Released: November 25, 2015
Songwriter: Dave Mustaine
Producer: Chris Rakestraw Dave Mustaine
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Justified obliteration
No one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover-ups
Will leprosy touch their flesh?
For backroom meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest
[Chorus 1]
The clock runs out
The weakest link
A deadly strike
The threat is real!
[Verse 2]
See the burnished images
Of a crest fallen agency
Violent conditioning
Caused the nature of the enemy
Your terminal lack of vision
Blinded eyes see no light
A chronic lack of perspective
Their cancer now eats us alive
[Chorus 2]
A fatal shot
A lust for blood
The final act
The threat is real!
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 1]
Justified obliteration
No one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover-ups
Will leprosy touch their flesh?
For backroom meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest
[Chorus 1]
The clock runs out
The weakest link
A deadly strike
The threat is real!
[Chorus 2]
A fatal shot
A lust for blood
The final act
The threat is real!
[Verse 1]
Justified obliteration
No one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover-ups
Will leprosy touch their flesh?
For backroom meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest
[Chorus 1]
The clock runs out
The weakest link
A deadly strike
The threat is real!
[Verse 2]
See the burnished images
Of a crest fallen agency
Violent conditioning
Caused the nature of the enemy
Your terminal lack of vision
Blinded eyes see no light
A chronic lack of perspective
Their cancer now eats us alive
[Chorus 2]
A fatal shot
A lust for blood
The final act
The threat is real!
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 1]
Justified obliteration
No one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover-ups
Will leprosy touch their flesh?
For backroom meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest
[Chorus 1]
The clock runs out
The weakest link
A deadly strike
The threat is real!
[Chorus 2]
A fatal shot
A lust for blood
The final act
The threat is real!
more tracks from the album
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- Tornado of Souls
- Trust
- She-Wolf
- Wanderlust
- Dread and the Fugitive Mind
- Blackmail the Universe
- Washington Is Next!
- Head Crusher
- Public Enemy No. 1
- Hangar 18
- Rust in Peace... Polaris
- Kingmaker
- Five Magics
- The Threat Is Real
- Dystopia
- Death from Within
- Angry Again
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
- Train of Consequences
- Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
- Rattlehead
- Mechanix
- Wake Up Dead
- The Conjuring
- Devils Island
- Good Mourning/Black Friday
- Set the World Afire
- In My Darkest Hour
- À Tout le Monde
- Take No Prisoners
- Skin o’ My Teeth
- Symphony of Destruction
- Sweating Bullets
- Reckoning Day
- Poisonous Shadows
From the albums
- Dystopia (2016)
- Warheads on Foreheads (2019)
Megadeth popular songs
- 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!