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Sudden Death

TH1RT3EN
2011

Duration: 5:07

Track number: 1

Times played live: 0

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
Musicians
Dave Mustaine

Dave Mustaine

Vocals and rhythm guitar

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