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Night Stalkers

The Sick, The Dying... and The Dead!
2022

Duration: 6:22

Track number: 3

Times played live: 0

Writers

Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine

Music by: Dave Mustaine

Theme

A vivid portrayal of a **military black ops unit**, specifically referencing the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), whose motto is 'Night Stalkers Don't Quit.' The song creates a high-tension, cinematic atmosphere of aerial warfare and assassination. The inclusion of a spoken-word monologue by rapper/actor **Ice-T** (who Mustaine previously worked with in the group Body Count) emphasizes the lethal, unseen nature of the elite force, who 'see in the dark, and... kill in the dark.'

Lyrics
Concealed in the night from the light of the Moon Undetected between the heavens, the stars, and the seas They seize the night when it's dark, like inside a tomb Faintly, their flat black body armor gleams, light it up From verdict, to deliverance, to retribution To the very last beat of a dead man's pulse You can hear the thunder roar, you can hear the engines roar It causes the ground to quake, to buckle and convulse Lights out in the desert Battle-born, ready to fight Your death waits in the dark And it stalks the night Night stalkers The angels of death ride the waves of the air You barely see the pilots on this zero-illum night The avenger's ready, now, as the targets growing near Tracer bullets, shot from the ground, behind enemy lines Blacked out, we're under radio silence Night vision on, green halos a' glow It's killing time, another lesson in violence Bodies pile up, and adrenaline starts to flow Lights out in the desert Battle-born, ready to fight Your death waits in the dark And it stalks the night Night stalkers Yo, when you hear four MH-47 And Black Hawk helicopters coming in low In the dark of night Loaded with Rangers And Delta Force Special Ops shooters Locked and loaded Game's over, bitches Got ya in my night vision 'Bout to let this 30 mm canon go You never seen us coming So there's no chance of running Nothing you do can stop them They're gonna get ya, wanted dead or alive You can run, but you know they will find you Death waits in the dark, and they own the night Lights out in the desert Battle-born, ready to fight Your death waits in the dark And it stalks the night (The night) Hydra rockets are all locked and loaded Laser-guided Hellfire missiles are ready and armed Itchy fingers on thirty mike-mike triggers They enter the fight, with all of their targets acquired Flying in formation like a black snake Slithering closely over the map of the earth Slicing the silvery-blueish night fog to ribbons The time has come to return dirt back to the dirt, yeah
Musicians
Dave Mustaine

Dave Mustaine

Vocals and rhythm guitar

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