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Fast LaneMegadeth

Released: November 1, 2011

Songwriter: Johnny K Dave Mustaine

Producer: Johnny K Dave Mustaine

[Verse 1]
You don’t know what I feel
I get behind the wheel
A feeling in my soul
I hyperventilate as I accelerate
Till I’ve lost all control
My speed becomes relentless
Contesting all my senses
White line's appearing faster
Prompting death and disaster

[Pre-Chorus 1]
My supersonic machine
Get out of my...

[Chorus]
Fast lane, like a jet plane
Like a freight train, I’m driving insane
Addicted to the fast lane
Rushing to my brain
No time to explain, this is my domain
Addicted to the fast lane

[Verse 2]
I look into the mirror
Red lights are drawing nearer
They think I’ve met my match
But I shift into high gear
Soon they just disappear
You can’t jail what you can’t catch
My speed becomes relentless
I'm testing all my senses
White line's appearing faster
Taunting death and disaster

[Pre-Chorus 2]
I hear the engines screaming
I'm burning up the...

[Chorus]
Fast lane, like a jet plane
Like a freight train, I’m driving insane
Addicted to the fast lane
Rushing to my brain
No time to explain, this is my domain
Addicted to the fast lane

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
Fast lane!
Like a jet plane!
Like a freight train!
This is my domain!
Addicted to the fast lane!

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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