This song is a short and somber warning about the possibility of a nuclear holocaust; more specifically, what life would be like after the incident. Humans would be forced to live underground because the atmosphere would be so contaminated with radioactive pollution left over from the nuclear weapon...
[Verse 1]
Thermal count is rising
In perpetual writhing
The primordial ooze
And the sanity they lose
Awakened in the morning
To more air pollution warnings
Still we sleepwalk off to work
While our n-n-n-nervous systems jerk
[Verse 2]
Pretending not to notice
How history had forebode us
With the greenhouse in effect
Our environment was wrecked
Now I can only laugh
As I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles
In the dark of dawn patrol
Dawn Patrol was written by Dave Mustaine & David Ellefson.
Dawn Patrol was produced by Dave Mustaine & Mike Clink.
Megadeth released Dawn Patrol on Mon Sep 24 1990.
One of my other favorite basslines on the album is in “Five Magics”, and for me, the crowning moment as a bass player is “Dawn Patrol”. When we were in the studio, our producer Mike Clink kept asking us if we had another song to add to the record, and I had this bassline that I put down with Nick [M...