Dystopia
Dystopia
2016
Duration: 5:00
Track number: 2
Times played live: 341
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
The title track, which won the band a Grammy, paints a bleak picture of a **dystopian society** where people are controlled by fear and misinformation (**'What you don't know, the legend goes: Can't hurt you'**). It critiques the suppression of truth, the outlawing of questions, and the ultimate response to tyranny: **'tyrannicide'** (the killing of a tyrant) as the only way to destroy the 'cancer at its root.'
Lyrics
What you don't know the legend ghost can hurt you
If you only want to live and die in fear
They tell us to believe just half of what we see
And absolutely nothing that we hear
Resist the twist the truth no matter what the cost
So plant the rights for wrongs inside our heads
Outlawing all the questions to the answers
That no one likes but someone answer did
Dystopia
What you don't know the legend ghost can hurt you
If you only want to live and die in a cage
There's panic and there's chaos, ramping in the streets
Where useless thoughts of peace are met with rage
Demoralize the know for master people think
The quickest way to end the war is lose
Dictatorship and starting with to run aside
You must destroy the cancer at it's roots
Dystopia
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