Megadeth

Released: September 4, 2007

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Jeff Balding Dave Mustaine

[Intro]
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)

[Verse 1]
You take a mortal man
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
And put him in control
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
Watch him become a god
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguantе Megadeth!)
Watch peoplе's heads a'roll
A'roll, a'roll...

[Chorus]
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the symphony of destruction

[Verse 2]
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
Actin' like a robot
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
Its metal brain corrodes
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
You try to take its pulse
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
Before the head explodes
Explodes, explodes...

[Chorus]
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Swaying to the symphony of destruction

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)

[Verse 3]
The Earth starts to rumble
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
World powers fall
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
A'warring for the heavens
(Megadeth, Megadeth, aguante Megadeth!)
A peaceful man stands tall
A'tall, a'tall...

[Chorus]
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Swaying to the symphony of destruction

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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