Question
ScorpioN,
whats up? I just discovered the "scorpion" section of megadeth.com and I thought it'd be cool if my question was on the greatest band in the worlds web page, so metal heads from all over the world could read it. And it'd be my only real connection to megadeth....
my question is this: the song "Scorpion" or "The Scorpion" whichever it is, is fuckin bad ass. But what is it about? I was thinking to myself (because of the chorus) that it's about one night stands and shit you know? 'as I climb on to your back I will promise not to sting I will tell you what you wanna hear and not mean anything' kinda symbolizes to me a guy acting all nice and respectable and telling the girl she's beautiful and yada yada yadajust to f*!k her. 'Then I treat you like a dog as I shoot my venom in, you pretend you didn't know that I am a scorpion' to me means like the guy just blows her off after he busts his nut and the chick is pissed that he's a dick and not the nice guy he pretended to be, but it was apparent all along, all she had to do was look. Anyways, could you clarify this for me?
Thanks. josh
Answer
If that's what you get from the song mate, then so be it. Far be it from me to stand in the way of your creative, yet interesting thinking. Megadeth's songs have many meanings, but what Dave Mustaine has said in interviews about this particular song is that The Scorpion is about Aesop's Fable, a parable about destructive nature. In the fable a scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion says, "Because if I do, I will die too."The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp "Why?" Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."
The moral of the story? It is in the evil Scorpions nature to behave as he did, if you try to help evil it will destroy you, even if it means the evil creatures self destruction. You could apply the same parable to many situations in life, including the one you illustrated for us. I reckon you could say your take is a modern version of Aesop's Fable.
