I'll Get Even
Cryptic Writings
1997
Duration: 4:16
Track number: 6
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, Dave Ellefson, Nick Menza
Theme
A song driven by themes of **revenge and bitterness** after a relationship ends in abandonment and betrayal. The narrator is consumed by anger, feeling like a ticking bomb as they plot their retribution against the person who lied to them.
Lyrics
I'm lonely and abandoned
Washed up, left for dead
I'm lost inside the desert
Of every word you said
Like a nuclear reactor
Or TNT
I'm thinking about the times
When you lied to me
All the innuendo
Caught up on your hook
I was just a name
In your little black book
Ah, **I'll get even with you**
Ah, **I'll get even with you**, **even with you**
I'm bitter and I'm twisted
I haven't slept in days
I'm lonely and I'm angry
I can't make it go away
I'm like a bomb that's ticking
I got voices in my head
I got a doll with needles in
Wishing you were dead
I'll get you back somehow
That's what I'm gonna do
I'll get you back somehow
Your nightmare is coming true
Ah, **I'll get even with you**
Ah, swear I gonna do
Gonna **get even with you**
Ah, **I'll get even with you**, **even with you**
You better look behind you
'Cause there I'm gonna be
I'll be standing in the shadows
With who I used to be
He's slightly schizophrenic
Me and me and me and me agree
That you are gonna pay
For what you did to me
Ah, **I'll get even with you**
Ah, **I'll get even with you**
Ah, **I'll get even with you**
Gonna **get even with you**
Ah, I swear I'm gonna do
I'm gonna
Ah, **I'll get even with you**, **even with you**
Ah, I swear I gonna do
