@ALBUM: The System Has Failed - Sanctuary Records, 2004 Band: Megadeth Megadeth is: Dave Mustaine : Lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar Chris Poland : Lead guitar Jimmy Sloas : Bass guitar Vinnie Colaiuta : Drums Produced by Jeff Balding and Dave Mustaine Lyrics compiled by: Mikael Jönsson a.k.a --==Nero==-- (nero_68@yahoo.com) List of Songs 1) Blackmail The Universe (4:33) 2) Die Dead Enough (4:18) 3) Kick The Chair (3:57) 4) The Scorpion (5:59) 5) Tears In A Vial (5:21) 6) I Know Jack (0:40) 7) Back In The Day (3:27) 8) Something That I'm Not (5:07) 9) Truth Be Told (5:40) 10) Of Mice And Men (4:04) 11) Shadow Of Deth (2:15) 12) My Kingdom (3:03) @SONG: Blackmail The Universe (Mustaine) This is breaking news It appears that Air Force One was shot down Somewhere over the Middle East this morning By a sleeper cell of rogue terrorists, firing a Stinger Missile The Pilot and all passengers are unaccounted for The President's whereabouts are presently unknown and he is presumed missing The Vice President, Secretary of State, and principles of the military are assembling Our nation stands at DEFCON 3 The greatest crisis, will someone come for me? I "red, white and blew it." Unleashed revenge, my body is detained How could anybody do this? Betrayal, I peel away the days Medals are useless, Uncle Sam's forgotten me I'm not important, no one will ever come I'll never be found, God get me out of this hell Nuclear battlefields energized Cold wars are heating up again The tensions mounting People lift up your fists in revenge The stage is set Who will be the first to blink? We can't go to war Remember that "Vietnam thing" Peace at any price With a gun to your head, bang, bang Weakness runs in your family Well, what runs in mine is death Solo- Poland This is your 5 minute warning Burn all your classified documents And if cooler heads don't prevail First strike from a political dead man Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive He understands only one language - action! And he respects only one word - force! No sign of them stopping, no time for back channel communiqués We need all the help we can get, air strikes and invasions! Retaliate, I say! The will of good men can not counter the terrible strain of war Solo- Poland Solo- Mustaine Blackmail the Universe with the greatest of calamities Awaken those sleeping giants in the dust of the ground With their skin destroyed, unjust to innocence Lawful possessor of the world's last 24 hours Solo- Mustaine Terror and ugliness reveal what death really means And in hatred you see men as they really are If chosen over heaven, Earth will have been for them All along, only another region of hell @SONG: Die Dead Enough (Mustaine) Solo- Poland Its twilight and I wake up hot My body's soaked in a cold, cold sweat I reenact the lurid scenes And clawed engravings in my head Oh, I can't punch hard enough and I run I can't kick high enough and I run I can't shoot straight enough and I run I can't hold on enough and I run Oh, I can't stay down enough and I run I can't take pain enough and I run I can't bleed fast enough I can't die dead enough The air is thick, but the oxygen's thin My heart is beating like a drum, boom! And ice is flowing through my veins Explosives on my lips and in my lungs Oh, I can't punch hard enough and I run I can't kick high enough and I run I can't shoot straight enough and I run I can't hold on enough and I run Oh, I can't stay down enough and I run I can't take pain enough and I run I can't bleed fast enough I can't die dead enough I don't know what I'm running from And I don't know where I'm running to There's something deep and strange inside of me I see I don't know what I'm running from And I don't know where I'm running to Something's compelling me to run into the dark And now I am more driven than before And now I live just to settle score And now I feel the nearness of your breath Now I introduce you to your death Solo- Poland Solo- Mustaine Solo- Poland I am more driven than before I live just to settle score I feel the nearness of your breath I introduce you to your death I can't punch hard enough I can't kick high enough I can't shoot straight enough I can't hold on enough I can't stay down enough, die dead enough I can't take pain enough, die dead enough I can't bleed fast enough, die dead enough I can't die dead enough, die dead enough (End- solo-fills Poland) @SONG: Kick The Chair (Mustaine) Kick The Chair Dawn breaks evenly today On the truth and the lie All rise, court's in session We're hanging someone high Justice means nothing today Now that the courts are for sale Pick a crime from the menu; pick a sentence and defend you And pay up the down payment called bail The system's for sale Kick the chair, the rope's tight Just like one quick wrench, the tooth is out Friend or foe, I gotta hang em dead Or they'll come back around Kick it! The court's wrong when it keeps track Of victories and defeats The press that never rest just waits For somebody's soul they can eat Justice means nothing today Now that the jury's for sale Guilty or not, the verdict's a lie You're going to jail The system has failed Kick the chair, the rope's tight Just like one quick wrench, the tooth is out Friend or foe, ya gotta hang em dead Or they'll come back Solo- @ 2:21 Mustaine Solo- @ 2:51 Mustaine Solo- @ 3:04 Mustaine Solo- @ 3:20 Poland @SONG: The Scorpion (Mustaine) My life is everything That feeds my thirst that causes sin My wants are all I care No shame and guilt, there's nothing there Look deep