Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth & David Draiman
Megadeth
Megadeth
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Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth
“Kingmaker” opens the album Super Collider with an enigmatic bass introduction and instantaneously embarks on a hot tempo guitar riff.
The song’s lyrics are based on painkiller abuse and dependency and described as a scorching narrative on the scourge of the pharmaceutical industry on society, in p...
[Verse 1]
Generation of the dark, watch their lives decay
Persecuting their own kind, there's nothing you can say
Don't ask anyone for help, they won't know what to do
If you try, if you don't die, you'll end up black and blue
Epidemic of addiction, worshiping the pill
Drown them all with alcohol, anything for thrills
Precious life goes up in smoke, going nowhere fast
The world is running rampant and you know that this can't last
[Chorus]
I want everything that makes me feel alright
That feels alive, don't ask me why
I want everything, right before my eyes
I can't deny I want to be the King, Kingmaker!
Kingmaker!
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
Searching for an answer, but you see you're all alone
Mom and Daddy's lights are on but nobody's home
They glorify their tortured life; they talk of days like this
Sentencing their children, when they need to eat a fist
Narcotics have enslaved them; now it's coming after you
Pearls of wisdom hit the floor, there's nothing you can do
Out of control, you sell your soul, so blind, you couldn't see
Ten feet tall, it made you crawl; it's better you than me
[Chorus]
I want everything that makes me feel alright
That feels alive, don't ask me why
I want everything, right before my eyes
I can't deny I want to be the King, Kingmaker!
Kingmaker!
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
I want everything that makes me feel alright
That feels alive, don't ask me why
I want everything, right before my eyes
I can't deny I want to be the King!
It makes me feel alive (I want everything)
It makes me feel alright (I want everything)
The things I can't deny (I want everything)
I want to be the King!
Kingmaker was written by David Ellefson & Dave Mustaine.
Kingmaker was produced by Johnny K & Dave Mustaine.
[This song] is about the epidemic we’re having in our nation right now with hillbilly heroin, with everybody taking pain pills. It’s no secret that I had surgery on my neck. I think that when I showed up at the ‘Big Four’ show [at the Yankee stadium in September 2011] with a neck brace on, people ki...