Go to Hell
Warchest
2007
Duration: 4:35
Track number: 20
Times played live: 11
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, David Ellefson, Nick Menza
Theme
Originally featured on the soundtrack for the film *Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey* (1991), **'Go to Hell'** explores themes of **damnation, deception, and mortality**. The lyrics open with a distorted version of the children's prayer 'Now I lay me down to sleep,' immediately setting a dark, sarcastic tone. The song describes the inevitable journey to hell after death, criticizing hypocrisy and proclaiming the narrator's harsh judgment ('My judgment was life in hell').
Lyrics
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
I'm not going to wake up today
They've pulled my plug, the picture fades
And as my body decays, mold begins to fill my grave
The smell of death permeates the silk within my coffin lays
Go to hell
As they bury me now six feet there my body lies
Still feel like I'm going down, I hear a distant wailing cry
God, something must've gone wrong
And much too late I realize
Go to hell
I saw my funeral that day
I know who didn't show to mourn
My judgment was life in hell
Pillars of pain and thorns
My only friend's the goat
With 666 between his horns
Go to hell
Place all your trust here in me
Rest assured these things I know
And as Charon sails the sea
Your journey too shall end below
Ah, yes, you're all sitting ducks
It's true you reap what you sow
Go to hell
Now I lay me down to sleep
Blah, blah, blah, my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
I'll go to hell for heaven's sake
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