Good evening
You all know why we're here, right?
Here we go!
1. HOLY WARS… THE PUNISHMENT DUE
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 in your homelands
Holy wars
Upon 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, repel down the rocks
Behind the lines
Some people risk to employ me
Some people live to destroy me
Either way they die. They die.
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!
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
2. HANGAR 18
Welcome to our fortress tall
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 too much
Hangar 18 I know too much.
Foreign life forms inventory
Suspended state of cryogenics
Selective amnesia's the story
Believed foretold but who'd suspect
The military intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense
Possibly I've seen too much
Hangar 18 I know too much.
3. TAKE NO PRISONERS
Got on chance, infiltrate them
Get it right, terminate them
The Panzers will, permeate them
Break their pride, denigrate them
And their people, retrograde them
Typhus, deteriate them
Epidemic, devastate them
Take no prisoners, cremate them
Burn!
Going to war, give 'em hell
D-Day, next stop Normandie
Beginning of the end
We know how to and sure as shit we'll win
War is peace sure man
A retreat for the damned
A playground for the demented
A haven for those who walk this world Bereft of heart and soul
Love and war they say all is fair
Take his life But won't take his hair
Your body has parts your Country can spare
By the way son here's your wheelchair
He once had to be all he could be
Now he's nothing for no one nowhere to see
Funny thing, he's like you & me
It's a funny thing, a funny thing
Tears streak his solemn stare
Abandoned for wreckage nobody cares
No one knew what would happen there
No one spoke no one even dared
Don't ask what you can do for you country
Ask what your country can do for you
Take no prisoners, take no shit
4. FIVE MAGICS
Bestow upon me knowledge
Wizard, all knowing, all wise
I want to rule this kingdom
Make sweet the breeze now defiled
Dethrone the evil prince's iron fists
In velvet gloves of sin
Parade the grey robed monks
The vestal virgins, wheel the wyvern's in
Let the ceremony consecrate the marriage
Let me be the protege of Five Magics
Give me alchemy, give me sorcery,
Give me wizardy, thermatology
Electricity, master all of these,
magic if you please, bring him to his knees
I master five magics, I master five magics
Possessed with hellish torment, possessed with hellish torment
I master magics five, I master magics five
Hunting the abyss lord, hunting the abyss lord
Only one will stay alive, only one will stay alive
He who lives by the sword, he who lives by the sword
Will surely also die, will surely also die
He who lives in sin, he who lives in sin
Will surely live the lie
5. POISON WAS THE CURE
I miss the warm embrace I felt First time you touched me
Secure and safe in open arms I should have known you'd crush me
A snake you were when we met I loved you anyway
Pulling out your poisoned fangs The venom never goes away
Serpent swims free in my blood Dragons sleeping in my veins
Jackyl speaking with tongue Roach egg laying in my brain
Once stalked beneath your shadow Sleepwalking to the gallows
I'm the sun that beats your brow in 'til I finally threw the towel in
Never knowing if I'd wake up in a Whirlpool got redundant
My brain was just some driftwood In a cesspool I became dead
From a rock star to a desk fool Was my destiny someone said
Love's a tide pool Taste the waters life's abundant
Taste me
6. LUCRETIA
Sitting up late at night A tiptoe through the darkness
Cold as hell black as spades Aware of my immediate surrounding
In my place I escape Up into my hideout
Hiding from everyone My friends all say
Dave your mental anyway hey!
Drift into a deeper state I stalk the cobwebbed stairways
Dirt grits beneath me feet
The stair creaks, I precariously sneak
Hypnosis guides my hand I slipside through the walkways
Sit in granny's rockin' chair Memories are whirling by, yeah!
