Megadeth

Released: September 15, 2009

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Andy Sneap Dave Mustaine

[Intro]
"Attention! Attention!
All citizens are ordered to report to their
District detention centers!
Do not return to your homes
Do not contact anyone!
Do not use any cellular or GPS devices!
Surrender all weapons at once!
Attention! This way to the camps!"

[Verse 1]
I woke up in a black FEMA box
Darkness was all around me, in my coffin
My dreams are all nightmares anymore
And this is what I dream every night

[Verse 2]
The Leader of the New World Order
The President of the United States
Has declared anyone now residing inside the US of A
Without the RFID chip
You're just an illegal alien
An enemy combatant of America
Welcome to the New World Order

[Chorus]
This is the end of the road
This is the end of the line
This is the end of your life
This is the...

[Verse 3]
A society in a society
Inside the fence life as you know it stops
They got their rules of conduct and we got ours
Be quick or be dead
You crumble up and die
The clock is ticking so slowly
And so much can happen in an hour

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
This is the end of the road
This is the end of the line
This is the end of your life
This is the "endgame"

[Verse 4]
I learned my lessons the hard way
Every scar I earned
I had to bleed, inside the day yard
A system of controlled movement
Like a giant ant farm
Any time is long time
Now you're not
In charge of your time anymore

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
This is the end of the road
This is the end of the line
This is the end of your life
This is the end...

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 5]
The Ex-President signed
A secret bill that can
Land a legal US Citizen in jail
And the patriot act stripped away
Our constitutional rights
They say a Concentration camp
Just popped up, yeah, right!

[Verse 6]
Refuse the chip? Ha!
Get persecute and beat by the
Tyranny of Mind control
For the mark of the beast
All rights removed
You're punished, captured, and enslaved
Believe me when I say
"This is the endgame"

[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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