A Secret Place

to me, i think this song is about Dave's mind. It talks about how messed up his thoughts are and how when people try to "understand" him they get scared and worried. it also says how everyone has been "there", meaning that everyone has been in his shoes at some point in their lives and they just don't want to admit it.

Dave Mustaine says that his secret place is inside his head. I think may be he was talked about his heroine addiction.and he always wanted to escape from drus, but he couldnt! we can see that from lyric "There's a secret place I like to go Everyone is there but their face don't show If you get inside you can't get out There's no coming back, I hear them shout"

and in this line lines too

"Let me in, get me out Can't do more then twist and shout Lost my soul without a trace Found it again in my secret place In discrace"

He may also be talking about schizophrenia when he says "I hear them shout". He went inside his head to his secret place and he probably started hearing voices, maybe eventually becoming visual hallucinations. Now they won't go away.

The personalities created with schizophrenia are really just pieces of yourself. Dave must've found his lost soul by realizing that he'd broken himself.

That's what I got from the song, anyway.

Wow...! can't believe my eyes!!! only 3 comments??? i love this song so much. it's my 2nd favorite on Cryptic after "Trust". and yeah! it's about mustain himself.

This song can be understood so many different ways. One has secret place inside it's mind. Maybe some X-Files stuff (If I recall video suggested something like that). Personally I like to think this as story of secret hideout middle of nowhere, heaven on earth that is not polluted by neon signs and plastic stuff...

i aggree witha all of you uve all got valid points! but to me this song has always been the one song ill put on adter a really bad day and escape to my secret place its always helped me through the hard times and i thank mustain for telling us about his secret place!

i think you are all on the right track

This song is great. This along with Trust and Use the Man are the only ones I listen to from Cryptic.

I think the song is about escaping from the (hard) reality to your own 'secret place' using drugs (heroine) and the person finds himself addicted and confused.

It's Dave being confessional and putting it out there...I think A Secret Place is about dealing with the dark side of the Force - my inner Alice Cooper (two black eyes and a twisted smile) - I dig the song's simplicity and razor sharp honesty