Reminisce in the attic Lucretia waits impatiently
Cobwebs make me squint The cobra so eloquently glints
Moonbeams surge through the sky The crystal ball's energized
Surely that like the cat waiting Lucretia rocks away
7. TORNADO OF SOULS
This morning I made the call The one that ends it all
Hanging up, I wanted to cry But dammit, this well's gone dry
Not for the money, not for the fame Not for the power, just no more games
But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado
I can't replace the lies, that let a 1000 days go
No more living trapped inside
In her way I'll surely die
In the eye of the tornado, blow me away
You'll grow to loathe my name You'll hate me just the same
You won't need your breath And soon you'll meet your death
Not from the years, not from the use Not from the tears, just self abuse
But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado
I can't replace the lies, that let a 1000 days go
No more living trapped inside
In her way I'll surely die
In the eye of the tornado, blow me away
Who's to say what's for me to say
Who's to say what's for me to be
Who's to say what's for me to do
Cause a big nothing it'll be for me
The land of opportunity The golden chance for me
My future looks so bright Now I think I've seen the light
Can't say what's on my mind
Can't do what I really feel
In this bed I made for me
Is where I sleep, I really feel
I warn you of the fate Proven true to late
Your tongue twist perverse Come drink now of this curse
And now I fill your brain I spin you round again
My poison fills your head As I tuck you into bed
You feel my fingertips You won't forget my lips
You'll feel my cold breath It's the kiss of death
8. DAWN PATROL
Thermal count is rising In perpetual writhing
The primordial ooze And the sanity they lose
Awakened in the morning To more air pollution warnings
Still we sleepwalk off to work While our nervous systems jerk
Pretending not to notice How history had forebode us
With the green house in effect Our environment was wrecked
Now I can only laugh As I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles In the dark of dawn patrol
9. RUST IN PEACE... POLARIS
Tremble you weaklings, cower in fear
I am your ruler, land, sea and air
Immense in my girth, erect I stand tall
I am nuclear murderer I am Polaris
Ready to pounce at the touch of a button
My systems locked in on military gluttons
I rule on land, air and sea
Pass judgement on humanity
Winds blow from the bowels of hell
Will we give warnings, only time will tell
Satan rears his ugly head, to spit into the wind
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
Launch the Polaris, the end doesn't scare us
When will this cease
The warheads will all rust in peace
Bomb shelters filled to the brim
Survival such a silly whim
World leaders sell missiles cheap
Your stomach turns, your flesh creeps
I rule on land, air and sea
Pass judgement on humanity
Winds blow from the bowels of hell
Will we give warnings, only time will tell
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
Launch the Polaris, the end doesn't scare us
When will this cease
The warheads will all rust in peace
High priests of holocaust, fire from the sea
Nuclear winter spreading disease
The day of final conflict All pay the price
The third world war Rapes peace, takes life
Back to the start, talk of the part
When the Earth was cold as ice
Total dismay as the sun passed away
And the Earth is cold as ice
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
Launch the Polaris, the end doesn't scare us
When will this cease
The warheads will all rust in peace
Eradication of Earth's Population loves Polaris
And that was Rust In Peace
10. HOLY WARS (REPRISE)
I wanna thank you all for coming down joining us tonight
I hope you had a great time because we sure did
This, tonight it's the end of the 20th anniversary tour
for Rust in Peace in USA
And we wanted to end it here, where Megadeth started in Los Angeles
Me and him an you made this happen right here
And tonight we're filming it
so that we can remember what happened here tonight
I would like to introduce to you on my left: Lead guitar Chris Broderick
And on the drums Shawn Drover
What can I say,
the man with no introduction bass guitar David Ellefson
And you know me, we're so much alike
mercy killings...
mercy killings… killings… killings… killings
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
Thank you, thank once again, god bless you Los Angeles, good bye!
11. 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 o'my teeth
No escaping pain You belong to me
Clinging on to life By the skin o'my teeth
My blood flows through the streets Deluge from the wounds
Empty jars of sleeping pills On the dresser in my room
My wet brain neighbor cranes His neck in time to see
The white lights a train Bearing down on me
No escaping pain You belong to me
Clinging on to life By the skin o'my teeth
No escaping pain You belong to me
Clinging on to life By the skin o'my teeth
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 Ooh to close the drawer
No escaping pain You belong to me
Clinging on to life By the skin o'my teeth
No escaping pain You belong to me
Clinging on to life By the skin o'my teeth
12. IN MY DARKEST HOUR
In my hour of need
Ha you're not there
And though I reached out for you
Wouldn't lend a hand
Through the darkest hour
Grace did not shine on me
It 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 to 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
Still you'd turn away
Now as I die for you
My flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
All these years I thought I was wrong
Now I know it was you
Raise your head raise your face your eyes
Tell me who you think you are?
I walk, I walk alone
Into 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 gotta die first
Please God send me on my way
Time has a way of taking time
Loneliness is not only felt by 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, bitch
My whole life is work built on the past
But the time has come when all things shall pass
This good thing passed away
13. 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
my fight...
One look in her lusting eyes
Savage fear in you will rise
Teeth of terror sinking in
The bite of the she-wolf
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
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
14. TRUST
Lost in a dream
Nothing is 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
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
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other 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
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
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust
My body aches from mistakes
We lied to each other so much
help me please
Absolutely nothing we trust
15. SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION
You take a mortal man,
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch peoples heads a'roll
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
Explodes...
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the Symphony...
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the Symphony...
Of Destruction
The earth starts to rumble
World powers fall
A'warring for the heavens
A peaceful man stands tall
Tall...
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the Symphony...
Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes
Swaying to the Symphony...
Of Destruction
Thank you, Thank you very much
16. PEACE SELLS
What do you mean, "I don't believe in God"?
I 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"?
I got nothing better to do
And, what do you mean, "I don't pay my bills"?
Why do you think I'm broke?
Let me hear you sing
If there's a new way,
I'll be the first in line.
But, it better work this time.
What do you mean, "I hurt your feelings"?
I didn't know you had any feelings.
What do you mean, "I ain't kind"?
I'm just not your kind.
What do you mean, "I couldn't be the president...
of the United States of America"?
Tell me something, it's still "We the people", right?
Sing louder!
If there's a new way
I'll be the first in line,
But, it better work this time.
Can you put a price on peace?
Peace, Peace sells...
Peace sells... but who's buying?
No, no, no
Peace sells...