Wrecker
TH1RT3EN
2011
Duration: 3:51
Track number: 10
Times played live: 0
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
A heavy-handed condemnation of a destructive woman, the **'Home wrecker'**. The lyrics use intense metaphors like 'Poison ivy in your touch' and 'Deadly venom in your kiss' to describe a person who brings inevitable ruin to every aspect of the narrator's life, implying a relationship that is fundamentally toxic and disastrous.
Lyrics
It doesn’t matter what car you drive, she’ll wreck it
It doesn’t matter where you sleep at night, she’ll wreck it
It doesn’t matter where you go to work
Doesn’t matter where you go to church
Doesn’t matter just bad it hurts, she’ll wreck it
My bleached bones in the desert, it’s all that’s left of me
Poison ivy in your touch, being with you destroyed so much
Home wrecker
Deadly venom in your kiss, hell can’t be worse than this
Home wrecker
It doesn’t matter what you pretend, she’ll wreck it
It doesn’t matter what you defend, she’ll wreck it
It doesn’t matter how you live your life
Doesn’t matter anymore to your wife
Doesn’t matter even how you die, she’ll wreck that too
Like a vulture picking my bones clean, it’s all that’s left of me
Poison ivy in your touch, being with you destroyed so much
Home wrecker
Deadly venom in your kiss, hell can’t be worse than this
Home wrecker.
Musicians

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