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Dave Mustaine Vocals, Guitars D'Addario Strings Dunlop Picks |
David Ellefson Bass Guitars, Back-up Vocals Rotosound Strings Gallien Krueger Amps and Samson/Hartke |
| Marty Friedman Guitars Dean Markley Strings |
Nick Menza Lead Drums, Back-up Vocals Vic Firth Sticks and Aquarian Skins |
Produced by Mike Clink and Dave Mustaine
Engineered by Mike Clink and Micajah Ryan assisted by Any Udoff
Mixed by Max Norman at One On One Recording
Recorded at Rumbo Recorders, Technician: Tom Mayhue.
We would like to thank the following people for their support, belief,
and help in making this recording possible:
Ron Laffitte, Michael Lippman, Rob Kahane, Terry Lippman and Sandra Rabbin of Lippman Kahane Entertainment, Errol Gerson and Michael Levinrad of Errol Gerson & Co., Inc., Andy Somers of Triad Artists, John Jackson of Fair Warning, Bruce Fingeret, Allen LeWinter, Michael Rotondo and Cathy Cleghorn of Brockum Merchandise, Len Korobkin Esq., Josh Deutsh, Byron Hontas, Hale Milgrim, Thomas Steele, Denise Skinner, Marcia Edelstein, Karen Goodman, Judi Kerr and everyone at Capitol EMI. Joanne and Grover Jackson, James How and Paul Ellison of Rotosound, John Griesel of Gallien-Krueger, Andy Brauer, Dave Weiderman, Mike Morse, Lennie Dimuzio and Armand Zildjian of Zildjian Cymbals, Steve Ettleson of Yamaha, Vic Firth, Roy Burns of Aquarian Drum Heads, Stan Keyawa of Pro Drum Shop, Neil Schaefer (Nick sez xtra thanx!), the Drum Dr., Steve Klong, Randy Kertz, Tony Letteiri, Bill Berrol, Katie & crew of The Power Plant, Bob Nalbandian, Mike Varney, Mark Keisel, Don Lombardi of D.W., Mike Ceroli, Gary Chen of Stein on Vine, Louie Bellson, and Steve Bailey.
Extra Thanks
to John Bocanegra, Jeff Jampol and to our families and our friends.
Above words are as they appear on the CD sleeve.
COMBAT a division of RELATIVITY records
Copyright © 1990 Capitol Records, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The following lyrics are corrected from the CD sleeve.
Holy Wars...
Composed by Dave Mustaine
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music and Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for Mustaine
Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. All Rights Reserved /
International Copyright Secured
Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Somethin' 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 homeland.
Holy wars___
Solo
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.
...The Punishment Due
Composed by Dave Mustaine
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music and Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for Mustaine
Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. All Rights Reserved /
International Copyright Secured
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
Ooo, either way they die. They die___
Solo
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
Fill the cracks in
With judicial granite
Because I don't say it
Don't mean I ain't thinkin' it.
Next thing you know
They'll take my thoughts away
I know what I said
Now I must scream___
Of the o-ver-dose
And the lack of mercy... killings
Mercy killings, mercy killings
Killings, killings, killings
Next thing you know
They'll take my thoughts away
Hangar 18
Composed by Dave Mustaine
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music and Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for Mustaine
Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. All Rights Reserved /
International Copyright Secured
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
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 to much
Hangar 18, I know too much
Solo
Take No Prisoners
Composed by Dave Mustaine
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music and Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for Mustaine
Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. All Rights Reserved /
International Copyright Secured
Got one chance,
Infiltrate them !
Burn !
Get it right,
Terminate them !
The Panzers will,
Permeate them !
Break their pride,
Denigrate them !
And their people,
Retrograde them !
Typhus,
Deteriorate them !
Epidemic,
Devastate them !
Take no prisoners,
Cremate them !
Solo
Go to war and 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 heaven,
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 parts your country spares
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 and me
It's a funny thing, a funny thing
Tears streak, his solemn stare
Abandoned wreckage, nobody cares
No one knew, what would happen there
No one spoke, no one even cared
Don't ask, what you can do, for your country
Oh-ask what your country can do for you
Solo
Take no prisoners, Take no shit !
Take no prisoners, Take no shit !
Take no prisoners, Take no shit !
Take no prisoners, Take no... SHIT !
