Released: May 15, 2007 | Roadrunner Records
United Abominations
United Abominations is Megadeth’s most musically pointed and lyrically poignant effort of the past decade. Bolstered by a band that holds its own against even the classic ‘Deth daze, the band’s Roadrunner Records debut is brimming with musical moments that scream vintage Megadeth, all bound together by a lyrical fusion of political rhetoric and Mustaine’s wise-ass wit. The album debuted at #8 on U.S. Billboard charts, #5 in Canada and #23 in the U.K.
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Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
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
No one is safe when I close my eyes
I come to take your life
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
No one is safe when I close my eyes
I come to take your life
And then I wake up and it was all just a dream
And everything is the same
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
Just taking a stroll; don't go to sleep!
Here's some toothpicks for your eyes!
You always make an excellent cadaver
I roll your body up 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
No one is safe when I close my eyes
I come to take your life
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
No one is safe when I close my eyes
I come to take your life
I'm calling down the thunder, then you'll sleep with the fishes
The answer to all of my wishes
Sleepwalker - Did I tell you I was in movies?
Then dump you garroted, lying naked in a ditch
Sleepwalker - Everyday, another way
I know you can hear me
Solo - Mustaine
Solo - Drover
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
No one is safe when I close my eyes; I come to take your life
And then I wake up and it was all just a dream
And everything is still the same
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 - Everyday, another way, I know you can hear me
Sleepwalker - Did I buy you the farm?
Put a horse head in your bed
Sleepwalker - When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul's mine to keep, I feel you near me
Sleepwalker - Everyday
Everyday another way
Sleepwalker - When I lay down to sleep
Pray your soul is mine to keep, I know you can hear me
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Washington Is Next!
Washington Is Next!
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
The quiet war has begun with silent weapons
And the new slavery is to keep the people
Poor and stupid, "Novus Ordo Seclorum"
How can there be any logic in biological war?
We all know this is wrong, but the New World Order's
Beating down the door, oh something needs to be done
There was a king, an evil king
Who dreamt the wickedest of dreams
An ancient mystery, no prophet could interpret
Of seven years of famine, the wolf is at my door
As predicted years ago, that that was, that is, that is no more
The word predicts the future and tells the truth about the past
Of how the world leaders will hail the new Pharoah
The eighth false king to the throne; Washington is next!
Disengage their minds, sabotage their health
Promote sex, and war, and violence in the kindergartens
Blame the parents and teachers; it's their fault
"Annuit Coeptis"
Attack the church dynamic, attack the family
Keep the public undisciplined till nothing left is sacred and
The "have-nots" get hooked and have to go to the "haves"
Just to cop a fix
I am the king, an evil king
Who dreams the wickedest of dreams
An ancient mystery, nobody could interpret
Of seven empires falling, the wolf is at my door
As predicted years ago, that that was, that is, that is no more
The word predicts my future and tells the truth about my past
Of how the world's leaders are waiting to usher in
The eighth world power of modern Rome; Washington is next!
Solo - Mustaine
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
Solo - Drover
There was a king, an evil king
Who dreamt the wickedest of dreams
An ancient mystery, no prophet could interpret
Of seven empires falling, the wolf is at my door
As predicted years ago, that that was, that is, that is no more
I am a king and I dream the wildest dreams
And nobody could interpret
Seven empires falling, the wolf is at my door
Ohh, that that was, that is, that is no more
Solo - Mustaine
Solo - Drover
There's something at my door, some ancient mystery
The future tells the truth about the past
And I'm the eighth false king to the throne
I've got you in my crosshairs, now, ain't that a bitch?
Washington, you're next!
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Never Walk Alone... A Call to Arms
Never Walk Alone... A Call to Arms
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine/G. Drover
Hiding in any doorway, in any shadow
Any place where danger waits to kill my time
There is one who loves and waits, to seal your fate
As sure as you live and die
When you feel that something's wrong
I'll shelter you and keep you warm
I'll never let you walk alone
I loved you when you still hated me
I'm coming and it won't be long
Time to reap what I have sown
Never ever let you walk alone
I know your enemy, it once was me
Solo - Drover
Let me wrap my arms all around you
Suffer the trespasses that you've made
I will drink your pain away, forever and a day
If you just call out my name - even whisper it
When you feel that something's wrong
I'll shelter you and keep you warm
I'll never let you walk alone
I loved you when you still hated me
I'm coming and it won't be long
Time to reap what I have sewn
Never ever let you walk alone
I know your enemy, it once was me
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
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United Abominations
United Abominations
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
Less than five miles from Ground Zero sits an International hotbed, the United 'Abominations' as it were. Created to prevent wars and promote peace, it failed to address the most dangerous threats facing the world.
In a mire of hypocrisy, bribes, kickbacks, and corruption, the UN enables terrorism, and ignores sex crimes by its peacekeepers. The UN is where our so-called allies undermine us, and we pay 22% of their tab to host our enemies here at home.
Ambassadors from dirt-poor countries enjoy luxurious, tax-free Manhattan lifestyles, turning children into sex-slaves and enjoy Diplomatic immunity. It's a complete and utter disgrace, a blot on the face of humanity, and they get away with it.
