Youthanasia

Produced by Max Norman & Dave Mustaine
Mixed by Max Norman & Dave Mustaine
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Assistant Engineer: Mike Tacci
Recorded in Phoenix at Fat Planet in Hangar 18
Art direction: Hugh Syme and Tommy Steele
Design & digital illustration: Hugh Syme
Band photography: Richard Avedon
Photographic elements: Tony Frederick
Logo illustration: Mick McGinty

1994 - CAPITOL RECORDS

1. Reckoning Day
2. Train Of Consequences
3. Addicted To Chaos
4. A Tout Le Monde
5. Elysian Fields
6. The Killing Road
7. Blood Of Heroes
8. Family Tree
9. Youthanasia
10. I Thought I Knew It All
11. Black Curtains
12. Victory

I like the way that I make you itch
And all the reasons I give you to bitch
And how I make you wanna scream in pain
And feel your life is just a losing game

I like the way that you let me in
The way you look when the walls cave it
I like the way that your stomach knots
And how you cry for it all to stop

I like the way that you fool yourself
And make believe there's nobody else
I like the way that you stand in line
And beg salvation from the empty skies

Don't want no revenge
Ain't no pay back time
It ain't called getting even
Here comes the Reckoning Day

I like the things that you try to fake
And your face when I see you break
And that you say you will pray for me
You realize you are prey for me

I like the way you stay on attack
No matter what, I keep coing back
And how you try to hold me down
But you end up driven to the ground

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-rollin'
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 I 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

Only yesterday they told me you were gone
All these normal people, will I find another one?
Monkey on my back, aching in my bones
I forgot you said, "One day you'll walk alone"
I said I need you, does that make me wrong?
Am I a weak man, are you feeling strong?
My heart was blackened, it's bloody red
A hole in my heart, a hole in my head!

Who will help me up?
Where's the helping hand?
Will you turn on me?
Is this my final stand?

In a dream I cannot see
Tangled abstract fallacy
Random turmoil builds in me
I'm addicted to chaos

Light shined on my path
Turn bad days into good
Turn breakdowns into blocks, I smashed 'em 'cause I could
My brain was labored, my head would spin
Don't let me down, don't give up, don't give in
The rain comes down, cold wind blows
The plans we made are back up on the road
Turn up my collar, welcome the unknown
Remember that you said
"One day you'll walk alone"

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 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 les 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 are scarred

Uneasy feeling, burning out my eyes
I hope the end is less painful than my life
I stand on trial before the gods on Judgment Day
A blink of an eye between the cradle and the grave

One last look at visions of flesh
The last best hope of man on earth
Pontius Pilate still washing his hands
The world don't want to be saved, only left alone

Elysian Fields...
We are storming the heavens
To raise our swords and shields
We ascend to our destiny
To the Elysian Fields

Soaring to the sun
With blood upon their wings
Superstitious dust left twisting in the wind
Man still has one belief
One decree that stands alone
The laying down of arms
Is like cancer to their bones

Again we stalk the stage
At mach speed we engage
Feeding people's rage
The big cat's left its cage
Back in the bus again
To catch another plane
This behavior's quite insane
But we do it for the fame, yeah

The road will never end
It always starts again
Another show's around the best
Another long lost friend
Faceless as the snow
There's nothing special about the road
It's just another haul
It's just too damn long that's all, yeah

Walking stiff let me tall ya'
Better left for dead
And now we are on a mission
Well it's full speed ahead
My legion's when we do the crime
Let's get one thing straight
To get there early is on time
And showing up on time is late

Ladies and gents, we're still alive
By the skin of our teeth, now it's killing time
Angel in our pocket, devil by our side
We ain't going nowhere, 'cause heroes never die

We've been run down every hill
Chased up all the dead end streets
But if you try to cut us out
You'll get a kick in the teeth

Ladies and Gents, we're still alive
By the skin of our teeth, now it's killing time
Fasten up you head belts,
Time to ride the skies
It's time to be immortal, 'cause heroes never die

Forgotten things remembered
The tigers eat their young
The body stayed but inside the head
The mind was on the run
Conspiracy of silence
The only way out of pain
Is turn around and run through it man
Too wet to come in from the rain

Let me show you how I love you
It's our secret, you and me
Let me show you how I love you
But keep it in the family tree...the secret of the family tree

When you hear them saying 'trust me'
Don't wait to see what's next
Thrown to the wolves
Forever trusting
Raised in a form of living Hell
Sing a one-note song of rage
Live and die withing your heart
So beware of the shadows
Your family tree waits in the dark

Who'd believe with the way things are here
We'd be going anywhere telling people how to live?
Who's believe that we'd spend more shipping drugs and guns
Than to educate our sons?
Sorry, but that's what they did.

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 many bodies on my way
Thanks for the information don't need no more anything

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

I Thought I Knew it All
(Music: Mustaine. Ellefson, Menza, Friedman, Lyrics: Mustaine)

Somewhere there's a reason why things go like they do
Somewhere there's a reason why some things just fall through
We don't always see them for what they really are
But I know there's a reason just can't see it from this far

Maybe I don't like it, but I have no choice
I know that somewhere, someone hears my voice

I thought I knew it all
I thought I had it made
How could it end this way?
I thought I knew

Somewhere there's a reason why things don't go my way
Somewhere there's a reason that I cannot explain
Just like the change of season, just may not be my turn
But I know there's a reason, the lesson's mine to learn

Hey...Look around you
Everything's 'helter skelter'
Listen up...I warn you
Run for cover, run
Bang...it happened
Time's up, Armageddon
Fire...meltdown
The sky is crumbling in

Escape..You're joking
Can't find no place to run
Hair...is burning
My flesh is bubbling up
Blood...is boiling
Taste copper on my tongue
Fate...is coming
Welcome it with a smile

Am I dreaming? My heart pounds my chest
Held for ransom in a spider's web
Suffocating, no one hears my calls
Never ending, 'til the black curtain falls

Snakes..surround me
Offering their death kiss to me
Down...I'm drowning
How long, I hold my breath
Dogs...are chasing
My legs are paralyzed
Pray...don't find me
My life is fading fast

Now, one day I started telling everyone that killing is my business,
And I was hung like a martyr
For looking down the cross my skull beneath the skin
Prophesied last rites/loved to death my friends
Then I started seeing bad omens in my head
Good mourning/black Friday, will I wake up dead?
If I ain't superstitious then this won't mean a thing
But some crazy shit has happened since the conjuring

Had fingers in my eyes, had needles in my veins
A knife right through my heart, I am a victory

Came anarchy to set the world afire
Pain of hook in mouth, in my darkest hour
Corruption of the world, peace sells, but nobody's buying
Ignorant religion, holy wars and the dying
Tornado nearly got me by the skin of my teeth
This was my life, forclosure of my dreams
May the past rust in peace in Hangar 18
And countdown to extinction just be a bad dream
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