Fatal Illusion
Dystopia
2016
Duration: 4:18
Track number: 3
Times played live: 128
Writers
Lyrics by: Kiko Loureiro, Dave Mustaine
Music by: Kiko Loureiro, Dave Mustaine
Theme
This track tells a dark narrative about a 'menace to society' who is condemned for **'nonconformity'** and executed by lethal injection. The core theme is the **'fatal illusion'** that evil can be truly eliminated. The execution fails, and the resurrected subject rises from the dead, driven by hate, to commit a **'vivisection spree'** (a violent spree of dissection), symbolizing the cyclical and unkillable nature of deep-seated evil.
Lyrics
Lost inside the system Locked away
Without a key
No one will ever miss a menace to society
A gross lack of potential bad decisions made in spite
A touchy hairpin trigger and such a wasted life
Trying to break the mold of a broken family
Fight against your failure and living on his kness
Guilty of a crime of nonconformity
A hanging judge and jury handen down the penalty
A lethal injection now they watch te body jerk
Exterminate the problem except in dind't work
No vital sign a life, they declared he wasn't there
Ner never checked because he didn't fuc*** care
Passing off the body, they all believed he died
Starting up the hearse now for a final drive
Like whistling passed a graveyard when walking by at night
it's a fatal illusion to think that evil never dies
In a darkened mortuary reeking of formaldehyde
Aroused from deadly slumber something opended up his eyes
Spilling all their blood was a promise that he'd keep
Hage so strong revived him from a deep necrotic sleep
Clawing away the casket lid until his fingers bleed
He grabbed a knife and set out on a vivisection spree
A butcher hell bent massacring each one with his blade
From the first run to the last, the inspection to the grade
//It's a Fatal Illusion//
//Evil never dies//
Musicians

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