Rust In Peace....Lyrics

Holy Wars...

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

Brother will kill brother 
Spilling blood across the land 
Killing for religion 
Something I don't understand 
Fools like me who cross the sea 
And come to foreign lands 
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs 
Do you kill on God's command? 
A country that's divided 
Surely will not stand 
My past erased, no more disgrace 
No foolish naive stand 
The end is near, it's crystal clear 
Part of the master plan 
Don't look now to Israel 
It might be your homelands 
Holy Wars 
Upon my poduim as the know-it-all scholar 
Down in my seat of judgement gavel's bang,
Uphold the law 
Up on my soapbox, a leader out to change the world 
Down in my pulpit
As the holier-than-thou-could-be messenger of God 

Wage the war on organized crime 
Sneak attacks, repel down the rocks behind the lines 
Some people risk to employ me 
Some people live to destroy me 
Either way they die 
They killed my wife and my baby with hopes to enslave me 
First mistake...last mistake! 
Paid by the alliance to slay all the giants 
Next mistake...no more mistakes! 
Fill the cracks in with judicial granite 
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't thinking it 
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away 
I know what I said, 
Now I must scream of the overdose 
And the lack of mercy killings. 

  

Hangar 18 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

Welcome to our fortress tall 
Take some time to show you around 
Impossible to break these walls 
For you see the steel is much to strong 
Computer banks to rule the world 
Instruments to sight the stars 
Possibly I've seen too much 
Hangar 18, I know too much 
Foreign life-forms inventory 
Suspended state of cryongenics 
Selective amnesia's the story 
Believed, foretold, but who'd suspect 
The military intelligence 
Two words combined that can't make sense 

  

Take No Prisoners 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

Got one chance, infiltrate them 
Get it right, terminate them 
Panzers will permeate them 
Break their pride, denigrate them 
And their people, retrograde them 
Typhus, deteriorate them 
Epidemic, devastate them 
Take no prisoners, cremate them 
Going to war, give 'em hell 
D-Day, next stop Normandy 
Beginning of the end 
We know how to and sure as shit, we'll win 
'War is peace' sure man 
A retreat for the damned 
A playground for the demented 
A haven for those who walk this world 
Bereft of heart and soul 
Love and war, they say all is fair 
Take his life but won't take his hair 
Your body has parts your country can spare 
By the way, son, here's your wheelchair 
He once had to be all he could be 
Now he's nothing for one one, nowhere to see 
Funny thing, he's like you and me 
It's a funny thing, a funny thing 
Tears streak his solemn stare 
Abandoned for wreckage, nobody cares 
No one knew what would happen there 
No one spoke, no one even dared 
Don't ask, what you can do for your country 
Ask what your country can do for you 
Take no prisoners, take no shit! 

  

Five Magics 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

Bestow upon me knowledge 
Wizard, all-knowing, all-wise 
I want to rule this kingdom 
Make sweet the breeze, now defiled 
Dethrone the evil prince's iron fists in velvet gloves of sin 
Parade the grey-robed monks, the vestal virgins 
And wheel the wyverns in 
Let the ceremony consecrate the marriage 
Let me be the protege of five magics 
Give me alchemy! 
Give me wizardry! 
Thermatology! 
Electricity! 
Magic if you please 
Master all of these 
Bring him to his knees 
I master five magics 
Possessed with hellish torment 
I master magics, 5 
Hunting the abyss lord 
Only one will stay alive 
He who lives by the sword will surely also die 
He who lives in sin will surely live the lie 

  

Poison Was the Cure 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

I miss the warm embrace I felt 
First time you touched me 
Secure and safe in open arms 
I should have known you'd crush me 
A snake you were when me met 
I loved you anyway 
Pulling out your poisoned fangs 
The venom never goes away 
Serpent swims free in my blood 
Dragons sleeping in my veins 
Jackyl speaking with tongue 
Roach egg laying in my brain 
Once stalked beneath your shadow 
Sleepwalking to the gallows 
I'm the sun that beats your brow in 
'Til I finally threw the towel in 
Never knowing if I'd wake up in a whirlpool got redundant 
My brain was just some driftwood in a cesspool, 
I became dead 
From a rock star to a desk fool was my destiny, 
Someone said Love's a tidepool,
Taste the waters, life's abundant 
Taste me 


