The Threat Is Real
Dystopia
2016
Duration: 4:22
Track number: 1
Times played live: 237
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
A song driven by **paranoia and political commentary**, centered on the idea that the danger (**'the threat is real'**) comes from within the system. It critiques 'backroom meetings,' 'cover-ups,' 'violent conditioning,' and a **'culture made of cover-ups,'** suggesting that a lack of vision and a deep-seated 'cancer' of malice are destroying the society.
Lyrics
Justified obliteration, no one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover ups
Where leprosy touch their flesh
Fall back with meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest
The clock runs out, the weakest link
A deadly strike, the threat is real!
Seen the bird as images of
A crest fallen nation sea
Violence conditioning, cause the nature of the enemy
Your terminal lack of vision
Blinded, I see no lights
A quiet lack of perspective
Their cancer now eats us alive
A fatal shot, a lust for blood
The final act, the threat is real!
Justified obliteration, no one cares anymore
The Messiah or mass murderer
No controlling who comes through the door
A culture made of cover ups
Where leprosy touch their flesh
Fall back with meetings and rendezvous
The vultures have come home to nest
The clock runs out, the weakest link
A deadly strike, the threat is real!
A fatal shot, a lust for blood
The final act, the threat is real!
Musicians
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