Skin O' My Teeth

MTV flipped when they saw the lyrics to 'Skin O'My Teeth' because they thought I was promoting committing suicide. It has taken us a long enough time to get our relationship politically correct with MTV. So I don't want to go out and film a video about a song that they are going to look at and say, 'You're nuts.' and if they say, 'Hey Dave, we're going to play your song, as radical as it is, but you have to go on there and say the song is not about suicide,' I'll say it. 'Hey, this song is not about suicide'. –Dave Mustaine, 1992

That's about people who want to end it and just can't get it together. You know, they cut their wrist; it's just not deep enough. Or they decide to get hit by a car and it just breaks their leg or something. –Mustaine, 1992

so happy

well gumdamjunkie, ur one weird person, but i am here to tell yous all that this song is sbout Dave trying to kill himself but never sucseeding in doing.

Well then, looks like you two have something in common then :)

This is about SongMeanings not to express your fantasies. Get a life.

And it does seem like an attempted suicide song hence he's hanging on by the "skin o' my teeth"

Faust your a fukin dickheads, not everybody loves what you love

Yeah, It's hard to kill yourself when you're high.

The riff reminds me of 2 Minutes to Midnight, partially because it uses the same penatonic minor riffing.

on the video for this at the start he say something like "this is about how times i tried to kill myself but just couldnt get the fuckin' job done, skin o' my teeth!"

FUCKING UNDERRATED!!! This song is easily the best song off of Countdown To Extinction. The solos rule, and it has a kickass riff. It's about Mustaine's numerous failed attempts at suicide.

The riff is pretty similar to one of the riffs from The Prince by Diamondhead.