The World Needs a Hero

Dave mustaine

Behind closed doors all you live for is taking
That double life of yours has left your whole world shaking
Who are you fooling? i know you hear the laughter
Don't you hear people talking? what is it that your after?

Turn off your conscience
Leave the world outside
Nothing at all can ever make you feel
That anything's so real so you just - disconnect

The key to save yourself if for nothing else
A tongue can never hold the truth of silence is golden
With a broken heart underneath all of the pain
Do you stroke the pretty scars? the hurt never ends

Turn off your conscience
Leave the world outside
Nothing at all can ever make you feel
That anything's so real so you just - disconnect

Solo - mustaine

Turn off your conscience
Leave the world outside
Nothing at all can ever make you feel
That anything's so real so you just - disconnect

Turn off your conscience
Leave the world outside
Nothing at all can ever make you feel
That anything's so real so you just - disconnect

End chorus solos - pitrelli / percussion - chris vrenna

Dave mustaine

The tides of change pulled us apart
I feel a familiar pain
It seems like years since we've loved
Or even liked and that's a lonely way to be

Drifting alone in a sea of agony
Your face i can't recognize
Don't make this hard on us
I will miss you if you just go away

I did no right you did no wrong
Nothing left but wasted days
I regret you leaving
But i will never take you back

Solo - pitrelli

You know what? it's over
I just don't feel the same way as i used to
We've been together forever, but it's over

Goodbye 1000 times goodbye
The thought never crossed my mind
That this would be my last goodbye
Let me put pennies on your eyes
And kiss your lips one last goodbye
My love 1000 times goodbye

It seems nothing good is free
A good thing cost much more than the price
You were good but not that good
Don't kid yourself now it's time to beak up

Drifting alone in a sea of agony
Your face i can't recognize
Don't make this hard on us
I will miss you if you just go away

I did no right you did no wrong
Nothing left but wasted days
I regret you leaving
But i'll never take you back

Solo - pitrelli

Don't call me anymore. it's just not

Dave mustaine


Let me introduce myself i'm a social disease
I've come for your wealth leave you on your knees
No time for feeling sorry, i got here on my own
I won't ask for mercy, i choose to walk alone

What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand better count your fingers

What if i do get caught? what if there is no judgment?
If i'm right i lose nothing, if you're right i lose it all
I ought to get caught because i'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
Are dread and the fugitive mind

You built walls to protect you so no one will infect you
Pursued by those out there that vanish in thin air
Come a long way to find what you really left behind
You don't know when the end is but it's coming fast

What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
If you shake my hand better count your fingers

What if i do get caught? what if there is no judgment?
If i'm right i lose nothing, if you're right i lose it all
I ought to get caught because i'm doing something wicked
I'm guilty haunted by my fear and the only consequences
Are dread and the fugitive mind

Solos - mustaine, pitrelli

Dave mustaine/al pitrelli

Two hearts that shouldn't
Talk to each other become close
In a town much like a prison cell

People speak our names
On the street in hushed tones
Oh the stories they'd tell
If anyone would listen

You come from a town where
People don't bother saying hello
Unless somebody's born or dies

And i come from a place where they
Drag your hopes through the mud
Because their own dreams are all dying

And when we walk down the street
The wind sings our name in rebel songs
The sounds of the night should make us anxious
But it's much to late when the fear is gone

I will meet you in the next life, i promise you
Where we can be together, i promise you
I will wait till then in heaven, i promise you
I promise, i promise

There's so many fighting
To get past the pearly gates
But nobody ever wants to die or get saved

Their intentions aren't that good
And i can smell the asphalt
That's their personal road to hell being paved

And when we walk down the street
The wind sings our name in rebel songs
But it's much to late when the fear is gone

I will meet you in the next life, i promise you
Where we can be together, i promise you
I will wait till then in heaven, i promise you
I promise, i promise

Solo - pitrelli / solo - mustaine

I will meet you in the next life, i promise you
Where we can be together, i promise you
I will wait till then in heaven, i promise you
I promise, i promise

String arrangement - suzie katayama

Dave mustaine


An iron fist quietly sits inside the velvet glove
Take control, untouchable just like god above
I can't escape, wrapped in red tape, what will become of me?
If i object, then i defect my country 'tis of thee

The white house is calling
Tell them i'll call them back
Just tell them anything
Yeah get them off my back

The world needs a hero

Not that i would ever lie but i have no choice
Words i say heard today are not mine, just my voice

Nato is on line 1
They want to talk to me
Tell them that i'm not in
Tell them that i'm not free

The world needs a hero

Phantom rule, the hidden jewel who's really in control?
On puppet strings, a nation swings undermined by moles

The un is on hold
Tell them i'll call them back
Yeah tell them anything
Just get them off my back

The world needs a hero

Solo - mustaine
Solo - pitrelli

Dave the white house is calling
They want to talk to me
Tell them that i can't be bought
Tell them that i'm not free

The world needs a hero

End solos - pitrelli

Dave mustaine


Welcome to an empty fortress
A mighty wreck that once was proud
Ate alive by oxidation
Abandoned by a crew of cowards
Navigation systems failed
Computers crashed and they all fall down

Possibly i've seen too much
Hangar 18 i know too much

Solo - pitrelli

All the guilty paid the price
Suspended by their broken necks
No one survived to tell the story
When foreign life forms resurrect
And military intelligence is
Still two words that can't make sense

Possibly i've seen too much
Hangar 18 i know too much

Solos - pitrelli, mustaine
Solos - pitrelli, mustaine, pitrelli, mustaine