Released: June 28, 2005   |  Capitol Records

• HOLY WARS...THE PUNISHMENT DUE

  HOLY WARS...THE PUNISHMENT DUE

  Solo - Mustaine
  
  Brother will kill brother
  Spilling blood across the land
  Killing for religion
  Something I don't understand
  
  Fools like me who cross the sea
  And come to foreign lands
  Ask the sheep for their beliefs
  Do you kill on God's command?
  
  A country that's divided
  Surely will not stand
  My past erased, no more disgrace
  No foolish naive stand
  
  The end is near, it's crystal clear
  Part of the master plan
  Don't look now to Israel
  It might be your homelands
  Holy wars
  
  Solo - Friedman
  
  Up on my podium, as the
  Know-it-all scholar
  Down in my seat of judgement
  Gavel's bang, uphold the law
  Up on my soapbox, a leader
  Out to change the world
  Down in my pulpit as the holier-than-thou
  Could-be-messenger of God
  
  Wage the war on organized crime
  Sneak attacks, rappel down the rocks
  Behind the lines
  Some people risk to employ me
  Some people live to destroy me
  Either way they die, they die
  
  Solo - Friedman
  
  They killed my wife and my baby
  With hopes to enslave me
  First mistake, last mistake
  Paid by the alliance, to slay all the giants
  Next mistake, no more mistakes
  
  Solo - Friedman
  Solo - Mustaine
  
  Fill the cracks in with judicial granite
  Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't thinking it
  Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
  I know what I said now I must scream
  Of the overdose and the lack of mercy killings
  Mercy killings, mercy killings, killings, killings, killings
  Next thing you know they'll take my thoughts away

• IN MY DARKEST HOUR

  IN MY DARKEST HOUR

  Solo - Mustaine
  
  In my hour of need,
  Ha, no, you're not there
  And though I reached out for you,
  Wouldn't lend a hand
  
  Through the darkest hour,
  Your grace did not shine on me
  Feels so cold, very cold,
  No one cares for me
  
  Did you ever think I get lonely?
  Did you ever think that I needed love?
  Did you ever think, stop thinking
  You're the only one that I'm thinking of?
  
  You'll never know how hard I tried
  To find my space and satisfy you too
  
  Things will be better when I'm dead and gone
  Don't try to understand, knowing you, I'm probably wrong
  
  But, oh how I lived my life for you,
  Till you'd turn away
  Now, as I die for you,
  My flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
  All these years, thought I was wrong,
  Now I know it was you
  Raise you head, raise your face, your eyes,
  Tell me who you think you are?
  
  I walk, I walk alone
  To the promised land
  There's a better place for me
  But it's far, far away
  
  Everlasting life for me
  In a perfect world
  But I got to die first,
  Please God send me on my way
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  
  Time has a way of taking time
  Loneliness is not only felt be fools
  Alone, I call to ease the pain,
  Yearning to be held by you
  Alone, so alone, I'm lost,
  Consumed by the pain
  The pain, the pain, the pain
  Won't you hold me again
  You just laughed, ha-ha, you bitch
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  
  My whole life is work built on the past,
  The time has come when all things shall pass,
  This good thing passed away
  
  Solo - Young
  Solo - Mustaine
  
  Music - Mustaine
  Lyrics - Mustaine/Ellefson

• PEACE SELLS

  PEACE SELLS

  Solo - Mustaine
  
  What do you mean I don't believe in God?
  Talk to him every day
  What do you mean I don't support your system?
  I go to court when I have to
  What do you mean I can't get to work on time?
  Got nothing better to do
  What do you mean I don't pay my bills?
  Why do you think I'm broke? Huh?
  
  If there's a new way
  I'll be the first in line
  But, it better work this time
  
  Solo - Poland
  
  What do you mean I hurt your feelings?
  I didn't know you had any feelings
  
  Solo - Poland
  
  What do you mean I ain't kind?
  Just not your kind
  
  Solo - Poland
  
  What do you mean I couldn't be President Of the United States of America?
  