Five Magics
Composed by Dave Mustaine
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music and Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for Mustaine
Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. All Rights Reserved /
International Copyright Secured
Intro
Bestow upon me knowledge
Wizard, all knowing, all wise
Solo
I want to rule this kingdom
Make sweet the breeze now defiled
Solo
Dethrone the evil prince's Iron fists
In velvet gloves of sin
Solo
Parade the grey robed monks
The vestal virgins, wheel the wyvern in___
Solo
Let the ceremony consecrate the marriage
Let me be the protege of five magics
Give me Alchemy
Magic if you please
I___ master... five magics
Give me Wizardry
Give me Sorcery
Thermatology
Electricity
Master all of these
Bring him to his knees
Well, I___ master... five magics
Well, I___ master... five magics
Well, I___ master... five magics
Possessed with hellish torment
Possessed with hellish torment
Well I master magics five
I, master of 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
Solo
Poison was the Cure
Composed by Dave Mustaine
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music and Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for Mustaine
Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. All Rights Reserved /
International Copyright Secured
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
Dragon's sleeping in my veins
Jackal speaking with my tongue
Roach egg laying in my brain
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
Rock star to a desk fool
Was my destiny someone said,
"Love's a tidepool."
Taste the waters life's abundant
Taste me
Solo
Lucretia
Composed by Dave Mustaine / David Ellefson
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music / Elf Music / Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for
Mustaine Music and Elf Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc.
All Rights Reserved / International Copyright Secured
Hea-hea-hea-hea-heah
Sitting up, late at night
I tiptoe through the, darkness
Cold as hell, black as spades
Aware of my, immediate surroundings
In my place, I escape
Up into my, hideout
Running from, everyone
My friends all say
Dave your mental any way, Hey !
Drift into a deeper state
I stalk the cobwebbed, stairways
Dirt grits, beneath my feet
The stair creaks, I precariously sneak, Yeah!
Hypnosis, guides my hand
I slipslide through the, walkways
Sit in granny's rockin' chair
Memories are whirling by, Yeah !
Reminisce, in the attic
Lucretia waits im-patiently
Cobwebs, make me squint
The cobra, so eloquently glints
Moonbeams surge, through the sky
The crystal ball is, en-ergized
Surely that, like the cat, waiting
Lucretia rocks away, Yay!
Solo
Tornado of Souls
Composed by Dave Mustaine / David Ellefson
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music / Elf Music / Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for
Mustaine Music and Elf Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc.
All Rights Reserved / International Copyright Secured
Intro
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
Chorus:
But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado
I can't replace the lies, that let a thousand 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
[Chorus]
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
Solo
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
Dawn Patrol
Composed by Dave Mustaine / David Ellefson
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music / Elf Music / Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for
Mustaine Music and Elf Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc.
All Rights Reserved / International Copyright Secured
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 ne-ne-ne-nervous systems, jerk
Pretending not to notice
How history had forebode us
With the green house in effect
Our environment was w-recked
Now I can only laugh
As I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles
In the dark of dawn patrol
Rust in Peace... Polaris
Composed by Dave Mustaine
Copyright © 1990 by Mustaine Music and Theory Music (BMI), All Rights for Mustaine
Music Controlled and Admin. by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. All Rights Reserved /
International Copyright Secured
Intro
Tremble you weaklings, cower in fear
I am your ruler, land, sea, and air
Immense in my girth, erect I stand taller
A nuclear murderer, I am Polaris
Ready to pounce at the touch of a button
My system locked in on military gluttons
I rule on land, air, and sea
I pass judgement on humanity
Winds blow, from the bowels of Hell
Will we give warning, only time will tell
Satan rears his ugly head, to spit into the wind
Chorus:
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
Heah, survival, such a silly whim
World leaders sell missiles cheap
Your stomach turns, your flesh creeps
I rule on land, air, and sea
I pass judgement on humanity
Winds blow, from the bowels of Hell
Will we give warning, only time will tell
[Chorus]
High priest of holocaust, fire from the sea
Nuclear winter is 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 days where black as night
[Chorus]
Eradication of
Earth's population loves
Polaris
Eradication of
Earth's population loves
Polaris___
Solo
Eradication of
Earth's population loves
Polaris
Eradication of
Earth's population loves
Polaris___
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