@ALBUM: CAPITOL PUNISHMENT: The Megadeth Years - Capitol Records, 2000 Band: Megadeth Megadeth is: Dave Mustaine : Vocals, Guitars Al Pitrelli : Guitars David Ellefson: Bass Guitars, Backup Vocals Jimmy DeGrasso: Drums Lyrics compiled by: Mikael Jönsson a.k.a --==Nero==-- (nero_68@yahoo.com) List of Songs 1) Kill The King (3:46) 2) Dread And The Fugitive (4:26) 3) Crush 'Em (4:59) 4) Use The Man (4:37) 5) Almost Honest (4:04) 6) Trust (5:12) 7) A Tout Le Monde (4:31) 8) Train Of Consequences (3:28) 9) Sweating Bullets (5:04) 10) Symphony Of Destruction (4:03) 11) Hangar 18 (5:13) 12) Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (6:35) 13) In My Darkest Hour (6:19) 14) Peace Sells (9:19) @SONG: Kill The King (Mustaine) Broken down, feeling naked Leaving me unfulfilled Promising compromise Championing mediocrity Time and time again What you said ain't what you mean Even if all my bones are broken I will drag myself back from the edge To kill the king, the king is dead, Long live the king, I am the king God save the King I reveal a deceiver In the highest seat in land His idle hands, the devil's workshop Generate more smoke than heat A new precedent in pain Mankind is blown to dust An explosion of the brain Spontaneously combust @SONG: Dread & The Fugitive Mind (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 your 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 the is no judgment? If I'm right I loose nothing If you're right I lose it all I ought to get caught Because I'm doing something wicked I'm guilty hanted 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 @SONG: Crush 'Em (Mustaine/Prager/Friedman) Enter the arena and hit the lights step up now you're in for a ride this is war, ain't no fun and games we get it up, you go down in flames Party time, going down you better not mess us around the stakes are rich, take a hit or stay the price is high, someone's gonna pay Heads I win, tails you lose out of my way I'm coming through roll the dice don't think twice and we crush, crush 'em Looking for trouble, now you've found it you're a drum and we're gonna pound it Last one standing wins the fight hear us scream and shout all night down on the floor and eat the grit this is gonna hurt a little bit Heads I win, tails you lose out of my way I'm coming through roll the dice don't think twice and we crush, crush 'em Now we lay you down to rest you'll never be more than second best step inside you're in for a ride and we crush, crush 'em Don't need reason, don't want names just a John Doe to put to shame step aside let me explain the name of the game is pain Now we've found you We're gonna pound you We're gonna beat you Gonna defeat you We're gonna bust you We're gonna crush you We're gonna crush 'em @SONG: Use the man (Mustaine/Friedman) I heard somebody fixed today There was no last goodbyes to say His will to live ran out I heard somebody turned to dust Looking back at what he left A list of plans and photographs Songs that never will be sung These are the things he won't get done I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man I've seen them crawl from the cradle to the gutter on their hands They fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to understand I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man Just one shot to say goodbye One last taste to mourn and cry Scores and shoots, the lights go dim Just one shot to do him in He hangs his head and wonders why Why the monkey only lies But pay the pauper, he did choose He hung his head inside the noose I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man I've seen them crawl from the cradle to the coffin on their hands They fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to understand I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man Cryptic writings on the wall, the beginning of the end I've seen myself use the needle, seen the needle in my hand @SONG: Almost Honest (Mustaine/Friedman) I lied just a little When I said I need you You stretched the truth When I said that you knew Just can't believe it There's nothing to say I was almost honest, almost Living alone, can't stand this place It's four in the morning and I still see you face I was nearly pure When I said I loved you You were semi-sincere You said I'd bleed for you We were kind of candid Now you've gone away You were almost honest, almost Living alone, falling from grace I want to atone but there's just empty space I can't face tomorrow, now you're not coming back Walked off in the night and just left me the tracks I question your call by the tone of your voice I know I should hang up but I don't have a choice It happend that night when you told me to go Don't ask who's to blame, I don't know Almost, almost honest Almost, I was almost honest @SONG: Trust (Mustaine/Friedman) Lost in a dream Nothing is what it seems Searching my head For the words that you said Tears filled my eyes As we said our last goodbyes This sad scene replays Of you walking away My body aches from mistakes Betrayed by lust We lied to each other so much That in nothing we trust Time and again She repeats let's be friends I smile and say yes Another truth bends, I must confess I try to let go, but I know We'll never end 'til we're dust We lied to each other again But I wish I could trust My body aches from mistakes Betrayed by lust We lied to each other so much That in nothing we trust God help me please, on my knees Betrayed by lust We lied to each other so much Now there's nothing we trust How could this be happening to me I'm lying when I say, "Trust me" I