Released: November 1, 1994
Songwriter: Dave Mustaine
Producer: Max Norman Dave Mustaine
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
I'm doing you a favor
As I'm taking all your money
I guess I should feel sorry
But I don't even trust me
There's bad news creeping up
And you feel a sudden chill
"How do you do? My name is Trouble."
I'm coming in for the kill
[Pre-Chorus 1]
In for the kill
Ooh, and you know I will
[Chorus]
Set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back, oh
[Verse 2]
No horse ever ran as fast
As the money that you bet
I'm blowing on my cards
And I play them to my chest
Life's fabric is corrupt
Shot through with corroded thread
As for me, I hocked my brains
Packed my bags and headed west
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I hocked my brains
Headed west
[Chorus]
Oh, set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Oh, set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back
[Chorus]
Set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back
[Instrumental Outro]
[Verse 1]
I'm doing you a favor
As I'm taking all your money
I guess I should feel sorry
But I don't even trust me
There's bad news creeping up
And you feel a sudden chill
"How do you do? My name is Trouble."
I'm coming in for the kill
[Pre-Chorus 1]
In for the kill
Ooh, and you know I will
[Chorus]
Set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back, oh
[Verse 2]
No horse ever ran as fast
As the money that you bet
I'm blowing on my cards
And I play them to my chest
Life's fabric is corrupt
Shot through with corroded thread
As for me, I hocked my brains
Packed my bags and headed west
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I hocked my brains
Headed west
[Chorus]
Oh, set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Oh, set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back
[Chorus]
Set the ball a-rolling
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the train of consequences
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The train of consequences
There ain't no turning back
[Instrumental Outro]
Warchest
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- Ashes In Your Mouth (Live at the Cow Palace, San Francisco)
- High Speed Dirt (Live at the Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI, 23/5/92)
- Skin o’ My Teeth (Live at the Alpine Valley, East Troy, Wisconsin 5/23/92)
- Architecture of Aggression (Demo)
- Keeping Score... (Interview)
- Five Magics (Demo)
- Tornado of Souls (Demo)
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Casey McMakin Demo)
- Dark Themes... (Interview)
- Anarchy/Problems (Session Take)
- Never Say Die (Live)
- Duke Nukem Theme
- Coming Home
- One Thing
- Sweating Bullets (Live from the Cow Palace, San Francisco)
- Breakpoint (Session Take)
- Strange Ways
- Anarchy In The U.K. (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Black Friday (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Peace Sells (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Take No Prisoners (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Devil’s Island (Live at Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Lucretia (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- In My Darkest Hour (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- The Conjuring (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- The Skull Beneath The Skin (Live from Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Hook in Mouth (Live from the Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Hangar 18 (Live at the Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Wake Up Dead (Live at the Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Intro/Rattlehead (Live at Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- A Secret Place (Live at Woodstock, New York, 25/7/99)
- It’s Electric (Live at Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
- Into the Lungs of Hell
- Hangar 18
- The Killing Road
- Train of Consequences
- Reckoning Day
- Foreclosure of a Dream
- Symphony of Destruction
- À Tout le Monde
- Hook in Mouth
- Liar
- In My Darkest Hour
- Set the World Afire
- Devils Island
- Peace Sells
- Wake Up Dead
- The Skull Beneath the Skin
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- Go to Hell
- Angry Again
- Kill the King
- Of Mice and Men
- Kick the Chair
- Dread and the Fugitive Mind
- 1000 Times Goodbye
- Moto Psycho
- Crush ’Em
- Insomnia
- She-Wolf
- Use the Man
- Almost Honest
- Trust
- Diadems
- Paranoid
- Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
- Youthanasia (1994)
- Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years (2000)
- Greatest Hits: Back to the Start (2005)
- Warchest (2007)
- Anthology: Set the World Afire (2008)
- Warheads on Foreheads (2019)
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
- À Tout le Monde
- Tornado of Souls
- Symphony of Destruction
- Peace Sells
- In My Darkest Hour
- Sweating Bullets
- Hangar 18
- Rust in Peace... Polaris
- Five Magics
- Mechanix
- Take No Prisoners
- Dystopia
- Trust
- The Conjuring
- Hook in Mouth
- Countdown to Extinction
- Lucretia
- Good Mourning/Black Friday
- Set the World Afire
- Angry Again
- Wake Up Dead
- Dawn Patrol
- Conquer or Die!