into my face I sell deceit without a trace Fear not what I can do Unless you want it done to you, oh-ohhh! Solo- Mustaine As I climb onto your back, I will promise not to sting I will tell you what you want to hear, and not mean anything Then I treat you like a dog as I shoot my venom in You pretend you didn't know that I am a scorpion, oh My self I'm centered in There's nothing else, there's never been And I dream, to be left alone With the sadness, the madness of my own Look deep into my soul It's black as coal like a bullet hole Fear not, get off you knees There's no defense, you'll do what I please, oh-oh! Solo- Mustaine As I climb onto your back, I will promise not to sting I will tell you what you want to hear, and not mean anything Then I treat you like a dog as I shoot my venom in You pretend you didn't know that I am a scorpion, oh Solo- Mustaine As I climb onto your back, I will promise not to sting I will tell you what you want to hear, and not mean anything I will treat you like a dog as I shoot my venom in 'Cause you knew all along I am a scorpion, ya! My lies, to reach the shore I aggrandize and nothing more My hopes, to steal away All that you love, I'll soon betray Look deep into my past The pain I deal is unsurpassed I'm not a lowly scorpion I'm so much worse; I'm the fall of man @SONG: Tears In A Vial (Mustaine) This may seem all to confusing How could I walk away from something so rare But you see it all got too demanding, yeah And I just didn't care, I just didn't care, if I cared, if I cared Lately, I've been wanting, but not wanting you Attraction that once was is no longer here, ooh And it sucks to be taken for granted When the veil is drawn and there's only air I had to walk away Give up something I love For what I loved even more And save my tears for you Solo- Mustaine Everything has lost it's meaning; I had to let it go To find myself, myself, and start something new, brand new Forced to look deep in the mirror, face who I really am Now it's just me, cause I can't afford you I had to walk away Give up something I love For what I loved even more And save my tears for you I gave up something I loved For what I loved even more And I saved my tears for you In a vial and walked away Solo- Mustaine Solo- Poland You were so beautiful to look upon I could see the light in your smile Your eyes were the windows into your soul Your body was heavenly just like the sky Solo- Mustaine Until all your good looks betrayed you, which ain't much Counted on your counterfeit smiles for too long Your eyes are empty windows, broken The body may be here, but the soul is gone I saved my tears for you in a vial From everything wicked thing that you did, that you said To send away, buried with your love So many tears in a vial, now that you're gone, and now that you're dead @SONG: I Know Jack (Mustaine) Solo- Mustaine I served with Jack Kennedy I knew Jack Kennedy Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy @SONG: Back In The Day (Mustaine) Where were you when it happened? Where could you be found? Were you at the front of the stage? Or in the underground? From SF out to Old Bridge New York back to LA The world of metal changed forever Back in the day Well that was back in the day And if you weren't there It doesn't matter anyway Because you wouldn't understand Live to die and die to play Every day and place Leave a path of metal Across the world from stage to stage Well that was back in the day And if you weren't there It doesn't matter anyway Because you wouldn't understand Solo- Poland In denim and leather We were all part of the force Knocked Rock and Roll on it's ass And put Metal on the course Higher! Solo- Poland Higher! Solo- Mustaine Higher! Solo- Poland Higher! Solo- Mustaine Back in the day Solo- Mustaine You weren't there Solo- Mustaine It doesn't matter Solo- Mustaine Because you wouldn't understand This is our way of live A life that was born free To follow orders how to live Was never meant to be Oh, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh We all had the fever Our ears started to ring Feeding this wildfire Consuming everything Oh, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh Metal's King back then And still is to this day Others imitate or challenge But it never goes away Oh, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh @SONG: Something That I'm Not (Mustaine) Your mind tells you that you've lost your confidence You're drifting and ya don't believe in anyone To loose what little you have left to be proud of Afraid you can't do this again, ah! You said nothing come in-between us The way of getting things we wanted done The enissophobia held you under it's influence Until you compromised your style Solo- Mustaine Everything about you has been one big charade What will you do now that the well's run dry? Cry? To sell out all your friends and stab them in the back It's something that you are; it's something that I'm not When you forced me into doing what you love Mark my words no one loves you very much, yeah mark em' And when you tried to change me and tried to replace me I couldn't help but end just hating you, hmm! Being a fraud can only last so long, you should know Till what ya sensed as a child returns, you little baby To choke out the voice that told ya "money and the fame" Would fill the crater that you dug for yourself Solo- Mustaine Unlike you I'm no vision to myself, lest you forget You didn't ever make Metal, buddy; Metal made you To crush and run over everyone along the way It's something that you are; it's