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“The Threat Is Real” opens the album Dystopia with a Middle-Eastern-inspired prelude that blasts off into a heavy and thrashy guitar riff.
Dave Mustaine’s throaty predictions of impending doom introduce the dystopian theme running through the record. A music video was released of the song, featurin...
[Verse 1]
Justified obliteration
No one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover-ups
Will leprosy touch their flesh?
For backroom meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest
[Chorus 1]
The clock runs out
The weakest link
A deadly strike
The threat is real
[Verse 2]
See the burnished images
Of a crest fallen agency
Violent conditioning
Caused the nature of the enemy
Your terminal lack of vision
Blinded eyes see no light
A chronic lack of perspective
Their cancer now eats us alive
[Chorus 2]
A fatal shot
A lust for blood
The final act
The threat is real
[Verse 1]
Justified obliteration
No one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover-ups
Will leprosy touch their flesh?
For backroom meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest
[Chorus 1]
The clock runs out
The weakest link
A deadly strike
The threat is real
[Chorus 2]
A fatal shot
A lust for blood
The final act
The threat is real
The Threat Is Real was written by Dave Mustaine.
The Threat Is Real was produced by Chris Rakestraw & Dave Mustaine.
Megadeth released The Threat Is Real on Wed Nov 25 2015.