Reckoning Day 

(Music: Mustaine, Friedman, Lyrics: Mustaine, Ellefson) 

  
I like the way that I make you itch 
And all the reasons I give you to bitch 
And how I make you wanna scream in pain 
And feel your life is just a losing game 
I like the way that you let me in 
The way you look when the walls cave it 
I like the way that your stomach knots 
And how you cry for it all to stop 
I like the way that you fool yourself 
And make believe there's nobody else 
I like the way that you stand in line 
And beg salvation from the empty skies 
Don't want no revenge 
Ain't no pay back time 
It ain't called getting even 
Here comes the Reckoning Day 
I like the things that you try to fake 
And your face when I see you break 
And that you say you will pray for me 
You realize you are prey for me 
I like the way you stay on attack 
No matter what, I keep coing back 
And how you try to hold me down 
But you end up driven to the ground 

  

Train of Consequences 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
I'm doing you a favor 
As I'm taking all your money 
I guess I should feel sorry 
But I don't even trust me 
There's bad news creeping up 
And you feel a sudden chill 
How do you do? My name is trouble 
I'm coming in for the kill... 
And you know I will 
Set the ball a-rollin' 
I'll be clicking off the miles 
On the Train of Consequences 
My boxcar life of style 
My thinking is derailed 
I'm tied up to the tracks 
The Train of Consequences 
There ain't no turning back 
No horse ever ran as fast 
As the money that you bet 
I'm blowing on my cards 
And I play them to my chest 
Life's fabric is corrupt 
Shot through with corroded thread 
As for me I hocked my brains 
Packed my bags and headed West 

  

Addicted to Chaos 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
Only yesterday they told me you were gone 
All these normal people, will I find another one? 
Monkey on my back, aching in my bones 
I forgot you said, "One day you'll walk alone" 
I said I need you, does that make me wrong? 
Am I a weak man, are you feeling strong? 
My heart was blackened, it's bloody red 
A hole in my heart, a hole in my head! 
Who will help me up? 
Where's the helping hand? 
Will you turn on me? 
Is this my final stand? 
In a dream I cannot see 
Tangled abstract fallacy 
Random turmoil builds in me 
I'm addicted to chaos 
Light shined on my path 
Turn bad days into good 
Turn breakdowns into blocks, I smashed 'em 'cause I could 
My brain was labored, my head would spin 
Don't let me down, don't give up, don't give in 
The rain comes down, cold wind blows 
The plans we made are back up on the road 
Turn up my collar, welcome the unknown 
Remember that you said 
"One day you'll walk alone" 

  

A Tout Le Monde 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
Don't remember where I was 
I realized life was a game 
The more seriously I took things 
The harder the rules became 
I had no idea what it cost 
My life passed before my eyes 
I found out how little I accomplished 
All my plans denied 
So as you read this know my friends 
I'd love to stay with you all 
Please smile when you think of me 
My body's gone that's all 
A tout le monde 
A tout les amis 
Je vous aime 
Je dois partir 
These are the last words 
I'll ever speak 
And they'll set me free 
If my heart was still alive 
I know it would surely break 
And my memories left with you 
There's nothing more to say 
Moving on is a simple thing 
What it leaves behind is hard 
You know the sleeping feel no more pain 
And the living are scarred 

  

Elysian Fields 

(Music: Mustaine, Lyrics: Mustaine, Ellefson) 

  
Uneasy feeling, burning out my eyes 
I hope the end is less painful than my life 
I stand on trial before the gods on Judgment Day 
A blink of an eye between the cradle and the grave 
One last look at visions of flesh 
The last best hope of man on earth 
Pontius Pilate still washing his hands 
The world don't want to be saved, only left alone 
Elysian Fields... 
We are storming the heavens 
To raise our swords and shields 
We ascend to our destiny 
To the Elysian Fields 
Soaring to the sun 
With blood upon their wings 
Superstitious dust left twisting in the wind 
Man still has one belief 
One decree that stands alone 
The laying down of arms 
Is like cancer to their bones 

  

The Killing Road 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
Again we stalk the stage 
At mach speed we engage 
Feeding people's rage 
The big cat's left its cage 
Back in the bus again 
To catch another plane 
This behavior's quite insane 
But we do it for the fame, yeah 
I lost my mind, I lost all my money 
I lost my life to the Killing Road 
The road will never end 
It always starts again 
Another show's around the best 
Another long lost friend 
Faceless as the snow 
There's nothing special about the road 
It's just another haul 
It's just too damn long that's all, yeah 

  

