Death From Within
Dystopia
2016
Duration: 4:49
Track number: 4
Times played live: 0
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
A song about internal betrayal and the failure to recognize a domestic enemy. Using the metaphor of the **'Trojan horse'**, it describes a catastrophic event where the downfall of a nation or group is orchestrated by an **'enemy inside the belly of the beast'**. The lyrics emphasize that the most dangerous form of collapse is **'death comes from within'**, due to ignored warnings and the presence of 'hardened deceivers' who entered through 'open gates.'
Lyrics
The heat is raging from the rising fires of war
Embers of avarice soon begin to soar
Vengeance breeding greater vengeance, two eyes for one eye
Crowning burning hatred that’s lying deep inside
A token gift, destroyers deep within its hold
Revenge of patient men is sweet and best served cold
The enemy inside the belly of the beast
A mighty Trojan horse, tonight the sentries sleep
On the march... No place to run
Time has come... No where to hide
The moon is red... No one is safe
From spilling blood... no living thing survives
Here they fight... regretting nothing
Here you die... the walls are caving in
Nothing left... a lethal encounter
Its judgment time... when death comes from within
Warning signs ignored, they have all but been denied
Prophets and messengers, mocked and vilified
Final destination lying deep inside their court
Their first line of defense soon became their last resort
Hardened deceivers entered through their open gates
Silent trained assassins, lying still, in wait
You look so perfect, but everybody knows
Their petrified to say the emperor has no clothes
So bloody perfect, but everybody knows
Their just so petrified, the emperor has no clothes
Death from within...
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