Megadeth

Released: June 4, 2013

Featuring: David Draiman

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Johnny K Dave Mustaine

[Verse 1]
Sentenced to work a dead end 9 to 5
Trapped in a dingy corporate cubicle hell
Then go to work in the darkness on the midnight shift
Any chance you get, selling gas at the corner Shell
Three letters groups listening in on you
Under surveillance courtesy of Big Brother in your car
Drones monitor each and every move you make
It doesn't matter who you know
Or who you think you are

[Verse 2]
You'll never see a ray of daylight
So far in debt you're struggling to survive
But you will break your back fighting (and they'll help)
Before you let them break your pride

[Pre-Chorus]
"Powers that be" will never win
A storm is coming, get ready

[Chorus]
You better learn to dance in the rain
Instead of wait for the sun
Learn to dance in the rain
The sun will never come

[Verse 3]
Down on your luck
You had your hand out once or twice
But all you wanted was just a hand, they say
"You have the right to remain silent"
So shut your mouth
Don't mention the broken promises
And lies of hope and change

[Pre-Chorus]
"Powers that be" will never win
A storm is coming, get ready

[Chorus]
You better learn to dance in the rain
Instead of wait for the sun
Learn to dance in the rain
The sun will never come

[Post-Chorus]
Never come, dance in the rain
It ain't gonna come

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]
Enslave and impoverish the middle class
Make them dependent then strip it all away
Al-CIA-da, destruction, and democide
Addiction, corruption, every word's a lie
Races, classes, sexes, religious wars
Destroy the family, and what love is for

[Verse 5]
The Fed and the Bankers own all the politicians
May I introduce you to the sons of perdition?
Replace the dictators Washington appointed
The Devil Messiahs and the dangerously disappointed
They lie to themselves, pleased with what they've done
Soon they all will be repaid and there's nowhere to run

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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