Poverty in their kitchens
Held hostage by oil-for-food
Yet their own plates are full off the fat of their lands
There's no blood on their hands, right Kojo?
They promised to tell the truth
Without leaving a fingerprint, but
They will lose the UN one way or another
The victim, I fear will be us, sisters and brothers
The UN is right; you can't be any more 'un'
Than you are right now, the UN is undone
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun
The threat is real, the Locust King has come
Don't tell me the truth; I don't like what they've done
Just give me ammo for the United Abominations
A grave and gathering danger
The decision to attack
Based on secret intelligence it'll take years
I fear to undo the failings in Iraq
You may bury the bodies
But you can't bury the crimes only
Fools stand up and really lay down their arms
No, not me, not when Death lasts forever
The UN is right; you can't be any more 'un'
Than you are right now, the UN is undone
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun
The threat is real, the Locust King has come
Don't tell me the truth; I don't like what they've done
Just give me ammo for the United Abominations
The UN is right; you can't be any more 'un'
Than you are right now, the UN is undone
Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun
The threat is real, the Locust King has come
Don't tell me the truth; I don't like what they've done
Just give me ammo for the United Abominations
NATO invaded Yugoslavia to end ethnic cleansing, there was no UN
The US invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, there was no UN
Saddam Hussein violated 17 UN resolutions; The UN was asked to join the war in Iraq. The US invaded, there was no UN
Libya bombed a discotheque in Berlin killing Americans, there was no UN
Iran funds Hamas, and attacked the US in the seventies, there was no UN
Facing War without end, looking into the future, there was no more UN
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Gears of War
Gears of War
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
Ethnic cleansing with no defending
These acts of genocide
A fatal ending with no surrendering
To cover up the crimes and lie
Smart bombs, precision guided armament
A more sophisticated way to end up dead
Still we search and invent such intelligent weapons
That kill each other like the gears of war, hoo-rah!!!
Gears of war
If you ride with thieves, then you die with thieves
Cross my heart and hope that you die!
When the smoke has cleared, the devil's in the mirror
And you see his warheads paint the sky, now you die!
Smart bombs, precision guided armament
A more sophisticated way to end up dead
Still we search and invent such intelligent weapons
That kill each other like the Gears of War
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
Solo - Drover
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Blessed Are the Dead
Blessed Are the Dead
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
A great sign appeared
Under the stars and the moon
Sounds of galloping horses
On clouds of lightning and thunder
A dark gathering storm
To scorch the earth for many generations
A nuclear winter
Worse than any cold or holy war
A white horse on the clouds of death
A red warhorse to end all wars
A pale horse and pestilence led
by a black horse with famine and scales
The doctrine of hatred, nation will rise against nation
Wash me in blood and let me be the first born of the dead
A crowned rider with arrows and bow
A red rider with a great firey sword
Plagues from the one colored death
Horror and apocalypse follows
Ride, won't you four horsemen ride again
Before this kingdom's blown to kingdom come
Ride, I hold fast to what I believe till I see my name in stone
Blessed are the dead, that they may rest
A white horse on the clouds of death
A red warhorse to end all wars
A pale horse and pestilence led
By a black horse with famine and scales
The synagogue of Satan
Nation will rise against nation
Wash me in blood and let me be
The firstborn of the dead
A crowned rider with arrows and bow
A red rider with a great firey sword
Plagues from the one called death
Horror and apocalypse follows
Ride, won't you four horsemen ride again
Before this kingdom is blown to kingdom come
Ride, I hold fast to what I believe till I see my name in stone
Blessed are the dead
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine -
Play for Blood
Play for Blood
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
Solo - Mustaine
Anybody searching for action
Anything to feel the emptiness inside
Any place that the streets are empty
Any takers wanna pour out their lives
With fire and lighting shooting from my hand
And desolation written across my eyes
My itchy finger on hairpin trigger
My tempers hot and my patience's taken flight
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
Inside the abattoir
The cover charge is somebody's gotta die
Now, I hear you screaming out for mercy
Last man that's standing wins the fight
Too late, I see your end zero in on you
Even mortal enemies they can't deny
Let me help you up again
The wings of God surround me
I live to play because I know I'll never die
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
If I win again, I'm still the champion
And if you win, ha, that's just impossible!
