Court Musicians / Album 7

M ^EGADET H
Cryptic Writings

Cover Illustration

Dave Mustaine
Vocals / Guitars David Ellefson
Bass / Vocals
Marty Friedman
Guitars Nick Menza
Drums

PRODUCED BY DANN HUFF AND CO-PRODUCED BY DAVE MUSTAINE
Recorded & Mixed by Jeff Balding, Assisted by Mark Hagen
A&R Direction: Bud Prager
Recorded & Mixed at The Tracking Room, Nashville, TN
Additional Recording at The Castle, Franklin, TN
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, Inc., Portland, Maine
Production Assistant: Lauren Koch

E.S.P. MANAGEMENT: MIKE RENAULT AND BUD PRAGER
We would like to thank God, all our families and friends, and
everyone who made this recording possible.

Jackson/Charvel Guitar Co., D'Addario & Co., Crate Amplifiers,
Pearl Drums, Zildjian, and Aquarian Accessories.

Above words are not necessarily as they appear on the CD sleeve.
Copyright © 1997 Capitol Records, Inc.
The following lyrics are corrected from the sleeve version.

Trust
Dave Mustaine / Marty Friedman

L-ost in a dream dream
N-othing's what it seems seems
Searching my head
For the words that you said___

Tears filled my eyes eyes...
As we said our last good-byes
This sad scene replays
As you're walking away___

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lie to each other so much
That in nothing we trust

Time and again
She repeats, "Let's be friends."
I'd smile and say, "Yes."
Another truth bends, I must confess

I tried to let go, but I know
We'll never end 'til we're dust
We'd lie to each other again I wish that I could trust
But I wish I could trust

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lie 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 lie to each other so much so much
Now there's 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
Suffering

Solo: Marty

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 lie to each other so much so much
Now there's nothing we trust

My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lie to each other so much
We lied to each other so much

God help me please, help me please on my knees
Betrayed by Lust lust___
We lie to each other so much
Absolutely nothing we trust

Almost Honest
Dave Mustaine / Marty Friedman

I lied just a little
When I said I need you
You stretched the truth
When you said that you knew

Just can't be-lieve it
There's nothing to say
I was almost honest
Al-most___

Living alone___
Can't stand this place
It's four in the morning,
And I still see your face

I was nearly pure
When I said I loved you
You were sem-i-sin-cere,
You said, "I'd bleed___ for you."

We were kind of candid
Now you've gone a-way___
You were almost honest,
Al-most___

Living alone
Fallen from grace
I want to a-tone___
But there's just empty space

I can't face tomorrow I can't face tomorrow
Now you're not coming back not coming back
Walked off in the night walked off
And just left me the tracks left me the tracks

I question your call
By the tone of your voice
I Know I should hang up,
But I don't have a choice

It happened that n-ight
When you told me to go
Don't ask who's to blame
I don't know

Solo

Living alone___ Living alone
Fallen from grace
I want to a-tone___ I want to atone
But there's just empty space

I can't face tomorrow can't face tomorrow
Now you're not coming back not coming back
Walked off in the night walked off
And just left me the tracks and you just left me the tracks

Almost___ Almost honest
Almost___ I was al-most honest
Almost___ Almost honest
Almost___ I was almost honest
Almost___ Almost, almost honest
Almost___ Ew, Almost honest

Use the Man
Dave Mustaine / Marty Friedman

(The Searchers "Needles and Pins")

I___ heard somebody fixed today
There was no last goodbyes to say
His will___ to live, ran out
I heard somebody turned to dust

Looking back, at what he left
A list of plans and photographs
Songs___ that never will be sung
These are the things he won't get done
The things he won't get done___

I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man
I've seen them crawl from the cradle, to the gutter on their hands
They fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to understand
I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man

Just one shot to say goodbye
One last taste to mourn and cry... cry... cry
Scores and shoots, the lights go dim
Just one shot to do him in

He hangs his head and wonders why
Why the monkey only lies... lies... lies
But pay the pauper, he did choose
He hung his head inside the noose
He hung his head, inside the noose, oh

I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man
I've seen them crawl from the cradle, to the coffin on their hands
They fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to understand
I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle in his hands
Cryptic writing on the wall, the beginning of the end
I've seen myself use the needle, seen the needle in my hand

Solo

I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man
I've seen them crawl from the cradle, to the coffin on their hands
They fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to understand
I've seen myself use the needle, seen the needle in my hand
In my hand, in my hand___ IN MY, HAND___

Mastermind
Dave Mustaine

Anonymous existence, rendered useless to mankind
Destroy the logic volume, in the confines of the mind
Emmassed and purposeless, marching in a perfect line
Neo-neuro tourture, mental meltdown, a heinous crime

Chorus:
Mastermind, I tell you what to think
Mastermind, I tell you what you need
Mastermind, I tell you what to feel
Mastermind

Invade the core of souls, invade the core of souls, to wipe the lives away
Design vacant beings, design vacant beings, welcome the inhuman race
Encrypted horror codes, encrypted horror codes, directive psyche overwrite
Processing brains to pabulum, processing brains to pabulum, delete and format living drives

[Chorus]
I tell you what's real... real.... real...

