Megadeth

Released: March 19, 2002

Songwriter: David Ellefson Marty Friedman

Producer: Dave Mustaine Bill Kennedy

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
I like the way that I make you itch
And all the reasons I give you to bitch
And how I make you wanna scream in pain
And feel your life is just a losing game
I like the way that you let me in
The way you look when the walls cave in
I like the way that your stomach knots
And how you cry for it all to stop
I like the way that you fool yourself
And make believe there's nobody else
I like the way that you stand in line
And beg salvation from the empty skies, empty skies

[Chorus]
Don't want no revenge
Ain't no payback time
It ain't no getting even
Here comes the reckoning day, day, day, day

[Verse 2]
I like the things that you try to fake
And your face when I see you break
And that you say you will pray for me
You realise you are prey for me
I like the way you stay on attack
No matter what, I keep coming back
And how you try to hold me down
But you end up driven to the ground, to the ground

[Chorus]
Don't want no revenge
Ain't no payback time
It ain't no getting even
Here comes the reckoning

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Don't want no revenge (don't want no revenge)
Ain't no payback time (ain't no payback time)
It ain't no getting even (it ain't no getting even)
Here comes the reckoning
Here comes the reckoning day, day, day

[Post-Chorus]
Here comes the reckoning day
Here comes the reckoning day
Here comes the reckoning day
Here comes the reckoning day
Here comes the reckoning
Here comes the reckoning day
Oh, here it comes...
It's coming to getcha...

[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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