  Solo - Poland
  
  Tell me something, it's still 'We the people', right?
  
  Solo - Poland
  
  If there's a new way
  I'll be the first in line
  But, it better work this time
  
  Solo - Poland
  Solo - Mustaine
  Solo - Poland
  Solo - Mustaine
  
  Can you put a price on peace?
  Peace, peace sells, peace, peace sells
  Peace sells, but who's buying?
  
  Solo - Poland
  
  Peace sells, but who's buying?
  No, no, no, no, no!
  
  Solo - Poland
  
  Peace sells
  
  Solo - Poland
  
  Peace sells
  

• SWEATING BULLETS

  SWEATING BULLETS

  Hello me, meet the real me
  And my misfit's way of life
  A dark, black past is my
  Most valued possession
  Hindsight is always 20-20
  But looking back, it's still a bit fuzzy
  Speak of mutually assured destruction?
  Nice story, Tell it to Reader's Digest®!
  
  Feeling paranoid
  True enemy or false friend?
  Anxiety's attacking me
  And my air is getting thin
  I'm in trouble for the things
  I haven't got to yet
  I'm chomping at the bit
  And my palms are getting wet
  Sweating bullets
  
  Hello me, it's me again
  You can subdue, but never tame me
  It gives me a migraine headache
  Sinking down to your level
  Yea, just keep on thinking it's my fault
  And stay an inch or two outta kicking distance
  Mankind has got to know
  His limitations
  
  Feeling claustrophobic
  Like the walls are closing in
  Blood stains on my hands
  And I don't know where I've been
  I'm in trouble for the things
  I haven't got to yet
  I'm sharpening the axe
  And my palms are getting wet
  Sweating bullets
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  I hear it in hear...
  Blood stains on my...hands
  The big axe...
  Sweating...
  
  Well, me, it's nice talking to myself
  A credit to dementia
  Some day you too will know my pain
  And smile its "black-tooth grin"
  If the war inside my head
  Won't take a day off I'll be dead
  My icy fingers claw your back
  Here I come again
  
  Feeling paranoid
  True enemy or false friend?
  Anxiety's attacking me
  And my air is getting thin
  
  Feeling claustrophobic
  Like the walls are closing in
  Blood stains on my hands
  And I don't know where I've been
  
  Once you committed me
  Now you've acquitted me
  Claiming validity
  For your stupidity
  I'm chomping at the bit
  I'm sharpening the axe
  Here I come again
  Sweating bullets

• ANGRY AGAIN

  ANGRY AGAIN

  The more of you that I inspect
  The more of me I see reflect
  The more I try to read your lips
  The more the mask you're wearing rips
  
  But when I seek out your voice
  My ears are overcome with noise
  You show and tell with greatest ease
  Raving impossibilities
  
  Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
  Enraged my mind starts to smoke
  Enforce a mental overload
  Angry again, angry again, angry ow
  
  And when the story takes a twist
  If folds like a contortionist
  Slight of hand and quick exchange
  The old tricks have been rearranged
  
  Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
  Enraged my mind starts to smoke
  Enforce a mental overload
  Angry again, angry again, angry
  
  The searing of the sinew
  My body fights for air
  The ripping of the tissue
  My lungs begin to tear
  Gravity's got my bones
  It pulls my flesh away
  
  The steam finally dissipates
  I make out my sweaty face
  
  Association that I choose
  Game I inevitably lose
  Governed by laws set up by me
  Fracture its jaw to let me be
  A cut-out cardboard condo maze
  Filled with an insubordinate race
  Irrational youths stop to stare
  As music rubber hosed the air
  
  Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
  Enraged my mind starts to smoke
  Enforce a mental overload
  Angry again, angry again, angry again
  And again and again, again
  
  Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
  Enraged my mind starts to smoke
  Enforce a mental overload
  Angry again, angry again, angry ow
  
  Music & Lyrics - Mustaine
  
  

• A TOUT LE MONDE

  A TOUT LE MONDE

  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
  
  A tout le monde
  A 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
  
  A tout le monde
  A 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 - Friedman
  
