The System Has Failed Lyrics (2004) - Megadeth Album Lyrics

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1. Blackmail the Universe

“This is breaking news, it appears that Air Force One was shot down somewhere over the Middle East this morning by a sleeper cell of rogue terrorists firing a Stinger Missile
The Pilot and all passengers are unaccounted for
The President’s where abouts are presently unknown and he is presumed missing
The Vice President, Secretary of State and principals of the military are assembling, our nation stands at DEFCON 3”

The greatest crisis, will someone come for me?
I, red, white and blew it
Unleashed revenge, my body is detained
How could anybody do this?

Betrayal, I peel away the days
Medals are useless, Uncle Sam’s forgotten me
I’m not important, no one will ever come
I’ll never be found, God get me out of this hell

Nuclear battlefields energized
Cold wars are heating up again
The tensions mounting
People lift up your fists in revenge

The stage is set
Who will be the first to blink?
We can’t go to war
Remember that “Vietnam thing”

A peace at any price
With a gun to your head bang, bang
Weakness runs in your family
Oh what runs in mine is death

This is your five minute warning
Burn all of your classified documents
And if cooler heads don’t prevail
First strike from a political dead man

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive
He understands only one language, action and he respects only one word, force
No sign of them stopping, no time for back channel communiques
We need all the help we can get, air strikes and invasions, retaliate, I say
The will of good men can not counter the terrible strain of war

Blackmail the universe with the greatest of calamities
Awaken those sleeping giants in the dust of the ground
With their skin destroyed, unjust to innocence
Lawful possessor of the world’s last twenty-four hours

Terror and ugliness reveal what death really means
And in hatred you’ll see men as they really are
If chosen over heaven, earth will have been for them
All along, only another region of hell

2. Die Dead Enough

It’s twilight and I wake up hot
My body’s soaked in a cold, cold sweat
I reenact the lurid scenes
And clawed engravings in my head

Uoh, I can’t punch hard enough (and I run)
I can’t kick high enough (and I run)
I can’t shoot straight enough (and I run)
I can’t hold on enough (and I run)

Uoh, I can’t stay down enough (and I run)
I can’t take pain enough (and I run)
I can’t bleed fast enough
I can’t die dead enough

The air is thick, but the oxygen’s thin
My heart is beating like a drum
And ice is flowing through my veins
Explosives on my lips and in my lungs

Uoh, I can’t punch hard enough (and I run)
I can’t kick high enough (and I run)
I can’t shoot straight enough (and I run)
I can’t hold on enough (and I run)

Uoh, I can’t stay down enough (and I run)
I can’t take pain enough (and I run)
I can’t bleed fast enough
I can’t die dead enough

I don’t know what I’m running from and I don’t know where I’m running to?
There’s something deep and strange inside of me I see
I don’t know what I’m running from and I don’t know where I’m running to?
Something’s compelling me to run into the dark

And now I am more driven than before
And now I live just to settle score
And now I feel the nearness of your breath
Now I introduce you to your death

I, I, I am more driven than before
I, I, I live just to settle score
I, I, I feel the nearness of your breath
I, I, I introduce you to your death

I can’t punch hard enough
I can’t kick high enough
I can’t shoot straight enough
I can’t hold on enough

I can’t stay down enough (die dead enough)
I can’t take pain enough (die dead enough)
I can’t bleed fast enough (die dead enough)
I can’t die dead enough (die dead enough)

3. Kick the Chair

Dawn breaks evenly today
On the truth and the lie
All rise, court’s in session
We’re hanging someone high

Justice means nothing today
Now that the courts are for sale
Pick a crime from the menu, pick a sentence and defend you and pay the down payment called bail
The system’s for sale

Kick the chair, the rope’s tight
Just like one quick wrench, the tooth is out
Friend or foe, I gotta hang ‘em dead
Or they’ll come back around

Kick it, the court’s wrong when it keeps track
Of victories and defeats yeah
The press that never rest just waits
For somebody’s soul they can eat, uah

Justice means nothing today
Now that the jury’s for sale
Guilty or not, the verdict’s a lie, you’re going to jail
The system has failed

Kick the chair, the rope’s tight
Just like one quick wrench, the tooth is out
Friend or foe, ya gotta hang ‘em dead
Or they’ll come back

4. The Scorpion

My life is everything, that feeds my thirst that causes sin
My wants are all I care, no shame and guilt, there’s nothing there
Look deep into my face, I sell deceit without a trace
Fear not what I can do, unless you want it done to you, uoh

As I climb onto your back, I will promise not to sting
I will tell you what you want to hear, and not mean anything
And then I treat you like a dog, as I shoot my venom in
You pretend you didn’t know, that I am a Scorpion, oh

