Megadeth

Released: June 17, 1997

Songwriter: Brian Howe David Ellefson Marty Friedman Dave Mustaine

Producer: Dann Huff Dave Mustaine

[Verse 1]
I'm lonely and abandoned
Washed up, left for dead
I'm lost inside the desert
Of every word you said
Like a nuclear reactor, or TNT
I'm thinking about the times
When you lied to me
All the innuendo
Caught up on your hook
I was just a name
In your little black book, oh...
In your little black book...

[Chorus]
I'll get even with you
I'll get even with you, even with you

[Verse 2]
I'm bitter and I'm twisted
I haven't slept in days
I'm lonely and I'm angry
I can't make it go away
I'm like a bomb that's ticking
I got voices in my head
I got a doll with needles
And wishing you were dead
I'll get you back somehow
That's what I'm gonna do
I'll get you back somehow
Your nightmare coming true...
It's coming true

[Chorus]
I'll get even with you
Ah, that's what I'm gonna do
(I'm gonna get even with you)
I'll get even with you
Even with you, even with you

[Verse 3]
You better look behind you
'Cause there I'm going to be
I'll be standing in the shadows
With who I used to be
He's slightly schizophrenic
Me, and me, and me, and me agree
That you are gonna pay
For what you did to me

[Chorus]
I'll get even with you
I'll get even with you

[Outro]
I'll get even with you
(I'm gonna get even with you)
Ah, that's what I'm gonna do
(I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, gonna)
I'll get even with you, even with you
Ah, that's what I'm gonna do
(I'm gonna, I'm gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna)
I'll get even with you
(I'm gonna get even with you)
I'll...

After being kicked out of Metallica, Dave Mustaine decided to form a Thrash Metal band that not only rivaled his former band, but played faster, more technical Metal. Along with bassist David ‘Junior’ Ellefson and a revolving door of guitarists and drummers, Mustaine set the world afire as Megadeth became known as the world’s state-of-the-art Speed Metal band throughout the 80s and the early 90s. One of the Big Four of Thrash Metal, Megadeth remains one of Metal’s most popular acts today.

However, Dave Mustaine’s fledgling band got off to a shaky start. Initially unable to find like-minded individuals, it was not until an altercation with his (underage) downstairs neighbours Dave Ellefson and Greg Handevidt, that led to him buying them beer and forming the first incarnation of the band with drummer Dijon Carruthers in 1983.

The band was named after a political pamphlet that referred to a “megadeath” (one million deaths by nuclear explosion):

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From the albums

Cryptic Writings (1997)
Songs Of The Witchblade (1998)

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