This song is about a drug addict dying and nobody caring about it. Drug casualties are rarely mourned, because society generally views them as worthless losers.
[Verse 1]
I'll wait, I hate
Silence kills you like a loaded gun
My time you waste
Resolution, turn your back and run
[Pre-Chorus]
Drunk with power, your ivory tower
Never stood, never could
And around and around
You hit the ground
Reservation Hellbound
[Chorus]
Most people cry when a person dies, you wanna know why?
Run it through, discharge
Most people cry not when you died, you wanna know why?
Run it through, discharge
Nobody cried, you lived a lie, you lived a lie
Run it through, discharge
Most people cry when a person dies, you wanna know why?
Run it through, discharge
[Verse 2]
Your life, what life?
What's the difference between you and death?
Overdose, comatose
You won't even leave a corpse that's fresh
[Pre-Chorus]
Drunk with power, go take a shower
I wish you would, I wish you could
And around and around
You hit the ground
Reservation Hellbound
[Hook]
A surreal vision
Of a human being
[Chorus]
Most people cry when a person dies, you wanna know why?
Run it through, discharge
Most people cry not when you died, you wanna know why?
Run it through, discharge
Nobody cried, you lived a lie, you lived a lie
Run it through, discharge
Most people cry when a person dies, you wanna know why?
Run it through, discharge
[Bridge]
Self-inflicted crucifixion
Suicidal contradiction
Cluster fucked, you load it up
Cluster fucked, you self-destruct
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 3]
Get off my dick, it's sick
I refuse to feel sorry for you
I can't believe
People put you on a pedestal
[Pre-Chorus]
Drunk with power, your ivory tower
Never stood, never could
And around and around
You hit the ground
Reservation Hellbound
[Hook]
A surreal vision
Of a human being
[Chorus]
Most people cry when a person dies, you wanna know why?
Run it through, discharge
Most people cry not when you died, you wanna know why?
Run it through, discharge
Nobody cried, you lived a lie, you lived a lie
Run it through, discharge
Most people cry when a person dies, you wanna know why?
Run it through, discharge
Discharge was written by Frank Bello & Joey Belladonna & Dan Spitz & Charlie Benante & Scott Ian.
Discharge was produced by Mark Dodson & Anthrax & Marsha Zazula & Jon Zazula.