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YouthanasiaMegadeth

Released: November 1, 1994

Songwriter: Dave Mustaine

Producer: Dave Mustaine Max Norman

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Who'd believe with the way things are here?
We'd be goin' anywhere telling people how to live
Who'd believe we'd spend more shippin' drugs and guns than to educate our sons?
Sorry, but that's what they did

[Pre-Chorus]
I can't help but think
I can't help but think
I can't help but think
Someone's forsaken you and me

[Verse 2]
Luck deserted me and the truth beat out my brains
Men rise on stepping stones of their selves to higher things
I've stepped over lots of bodies on my way
Thanks for the information, don't need no more anything

[Pre-Chorus]
I can't help but think
I can't help but think
I can't help but think
Someone's forsaken you and me

[Chorus]
We are the damned of all the world
With sadness in our hearts
The wounded of the wars
We've been hung out to dry
You didn't want us anyway
And now we're making up our minds
You tell us how to run our lives
We run for youthanasia

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
We are the damned of all the world
With sadness in our hearts
The wounded of the wars
We've been hung out to dry
You didn't want us anyway
And now we're making up our minds
You tell us how to run our lives
We run for youthanasia

[Outro]
We are the damned of all the world
With sadness in our hearts
The wounded of the wars
We run for youthanasia

Megadeth

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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