Solo

Hail to the power age, lest the viral hour comes
Raise the flag of voltage, bow to circuitry unknown
Kneel... kneel before the processor, Lords... Lords of Static laugh
Electrons... electrons in submission, you must know, you must know who I am

I tell you what to think
I don't care what you thought
I tell you what to get
I don't care what you got

I tell you what to think
I don't care what you thought
I tell you what to get
I don't care, I don't care what you got

[Chorus]
Subject___

The Disintegrators
Dave Mustaine

The slayer's arrived
On a black horse of steel
Trouble is comin'
Hell on two wheels

Hide in the shadows
Awaiting defeat
Or live by the sword
And choose to be free

Chorus:
We say retribution
We say vengence is bliss sis, sis, sis
We say revolution
With a cast iron fist
Coming down the road___
Watching every move___
Kicking in the doors___
Taking what we choose
Anarchy's coming, to town
A fiery invader
Burnin' it down, to the ground
The Disintegrators

Solo

[Chorus]

Solo

Anarchy's coming, to town
A fiery invader
Burnin' it down, to the ground
The Disintegrators

Anarchy's coming
Here it comes
Burnin' it down, to the ground
D, Dis-inte-grated

I'll Get Even
Dave Mustaine / David Ellefson / Marty Friedman / Brian Howe

Copyright © 1997 by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. / Mustaine Music / Vulgarian Music / Adam Martin Music / Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (Administered by WB Music Corp.)
All Rights Reserved / International Copyright Secured

Triangle

I'm lonely, and abandoned
Washed up, left for dead
I'm lost inside the desert
Of every word you___ said

Like a nuclear reactor
Or T.N.T.
I'm thinking about the times
When you lied to me

All the innuendo
Caught up on your hook
I was just a name in your little black book, oh
In your little black book___ oh

Ah-ah, I'll___ get even with you
Ah-ah, I'll___ get even with you
Even with you

I'm bitter, and I'm t-wisted
I haven't slept in days
I'm lonely, and I'm angry
I can't make it go away

I'm like a bomb that's ticking,
I got voices in my head
I got a doll with needles, In
Wishing you were dead

I'll get you back somehow
That's what I'm gonna do
I'll get you back somehow
Your nightmare coming true
It's comin' true___ oh

Ah-ah, I'll___ get even with you
Ah-ah-ah___ that's what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna get even with you___
Ah-ah, I'll___ get even with you
Even with you Even with you

You better look behind you
'Cause there I'm gonna be
I'll be standing in the shadows
With who I used to be

He's slightly schizophrenic
Me and me and me and me a-gree
That you are gonna pay
For what you did to me

Ah-ah, I'll get even with you
Ah-ah, I'll get even with you
Ah-ah, I'll get even with you
Gonna get even with you
Ah-ah-ah-ah, that's what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, gonna
Ah-ah, I'll get even with you...

Sin
Dave Mustaine / Nick Menza / David Ellefson

He had an unfamiliar face
Complete life in disarray
A simple man, power drunk
No worries of livin', no more anything

Chorus:
Deep inside, I've seen it rise
Actions progress, to no end___
Mirror, mirror, please look inside
Do you see the reasons that we sin___

I'm not one to be forgot
Spoiled rotten, so they say
Once burned, forever marked
Hurt by just a few, but so many have to pay

[Chorus]

Solo

Pressure, coming down
Down on me, gonna break
Broken, fingernails
Digging in, scratch my face

Nervous, like a cat
Gonna jump, through my skin
Shadows, on the wall
Stretching out, grope for me

Reasons, deep in me
Reasons, let me be
Reasons, let me bleed
Reasons, set me free

Reasons, set me free
Reasons, set me free
Reasons, set me free
Reasons, the reasons that we sin

A Secret Place
Dave Mustaine

There's a secret place, I like to go
Everyone is there, but their face don't show
If you get inside, you can't get out
"There's no coming back," I hear them shout

O-oh, O-oh, O-oh

Welcome to my hideaway, my secret place
How I arrived I can't explain
You're welcome too, if you want to stay
But everyone just runs away___

Err, There's a secret place, I like to go
Everyone is there, but their face don't show
If you get inside, you can't get out
"There's no coming back," I hear them shout
shout... shout... shout... shout

