"What you don’t know" the legend goes "can't 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 twisted truth no matter what the cost
Supplant the rights with wrongs inside our heads
Outlawing all the questions to the answers
That no one likes when someone ends up dead
Dystopia
"What you don’t know" the legend goes "can't hurt you"
If you only want to live and die in a cage
There's panic and there's chaos rampant in the streets
Where useless thoughts of peace are met with rage
Demoralized and overmastered people think
The quickest way to end a war is lose
Dictatorship ends starting with tyrannicide
You must destroy the cancer at its root
Dystopia
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
Supplant the rights with wrongs inside our heads
Outlawing all the questions to the answers
That no one likes when someone ends up dead
If you only want to live and die in a cage
There's panic and there's chaos rampant in the streets
Where useless thoughts of peace are met with rage
The quickest way to end a war is lose
Dictatorship ends starting with tyrannicide
You must destroy the cancer at its root
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This song is basically about the title, a Dystopia, an imperfect world. This is about a world where nobody surrenders, war is constantly going on, illness is spreading, and people are trying to take over. From a musical standpoint, this song is a definite head banger. Kiko's work on this really stands out, and still being an outstanding a band this late in Megdeth's career is pretty crazy. Rock on!!
@metallica668 Nice! It's really cool to see links in there about war, the truth being twisted etc. I like the way it could even be compared to novels like Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Brave New World etc. Great books with great ideas! :)
@metallica668 Nice! It's really cool to see links in there about war, the truth being twisted etc. I like the way it could even be compared to novels like Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Brave New World etc. Great books with great ideas! :)
@metallica668 So, it is 2022 to 2023 basically
@metallica668 So, it is 2022 to 2023 basically