[Verse 1]
Device of doom, pure savagery
A holocaust on land or sea
On blighted land these lords of war shall roam
Dictator's oath, his destiny
Destroyer of humanity
Launch an assault that the world has never seen
[Chorus]
Nuclear warhead
Dropping on the masses
Leaving them all dead
Before they reach the underground
Seeking out the shelter
[Verse 2]
Mushroom cloud last thing they see
Vision blurred, their eyeballs bleed
Brutality… fuels the death machine
Organs fail, the blood shall seep
Open sores beyond belief
Slowly rot as you die from the inside out
[Chorus]
Nuclear warhead
Dropping on the masses
Leaving them all dead
Before they reach the underground
Turning the streets red
Everything's turned to ashes
Welcome to World War Three
[Post-Chorus]
Everyone is gonna die
There is no escape
Your lungs turning black
No one can save you
It's Armageddon!
[Bridge]
All hope is lost
The earth's been blown away
It's pouring down
Unholy acid rain
Forever raining blood
Forever blot the sun
Depraved, no sign of life
In darkness, devoid of light
[Chorus]
Nuclear warhead
Dropping on the masses
Leaving them all dead
Before they reach the underground
Turning the streets red
Everything's turned to ashes
The war of the world
There is no more world
Welcome to World War Three
[Outro]
World burning down
Beyond the dark side
Nobody here left to live
World burning down
Beyond the dark side
We'll all be burning in Hell
World burning down
Beyond the dark side
Nobody here left to live
World burning down
Beyond the dark side
We'll all be burning in Hell
WWIII was written by Eric Peterson & Del James & Chuck Billy.
WWIII was produced by Eric Peterson & Chuck Billy.
Chuck Billy:
There were a handful of songs where some of the vocal melodies didn’t happen right away, and this was one of them. So we got in there and just started mumbling our way through it. Somewhere in there, the idea of nuclear warfare hit, so we built off of that and started writing about Wor...