Megadeth

Released: May 15, 2001

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Bill Kennedy Dave Mustaine

[Verse 1]
One man speaking the truth
No one likes when it fits
So we tell soothing lies
And betray our own lips
The uncivilized world
And its people decay
Once sweet breeze is defiled
Sucking our breath away

[Pre-Chorus]
Yesterday's answers has nothing to do
With today's questions

[Chorus]
Life can only be understood in reverse
But must be lived forwards
I'm losing my senses

[Verse 2]
I'm losing my senses
We watch as the living all die
Contemplating if we should
Ever open our eyes
If all that we touch
Keeps turning to sand
We will cease to exist
Till the last living man

[Pre-Chorus]
Yesterday's answers has nothing to do
With today's questions

[Chorus]
Life can only be understood in reverse
But must be lived forward
Life can only be understood in reverse
But must be lived forward
I'm losing my senses

[Instrumental Break]

[Pre-Chorus]
Yesterday's answers has nothing to do
With today's questions

[Chorus]
Life can only be understood in reverse
But must be lived forwards
Life can only be understood in reverse
But must be lived forwards

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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