can't believe this is true Trust hurts Why does trust equal suffering Absolutely nothing we trust @SONG: A Tout Le Monde (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'd 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 There 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 @SONG: Train Of Consequences (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 O' 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 @SONG: Sweating Bullets (Mustaine) 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 back it's still a bit fuzzy. Speak of mutually assured destruction? Nice story...Tell it to Reader's Digest Feeling paranoid True enemy or false friend? Anxiety's attacking me, and My air is getting thin. I'm in trouble for the things I haven't got to yet. I'm chomping at the bit, and my Palms are getting wet, sweating bullets. Hello me...It's me again. You can subdue, but never tame me. It gives me a migraine headache Thinking down to your level. Yea, just keep on thinking it's my fault And stay an inch or two outta kicking distance. Mankind has got to know His limitations. Feeling claustrophobic, Like the walls are closing in. Blood stains on my hands and I don't know where I've been. I'm in trouble for the things I haven't got to yet. I'm sharpening the axe and my Palms are getting wet, sweating bullets. Well, me...it's nice talking to myself, A credit to dementia. Some day you too will know my pain, And smile its blacktooth grin. If the war inside my head Won't take a day off I'll be dead. My icy fingers claw your back, Here I come again. Feeling paranoid True enemy or false friend? Anxiety's attacking me And my air is getting thin Feeling claustrophobic, Like the walls are closing in. Blood stains on my hands and I don't know where I've been Once you committed me Now you've acquitted me Claiming validity For your stupidity I'm chomping at the bit I'm sharpening the axe Here I come again, Sweating bullets @SONG: Symphony Of Destruction (Mustaine) You take a mortal man, And put him in control Watch him become a god, Watch peoples heads a'roll Just like the Pied Piper Led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes, Swaying to the Symphony... Of Destruction Acting like a robot, Its metal brain corrodes. You try to take its pulse, Before the head explodes. The earth starts to rumble World powers fall A'warring for the heavens, A peaceful man stands tall @SONG: Hangar 18 (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 too strong Computer banks to rule the world Instruments to sight the stars Possibly I've seen to much Hangar 18 I know too much Foreign life forms inventory Suspended state of cryogenics Selective amnesia's the story Believed foretold but who'd suspect The military Intelligence Two words combined that can't make sense Possibly I've seen to much Hangar 18 I know too much @SONG: Holy Wars...The Punishment Due (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 podium,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 holler 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 Thinkin' 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 @SONG: In My Darkest Hour (Mustaine/Ellefson) In my hour of need no you were not there and though I reached out for you wouldn't lend a hand. Through the darkest hour grace did not shine on me It feels so cold, very cold no one cares for me. Did you ever think I get lonely did you ever think that I needed love did you ever think to stop thinking you're the only one that I'm thinking of. You'll never know how hard I tried to find my space and satisfy you too. Things will be better when I'm dead and gone don't try to understand, knowing you I'm probably wrong. But oh how I lived my life for you still you'd turn away now as I die for you my flesh still crawls as I breathe your name all these years I thought I was wrong now I know it was you raise you head, raise your face your eyes tell me who you think you are, who? I walk, I walk alone into the promised land. There's a better place for me but it's far, far away everlasting life for me in a perfect world but I gotta die first, please god send me on my way. Time has a way of taking time Loneliness is not only felt be fools Alone I call to ease the pain Yearning to be held by you, Alone so alone, I'm lost Consumed by the pain the pain, the pain, the pain. Won't you hold me again you just laughed, ha ha, bitch my whole life is work built on the past but the time has come when all things shall pass this good thing passed away. In my darkest hour. @SONG: Peace Sells (Mustaine) What do you mean, "I don't believe in God"? I talk to him every day. What do you mean, "I don't support your system"? I go to court when I have to. What do you mean, "I can't get to work on time"? I got nothing better to do And, what do you mean, "I don't pay my bills"? Why do you think I'm broke? Huh? If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line. But, it better work this time. What do you mean, "I hurt your feelings"? I didn't know you had any feelings. What do you mean, "I ain't kind"? I'm just not your kind. What do you mean, "I couldn't be president, of the United States of America"? Tell me something, it's still "We the people", right? If there's a new way I'll be the first in line, But, it better work this time. Can you put a price on peace? Peace, Peace sells..., Peace, Peace sells..., Peace sells..., but who's buying? Peace sells..., but who's buying? Peace sells..., but who's buying? Peace sells..., but who's buying? [Peace sells..., but who's buying? n+1 times more] No, peace sells...