Reckoning Day

I think this song is about drugs mainly heroin. Dave is talking from the drugs point of view. I like the way that you let me in The way you look when the walls cave in I like the way that your stomach knots And how you cry for it all to stop

anyway thats what I think its about. In any case MEGADETH RULES

Dave saw a lot of abuse growing up, some of it in a religious context. This song sounds like it's about one person who enjoys the power he gets from abusing a significant other. Sounds like domestic violence. The victim "prays for" the abuser, but the abuser's response is, "Don't you realize you're prey for me?" It's like Dave is observing this, and doesn't want to get into a cycle of revenge--that just tends to take the abusive dynamics down to the next generation. No, he just wants that abuse to end, and reminds the abuser that he'll have to stand before God one day to give account of his actions. There will come a reckoning day.

This song is amazing. Its like Dave reads my mind. If I were to write lyrics they would sound just like this. I think we think alike. Everything he says and every lyric he writes makes sense to me and touches the core of my soul. I understand the man.

One of the best songs on youthanasia.

One of the best songs on youthanasia.

Natural law is: What goes around comes around. You only have to get up one more time than you fall.

This song is about Religion vs. Atheism or more specifically, Conservatism vs. Liberalism. All the things Dave says about the other side is consistent along with the things he says about himself. This could also be about Rock&Metal vs. Mainstream. After all, we don't want revenge, pay back or to get even. We just want a Reckoning.

This is a great song, cool album opener too.

To me it sounds like torture... Not like physical, but mental.. Like mind games of some sort. or something...

to me. in my opinion. this song means that who ever she/he is speaking to. he/she DOES not like her. but uses her. i might be wrong, but tbh. thats what i think