Blood of Heroes 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
Walking stiff let me tall ya' 
Better left for dead 
And now we are on a mission 
Well it's full speed ahead 
My legion's when we do the crime 
Let's get one thing straight 
To get there early is on time 
And showing up on time is late 
Ladies and gents, we're still alive 
By the skin of our teeth, now it's killing time 
Angel in our pocket, devil by our side 
We ain't going nowhere, 'cause heroes never die 
Still alive 
Blood of heroes 
Never die 
They never die 
We've been run down every hill 
Chased up all the dead end streets 
But if you try to cut us out 
You'll get a kick in the teeth 
Ladies and Gents, we're still alive 
By the skin of our teeth, now it's killing time 
Fasten up you head belts, 
Time to ride the skies 
It's time to be immortal, 'cause heroes never die 

  

Family Tree 

(Music: Mustaine, Ellefson, Menza, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
Forgotten things remembered 
The tigers eat their young 
The body stayed but inside the head 
The mind was on the run 
Conspiracy of silence 
The only way out of pain 
Is turn around and run through it man 
Too wet to come in from the rain 
I know they were doing it to you 
But don't try doing it to me 
Let me show you how I love you 
It's our secret, you and me 
Let me show you how I love you 
But keep it in the family tree...the secret of the family tree 
When you hear them saying 'trust me' 
Don't wait to see what's next 
Thrown to the wolves 
Forever trusting 
Raised in a form of living Hell 
Sing a one-note song of rage 
Live and die withing your heart 
So beware of the shadows 
Your family tree waits in the dark 
I say... 

  

Youthanasia 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
Who'd believe with the way things are here 
We'd be going anywhere telling people how to live? 
Who's believe that we'd spend more shipping drugs and guns 
Than to educate our sons? 
Sorry, but that's what they did. 
I can't help but think someone's forsaken you and me 
Luck deserted me and the truth beat out my brains 
Men rise on stepping stones of their selves to higher things 
I've stepped over many bodies on my way 
Thanks for the information don't need no more anything 
We are the damned of all the world with sadness in our hearts 
The wounded of the wars, we've been hung out to dry 
You didn't want us anyway and now we're making up our minds 
You tell us how to run our lives, we run for youthanasia 


I Thought I Knew it All 

(Music: Mustaine. Ellefson, Menza, Friedman, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
Somewhere there's a reason why things go like they do 
Somewhere there's a reason why some things just fall through 
We don't always see them for what they really are 
But I know there's a reason just can't see it from this far 
Maybe I don't like it, but I have no choice 
I know that somewhere, someone hears my voice 
I thought I knew it all 
I thought I had it made 
How could it end this way? 
I thought I knew 
Somewhere there's a reason why things don't go my way 
Somewhere there's a reason that I cannot explain 
Just like the change of season, just may not be my turn 
But I know there's a reason, the lesson's mine to learn 

  

Black Curtains 

(Music: Mustaine, Friedman, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
Hey...Look around you 
Everything's 'helter skelter' 
Listen up...I warn you 
Run for cover, run 
Bang...it happened 
Time's up, Armageddon 
Fire...meltdown 
The sky is crumbling in 
Black curtains...never ending 
Escape..You're joking 
Can't find no place to run 
Hair...is burning 
My flesh is bubbling up 
Blood...is boiling 
Taste copper on my tongue 
Fate...is coming 
Welcome it with a smile 
Black curtians...never ending, fall 
Am I dreaming? My heart pounds my chest 
Held for ransom in a spider's web 
Suffocating, no one hears my calls 
Never ending, 'til the black curtain falls 
Snakes..surround me 
Offering their death kiss to me 
Down...I'm drowning 
How long, I hold my breath 
Dogs...are chasing 
My legs are paralyzed 
Pray...don't find me 
My life is fading fast 

  

Victory 

(Music, Lyrics: Mustaine) 

  
Now, one day I started telling everyone 
That killing is my business, 
And I was hung like a martyr 
For looking down the cross my skull beneath the skin 
Prophesied last rites/loved to death my friends 
Then I started seeing bad omens in my head 
Good mourning/black Friday, will I wake up dead? 
If I ain't superstitious then this won't mean a thing 
But some crazy shit has happened since the conjuring 
Not even close...to overdose! 
Had fingers in my eyes, had needles in my veins 
A knife right through my heart, I am a victory 
Came anarchy to set the world afire 
Pain of hook in mouth, in my darkest hour 
Corruption of the world, peace sells, but nobody's buying 
Ignorant religion, holy wars and the dying 
Tornado nearly got me by the skin of my teeth 
This was my life, forclosure of my dreams 
May the past rust in peace in Hangar 18 
And countdown to extinction just be a bad dream 
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