Myself, I’m centered in, there’s nothing else, there’s never been
And I dream, to be left alone, with the sadness, the madness of my own
Look deep into my soul, it’s black as coal, like a bullet hole
Fear not, get off your knees, there’s no defense, you’ll do what I please, oh

As I climb onto your back, I will promise not to sting
I will tell you what you want to hear, and not mean anything
I will treat you like a dog, as I shoot my venom in
‘Cause you knew all along, I am a Scorpion, yeah

My lies to reach the shore, I aggrandize and nothing more
My hopes, to steal away, all that you love, I’ll soon betray
Look deep into my past, the pain I deal is unsurpassed
I’m not a lowly Scorpion, I’m so much worse, I’m the fall of man

-Fighting broke out overnight between rival factions along the Israeli/Syrian border.
Initial reports say Israeli jet fighters bombed the guerrilla base killing at least 49 soldiers and 13 civilians.
-A 49 year old unidentified man went beserk last night opening fire with a 12 gauge shotgun in a crowded downtown restaurant, 14 people are dead including 3 children.
-A crackdown on labratory experients on animals is expected to become law today.
Animal rights activists have been pushing for the bill for 9 years and have taken part in mass demonstrations.
-Police have smashed a multi million dollar drug smugglingring. 22 punds of heroin was seized along with a small amount of cocaine, marijuana, and hashish.
25 people have been arrested and face charges ranging from smuggling to possession for the purpose of traficking.

5. Tears in a Vial

This may seem all too confusing
How I could walk away, from something so weird
But you see it all got too demanding, yeah
And I just didn’t care, I just didn’t care, if I cared, if I cared

Lately, I’ve been left wanting, but not wanting you
Attraction that once was no longer there
Uh, and it sucks to be taken for granted
When the veil is drawn and there’s only air

I had to walk away
Give up something I loved
For what I loved even more
And saved my tears for you

Everything has lost its meaning, I have to let it go
Define myself, myself, it starts something new, brand new
Forced too deep in a mirror, to face who I really am
Now it’s just me ‘cause I can afford you

I had to walk away
Give up something I loved
For what I loved even more
And saved my tears for you

I gave up something I loved
For what I loved even more
And I saved my tears for you in a vial
And I walked away

Ah!

You were so beautiful to look upon
I could see the light in your smile
Your eyes were the windows into your soul
Your body was heavenly just like the sky

Uh, until all your good looks betrayed you, which ain’t much
Counted on your, count of the smiles are too long
Your eyes are empty, windows broken
The body may be here but the soul is gone

I’ll save my tears for you in a vial
For every wicked thing that you did, that you said
But to sit and wait, I’m buried with your love
So many tears in a vial, now that you’re gone and now that you’re dead

6. I Know Jack

I served with Jack Kennedy
I knew Jack Kennedy
Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine
Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy

7. Back in the Day

Where were you when it happened, where could you be found?
Were you at the front of the stage or in the underground?
From S.F out to Old Brit, New York to L.A
The world of metal changed forever, back in the day

Well, that was back in the day and if you weren’t there
It doesn’t matter anyway because you wouldn’t understand

Live to die and die to play, every day and place
Leave a path of metal across, a world from stage to stage

Well, that was back in the day and if you weren’t there
It doesn’t matter anyway because you wouldn’t understand

In denim and leather, we were a one for all all for one force
Knocked rock ’n’ roll on it’s ass and put metal on the course

Higher! Higher! Higher! Higher!

Ah!

Back in the day
If you weren’t there
It doesn’t matter
‘Cause you wouldn’t understand

This is our way of life, a life that was born free
To follow orders how to live was never meant to be
Ah ah oh oh oh

Hints of thunder, seeds of lightning, the power hits the stage
The music was exciting, the mania raged
Ah ah oh oh oh

We all had a fever, our ears started to ring
Feeding this wildfire, consuming everything
Ah ah oh oh oh

Metal’s king back then and still is to this day
Others imitate or challenge, but it never goes away
Ah ah oh oh

8. Something That I’m Not

Your mind tells you that you’ve lost your confidence
You’re drifting and you don’t believe in anyone
To lose what little you have left to be proud of
Afraid you can’t do this again, auh!