  So as you read, 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
  
  A tout le monde
  A 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 - Mustaine & Friedman
  
  Music & Lyrics - Mustaine/Friedman/Ellefson/Menza

• TRUST

  TRUST

  Lost in a dream
  Nothing's what it seems
  Searching my head
  For the words that you said
  Tears filled my eyes
  As we said our last goodbyes
  This sad scene replays
  Of you walking away
  
  My body aches from mistakes
  Betrayed by lust
  We lied to each other so much
  That in nothing we trust
  God help me please, on my knees
  Betrayed by lust, by lust
  We lied to each other so much
  That in nothing we trust
  
  Time and again
  She repeats let's be friends
  I smile and say yes
  Another truth bends,
  I must confess
  I try to let go, but I know
  We'll never end 'til we're dust
  We lied to each other again
  But I wish I could trust
  
  My body aches from mistakes
  Betrayed by lust
  We lied to each other so much
  That in nothing we trust
  God help me please, on my knees, on my knees
  Betrayed by lust, by lust
  We lied to each other so much, so much
  That in nothing we trust
  
  How could this be happening to me
  I'm lying when I say, "Trust me"
  I can't believe this is true
  Trust hurts
  Why does trust equal suffering?
  
  Solo - Friedman
  
  My body aches from mistakes
  Betrayed by lust
  We lied to each other so much
  That in nothing we trust, in nothing we trust
  God help me please, on my knees
  Betrayed by lust
  We lied to each other so much, so much
  That in nothing we trust
  Absolutely nothing we trust
  
  Music - Mustaine/Friedman
  Lyrics - Mustaine

• KILL THE KING

  KILL THE KING

  Broken down, feeling naked
  Leaving me unfulfilled
  Promising compromise
  Championing mediocrity
  
  Time and time again
  What you said ain't what you mean
  Even if all my bones are broken
  I will drag myself back from the edge to
  
  Kill the King, The King is dead, Long live the King
  Kill the King, The King is dead, Long live the King,
  I am the King, God save the King
  
  Kill the King, The King is dead
  I am the King, Long live the King
  Kill the King, The King is dead
  I am the King, Long live the King
  
  I reveal a deceiver
  In the highest seat in the land
  His idle hands the Devil's workshop
  Generate more smoke than heat
  
  Time and time again
  What you said ain't what you mean
  Even if all my bones are broken
  I will drag myself back from the edge to
  
  Kill the King, The King is dead, Long live the King
  Kill the King, The King is dead, Long live the King,
  I am the King, God save the King
  
  Kill the King, The King is dead
  I am the King, Long live the King
  Kill the King, The King is dead
  I am the King, Long live the King
  
  A new precedent in pain, a new precedent in pain
  Mankind is blown to dust, mankind is blown to dust
  An explosion of the Brain, an explosion of the Brain
  Spontaneously combust, spontaneously combust
  
  Kill the King, The King is dead, Long live the King,
  I am the King
  Kill the King, I, The King is dead, I am, Long live the King,
  I am the King
  Kill the King, I, The King is dead, I am, Long live the King,
  I am the King
  Kill the King, I, The King is dead, I am, Long live the King,
  I am the King
  
  

• SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION

  SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION

  You take a mortal man
  And put him in control
  Watch him become a god
  Watch people's heads a-roll
  
  Just like the Pied Piper
  Led rats through the streets
  We dance like marionettes
  Swaying to the Symphony of Destruction
  
  Acting like a robot
  Its metal brain corrodes
  You try to take its pulse
  Before the head explodes
  
  Just like the Pied Piper
  Led rats through the streets
  We dance like marionettes
  Swaying to the Symphony of Destruction
  
  Solo - Friedman
  
  The earth starts to rumble
  World powers fall
  A-warring for the heavens
  A peaceful man stands tall
  
  Just like the Pied Piper
  Led rats through the streets
  We dance like marionettes
  Swaying to the Symphony of Destruction
  

