Prince of Darkness
Risk
1999
Duration: 6:26
Track number: 2
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman
Theme
A track exploring themes of eternal loneliness and personal damnation. The narrator identifies himself as the **'Prince of Darkness'**, a figure of isolation and fear who can never know love and whose only reality is bitter despair.
Lyrics
My victims are rich or poor, young or old, strong or weak
I cause millions of accidents, I am cancer in your bones
I fathered the lie, twist what you say, speak not the truth
I am insidious, impartial, deep inside your chromosomes
I take what you love, and leave you in tears
I imprison your soul, your hopes are my games
I strip you of pride, my promise is in vain
While you burn at the stake I dance with the flames
I bring poverty, sickness and death
A worthless handshake, the slickest thief, I steal your wealth
I answer your prayers for greed and lust
More than evil, I laugh at your trust
I am more powerful than all the armies of the world
I am more violent than violence, more deadly than death
I have destroyed more men than all the nation's wars
I am relentless, unpredictable, waiting for your last breath
Evil, more evil than violence
Violent, more violent than death
Deadly, more deadly than man
I am yeah, yeah, I'm evil I am
My kingdom corrupt with dissent
Your sins erupt by my intent
I loathe your prayer, I wallow in sin
Let the nightmare begin
**Prince of darkness**, your satanic highness
**Prince of darkness**, the devilish serpent, the dreaded Lucifer
**Prince of darkness**
I take what you love, and leave you in tears
Imprison your soul, your hopes are my games
I strip you of pride, my promise is in vain
While you burn at the stake I dance with the flames
My kingdom corrupt with dissent
Your sins erupt by my intent
I loathe your prayer, I wallow in sin
Let the nightmare begin
**Prince of darkness**, your satanic highness
**Prince of darkness**, the devilish serpent, the dreaded Lucifer
**Prince of darkness**
**Prince of darkness**, your satanic highness
**Prince of darkness**, the most beautiful angel
**Prince of darkness**, the devilish serpent, the dreaded Lucifer
**Prince of darkness**, unpredictable, the **prince of darkness**
**Prince of darkness**





