Megadeth Lyrics

The World Needs a Hero

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Disconnect (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) Behind closed doors All you live for is taking That double life of yours Has left your whole world shaking Who are you fooling? I know you hear the laughter Don't you hear people talking? What is it that your after? Turn off your conscience Leave the world outside Nothing at all can ever make you feel That anything's so real so you just Disconnect The key to save yourself If for nothing else A tongue can never hold The truth of silence is golden With a broken heart Underneath all of the pain Do you stroke the pretty scars? The hurt never ends Turn off your conscience Leave the world outside Nothing at all can ever make you feel That anything's so real so you just Disconnect Solo - Mustaine Turn off your conscience Leave the world outside Nothing at all can ever make you feel That anything's so real so you just Disconnect Turn off your conscience Leave the world outside Nothing at all can ever make you feel That anything's so real so you just Disconnect

"'Disconnect' is a song 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 dreamworld." (Mustaine, 2001) "'Disconnect' has nothing to do with computers, it has to do with living a double life and when you get behind a closed door... You know there's the person I want you to think that I am and the person inside that I really know I am. It's like just the same with you - there's a person you want him to think you are and the person that you really are. 'Cause you know we're all afraid that someone's gonna find out you've got a little problem, so we don't want you to see these little problems, and that's why it says 'Turn off your conscience, leave the world outside, nothing at all can ever make you feel like anything's real, so you just disconnect.' It's you disconnect from everybody and you just say: 'I'm not answering the phone, I'm not answering the door, I'm fuckin' just done.' And you go into a shell." (Mustaine, 2001)

The World Needs a Hero (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) An Iron fist quietly sits inside the Velvet Glove Take control, untouchable just like God above I can't escape, wrapped in red tape, What will become of me? If I object, then I defect my country 'tis of thee The White House is calling Tell them I'll call them back Just tell them anything Yeah get them off my back The world needs a hero Not that I would ever lie But I have no choice Words I say heard today are not mine, Just my voice NATO is on line 1 They want to talk to me Tell them that I'm not in Tell them that I'm not free The world needs a hero Phantom rule, The hidden jewel who's really in control? On puppet strings, A nation swings undermined by moles The UN is on hold Tell them I'll call them back Yeah tell them anything Just get them off my back The world needs a hero Solo - Mustaine Solo - Pitrelli Dave the White House is calling They want to talk to me Tell them that I can't be bought Tell them that I'm not free The world needs a hero Solos - Pitrelli

"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 Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, and that was good for us. It's the same thing if in the music industry there was some kind of heroics like that, if someone really was an Elvis Presley or a Robert Plant or a person of that caliber I think it would be good for the music industry." (Mustaine, 2001)

Coming Home (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) 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 know I know you know I'm coming home to Arizona I'm coming home to Arizona I'll take you everywhere I go I'll show you everything I see And as we say so long I know your tears wish me well It won't be long till I'm back again We will meet again We will meet again You will see, oh I'm coming home to Arizona I'm coming home

"Japan gets an additional track, because they always do and it's called "Coming Home." And, no, it wasn't inspired by Motley Crue!" (Mustaine, 2001) This song is available only on the Japanese release of the album.

Moto Psycho (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) Responsibility, an anchor around my neck Dependability, made me a nervous wreck Accountability, I live from check to check Volatility, neglect and no respect Got my wheels in motion And I got a path to beat I hit the road to "I don't know" And look for "Tough Shit Street" Solo - Pitrelli One-way ticket nowhere There's no windows on this train Can't see where I'm headed But I'm going there again Moto Psycho Going nowhere everybody is a Moto Psycho move it or lose it baby Going nowhere 100 miles an hour Moto Psycho I'm a Moto Psycho Moto Psycho You know you can't resist To tell me what I mean You gave my mind a twist Said that I was unclean The actor runs the play And ad-libs in between You're all that I resent My thoughts were so obscene Got my wheels in motion And I got a path to beat I hit the road to "I don't know" And look for "Tough Shit Street" Solo - Mustaine One-way ticket nowhere There's no windows on this train Can't see where I'm headed But I'm going there again Moto Psycho Going nowhere everybody is a Moto Psycho move it or lose it baby Going nowhere 100 miles an hour Moto Psycho I'm a Moto Psycho One-way ticket nowhere There's no windows on this train Can't see where I'm headed But I'm going there again Moto Psycho Going nowhere Everybody is a Moto Psycho Going nowhere Move it or lose it baby Moto Psycho Going nowhere 100 miles an hour Moto Psycho Where I'm headed I don't know But I'm shoving off and I hit the road Going nowhere everybody is a Moto Psycho Time and time and time again I'm a Moto Psycho Moto Psycho move it or lose it baby Going nowhere 100 miles an hour Moto Psycho I'm a Moto Psycho Fill solos - Mustaine