• MECHANIX

  MECHANIX

  Imagine you were at my station
  And you brought your motor to me
  You're a burner yeah a real motor car
  
  Said you want to get your order filled
  Made me shiver when I put it in
  Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you
  
  Whoever thought you'd be better
  At turning a screw than me, I do it for my life
  Made my drive shaft crank, made my pistons bulge
  Made my ball bearings melt from the heat
  
  We were shifting hard when we took off
  Put tonight all four on the floor
  When we hit top end you know it feels too slow
  
  Said you want to get your order filled
  Made me shiver when I put it in
  Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you
  
  Whoever thought you'd be better
  At turning a screw than me, I do it for my life
  Made my drive shaft crank, made my pistons bulge
  Made my ball bearings melt from the heat
  
  I'm giving you my room service
  And you know it's more than enough
  Oh, one more time you know I'm in love
  
  Said you want to get your order filled
  Made me shiver when I put it in
  Pumping just won't do ya know luckily for you
  
  Whoever thought you'd be better
  At turning a screw than me, I do it for my life, fuck yeah
  Made my drive shaft crank, made my pistons bulge
  Made my ball bearings melt from the heat, oh yeah
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  
  Music & Lyrics - Mustaine

• TRAIN OF CONSEQUENCES

  TRAIN OF CONSEQUENCES

  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
  And you know I will
  
  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
  
  No horse ever ran as fast
  As the money that you bet
  I'm blowing on my cards
  And 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
  I hocked my brains, headed west
  
  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
  
  Solo - Friedman
  
  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
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  Harmonica Solo - Jimmie Wood
  
  

• WAKE UP DEAD

  WAKE UP DEAD

  I sneak in my own house
  It's four in the morning
  I had too much to drink
  Said I was out with the boys
  I creep in my bedroom
  I slip into bed
  I know if I wake her
  I'll wake up dead
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  Solo - Mustaine
  Solo - Poland
  
  Ooh, I wonder will she find out
  About the other, other lover Diana?
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  
  Wake up dead, you die
  Wake up dead and buried
  Wake up dead, you die
  Wake up dead
  
  

• HANGAR 18

  HANGAR 18

  Welcome to our fortress tall
  I'll take some time to show you around
  Impossible to break these walls
  For you see the steel is much too strong
  Computer banks to rule the world
  Instruments to sight the stars
  
  Possibly I've seen to much
  Hangar 18 I know too much
  
  Solo - Friedman
  
  Foreign life forms inventory
  Suspended state of cryogenics
  Selective amnesia's the story
  Believed foretold but who'd suspect
  Military intelligence
  Two words combined that can't make sense
  
  Possibly I've seen to much
  Hangar 18 I know too much
  
  Solo - Friedman
  Solo - Friedman
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  Solo - Friedman
  Solo - Mustaine
  Solo - Friedman
  Solo - Mustaine
  

• DREAD AND THE FUGITIVE MIND

  DREAD AND THE FUGITIVE MIND

  Let me introduce myself I'm a social disease
  I've come for your wealth leave you on your knees
  No time for feeling sorry, I got here on my own
  I won't ask for mercy, I choose to walk alone
  
  What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
  If you shake my hand better count your fingers
  
  What if I do get caught? What if there is no judgment?
  If I'm right I lose nothing, if you're right I lose it all
  I ought to get caught because I'm doing something wicked
  I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
  Are Dread and the Fugitive Mind
  
  You built walls to protect you so no one will infect you
  Pursued by those out there that vanish in thin air
  Come a long way to find what you really left behind
  You don't know when the end is but it's coming fast
  
  What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
  If you shake my hand better count your fingers
  
  What if I do get caught? What if there is no judgment?
  If I'm right I lose nothing, if you're right I lose it all
  I ought to get caught because I'm doing something wicked
  I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
  Are Dread and the Fugitive Mind
  
  Solos - Mustaine, Pitrelli
  
  

