Sudden Death
TH1RT3EN
2011
Duration: 5:07
Track number: 1
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
A song built around the sudden, violent nature of death and its inevitability. It speaks of fighting relentlessly, even when faced with a pre-determined sentence and abandonment by external forces ('All your angels will ignore you'). The title track was originally written for the video game **'Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock'**.
Lyrics
His **wicked Highness born from disaster**
To dominate and to **kill**
A glistening **murder machine**
False majesty standing perfectly still
A **blitzkrieg raining down evil**
On a mountain of **black ice**
Like a good old fashioned **beating within**
Inches of your life
While **alone and left abandoned**
With the **sentence you've been handed**
All your **angels will ignore you**
As your **life flashes before you**
Even still you keep on fighting
Through the **thunder and the lightning**
And now Heaven sends its love
Your **sudden death from above**
Once frozen like a **prisoner depraved**
Perched high atop the **lithosphere**
Set free from beneath the **depths of hell**
Bequeathing anything but despair
The **beast is genetically programmed**
Time to **destroy**, time to **go berserk**
To see the **end of all wars**
To see the **end of the Earth**
Stopping at nothing, **punch drunk**
From the **blood that he's tasted**
**Tearing your soul apart**
Not one bit of your **pain will be wasted**
Now **death descends upon you**
Like a **bloody white dove**
Bringing your **retribution**
Your **sudden death from above**
While **alone and left abandoned**
With the **sentence you've been handed**
All your **angels will ignore you**
As your **life flashes before you**
Even still you keep on fighting
Through the **thunder and the lightning**
And now Heaven sends its love
Your **sudden death from above**