"'Moto Psyco' 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 the other half of his day working or sleeping. A human hamster wheel." (Mustaine, 2001)

1000 Times Goodbye (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) The tides of change pulled us apart I feel a familiar pain It seems like years since we've loved Or even liked and that's a lonely way to be Drifting alone in a sea of agony Your face I can't recognize Don't make this hard on us I will miss you if you just go away I did no right you did no wrong Nothing left but wasted days I regret you leaving But I will never take you back Solo - Pitrelli You know what? It's over I just don't feel the same way as I used to We've been together forever, but it's over Goodbye 1000 times goodbye The thought never crossed my mind That this would be my last goodbye Let me put pennies on your eyes And kiss your lips one last goodbye My love 1000 times goodbye It seems nothing good is free A good thing cost much more than the price You were good but not that good Don't kid yourself now it's time to break up Drifting alone in a sea of agony Your face I can't recognize Don't make this hard on us I will miss you if you just go away I did no right you did no wrong Nothing left but wasted days I regret you leaving But I'll never take you back Solo - Pitrelli Don't call me anymore. It's just not... I don't feel the same way about you Its not as good as it used to be Goodbye 1000 times goodbye The thought never crossed my mind That this would be my last goodbye Let me put pennies on your eyes And kiss your lips one last goodbye My love 1000 times goodbye Solo - Mustaine I'll always love you but just not like that Like what? I want to be honest with you I met someone else You did what? And I really, I really love him like I used to love you Remember the time that I told you that I was going out of town for business? Well I went to see him You know what? You suck! Solo - Mustaine Goodbye 1000 times You'll always have a special place In my heart you know that It's just I can't be with you anymore it's over Goodbye 1000 times Things may not work out with him Goodbye 1000 times And if they don't Goodbye 1000 times Then I'll certainly call you Goodbye 1000 times You mean a lot to me I still really want to be friends with you I love you like you're my brother

"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 of it and saying, 'Good riddance bitch, I don't need you anyway.' We've all had that 'Dear John' letter. We've all been told, 'Let's just be friends.'" (Mustaine, 2001)

Burning Bridges (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) You give up on yourself Somehow you got betrayed agin Thin ice and luck runs out Who will you blame it on this time? Due to lack of interest in you The light at the end of the tunnel Was turned off And something I noticed Beating you is thrilling me I've got a secret for you If you took your own direction If only you practice what you preach If you follow your advice You wouldn't be burning bridges all the time Don't close your eyes to injustice Listen, being brave ain't chicken shit A man without any valor Has nothing worth living for Due to lack of interest in you The light at the end of the tunnel Was turned off And something I noticed Beating you is thrilling me I've got a secret for you If you took your own direction If only you practice what you preach If you follow your advice You wouldn't be burning bridges all the time Solo - Mustaine Solo - Pitrelli If you took your own direction If only you practice what you preach If you follow your advice You wouldn't be burning bridges all the time If you took your own direction If only you practice what you preach If you follow your advice You wouldn't be burning bridges all the time

"It's a song about basically leaving yourself no alternatives and painting yourself into a corner." (Mustaine, 2001)

