Megadeth

Released: November 1, 2011

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Johnny K Dave Mustaine

[Verse 1]
Come now my lovely, won't you
Take a midnight stroll with me?
Through the misty air the things
I keep I shouldn't dare
My garden's so inviting, and its
Deadly blooms are hiding
Be careful what you touch
Lest the grave is what you lust

[Chorus]
Draw the blinds, you're getting tired
Paralyzed, don't close your eyes
Gripped with fear, your dreams become nightmares
From the deadly nightshade

[Verse 2]
Each night at midnight
Dating back into the fog of time
Another victim falls
The things I've done; the voices call
The hourglass runs out on us
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
The killers must be fed, the soil is red
Now that you're dead

[Chorus]
Draw the blinds, you're getting tired
Paralyzed, don't close your eyes
Gripped with fear, your dreams become nightmares
From the deadly nightshade
Draw the blinds, you're getting tired
Paralyzed, don't close your eyes
Gripped with fear, your dreams become nightmares
From the deadly nightshade

[Bridge]
Delirium, your burning throat
Mania, your heart rate soars
Hallucination, losing your mind
Suffocation, cannot breathe
You're going blind

[Instrumental Break]

[Spoken]
"I don't know what is come over me
All of a sudden I feel like I need to lie down..."

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Draw the blinds, you're getting tired
Paralyzed, don't close your eyes
Gripped with fear, your dreams become nightmares
From the deadly nightshade
Draw the blinds, you're getting tired
Paralyzed, don't close your eyes
Gripped with fear, your dreams become nightmares
From the deadly nightshade

[Outro]
Deadly nightshade
Deadly nightshade
Nightshade
Nightshade

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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