I don't play for keeps; I don't play for your soul
I don't play to win, I don't play for it all
I play for blood
Solo - Mustaine
Solo - Drover
I don't play for keeps, I play for blood
Solo - Mustaine
I don't play for your soul, I play for blood
Solo - Drover
I don't play for to win, I play for blood
Solo - Mustaine
I don't play for it all, I play for blood
Solo - Drover
Play for blood -
À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)
À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
Don't remember where I was
I realized life was a game
The more seriously I took things
The harder the rules became
I had no idea what it'd cost
My life passed before my eyes
I found out how little I accomplished
All my plans denied
So as you read this know my friends
I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile when you think of me
My body's gone that's all
À tout le monde, À tout mes amis
Je vous aime, je dois partir
These are the last words I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free
If my heart was still alive
I know it would surely break
And my memories left with you
There's nothing more to say
Moving on is a simple thing
What it leaves behind is hard
You know the sleeping feel no more pain
And the living all are scarred
À tout le monde, À tout mes amis
Je vous aime, je dois partir
These are the last words I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free
Solo - Drover
So as you read this know my friends
I'd love to stay with you all
Please smile, smile when you think about me
My body's gone that's all
À tout le monde, À tout mes amis
Je vous aime, je dois partir
These are the last words I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free
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Amerikhastan
Amerikhastan
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
Recruiting the ill-fated for "The War"
A legion of uneducated, bankrupt souls
With a lust for revenge, answering the call
From New Yorqatar to Califarabia
Desperation provides fertile ground for religious extremism
This glorious brainwashing where prejudice lies
Like a crouching tiger
Tormenting peasants till they erect an army
Under everyone's nose
In the end propaganda destroys their DNA, God help them
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
All that they envisioned of what things would come to be
Turned into a pink mist when they blew to smithereens
We are just a war away from Amerikhastan
When God versus God; the undoing of man
Promising a vapor, in the end they become one
Solo - Drover
No rules of engagement, this enemy hides
Amongst women and children
And to beat violence, you must ignore the focus groups
You must send in the Mossad, turn of the BBC, CNN
And don't look back
Rest assured there'll be no more Middle Eastern crisis, hell!
There'll be no more Middle East!
These are your people Lady Liberty
Pull up your dress today
And tattooed is "Property of the USA
A subsidiary of Halliburton"
Surprise?
But a roaring lion is about to be unleashed on earth
Hey, Jihad Joe? Guess what? We're coming to get you!
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
All that you envisioned of what things will come to be
Turns into a death knell when you look behind the scenes
We are just a war away from Amerikhastan
When God versus God; the undoing of man
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
Solo - Drover
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You're Dead
You're Dead
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
When someone becomes nothing to anyone
Whilst feelings have died, anyone would know it
They set out stick and stones
They say they'd crush my bones
I say, I don't get mad, I get even, before they do
Spoils go to the victor and dead on time
Your time is going to come
One day I'll dance on your graves
Even if you're buried at sea
Till then, till when I exact my revenge
I'll tell them, "You're dead to me"
Solo - Drover
We're all just trying to hold on to innocence
You'd think they'd know that's what we're trying to do
These wounds are invisible
Underneath the dirt I still see the scars
Back then when things got bad
And we spread our wings and fly away
You'll take all of your riches in the back of a hearse
Your time is going to come
One day I'll dance on your grave
Even if you're buried at sea
Till then, till when I exact my revenge
I'll tell them, "You're dead to me"
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
One day I'll dance on your grave
Even if you're buried at sea
Till then, till when I exact my revenge
One day I'll dance on your grave
Even if you're buried at sea
Till then, till when I exact my revenge
I'll tell them, "you're dead to me"
Solo - Drover -
Burnt Ice
Burnt Ice
Music & Lyrics by: Mustaine
Solo - Mustaine
He said he'd try just a little bit
Solo - Mustaine
He didn't want to end up like them
Solo - Drover
And now he blames the voices of a toothless wonder
Solo - Mustaine
Pounding on the door to make the next score
Solo - Mustaine
Anything for a hit, any sin to pay for it
For that next bowl, he'd sell his soul
Spiral to destruction, it's too late to break the spell
He wants the ride to stop on the freight train straight to Hell
Without the truth he'll never find in a dungeon of his lies
His cause of death... high speed on burnt ice
Solo - Mustaine
Always looking at the ground. a broken, beaten man
Memories of his family are calling after him
He can hardly think, hardly walk
Phone keeps ringing, he can't talk
With just one hit the pain would go away
But he's dead if he does
Solo - Drover
Solo - Mustaine
Solo - Drover
Shadow people follow him everywhere he goes
Looking over his shoulder, the paranoia grows
Solo - Mustaine -
Out on the Tiles [Japan Bonus Track]
Out on the Tiles [Japan Bonus Track]
Music & Lyrics by: Jimmy Page/John Bonham/Robert Plant
As I walk down the highway all I do is sing this song
And a train that's passin' my way helps the rhythm move along
There is no doubt about the words are clear
The voice is strong, is oh so strong
I'm just a simple guy, I live from day to day
A ray of sunshine melts my frown and blows my blues away
There's nothing more that I can say but on a day like today
I pass the time away and walk a quiet mile with you
All I need from you is all your love
All you got to give to me is all your love
All I need from you is all your love
All you got to give to me is all your love
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
I'm so glad I'm living and gonna tell the world I am
I got me a fine woman and she says that I'm her man
One thing that I know for sure gonna give her all the loving
Like nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody can
Standing in the noonday sun trying to flag a ride
People go and people come, see my rider right by my side
It's a total disgrace, they set the pace, it must be a race
And the best thing I can do is run
All I need from you is all your love
All you got to give to me is all your love
All I need from you is all your love
All you got to give to me is all your love
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