Promises (Music, lyrics: Mustaine, Pitrelli) 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 stories they'd tell If anyone would listen You come from a town where People don't bother saying hello Unless somebody's born or dies And I come from a place where they Drag your hopes through the mud Because their own dreams are all dying And when we walk down the street The wind sings our name in rebel songs The sounds of the night should make us anxious But it's much to late when the fear is gone I will meet you in the Next Life, I promise you Where we can be together, I promise you I will wait till then in Heaven, I promise you I promise, I promise There's so many fighting To get past the Pearly Gates But nobody ever wants to die or get saved Their intentions aren't that good And I can smell the asphalt That's their personal road to hell being paved And when we walk down the street The wind sings our name in rebel songs But it's much to late when the fear is gone I will meet you in the Next Life, I promise you Where we can be together, I promise you I will wait till then in Heaven, I promise you I promise, I promise Solo - Pitrelli Solo - Mustaine I will meet you in the Next Life, I promise you Where we can be together, I promise you I will wait till then in Heaven, I promise you I promise, I promise

"It's about a couple who can never be together. It could be about interracial marriage or same-sex marriage. But it's about two people who can't be together in this lifetime who will meet in the next lifetime." (Mustaine, 2001) "Promises" was also released in a Spanish version, with Dave singing choruses in Spanish.

Recipe for Hate... (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) Each day my shortcomings pick my pockets My faults were letters carved in stone As meaningful to you as words written in water I'm left to walk this world alone Fill solos - Mustaine In a broken mold they made me The black sheep of the family Worth less than zero my opinion And room temperature IQ I did something, now I'm nothing Always wrong with this or that Poisoned with fear watch it twist My measly brain mad Solo - Pitrelli Talk about me when my bac is turned Next time we meet it will be to late The memory burned in my ears of what you said And now I've got a recipe for hate. Taste it Fill solos - Mustaine Dark clouds on the horizon Make it hard to breathe A walking mistake but every time I run away, I just come back for more The choice is clear I can quit And fall on my sword or light a fire To see who runs or stays And plays the confidence game Solo - Pitrelli

"'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." (Mustaine, 2001) "By the time I wrote this I didn't care if the fucking Capitol tower fell on its side and rolled into the ocean with everyone it in. I have never seen such a display of hateful, selfish, self-centered, fucks in my life. Thank God, all of the people that were there when we were there are gone. I feel sorry for the bands that are there. I hope the artist left there will get treated better than we were, because there were some good artists there. But I doubt it." (Mustaine, 2001)

Warhorse (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) I'm feeling quite invisible I feel just like thin air The truth taunts me Solo - Mustaine I see the earth below me I watch it spinning there Does someone, somewhere Out there hear me? Solo - Pitrelli Sentenced to walk in Purgatory My life is running down I can't believe what they've done to me Solo - Mustaine I'm left riding a Warhorse A man without a country Solos - Mustaine, Pitrelli, Mustaine, Pitrelli

"This song is about the loneliness some people can feel when they're put out to pasture. It's the same thing with war animals. Once the war is over, what do you do with them? You kill them." (Mustaine, 2001)

Losing My Senses (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) 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 breeze is defiled Sucking our breath away Fill Solos - Mustaine Yesterday's answers has nothing to do With today's questions Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forwards... I'm losing my senses, I'm losing my senses Fill Solos - Mustaine We watch as the living all die Contemplating if we should Ever open our eyes If all that we touch Keeps turning to sand We will cease to exist Till the last living man Fill Solos - Mustaine Yesterday's answers has nothing to do With today's questions Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forward... Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forward... I'm losing my senses Fill Solos - Mustaine Solo - Pitrelli Yesterday's answers has nothing to do With today's questions Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forwards... Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forwards... Fill Solos - Mustaine

"The chorus says that life can only be understood in reverse. And I think we'd all like to be able to go back and change the mistakes that we've made. No one really likes it when we tell the truth. We tell these soothing lies and betray ourselves. At some point you've got to tell the truth." (Mustaine, 2001)

Dread and the Fugitive Mind (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) Let me introduce myself I'm a social disease I've come for your wealth And leave you on your knees No time for feeling sorry I got here on my own I won't ask for mercy I choose to walk alone What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too If you shake my hand better count your fingers What if I do get caught? What if there is no judgement? If I'm right I lose nothing If you 're right I lose it all I ought to get caught Because I'm doing something wicked I'm guilty haunted by my fears And the only consequences Are dread and the fugitive mind You built walls to protect you So no one will infect you Pursued by those out there That vanish in thin air Come a long way to find What you really left behind You don 't know when the end is But it 's coming fast Solos - Mustaine, Pitrelli

