Megadeth

Released: May 15, 2007

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Jeff Balding Andy Sneap Dave Mustaine

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
I should be calling collect from jail
For the things I commit each night in my head
Like last night in my sleep I got to snuff you
But then I woke up again, safe in my little bed

[Refrain]
No one is safe when I close my eyes
I come to take your life

[Verse 2]
I get to force your untimely disappearance
Each night in my dreams, when I'm fast asleep
I close my eyes, and you just vanish soon as I
Lay down my head when I'm dead to the whole wide world

[Refrain]
No one is safe when I close my eyes
I come to take your life

[Pre-Chorus 1]
And then I wake up
And it was all just a dream
And everything is the same

[Chorus 1]
Sleepwalker... did I give you concrete shoes
And throw you off of a bridge
Sleepwalker... when I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul's mine to keep I feel you near me
Go to sleep... sleepwalker

[Post-Chorus]
Just taking a stroll; don't go to sleep!
Here's some toothpicks for your eyes!

[Verse 3]
You always make an excellent cadaver
I roll up your body in a carpet to make music in the
Trunk of my limousine, wrapped up in a rug
A fitting end is that I send you up the river like a punk

[Refrain]
No one is safe when I close my eyes
I come to take your life

[Verse 4]
The angel of death is pissed off at me again
Just because I got to put you out of my misery
It doesn't matter, I am without fear
Now you're dead, I won't shed another bloody tear for you

[Refrain]
No one is safe when I close my eyes
I come to take your life

[Pre-Chorus 2]
I'm calling down the thunder
Then you'll sleep with the fishes
The answer to all of my wishes

[Chorus 2]
Sleepwalker... did I tell you I was in movies?
Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch
Sleepwalker... every day, another way, I know you can hear me

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 5]
I think you'd look nice in a Colombian necktie
Should stop your tongue from wagging the dog
No more stupidity from you as I pull your tongue through
For a smile from ear to ear, now there's nothing to hear

[Refrain]
No one is safe when I close my eyes
I come to take your life

[Pre-Chorus 3]
And then I wake up
And it was all just a dream
And everything is still the same

[Chorus 3]
Sleepwalker... did I give you concrete shoes?
And throw your body off of a bridge
Sleepwalker... when I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul's mine to keep, I feel you near me
Sleepwalker... or did I tell you I was in movies?
Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch
Sleepwalker... every day, another way, I know you can hear me

[Outro]
Sleepwalker... did I buy you the farm?
Put a horse head in your bed
Sleepwalker... when I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep, I feel you near me
Sleepwalker... every day, every day another way
Sleepwalker... when I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep, I know you can hear me

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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