Let me in, get me out
Can't do more that twist and shout
Lost my soul without a trace
Found it again in my secret place

Let me in, get me out
Can't do more that twist and shout
Lost my soul without a trace
In disgrace___

Solo

I hide from those___ that try to find me
Scary things, that's right behind me
I lost myself, I must confess
I can't explain___ how I got this mess

O-oh, O-oh, O-oh-o-oh

Welcome to my hideaway, my secret place
How I arrived I can't explain
You're welcome too, if you want to stay
But everyone just runs away___

My secret place. There's a secret place
My secret place. There's a secret place... I like to go
My secret place. There's a secret place
Just runs away___ From my secret place

Have Cool, Will Travel
Dave Mustaine

Harmonica

Mamas pack their lunches, kiddies pack their guns
Wishing it will go away, but nothing's getting done
A shot heard 'round the world, when a mother's baby dies
We the people, point our fingers, blame and wonder why

Hey, hey-aye, hey___

Face it and fight, or turn our tail and run
'Til it comes back again, just like the rising sun
Say they do all they can, it's just another lie lie
The answer's plain to see, nobody nobody wants to try

Hey, hey-aye, hey___

Ew___ There's no recess, and no rules
In the school of life
If you listen very closely, you'll see what it's like
Have cool, will travel

Solo with Harmonica

Ew___ There's no recess, and no rules
In the school of life
And if you listen very closely, you'll see what it's like
Tell myself it ain't true, they just cannot see

Grown up or sewn up
The medicine's
Worse than the disease
I have cool, will travel___ ough

Here we go
Have cool, will travel
Have cool, will travel___

She-Wolf
Dave Mustaine

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!"

We-ough

The rite of the praying mantis
Kiss the bones of the enchantress
Spellbound, searching through the night
A howling man surrenders the fight
The fight___

Chorus:
One look in her lusting eyes
Savage fear in you will rise
Teeth of terror sinking in
The bite of the she-wolf
[Repeat]

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___

[Chorus]

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

Guitar

Vortex
Dave Mustaine

Internal combustion
Multiple personalities
Terror inside of me
A mask of silent agony

Curse the falling rain___
The vortex of pain___

As medieval as Merlin
A pact for power was made
Lucifer in transition
It's time, time the price was paid

Scorching the domain___
The vortex of pain___

A telestic message
Written in torment
Howl out dirges
Like the horns of Jeri-cho
Distorted faces writhing in rage
Walls of purgatory tumble down
Endless death, the jewels of a crown

The jewels of a crown

Solo

F F F
Dave Mustaine / Marty Friedman / David Ellefson / Nick Menza

Looking for a cure, within the human race
Eliminate the poor, how much longer will it take?
Burning up the tents, of the rank and file
Exterminate their lives, crack a demon smile

Crushing down, caving in, our will to live
Getting rid___ of man's mistakes
To take a lost life, lock it up, break it down
How much more can we take?

Fight for freedom, fight authority
Fight for anything, my country 'tis of me

Cry for absolution, it's not the end for me
A last minute pardon, one final reprieve
Resist the war machine, don't get in it's path
Fight to die a free man, and reap the aftermath

Crushing down, caving in, our will to live
Getting rid___ of man's mistakes
To take a lost life, lock it up, break it down
I don't know how much more I can take

Fight for freedom, fight authority
Fight for anything, my country 'tis of me

Solo

Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!

Fight for freedom, fight authority
Fight for anything, It's my country
Fight for freedom, fight authority
Fight for anything, my country 'tis of me

One Thing
Dave Mustaine

(Distorted chanting of "one thing"
drowning out "passionate noises")

One thing___
That I got for you
Is the one thing___
That you'll never do

One thing
Makes you feel brand new
Is the one thing
That you're coming to

Just the one thing___
Gets you in the mood

You call my number
In the middle of the night
To tell me nothing else
Can make you feel all right

But it rings and rings
You hang it up, and call me back again
One thing___ that I got for you
Is the one thing___ that you'll never do

One thing that you've got to choose
Is the one thing you can never lose
Just the one thing
Fits your attitude

You call my name
In the middle of the night
When you're making love
And it feels alright

But it's him
Not me
Can't you see
A shot of reality

I know what you're doin', I know what you're doin'
I know what you wanna do, I know what you wanna do
I know when the lights go out, I know when the lights go out
I know, I know what you're gonna do

Solo

The one thing
That I got for you
Is the one thing
That you'll never do

Just the one thing
Gets you in the mood
Just the one thing
Fits your attitude

One thing___
This one thing
Just the one thing___ Oh___

One thing...
One thing...

Last updated: September / 20 /1997

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