"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 a dirtbag, you're screwed. Basically what I'm saying is, 'What if there's no judgment?' I think a lot of times people have gotten up on the moral hilltop and yelled down to the masses down at the bottom of the valley about their spiritual superiority and it just alienates you." (Mustaine, 2001)

Silent Scorn (Music: Mustaine) Instrumental Solo - Mustaine

"The trumpet player [Bob Findley] was from Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass. He was a fantastic player. I was down on my way to Cabo San Lucas and I saw this bull in a field and he charged our vehicle. Clint Eastwood's one of my heroes and I thought it would be great to have a 'spaghetti Western'-type song with a really great trumpet part. That reminded me of that bull on the field getting ready to charge us." (Mustaine, 2001)

Return to Hangar (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) Welcome to an empty fortress A mighty wreck that once was proud Ate alive by oxidation Abandoned by a crew of cowards Navigation systems failed Computers crashed and they all fall down Possibly I've seen too much Hangar 18 I know too much Solo - Pitrelli All the guilty paid the price Suspended by their broken necks No one survived to tell the story When foreign life forms resurrect And military intelligence is Still two words that can't make sense Possibly I've seen too much Hangar 18 I know too much Solos - Pitrelli, Mustaine Solos - Pitrelli, Mustaine, Pitrelli, Mustaine

"Return to Hanger" is the follow up to "Hangar 18". "The timing was right. Basically, being able to look at that hangar 10 years later. I said I'd planned on doing a sequel. I think there's a lot of songs I'd do sequels with, it's just that whether we're going to do them or not remains to be seen. Depending on the subject matter of the song, it's easy to do a sequel." (Mustaine, 2001)

When (Music, lyrics: Mustaine) No hears a word I say And my prayers are never answered But you'll never see the pain inside of me Stabbing me over and over and over I trusted you and I loved you And you spit back in my face How could you do this to me? When will you stop trying to hurt me? I've walked a minefield for you A career in hell with you I have made it through the things Others would surely die just watching And the oath I take on this day Is to know that you will be repaid One day the the sun will die and the night will crawl Until then, until I see your world implode I wish you death and suffering Misery to spare Time to release your pain Face the last enemy I am the last thing you will know The last thing you will see I see your death surrounding me I know you, yes I do I know you Fill Solos - Mustaine When no words are spoken And please are ignored Your tears go unnoticed, Will you say enough? When prayers are unanswered And your calls are unheard The pain cuts right through you, Have you seen enough? It all seems so deceitful and the verdict is lies A black cloud of indecision compromised your life When judgement has failed you When your own heart's impaled you Your wandering mind has destroyed you Will you ever know when? When you give everything And the feeling is gone All the giving is fake, Did you fake enough? When you take everything And you stay too long When there's nothing left, Did you take enough? It all seems so deceitful and the verdict is lies A black cloud of indecision compromised your life When judgement has failed you When your own heart's impaled you Your wandering mind has destroyed you Will you ever know when? Solo - Mustaine

"'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 it goes from the first person to the third person where I'm saying, 'You know what? Are you ever going to know when?' There comes a time when the horse is dead. You need to dismount." (Mustaine, 2001) This song is very similar to Diamond Head's "Am I Evil". To quote Dave answering whether "When" is a copy of "Am I Evil": "I was walking back from Starbucks one morning trying to figure out what Brian Tatler, the guitarist from Diamond Head, was thinking when he wrote that song. I got to the studio and the phone rings and they say 'Brian Tatler is on line one.' I thought, you got to be fucking kidding me. He lives in England and how in the world could he find me over here in some studio in LA? So, I told him I wanted to do homage to him in the vein of 'Am I Evil' and he said OK. Brian and I are working on a project together. So to answer your question-fuck off!" (Mustaine, 2001) "'When' is actually supposed to resemble 'Am I Evil.' I also think that saying we're going back to the NWOBHM is quite accurate. We never really left that style of music. We just didn't go after it as hard as we used to, for a while. Even though I talk to Tatler regularly, I underline that I don't wanna take away the focus from Megadeth. It's something that means a lot to me, to work with Tatler, but I absolutely do not want to discourage the band members of Megadeth who are my friends and business partners. It's definitely not a priority, if it happens it happens." (Mustaine, 2001)