Rust in Peace... Polaris
Rust in Peace
1990
Duration: 5:36
Track number: 9
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman
Theme
The title track (named after the UGM-27 **Polaris**, a submarine-launched ballistic missile) serves as the album's powerful conclusion on nuclear war. The lyrics describe the final moments of humanity following a nuclear strike, emphasizing that our pride and inaction led to total extinction. 'Rust in Peace' is the ironic epitaph for humanity and its weapons.
Lyrics
Tremble you weaklings, cower in fear
I am your ruler, land, sea and air
Immense in my girth, erect I stand tall
I am a nuclear murderer, I am Polaris
Ready to pounce at the touch of a button
My system locked in on military gluttons
I rule on land, air and sea
Pass judgement on humanity
Winds blow from the bowels of hell
Will we give warning, only time will tell
Satan rears his ugly head, to spit into the wind
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
Launch the Polaris, the end doesn't scare us
When will this cease
The warheads will all rust in peace
Bomb shelters filled to the brim
Survival such a silly whim
World leaders sell missiles cheap
Your stomach turns, your flesh creeps
High priest of holocaust, fire from the sea
Nuclear winter spreading disease
The day of final conflict
All pay the price
The third world war
Rapes peace, takes life
Back to the start, talk of the part
When the earth was cold as ice
Total dismay as the sun passed away
And the days were black as night
Eradication of earth's
Population loves Polaris