Lucretia 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine, Ellefson) 

Sitting up, late at night 
I tiptoe through the darkness 
Cold as hell, black as spades 
Aware of my immediate surrounding 
In my place I escape up into my hideout 
Hiding from everyone 
My friends all say,
'Dave you're mental anyway' hey! 
Drift into a deeper state 
I stalk the cobwebbed stairways 
Dirt grits between my feet 
The stair creaks, I precariously sneak 
Hypnosis guides my hand 
I slipside through the walkways 
Sit in granny's rockin' chair 
Memories are whirling by, yeah 
Reminisce in the attic 
Lucretia waits inpatiently 
Cobwebs make me squint 
The cobra so eloquently glints 
Moonbeams surge through the sky 
The crystal ball's energized 
Surely that like the cat waiting 
Lucretia rocks away 

  

Tornado of Souls 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine, Ellefson) 

This morning I made the call 
The one that ends it all 
Hanging up, I wanted to cry 
But damnit, this wel'ls gone dry 
Not for the money, not for the fame 
Not for the power, just no more games 
But now I'm safe in the eye of tornado 
I can't replace the lies that let a thousand days go 
No more living trapped inside 
In her way I'll surely die 
In the eye of the tornado, blow me away 
You'll grow to loathe my name 
You'll hate me just the same 
You won't need your breath 
And soon you'll meet your death 
Not from the years, not from the use 
Not from the tears, just self abuse 
Who's to say what's for me to say? 
Who's to say what's for me to be? 
Who's to say what's for me to do? 
'Cause a big nothing it'll be for me 
The land of opportunity 
The golden chance for me 
My future looks so bright 
Now I think I've seen the light 
Can't say what's on my mind 
Can't do what I really feel 
In this bed I made for me 
Is where I sleep, I really feel 
I warn you of the fate 
Proven true too late 
Your tongue twists perverse 
Come drink now of this curse 
And now I fill your brain 
I spin you round again 
My poison fills your head 
As I tuck you in your bed 
You feel my fingertips 
You won't forget my lips 
You'll feel my cold breath 
It's the kiss of death 

  

Dawn Patrol 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine, Ellefson) 

Thermal count is rising in perpetual writhing 
The primordial ooze and the sanity they lose 
Awakened in the morning to more air-pollution warnings 
Still we sleepwalk off to work as our nervous systems jerk 
Pretending not to notice how history has forbode us 
With the greenhouse in effect our environment is wrecked 
Now I can only laugh as I read our epitaph 
We end our lives as moles in the dark of the dawn patrol 

  

Rust in Peace...Polaris 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

Tremble you weaklings, cower in fear 
I am your ruler, land, sea and air 
Immense in my girth, erect, I stand tall 
I am a nuclear murderer, I am Polaris 
Ready to pounce at the touch of a button 
My systems locked in on military gluttons 
I rule on land, air, and sea 
Pass judgement on humanity 
Winds blow from the bowels of hell 
Will we get warning? Only time will tell 
Satan rears his ugly head to spit into the wind 
I spread disease like a dog 
Discharge my payload a mile high 
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils 
Launch the Polaris, the end doesn't scare us 
When will this cease? 
The warheads will all rust in peace! 
Bomb shelters filled to the brim 
Survival such a silly whim 
World leaders sell missles cheap 
Your stomach turns, your flesh creeps 
Hig priest of holocaust, fire from the sea 
Nuclear winter spreading disease 
The day of final conflict all will pay the price 
The third world war rapes peace, takes life 
Back to the start, talk of the part 
When the earth was cold as ice 
Total dismay as the sun passed away 
And the days were black as night 
Eradication of Earth's population loves Polaris