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ParanoidMegadeth

Released: October 4, 1994

Songwriter: Bill Ward Geezer Butler Tony Iommi Ozzy Osbourne

Producer: Dave Mustaine Max Norman

[Verse 1]
Finished with my woman cause she couldn't help me with my mind
People think that I'm insane because I'm frowning all the time

[Verse 2]
All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy
Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify

[Chorus]
Can you help me occupy my brain?
Oh yeah
Yeah, yeah

[Verse 3]
I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find
I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]
Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry
Happiness I cannot feel so love to me is so unreal

[Verse 5]
And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state
I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late
It's too late
Too late

[Outro]
"Nick...Nick? Nick!"
"Fuck me running!"

Megadeth

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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