You said that nothing comes in between us
And the way of getting things we wanted done
Then enissophobia helps you under it’s influence
Until you compromise your style

Everything about you has been one big charade
What will you do now, that the well’s run dry (Cry?)
To sell-out all your friends and stab them in the back
It’s something that you are, it’s something that I’m not

When you forced me into doing what you love
Mark my words, no one loves you very much (yeah mark ‘em)
And when you tried to change me and tried to replace me
I, I couldn’t help but end the stay with you hmm

Being in the front can only last so long (you should know)
To watch you sit, stare as a child returns (you little baby)
To choke out the voice that told you money and the fame
Would fill the grave that you dug for yourself

Unlike you, I’m no vision to myself, let’s you forget
You didn’t ever make metal, buddy, metal made you
To crush and roll over everyone along the way
It’s something that you are, it’s something that I’m not

A stranger to yourself, ha, you’ve pissed me off again
I won’t be driven by your needs anymore
What you’ve become to do or be is clear to see for me
It’s something that you are, it’s something I’m not

It makes me sick to hear you say you love me
I know you only love what I can do for you
If you were the one that was leading a charge
Would you notice if I missed a day or two (But that’s impossible!)

We all laughed at the parodies that you’ve become
Now you’re paid, slowly payback has begun
So I send my resignation or in your words, betrayal
Before it gets much worse in your self-sabotage

Something I’m not
Something that you are
Something I’m not

Something I’m not
Something that you are
Ah something I’m not
Something that you are
Something I’m not, yet

9. Truth Be Told

This is the first tale of death in the world
When Cain struck down Abel, a family broken
Since then mankind’s dominated his own kind
To insult and injured there’s no such thing as peace, till death do us part

Till the last (Truth be told)
Sin lies at the doorway (Truth be told)
Hell’s open for business now (Truth be told)
The soil cries out for revenge (Truth be told)
And death is upon the ground, all around

The battle ain’t over without spoils of war
Just ‘cause it is written does not make it so
When you dance with the Devil wait till the song’s over
I ask myself how bad do I want you to live, my anger is near

Sin lies at the doorway (Truth be told)
Hell’s open for business now (Truth be told)
The soil cries out for revenge (Truth be told)
And death is upon the ground, all around

Tribulation strikes and we’re hit hard
Still you just go on your way
Head in the sand, ignoring the rain
Just like the flood in Noah’s day, in his day

Can’t punish those for ruining the earth
It’s suicide so don’t worry
Because we are all guilty, guilty as sin
There’ll be no peace, never for you and me

Before Al Qaeda and Bin Laden
Long before Hitler and Hussein
Ever since the first murder was committed
The verdict’s always been the same, been the same, wrong

Because the future just repeats the past
There’s hell to pay, the stone’s been cast
So there’ll be no peace, never be peace
Till the last truth be told for you and me

10. Of Mice and Men

The fire burns on
And all that drives me on
Till all is gone except
The simple plans of mice and men

Back when I was just seventeen
I thought that I knew everything
I could make it in this scene

To be a rising star that only gleamed
When all the answers disagreed
With the questions held for me

I was legal now at twenty-one
I knew the way the world should run
My God, just look what I had done

Simply drunk and having fun
Looked for friends but I found none
All alone at twenty-one

The fire burns on
And all that drives me on
Till all is gone except
The simple plans of mice and men

At twenty-five I was surprised
That I was even half alive
Somehow I managed to survive

I felt my body’s doing time
In my back a hundred knives
All from my friends at twenty-five

And now as Gabriel sounds my warning bell
I’d buy your life if you’d sell
And you would too if less compelled

So live your life and live it well
Theres not much left of me to tell
I just got back up each time I fell

The fire burns on
And all that drives me on
Till all is gone except
The simple plans of mice and men

11. Shadow of Deth

Auxilium meum a Domino

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
He leadeth me beside the still waters
He restoreth my soul

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake
Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies
Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever

12. My Kingdom

The flag that I once planted as a King, I abandoned
And now I reclaim this banner by God, my sword and my name
In a truce sealed by blood within this metal skin and all that I own
Blood, bone and courage in my veins and the heart that pumps it, ah

Drink from the chalice and be reborn
And the land with me, it will change and transform

A fighting man sworn to the quest, it is the doom of man that they forgot
I have awoken a dragon and all around me the mist of his breath
Good and evil, they’re never ain’t one without the other, his brother
Always there where I least expect it, it will burn me to cinders

The future’s taken root in the present sun
Don’t look into my heart, least of all your own

No man who is false can win in combat against the truth, when he lies
He murders some part of the world, we must find what was lost
His hearth and home, wife and child were not for me, I was not yet done
I never knew how empty my soul was until it was refilled

Mad distemper strikes both beggars and kings
The Necromancer’s hard teachings of war and quest

Well, I am given the right to bear arms and the power to meet justice

I have lived through others far too long and carried my guilt, my causes, my sins
I hope in the hereafter when I owe no more to the future that I can be just a man

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