[Intro]
				

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
				

Red flash clouds choking out the morning sky 
They said it'd never come, we knew it was a lie 
All forms of life die now the humans all succumb 
Time to kiss your ass goodbye the end has just begun 

Distorted figures walk the street, it's 1989 
Weeds once underneath your feet have grown into vines 
Bodies melted like a candle, a land without a face 
No time to change your fate, no time left, it's too late 

The arsenal of Megadeth can't be rid they said 
And if it comes, the living will envy the dead 
Racing for power, and all come in last 
No winning first stone cast 
This falsehood worldly peace 

It's treaties will soon cease 
No one will be left to prove that numbers existed 
Maybe soon the children will be born open fisted 
We all live on one planet it will all go up in smoke 

Too bad they couldn't see this lethal energy 
and now the final scene, a global darkening 

Dig deep the piles of rubble and ruins 
Towering overhead both far and wide 
There's unknown tools of World War III 
Einstein said “We'll use rocks on the other side” 
No survivors set the world afire
				

I had wrists donning slits 
Flowing constantly 
My broken body in a wreck 
Wrapped around a tree 
A crosswalk hit and run 
The finish line for me 
People clutter in the gutter 
Take a look and see 

Chorus 
No escaping pain 
You belong to me 
Clinging onto life 
By the skin o' my teeth 
(Repeat) 

My blood flows through the streets 
Deluge from the wounds 
Empty jars of sleeping pills 
On the dresser of my room 
My wet brain neighbor cranes 
His neck to see in time, 
The white lights a train 
Bearing down on me 

Chorus 
Solo • Marty 

I won't feel the hurt 
I'm not trash any longer 
That that doesn't kill me 
Only makes me stronger 
I need a ride to the morgue 
That's what 911 is for 
So, tag my toe and don't forget 
Ooh to close the drawer 

Chorus 
				

I sneak in my own house 
It's four in the morning 
I had too much to drink 
Said I was out with the boys 
I creep in my bedroom 
I slip into bed, 
I know if I wake her, 
I'll wake up dead 

I wonder, will she find out, 
About the other, other lover. 
Diana. 

Wake up dead, you die 
Wake up dead, and buried. 
Wake up dead, you die 
Wake up dead
				

In my hour of need 
Ha, no, you're 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 

I walk, I walk alone 
Into the promised land. 
There's a better place for me 
But it's far, far away 

Rverlasting 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 
The time has come when all things shall pass 
This good thing passed away.
				

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)
				

The mother of all that is evil 
Her lips are poisonous venom 
Wicked temptress knows how to please 
The priestess roars, “Get down on your knees” 

The rite of the praying mantis 
Kiss the bones of the enchantress 
Spellbound searching through the night 
A howling man surrenders the fight 

Chorus 
One look in her lusting eyes 
Savage fear in you will rise 
Teeth of terror sinking in 
The bite of the she-wolf 
 One look in her lusting eyes 
Savage fear in you will rise 
Teeth of terror sinking in 
The bite of the she-wolf 

My desires of flesh obey me 
The lioness will enslave me 
Another heart beat than my own 
The sound of claws on cobblestone, I'm stoned 

Chorus 

Beware what stalks you in the night 
Beware the she-wolf and her bite 
Her mystic lips tell only lies 

Beware what stalks you in the night 
Beware the she-wolf and her bite 
Her hidden will to kill in disguise 
				

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 in 
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 

Chorus 
Don't want no revenge 
Ain't no pay back time 
It ain't called getting even 
Here comes the reconing 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 coming back 
And how you try to hold me down 
But you end up driven to the ground 

Chorus 

Chorus 
				

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 
Smile when you think of me 
My body's gone that's all 
  
Chorus 
A tout le monde 
A tout mes 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 

Chorus 

Solo 

So as you read, know my friends 
I'd love to stay with you all 
Please smile, smile when you think about me 
My body's gone that's all 

Chorus 
Chorus 
				

The more of you that I inspect
The more of me I see reflect
The more I try to read your lips
The more the mask you're wearing rips

But when I seek out your voice
My ears are overcome with noise
You show and tell with greatest ease
Raving impossibilities

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry owe!

And when the story takes a twist
If folds like a contortionist
Slight of hand and quick exchange
The old tricks have been rearranged

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry

The searing of the sinew
My body fights for air
The ripping of the tissue
My lungs begin to tear
Gravity's got my bones
It pulls my flesh away
The steam finally dissipates
I make out my sweaty face

Association that I choose
Game I inevitably lose
Governed by laws set up by me
Fracture it's jaw to let me be
A cut-out cardboard condo maze
Filled with an insubordinate race
Irrational youths stop to stare
As music rubber hosed the air

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry again
And again and again, again

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry owe!
				

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 

Chorus 
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 

Chorus 
				

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
				

I heard the voice of redemption
For me there is no exemption
I started praying

I heard the voice of satisfaction
Needing me for benefaction
I started pleading

I heard the bells begin to chime
Warning me oh lord
Don't let this be my time
Don't let this be my time

I'll be there for you, when you walk through the fire
I'll be there for you, when the flames get higher
When nothing fits and nothing seems right
Till the very last breath of my life, I'll be there for you

You saw me slide, you saw me fall
We kept our pride through it all
We started screaming

When skies are dark, no sun shines through
I know I see the light in you
We stopped dreaming and started believing

I'll be there for you, when you walk through the fire
I'll be there for you, when the flames get higher
When nothing fits and nothing seems right
Till the very last breath of my life, I'll be there for you
I'll be there

In my hour of need
You were there always
Now it's time for me to be there for you too
Always

I'll be there for you
				

This morning I made the call 
The one that ends it all 
Hanging up, I wanted to cry 
But dammit, this well's gone dry 
Not for the money, not for the fame 
Not for the power, just no more games 

Chorus 
But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado 
I can't replace the lies, that let a 1000 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 twist 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 into bed 
You feel my fingertips 
You won't forget my lips 
You'll feel my cold breath 
It's the kiss of death 
				

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 
The sad scene replays 
Of you walking away 

Chorus 
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 

Chorus 
My body aches from mustakes 
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 

Spoken 
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?

Solo 

Chorus 

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 

Absolutely nothing we trust 
				

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
				

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
				

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 Argentina
I'm coming home...

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 Argentina
I'm coming home to Argentina
				

You take a mortal man, 
And put him in control 
Watch him become a god, 
Watch peoples heads a'roll 
A'roll' 
A'roll' 

Chorus 
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. 
Explodes' 
Explodes' 

Chorus 
Solo • Marty 

The Earth starts to rumble 
World powers fall 
A'warring for the heavens, 
A peaceful man stands tall 
A tall... 
A tall... 

Chorus
				

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?

Chorus 
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?

Chorus 

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?
No, peace sells'
				

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?

Chorus 
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?

Chorus 

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?
No, peace sells'