Victory
Youthanasia
1994
Duration: 4:27
Track number: 12
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman
Theme
A unique track where the lyrics are composed almost entirely of the titles of Megadeth's previous songs, creating a self-referential 'victory lap' through the band's history up to that point. It celebrates the band's endurance and survival through various trials and tribulations.
Lyrics
One day I started telling everyone that "**Killing Is My Business**..."
And I was hung like a martyr
For "**Looking Down the Cross**" my "**Skull Beneath the Skin**"
Prophesied "**Last Rites/Loved to Death**" my friends
Then I started seeing "**Bad Omens**" in my head
"**Good Mourning/Black Friday**," will I "**Wake Up Dead**"?
If "**I Ain't Superstitious**" then this won't mean a thing
But some crazy shit has happened since "**The Conjuring**"
Not even close... To overdose!
Had fingers in my eyes, had needles in my veins
A knife right through my heart, I am a victory
Came "**Anarchy**" to "**Set the World Afire**"
Pain of "**Hook in Mouth**," "**In My Darkest Hour**"
Corruption of the world, "**Peace Sells... But Nobody's Buying**"
Ignorant religion, "**Holy Wars**" and the dying
"**Tornado**" nearly got me by the "**Skin O'My Teeth**"
"**This Was My Life**," "**Foreclosure of My Dreams**"
May the past "**Rust in Peace**" in "**Hangar 18**"
And "**Countdown to Extinction**" just be a bad dream
"**Lucretia**" said...
