I put it in Pumping just won't do, ya know, lucky for you I'm giving you my room service And ya know it's more than enough Oh more more time ya know I'm in love Said you wanna get your order filled Made me shiver when I put it in Pumping just won't do, ya know, lucky for you Solo - Mustaine

"Mustaine's 'The Mechanix,' with muscular, choppy riffs and lyrics that appear to tell a story of a horny gas-station attendant." (Metallica Unbound) "Mechanix" was re-written and recorded with new lyrics by Metallica as "The Four Horsemen" for their first album, Kill 'Em All. The original "Mechanix" can be found on Metallica's rare No Life 'Til Leather demo or Bay Area Trashers bootleg, with James Hetfield singing.

These Boots (Music, lyrics: Lee Hazlewood) Solo - Poland You keep saying You've got something for me Something you call love And I call sex You've been kissing When you ought to be screwing And now someone else Can kiss your ass These boots are made for walking And that's just what they'll do And one day these boot Are gonna walk all over you Solo - Poland You keep lying And there ain't no believing And you keep staying When you ought to be leaving Now what's right is right But you ain't been right yet Solo - Poland You keep dressing ways You shouldn't be dressing And you keep thinking that You'll never get burnt, ha! I just found me A brand-new box-spring mattress What you know, bitch, You've got a lot to learn Are you ready, boots? Solo - Poland And you think I'm kidding, don't ya?

Nancy Sinatra's Boots This song is a parody of the Nancy Sinatra song, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," featured on her album, Boots, released in 1966. When Killing Is My Business... started selling well after Megadeth became more popular, Nancy Sinatra began to demand royalties from the album sales. The band decided to drop the song from the album to avoid a lawsuit or being charged even more than they already were.