Night Stalkers
The Sick, The Dying... and The Dead!
2022
Duration: 6:22
Track number: 3
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
A vivid portrayal of a **military black ops unit**, specifically referencing the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), whose motto is 'Night Stalkers Don't Quit.' The song creates a high-tension, cinematic atmosphere of aerial warfare and assassination. The inclusion of a spoken-word monologue by rapper/actor **Ice-T** (who Mustaine previously worked with in the group Body Count) emphasizes the lethal, unseen nature of the elite force, who 'see in the dark, and... kill in the dark.'
Lyrics
**Concealed in the night from the light of the Moon**
**Undetected between the heavens, the stars, and the seas**
They **seize the night** when it's dark, like **inside a tomb**
Faintly, their flat **black body armor gleams**, light it up
From **verdict, to deliverance, to retribution**
To the **very last beat of a dead man's pulse**
You can hear the **thunder roar**, you can hear the **engines roar**
It causes the **ground to quake, to buckle and convulse**
**Lights out in the desert**
**Battle-born, ready to fight**
Your **death waits in the dark**
And it **stalks the night**
**Night stalkers**
The **angels of death ride the waves of the air**
You barely see the pilots on this **zero-illum night**
The **avenger's ready**, now, as the **targets growing near**
**Tracer bullets**, shot from the ground, **behind enemy lines**
**Blacked out**, we're under **radio silence**
**Night vision on, green halos a' glow**
It's **killing time**, another lesson in **violence**
**Bodies pile up**, and **adrenaline starts to flow**
**Lights out in the desert**
**Battle-born, ready to fight**
Your **death waits in the dark**
And it **stalks the night**
**Night stalkers**
Yo, when you hear **four MH-47**
And **Black Hawk helicopters coming in low**
In the dark of night
**Loaded with Rangers**
And **Delta Force Special Ops shooters**
**Locked and loaded**
**Game's over, bitches**
Got ya in my **night vision**
'Bout to let this **30 mm canon go**
You never seen us coming
So there's **no chance of running**
Nothing you do can stop them
They're gonna get ya, wanted **dead or alive**
You can run, but you know they will find you
**Death waits in the dark, and they own the night**
**Lights out in the desert**
**Battle-born, ready to fight**
Your **death waits in the dark**
And it **stalks the night**
(The night)
**Hydra rockets are all locked and loaded**
**Laser-guided Hellfire missiles are ready and armed**
**Itchy fingers on thirty mike-mike triggers**
They enter the fight, with all of their **targets acquired**
**Flying in formation like a black snake**
**Slithering closely over the map of the earth**
**Slicing the silvery-blueish night fog to ribbons**
The time has come to **return dirt back to the dirt, yeah**
