Megadeth

Released: May 15, 2001

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Bill Kennedy Dave Mustaine

[Verse 1]
Behind closed doors
All you live for is taking
That double life of yours
Has left your whole world shaking
Who are you fooling?
I know you hear the laughter
Don't you hear people talking?
What is it that you're after?

[Chorus]
Turn off your conscience
Leave the world outside
Nothing at all can ever make you feel
That anything's real
So you just disconnect

[Verse 2]
The key to save yourself
If for nothing else
A tongue can never hold
The truth of silence is golden
With a broken heart
Underneath all of the pain
Do you stroke the pretty scars?
The hurt never ends, ooh

[Chorus]
Turn off your conscience
Leave the world outside
Nothing at all can ever make you feel
That anything's real
So you just disconnect

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
Turn off your conscience
Leave the world outside
Nothing at all can ever make you feel
That anything's real (That anything's real)
So you just disconnect
Turn off your conscience
Leave the world outside
Nothing at all can ever make you feel
That anything's real
So you just disconnect

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):

more tracks from the album

The World Needs a Hero

From the album

The World Needs a Hero (2001)

Megadeth popular songs

DisconnectMegadeth

Megadeth

The World Needs a Hero