Megadeth

Released: September 15, 2009

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Andy Sneap Dave Mustaine

[Intro]
"73-43 requesting assistance, we have 2-11 in progress at the Bank of America, we have shots fired"
"One or two officers need help, be [?]
Do not approach the bank, do not approach the bank"
"Shots are being fired from AK-47, there is an officer down"
"They've all been down by automatic gunfire"

[Verse 1]
It was a cool winter's morning
Somewhere shortly past 9:00 AM
The armored car they wanted to heist wasn't coming
So instead, they went for the bank
The fateful duo that sat in the get-away car
Heavily sedated with thousands of rounds
Armor piercing, fully automatic weapons
The bowls of wrath poured out on the ground

[Chorus]
Baptized in a firefight
Hot blood running cold as ice
44 minutes of target practice
All Hell's breaking loose
Outgunned, watching "The Force" come to a firefight
With a pocketknife
Getting schooled until they shot Achilles' heel
And brought down the beast

[Verse 2]
This was an accident waiting to happen
It wasn't if it would happen, it was when
The city's people sabotaged themselves
Calling their firepower an unneeded expense
The two most violent men it seemed couldn't be stopped
Standard police issue guns were just not enough
But SWAT arrived and settled the fight
Between AK-47 and AR-15

[Chorus]
Baptized in a firefight
Hot blood running cold as ice
44 minutes of target practice
All Hell's breaking loose
Outgunned, watching "The Force" come to a firefight
With a pocketknife
Getting schooled until they shot Achilles' heel
And brought down the beast

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Baptized in a firefight
Hot blood running cold as ice
44 minutes of target practice
All Hell's breaking loose
Outgunned, watching "The Force" come to a firefight
With a pocketknife
Getting schooled until they shot Achilles' heel
And brought down the beast

[Instrumental Outro]

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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