Train of Consequences
Youthanasia
1994
Duration: 3:26
Track number: 2
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman
Theme
A highly successful single and a track focusing on the destructive nature of **gambling addiction**. The 'Train of Consequences' is a metaphor for the inevitable, spiraling ruin that follows bad choices, particularly those related to risking everything for quick, fleeting rewards.
Lyrics
I'm doing you a favor
As I'm taking all your money
I guess I should feel sorry
But I don't even trust me
There's bad news creeping up
And you feel a sudden chill
How do you do? my name is trouble
I'm coming in for the kill
I'm in for the kill
And you know I will
Set the ball a-rollin'
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the **Train of Consequences**
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The **Train of Consequences**
There ain't no turning back
No horse ever ran as fast
As the money that you bet
I'm blowing on my cards
And I play them to my chest
Life's fabric is corrupt
Shot through with corroded thread
As for me I hocked my brains
Packed my bags and headed West
I hocked my brains
headed West
Set the ball a-rollin'
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the **Train of Consequences**
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The **Train of Consequences**
There ain't no turning back
Set the ball a-rollin'
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the **Train of Consequences**
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The **Train of Consequences**
There ain't no turning back
Set the ball a-rollin'
I'll be clicking off the miles
On the **Train of Consequences**
My boxcar life of style
My thinking is derailed
I'm tied up to the tracks
The **Train of Consequences**
There ain't no turning back
