Dawn Patrol
Rust in Peace
1990
Duration: 1:50
Track number: 8
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: David Ellefson, Dave Mustaine
Theme
A short, mid-tempo track focusing on environmental collapse and nuclear proliferation. The lyrics depict humanity blindly continuing its daily routine ('sleepwalk off to work') despite clear warnings about pollution and the potential for total destruction ('green house in effect'). The title suggests a routine reconnaissance for threats at the break of day.
Lyrics
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 as our nervous systems jerk
Pretending not to notice how history has forbode us
With the greenhouse in effect our environment was wrecked
Now I can only laugh as I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles in the dark of the dawn patrol
