Released: May 15, 2001
Songwriter: Dave Mustaine
Producer: Bill Kennedy Dave Mustaine
[Verse 1]
Let me introduce myself
I'm a social disease
I've come for your wealth
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
[Pre-Chorus]
What's yours is mine
What's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand
Better count your fingers
[Chorus]
What if I do get caught?
What if there is no judgement?
If I'm right, I lose nothing
If you're right, I lose it all
I ought to get caught
Because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty, haunted by my fears
And the only consequences are dread and the fugitive mind
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
What's yours is mine
What's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand
Better count your fingers
[Chorus]
What if I do get caught?
What if there is no judgement?
If I'm right, I lose nothing
If you're right, I lose it all
I ought to get caught
Because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty, haunted by my fears
And the only consequences are dread and the fugitive mind
[Instrumental Outro]
Let me introduce myself
I'm a social disease
I've come for your wealth
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
[Pre-Chorus]
What's yours is mine
What's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand
Better count your fingers
[Chorus]
What if I do get caught?
What if there is no judgement?
If I'm right, I lose nothing
If you're right, I lose it all
I ought to get caught
Because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty, haunted by my fears
And the only consequences are dread and the fugitive mind
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
What's yours is mine
What's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand
Better count your fingers
[Chorus]
What if I do get caught?
What if there is no judgement?
If I'm right, I lose nothing
If you're right, I lose it all
I ought to get caught
Because I'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty, haunted by my fears
And the only consequences are dread and the fugitive mind
[Instrumental Outro]
Anthology: Set the World Afire
- Tornado of Souls
- Breakpoint
- Go to Hell
- Angry Again
- Trust
- She-Wolf
- Insomnia
- Prince of Darkness
- Dread and the Fugitive Mind
- Kill the King
- Hangar 18
- Crown of Worms
- Into the Lungs of Hell
- New World Order (Demo)
- Reckoning Day/Peace Sells (Live Trax)
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
- The Killing Road
- Train of Consequences
- Rattlehead
- Mechanix
- Wake Up Dead
- Peace Sells
- Devils Island
- Set the World Afire
- Anarchy in the U.K.
- In My Darkest Hour
- À Tout le Monde
- Take No Prisoners
- Skin o’ My Teeth
- Foreclosure of a Dream
- Sweating Bullets
- Ashes in Your Mouth
- High Speed Dirt (Demo)
- Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years (2000)
- The World Needs a Hero (2001)
- Still, Alive... and Well? (2002)
- Greatest Hits: Back to the Start (2005)
- Warchest (2007)
- Anthology: Set the World Afire (2008)
- Warheads on Foreheads (2019)
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
- À Tout le Monde
- Tornado of Souls
- Symphony of Destruction
- Peace Sells
- In My Darkest Hour
- Sweating Bullets
- Hangar 18
- Rust in Peace... Polaris
- Five Magics
- Mechanix
- Take No Prisoners
- Dystopia
- Trust
- The Conjuring
- Hook in Mouth
- Countdown to Extinction
- Lucretia
- Good Mourning/Black Friday
- Set the World Afire
- Angry Again
- Wake Up Dead
- Dawn Patrol
- Conquer or Die!