• SKIN O' MY TEETH

  SKIN O' MY TEETH

  I had wrists donning slits
  Flowing constantly
  My broken body in a wreck
  Wrapped around a tree
  A crosswalk hit-and-run
  The finish line for me
  People clutter in the gutter
  Take a look and see
  
  No escaping pain
  You belong to me
  Clinging on to life
  By the skin of my teeth
  
  My blood flows through the streets
  Deluge from the wounds
  Empty jars of sleeping pills
  On the dresser of my room
  My wet-brained neighbor cranes
  His neck to see
  In time the white light's a train
  Bearing down on me
  
  No escaping pain
  You belong to me
  Clinging on to life
  By the skin of my teeth
  
  Solo - Friedman
  
  I won't feel the hurt
  I'm not trash any longer
  That, that doesn't kill me
  Only makes me stronger
  I need a ride to the morgue
  That's what 911 is for
  So tag my toe and don't forget
  To close the drawer
  
  No escaping pain
  You belong to me
  Clinging on to life
  By the skin of my teeth
  
  

• SHE-WOLF

  SHE-WOLF

  The mother of all that is evil
  Her lips are poisonous venom
  Wicked temptress knows how to please
  The priestess roars, "Get down on your knees"
  The rite of the praying mantis
  Kiss the bones of the enchantress
  Spellbound searching through the night
  A howling man surrenders the fight
  
  One look in her lusting eyes
  Savage fear in you will rise
  Teeth of terror sinking in
  The bite of the she-wolf
  
  My desires of flesh obey me
  The lioness will enslave me
  Another heart beat than my own
  The sound of claws on cobblestone, I'm stoned
  
  One look in her lusting eyes
  Savage fear in you will rise
  Teeth of terror sinking in
  The bite of the she-wolf
  
  Beware what stalks you in the night
  Beware the she-wolf and her bite
  Her mystic lips tell only lies
  Beware what stalks you in the night
  Beware the she-wolf and her bite
  Her hidden will to kill in disguise
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  
  

• PRINCE OF DARKNESS

  PRINCE OF DARKNESS

  My victims are rich or poor, young or old, strong or weak
  I cause millions of accidents, I am cancer in your bones
  I fathered the lie, twist what you say, speak not the truth
  I am insidious, impartial, deep inside your chromosomes
  I take what you love, and leave you in tears
  I imprison your soul, your hopes are my games
  
  I strip you of pride, my promise is in vain
  While you burn at the stake I dance with the flames
  I bring poverty, sickness and death
  A worthless handshake, the slickest thief, I steal your wealth
  I answer your prayers for greed and lust
  More than evil, I laugh at your trust
  
  I am more powerful than all the armies of the world
  I am more violent than violence, more deadly than death
  I have destroyed more men than all the nation's wars
  I am relentless, unpredictable, waiting for your last breath
  
  Evil, more evil than violence
  Violent, more violent than death
  Deadly, more deadly than man
  I am yeah, yeah, I'm evil I am
  
  My kingdom corrupt with dissent
  Your sins erupt by my intent
  I loathe your prayer, I wallow in sin
  Let the nightmare begin
  
  Prince of darkness, your satanic highness
  Prince of darkness, the devilish serpent, the dreaded Lucifer
  Prince of darkness
  
  I take what you love, and leave you in tears
  Imprison your soul, your hopes are my games
  I strip you of pride, my promise is in vain
  While you burn at the stake I dance with the flames
  
  My kingdom corrupt with dissent
  Your sins erupt by my intent
  I loathe your prayer, I wallow in sin
  Let the nightmare begin
  
  Prince of darkness, your satanic highness
  Prince of darkness, the most beautiful angel
  Prince of darkness, the devilish serpent, the dreaded Lucifer
  Prince of darkness
  
  Solo - Friedman
  
  Prince of darkness, your satanic highness
  Prince of darkness, the most beautiful angel
  Prince of darkness, the devilish serpent, the dreaded Lucifer
  Prince of darkness, unpredictable, the prince of darkness
  Prince of darkness
  
  Solo - Mustaine
  
  Music - Mustaine/Friedman
  Lyrics - Mustaine