something that I'm not A stranger to yourself, ha! ya pissed me off again I won't be driven by your needs anymore What you'd become to do or be is clear to see for me It's something that you are; something that I'm not Solo- Mustaine It makes me sick to hear you say you "love me" I know you only love what I can do for you If you were the one that was leading the charge Would you notice if I missed a day or two? But that's impossible! We all laughed at the parodies that you'd become Now your pain slowly paid back has begun So, accept my resignation, or in your words "betrayal" Before it get's much worse, end this self-sabotage Solo- Mustaine Something I'm not, something that you are, something I'm not Solo- Mustaine Something I'm not, something that you are, something I'm not Something that you are, something that I'm not, yet @SONG: Truth Be Told (Mustaine) This is the first tale of death in the world When Cain struck down Abel, a family broken Since the mankind's dominated his own kind To insult and injure, there's no such thing as peace Till death do us part, till the last Truth be told - Sin lies at the doorway Truth be told - Hell's open for business now Truth be told - The soil cries out for revenge Truth be told - And death is upon the ground All around The battle ain't over without spoils of war Just cause it is written does not make it so When you dance with the devil wait till the song's over I ask myself, "How bad do I want you to live?" My anger is near, till the last Truth be told - Sin lies at the doorway Truth be told - Hell's open for business now Truth be told - The soil cries out for revenge Truth be told - And death is upon the ground All around Solo- Mustaine Solo- Mustaine Tribulation strikes again and we're hit hard Still you just go on your way Head in the sand, ignoring the rain Just like the flood in Noah's day In his day Solo- Mustaine Can't punish those ruining the earth It's suicide to some degree Because we are all guilty, guilty as sin There will be no peace, never for you and me Solo- Mustaine Before al Qaeda and Bin Laden Long before Hitler and Hussein Ever since the first murder was committed The verdict's always been the same Been the same, wrong! Solo- Mustaine The cursed future just repeats the past There's hell to pay and stones to cast So, there will be no peace, never be peace Till the last truth be told by you and me Solo- Mustaine @SONG: Of Mice And Men (Mustaine) The fire burns on and on That drives me on till all is gone Except the simple plans Of mice and men Back when I was just seventeen I thought that I knew everything I could make it in this scene To be a rising star that only gleamed But all the answers disagreed With the questions held for me I was legal now at twenty-one I knew the way the world should run My God just look what I had done Simply drunk and having fun Looked for friends, but I found none All alone at twenty-one Solo- Poland The fire burns on and on That drives me on till all is gone Except the simple plans Of mice and men Solo- fills Poland At twenty-five I was surprised That I was even half alive Somehow I managed to survive I felt my body's doing time And in my back a hundred knives From my friends at twenty-five And now as Gabriel sounds my warning bell I'd buy your life, if you would sell A year or two if less compelled So live your life and live it well There's not much left of me to tell I just got back up each time I fell Solo- Poland The fire burns on and on That drives me on till all is gone Except the simple plans Of mice and men Solo- fills Poland Solo- Mustaine The fire burns on and on That drives me on till all is gone Except the simple plans Of mice and men Solo- fills Poland @SONG: Shadow Of Deth (Mustaine) Auxilium meum a Domino The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want He maketh me to lie down in green pastures He leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my soul He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil; for thou art with me Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies Thou anoitest my head with oil; my cup runneth over Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life And I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever Solo- Mustaine @SONG: My Kingdom (Mustaine) The flag that I once planted as a King I abandoned And now I reclaim this banner by God, my sword, and my name In a truce sealed by blood within this metal skin and all that I own Blood, bone, and courage in my veins, and the heart that pumps it Drink from the chalice and be reborn And the land with me, it will change and transform A fighting man sworn to the quest it is the doom of man that they forget I have awoken the dragon and all around me the mist of his breath Good and evil, there never is on without the other, his brother Always there where I least expect it, it will burn me to cinders The futures taken root in the present sun Don't look into my heart, least of all your own Solo- Poland No man who is false can win in combat against the truth When he lies he murders some part of the world, we must find what was lost Hearth and home, wife and child were not for me, I was not yet done I never knew how empty my soul was until it was refilled Mad distemper strikes both beggars and Kings The Necromancer's hard teachings of war and quest I am given the right to bear arms and power to meet justice I have lived through others for far too long, and carried my guilt, my causes, my sins I hope in the hereafter when I owe no more to the future that I can be just a man