Megadeth

Released: September 15, 2009

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine Chris Broderick

Producer: Andy Sneap Dave Mustaine

Part 1: The Hardest Part of Letting Go

[Verse 1]
Such a pretty face, radiant
I saw you, across the room
I knew I had to have you
Thus started the chase
I knew I would do anything to take
Your hand and make you mine

[Chorus]
But I learned long ago
If you love someone you have to let it go
Let it go, let it go
The hardest part of letting go
Is saying goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye

Part 2: Sealed with a Kiss

[Verse 2]
Fettered away in a makeshift cell
Beneath the venomous moonlight
I unleash my plan to watch you fail
The one I held so high

[Refrain]
Go to sleep my love
Taste my sweet revenge on your lips
It's sealed with a kiss

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
I return to the masquerade ball
And leave the long figure weeping
Stone by stone, immured in the wall
Forever left in safekeeping

[Refrain]
Go to sleep my love
Taste my sweet revenge on your lips
It's sealed with a kiss

Part 1: The Hardest Part of Letting Go (continued...)

[Chorus]
But I learned long ago
If you love someone you have to let it go
Let it go, let it go
The hardest part of letting go
Is saying goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye

[Outro]
Goodbye, let it go

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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