Megadeth

Released: January 22, 2016

Songwriter: Kiko Loureiro Dave Mustaine

Producer: Chris Rakestraw Dave Mustaine

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
How much pain
Do you need to feel?
How much shame
Do you have to conceal?
There is no sunshine
Just endless nights
Nobody's there, nobody cares
When you cry

[Chorus]
Is it my face you see?
Do I haunt you in your sleep?
On your hands and knees when you crawl
Through your nightmares
When there's no more grace
Does your heartbeat start to race?
Clawing everywhere in the dark
Poisonous shadows

[Verse 2]
How many secrets
Do you keep inside?
How many sins
Do you have to hide?
The haunting masses
Have blackened the sun
You'll pay for everything you've done
One by one

[Chorus]
Is it my face you see?
Do I haunt you in your sleep?
On your hands and knees when you crawl
Through your nightmares
When there's no more grace
Does your heartbeat start to race?
Clawing everywhere in the dark
Poisonous shadows

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Is it my face you see?
Do I haunt you in your sleep?
On your hands and knees when you crawl
Through your nightmares
When there's no more grace
Does your heartbeat start to race?
Clawing everywhere in the dark
Poisonous shadows

[Chorus]
Is it my face you see?
Do I haunt you in your sleep?
On your hands and knees when you crawl
Through your nightmares
When there's no more grace
Does your heartbeat start to race?
Clawing everywhere in the dark
Poisonous shadows

[Outro]
"It's like, I woke up, and she was right there
You know, I could almost touch her
Although she's been gone for years now
I can feel her, I can feel her watching me"

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):

more tracks from the album

Dystopia

From the albums

Dystopia (2016)
Warheads on Foreheads (2019)

Megadeth popular songs

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