Fatal Illusion
Dystopia
2016
Duration: 4:18
Track number: 3
Writers
Lyrics by: Kiko Loureiro, Dave Mustaine
Music by: Kiko Loureiro, Dave Mustaine
Theme
This track tells a dark narrative about a 'menace to society' who is condemned for **'nonconformity'** and executed by lethal injection. The core theme is the **'fatal illusion'** that evil can be truly eliminated. The execution fails, and the resurrected subject rises from the dead, driven by hate, to commit a **'vivisection spree'** (a violent spree of dissection), symbolizing the cyclical and unkillable nature of deep-seated evil.
Lyrics
Lost **inside the system** **Locked away**
Without a **key**
No one will ever miss a **menace to society**
A gross **lack of potential** bad decisions made in spite
A **touchy hairpin trigger** and such a **wasted life**
Trying to **break the mold of a broken family**
Fight against your **failure** and living on his kness
Guilty of a crime of **nonconformity**
A **hanging judge and jury** handen down the **penalty**
A **lethal injection** now they watch te **body jerk**
**Exterminate the problem** except in dind't work
No **vital sign a life**, they declared he wasn't there
Ner never checked because he didn't fuc*** care
**Passing off the body**, they all believed he died
**Starting up the hearse** now for a **final drive**
Like whistling passed a **graveyard** when walking by at night
it's a **fatal illusion** to think that **evil never dies**
In a **darkened mortuary reeking of formaldehyde**
**Aroused from deadly slumber** something opended up his eyes
**Spilling all their blood** was a **promise that he'd keep**
**Hage so strong revived him** from a **deep necrotic sleep**
**Clawing away the casket lid** until his **fingers bleed**
He **grabbed a knife** and set out on a **vivisection spree**
A **butcher hell bent massacring each one with his blade**
From the first run to the last, the inspection to the grade
//It's a **Fatal Illusion**//
//**Evil never dies**//
